This large selection collects the courtroom arguments, Senate speeches and public orations of Daniel Webster, the leading American orator of his age. It includes his plea in the Dartmouth College case, the argument in Gibbons v. Ogden, the two Bunker Hill Monument addresses, the eulogy of Adams and Jefferson, and his speeches on the tariff and the Union, introduced by Edwin Percy Whipple’s essay on his style.
Essential reading for students of American rhetoric, constitutional law and the politics before the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.