Daniel Webster was one of the most notable Northern statesmen of his day. He was…
Rod O'BarrJuly 29, 2021
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The dominant historical opinion of the famous debate between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert…
H. A. Scott TraskAugust 30, 2016
Sir, South Carolina has not gone one step further than Mr. Jefferson himself was disposed…
Robert Y. HayneJune 7, 2016
‘If only I can restore to our institutions their primitive simplicity and purity, can only…
James Rutledge RoeschNovember 3, 2015
If "history is the essence of innumerable biographies," as Thomas Carlyle wrote, then the historian…
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