Webster, Daniel:

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SPEECH OF DANIEL WEBSTER, IN REPLY TO MR. HAYNE, OF SOUTH CAROLINA: THE RESOLUTION OFFERED BY MR. FOOT, RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC LANDS, BEING UNDER CONSIDERATION. DELIVERED IN THE SENATE, JANUARY 26, ... The first edition, second issue, with "reply" spelled correctly on the titlepage, apparently printed from standing newspaper type by Gales, who was present for the speech and transcribed it as it was given.One of the most important American political speeches of the 19th century. Webster's speech was technically a response to a bill restricting western land sales, but in reality it was prompted by South Carolina's recently propounded theory of "nullification" - that the individual states had the authority to resist federal legislation, and to secede from the Union if the federal government used force against a state to execute its laws. The speech enunciated Webster's theory of a united, national identity. As such, it exemplified the progress toward that identity that had been made over the previous fifty years, and foreshadowed the fractures and fissures that would develop over the next thirty years, culminating in the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln called it "the very best speech that was ever delivered" (quoted in David Herbert Donald, LINCOLN, p.270).Webster's speech was prompted by the response to a resolution offered by Senator Samuel Foot of Connecticut, which would have limited the sale of public lands in the West. This riled western and southern senators, who contended tha

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