Daniel Webster for Young Americans. Daniel Webster

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DANIEL WEBSTER

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Born at Salisbury, now Franklin, New Hampshire	January 18, 1782
Graduated at Dartmouth College	1801
Admitted to the bar	1805
Practised law in Boscawen, New Hampshire	1805–7
Removed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire	1807
Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire	1813–7
Removed to Boston	1816
Dartmouth College case, United States Supreme Court	1818
Member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention	1820–1
Oration at Plymouth, Massachusetts	1820
Member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts	1823–7
Gibbons versus Ogden case	1823
Oration at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument	1825
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson	1826
Senator from Massachusetts	1827–41
Reply to Hayne	1830
Argument in White murder case, Salem, Massachusetts	1830
Reply to Calhoun: The Constitution not a Compact between Sovereign States	1833
Secretary of State under Presidents Harrison and Tyler	1841–3
Webster-Ashburton Treaty between the United States and England	1842
Oration on the completion of Bunker Hill Monument	1843
Senator from Massachusetts	1845–50
Seventh of March Speech for compromise between Northern and Southern States	1850
Secretary of State under President Fillmore	1850–2
Died at Marshfield, Massachusetts	October 24, 1852

DANIEL WEBSTER

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THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND

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      A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS, DEC. 22, 1820.

      [In 1820 the “Pilgrim Society” was formed by the citizens of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the descendants of the Pilgrims in other places, desirous of uniting “to commemorate the landing, and to honor the memory of the intrepid men who first set foot on Plymouth Rock.” The foundation of this society gave a new impulse to the anniversary celebrations of the two hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Mr. Webster was requested to deliver the public address on the 22d of December of that year, and the following discourse was pronounced by him, in the presence of a great gathering of people.]

      Beginning of the third century of New England history.

      Let us rejoice that we behold this day.