Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster

Author: Robert Vincent Remini

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 830

ISBN-13: 9780393045529

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In this monumental new biography, Robert V. Remini gives us a full life of Webster from his birth, early schooling, and rapid rise as a lawyer and politician in New Hampshire to his equally successful career in Massachusetts where he moved in 1816. Remini treats both the man and his time as they tangle in issues such as westward expansion, growth of democracy, market revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the National Bank, and tariff issues. Webster's famous speeches are fully discussed as are his relations with the other two of the "great triumvirate", Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Throughout, Remini pays close attention to Webster's personal life - perhaps more than Webster would have liked - his relationships with family and friends, and his murky financial dealings with men of wealth and influence.

Daniel Webster on Slavery
Daniel Webster on Slavery

Author: Daniel Webster

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC

Published: 2014-03-30

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9781497937727

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1861 Edition.

Speeches at the Constitutional Convention
Speeches at the Constitutional Convention

Author: Robert Smalls

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-07-21

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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The pamphlet shown here is a collection of speeches by Robert Smalls spoken during the Constitutional Convention in South Carolina, where many of the proposed changes to the constitutions were designed with the intention of disenfranchising African-Americans residing in South Carolina. Smalls was a district representative from South Carolina, and is also known as a publisher, businessman, and maritime pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it.