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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 15: publicists and orators, 1800-1850 (search)
she presented to the world the theories which Calhoun so neatly phrased and so ably defended, he ca more and more the people took their cue from Calhoun. He did not pose as a friend of disruption, s of course the sovereignty of the state, and Calhoun insisted on indivisibility of sovereignty. Iment. It is quite unnecessary to assert that Calhoun was insincere in announcing this method of pation. At the very outset, as we have seen, Calhoun announced principles calculated to defend theouth began to defend slavery as never before, Calhoun stepped forward as a leader; and henceforward on which conduct rests. We have spoken of Calhoun as the great Southerner who presented with loore nearly than any one else, he foreshadowed Calhoun and suggested the clear undimmed features of way for the later arguments and positions of Calhoun, the real leader of the South. One passage w grade and importance as those of Webster and Calhoun. And yet just why one should say this is not[1 more...]
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 16: Webster (search)
ard work of his father's farm, he was sent to Phillips Exeter Academy and to Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1800. He taught school as a makeshift, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1805. He practised first at Boscawen and then at Portsmouth, where he rapidly rose to prominence both as lawyer and public speaker. In 1813 he was sent to the House of Representatives as a Federalist member from Massachusetts, and thus came in close contact with Clay, then speaker, and Calhoun. Within a year Webster was a marked man in Congress. After four years, during which he struck many heavy blows at the administration, he resumed the practice of law. The great cases which he argued—the Dartmouth College Case, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, Ogden v. Saunders—brought him into the first rank of American lawyers by the time he was forty. Meanwhile his reputation as the greatest American orator was built up by his oration at Plymouth in 1820, the Bunker Hill oration