The Speeches of Daniel Webster (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Speeches of Daniel Webster

I'r has been my intention in this volume to give, not only Mr. Webster's acknowledged master-pieces, but his master-piece in each department of the great field of intellectual action which he occu pied in life; and, though there are other speeches, which would compare favorably with some that have found a place here, there is none, it is believed, which could be regarded as superior, in any of the divisions, to the one selected.

In several of the great speeches not included in this collection, there are single passages, which, perhaps, could scarcely be sur passed, if some of them could be equaled, by any passages found in the speeches included in this volume; but, in making a collection of his master-pieces, the object of search is not single passages, but entire performances; and, taking this as the standard, there is no room for doubt that the volume here presented to the reader con tains the ablest and most eloquent productions bequeathed to the world by the genius of Daniel Webster. They are the produc tions, which, it is presumed, every gentleman will feel it necessary to have about him and it is equally presumable that no enlightened parent, no true-hearted America! Citizen, will wish to have his sons and daughters grow up without becoming more or less familiar with those master efforts of the greatest man, intellectually, which our common country has yet given us.

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