Betty B.
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A Short History of the United States · American Leaders and Heroes - Wilbur F Gordy · 23 Aug 2026
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The following year he studied law and in due time was admitted to the bar.
As a lawyer he was very successful, his income sometimes amounting to twenty thousand dollars in a single year.
But he could not manage his money affairs well, and no matter how large his income, he was always in debt.
This unfortunate state of affairs was owing to a reckless extravagance which he displayed in many ways.
Indeed, Webster was a man of such large ideas that of necessity he did all things on a large scale.
It was vastness that appealed to him.
And this dominating force in his nature explains his idea of nationality and his opposition to state rights.
He was too large in his views of life to limit himself to his state at the expense of his country.
To him the Union stood first and the state second, and to make the Union great and strong became a ruling passion in his life.
Webster's magnificent reach of thought and profound reverence for the Union is best expressed in his speeches.
The most famous one is his brilliant reply to Haney.
Senator Haney of South Carolina had delivered an able speech in which he put the authority of the state before that of the Union.
and said that the Constitution supported that doctrine.
Webster, then a senator from Massachusetts, had but one night to prepare an answer.
But he knew the Constitution by heart, for he had been a close student of it since the days of childhood.
When he had learned it from the cotton handkerchief.
Senator Haney's masterly speech caused many people to question whether even Daniel Webster could answer his arguments, and New England men, especially, fearing the dangerous doctrine of states rights, awaited anxiously the outcome.
When, therefore, on the morning of january twenty sixth, eighteen thirty, Mr.
Mr Webster entered the Senate chamber to utter that memorable reply.
He found a crowd of eager men and women waiting to hear him.
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