The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union

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Debate_ i-xviii.indd 16 5/4/12 3:01 PM NOTE ON THE TEXT The speeches reprinted in thisvolume are taken from the edition published by the firm of}oseph Gales and William M . Seaton under the title D ebate on the Subject ofthe Public Lands: Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne. Original Printings ofWebster and Hayne's Speeches ofjanuary 20, 21, 26, and 27, 1830, followed by speeches of five others. Gales and Seaton did not print Hayne's speech ofJanuary 19,1830. I have included it because, according to Webster's account, it was this speech that caused him to take part in a debate he previously had had no intention of entering . Gales and Seaton was a Washington printing firm.Joseph Gales was the editor of the National Intelligencer and a close friend of Daniel Webster. Although he had other reporters who covered congressional speeches, Gales, at Webster's request, personally reported the second reply to Hayne. Webster and his political advisors made extensive revisions in the text, and the speech was first printed in the National Intelligencer, February 23, 1830. It achieved instant fame, owing in part to Webster's systematic effort to influence public opinion by distributing the speech. Gales and Seaton printed 4o,ooo copies of it by May, and it is estimated that roo,ooo copies had been circulated by the end of the year. The entire record of 65 speeches given in the course of the debate on the public lands can be found in the Register ofD ebates in Congress, published by Gales and Seaton. BIBLIOGRAPHY Anonymous. "The Several Speeches Made during the Debate in the Senate ofthe United States on Mr. Foot's Resolution, by Mr. Hayne ofSouth Carolina and Mr. Webster ofMassachusetts." Southern R eview 6 (August 183o): 140- 98. Baxter, Maurice G. One and Inseparable: Daniel Webster and the Union. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1984. Benton, Thomas Hart. Thirty Years' View. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton, 1859· Current, Richard N. Daniel Webster and the Rise ofNational Conservatism. Boston: Little, Brown, 1955. Curtis, George Ticknor. L ife ofD aniel Webster. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton , 1872. Ferguson, Robert A. Law and L etters in American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. XVl Debate_ i-xviii.indd 17 5/4/12 3:01 PM BIBLIOGRAPHY Fields, Wayne. "The Reply to Hayne: Daniel Webster and the Rhetoric of Stewardship." Political Theory 2 (rg83): 5-28. Freehling, William W. Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina I8I6-I8J6. New York: Harper & Row, rg6s. Fuess, Claude Moore. Daniel Webster. 2vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. Jervey, Theodore D. Robert Y Hayne and His Times. New York: Macmillan, rgog. Hockett, Homer Carey. The Constitutional History of the United States I826-I876. New York: Macmillan, I939· Howell, Samuel Wilbur, and Hoyt Hopewell Hudson. "Daniel Webster." Edited by William Norwood Brigance. Vol. n ofA History and Criticism ofAmerican PublicAddress. I943· Reprint, New York: Russell and Russell, rg6o. 665;33 in reprint. MacDonald, William. jacksonian Democracy I829-I837· New York: Harper & Brothers, rgo6. McLaughlin, Andrew C. A Constitutional History ofthe United States. New York: D. Appleton-Century, I935· Peterson, Merrill D. The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun. New York: Oxford University Press, rg87. Sheidley, Harlow W. "The Webster-Hayne Debate: Recasting New England 's Sectionalism." New England Quarterly 67 (I994): s-2g. Smith, Craig R. Defender ofthe Union: The Oratory ofDaniel Webster. Westport , Conn.: Greenwood Press, rg8g. Smith, Elbert B. Magnificent Missourian: The Life ofThomas Hart Benton. rgs8. Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, I973· Weaver, Richard M. "Two Orators." In The Southern Essays ofRichard M. Weaver, edited by George M. Curtis III and James J. Thompson, Jr. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, rg87. ro4-33. Wilson, Woodrow. Division and Reunion I829-I889. New York: Longmans, Green, r8g7. Wiltse, Charles M.]ohn C. Calhoun: Nullifier. I829-I839· Indianapolis: HobbsMerrill , I949· XVll Debate_ i-xviii.indd 18 5/4/12 3:01 PM Debate_ 001-050.indd 1 5/4/12 3:02 PM THE WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATE ON THE NATURE OF THE UNION ...