One and Inseparable: Daniel Webster and the Union

by Maurice G. Baxter

From the ratification of the Constitution to the outbreak of the Civil War, few persons played a greater role in American history than Daniel Webster. He was a spokesman of New England commercial interests in the War of 1812, approving the threat of state interposition by the Hartford Convention; later an apostle of the industrial system and advocate of protective tariffs; a brilliant expositor of the Constitution as an instrument for national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674638212
• ISBN13: 9780674638211
• Release Date: October 1984
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 646 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"