Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850 gift_for_firefighter captured in the sober years

captured in the sober years when the AEF returned home and the republic learned to wear its new uniform of global consequence

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1865 Jefferson Davis President Confederate States of America

Times — a scene drawn from the electric crossroads where Broadway bends into Seventh

Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850 gift_for_firefighter captured in the sober yearsDaniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850. A documentary engraving of the Massachusetts orator on the floor where Clay's Compromise hung in the balance Webster rising not as a Northerner or a Whig, but as an American, his Seventh of March speech already echoing toward the rupture it briefly forestalled. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,