SPEECHES

OF

DANIEL WEBSTER

IN EIGHTEEN VOLUMES

VOLUME TEN

DANIEL WEBSTER

In Eighteen Volumes NATIONAL

EDITION

Illustrated with Portraits

and Plates VOLUME TEN
SPEECHES IN CONGRESS
AND LEGAL ARGUMENTS

BOSTON • LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THREE

CONTENTS

Speeches in Congress

OBJECTS OF THE MEXICAN WAR

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A Speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 23d of

March, 1848, on the Bill from the House of Representatives for

raising a Loan of Sixteen Millions of Dollars.

EXCLUSION OF SLAVERY FROM THE TERRITORIES.

Remarks made in the Senate of the United States, on the 12th of

August, 1848.

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Remarks in the Senate, on the 31st of January, 1849, on the Motion

submitted by Mr. Allen of Ohio, to postpone indefinitely the Bill

making an Appropriation for the Transportation of the United

States Mails by Railroad across the Isthmus of Panama, and further
Remarks on the same Subject, made on the 6th of February.

THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION.

A Speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 7th of

March, 1850.

Remarks made in the Senate of the United States, on the 1st of

April, 1850, on Occasion of the Decease of Hon. John Caldwell

Calhoun, Senator from South Carolina.

Remarks made in the Senate of the United States, on the 30th of

May, 1850, on Occasion of the Decease of Hon. Franklin Harper

Elmore.

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Remarks made on the 3d of June, 1850, in presenting to the Senate

"A Bill amendatory of An Act respecting Fugitives from Jus-

tice, and Persons escaping from the Services of their Masters,'

approved February 12th, 1794.