Take him for all in all, he was not only the greatest orator this country
has ever known, but in the history of eloquence his name will stand with
those of Demosthenes and Cicero, Chatham and Burke.--Henry Cabot Lodge.

It may be said that the style of Webster is pre-eminently distinguished by
manliness. The intellect and moral manliness of Webster underlies all his
great orations and speeches; and this plain force of manhood, this sturdy
grapple with every question that comes before his understanding for
settlement, leads him to reject all the meretricious aids and ornaments of
mere rhetoric, and is prominent, among the many exceptional qualities of
his large nature, which have given him a high position among the prose-
writers of his country as a consummate master of English style.--Edwin P.
Whipple.

His broad, wise statesmanship is to be the ample and refreshing shade, his
character the bright and breezy presence, in which all the members of this
great and illustrious Republic may meet and sit down and feast together.--
H. N. Hudson.




Contents.



Defence of the Kennistons
The Dartmouth College Case
First Settlement of New England
The Bunker Hill Monument