Daniel Webster
The book that I read was entitled Daniel Webster and the Rise of the National Conservation. It was written by Richard N. Current and was published in the year of Daniel Webster was brought into this world on the 18th day of January in the year 1782 in the valley of the Merrimack, near the middle of New Hampshire. He was son of a farmer and never really lacked attention while he was growing up. Webster demonstrated startling powers of assimilation and retention even as a child. He received the best of his early education from newspapers, his mother's bible, political gossip throughout the town and listening to his father's fascinating tales of great men and their battles. Webster graduated from Dartmouth college in 1801 and shortly after, in 1807 he opened a legal practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after a legal apprenticeship. Daniel was a leading lawyer, a wonderful orator, a father, husband, and statesmen. In 1812 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives due to his opposition to the war of 1812. In the year of 1816, Webster left the congress and moved to Boston with his wife and two children to the growing New England metropolis. Soon after his move he was earning about 20,000 dollars
He talks about Webster being against tarrifs and for some other tarrifs. This hindered him when he was running for presidential office because he wanted so badly to be the president, yet he did not see a need in being any ones friend. This is a biography of Daniel Webster, therefor the author should know almost everything about Webster. The compromise of 1850 is a good example, because Current showed how Webster worked with that. Later that year Webster was named secretary of state by President Fillmore and supervised the strict enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act. He managed to accomplish so much throughout some of the most important times of our countries history. This quality could have helped Webster by making him come off to people like he had wonderful self confidence and that he was ver sure of himself. My view of Daniel Webster never really changed throughout this book because I didn't have a view on him to begin with. Webster helped to preserve the Union by dividing the Whig party when he alienated antislavery forces. Current's intent for writing this book was to inform the general reader about his "colorful life" and career. Richard Current's keen reasoning has a direct and continuing connection for the citizens of a democratic republic. This may have something to do with Current liking Daniel Webster as a person, what he stood for, and his beliefs. He wanted to acquaint the reader with the roles that Daniel Webster played in our history, whether it be in his speeches, his involvement with so many compromises, or how he always desired to keep his country together. Personally, I think that Current keeps the book very balanced. A few years later in 1823 Webster returned to congress from Boston, and in 1824 he met the irrepressible tarrif advocates again and battled with their greatest successor, Henry Clay.
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