The Papers of Daniel Webster: Correspondence: Volume 1, 1798-1824
The Webster Papers project has always been conceived as a combined microfilm-letterpress enterprise. Funds to issue the complete papers on microfilm were provided by the National Historical Publications, and they are now available on forty-one reels including approximately 16,000 items of correspondence. These supplement some 400 reels of official papers available through the National Archives and Record Service. The best guide to the voluminous microfilm edition is the selective, annotated letterpress editon now being inaugurated. In this edition documents have been chosen for their historical significance, they have been transcribed, and persons and events have been identified and placed in context by the editors. These selected documents, even though they comprise no more than one in ten--or for official papers on in fifty--cannot fail to be of immense assistance to the user of the far more extensive micro film edition. The letterpress edition will also provide the less dedicated scholar, the student of the period, and the general reader with the essential Webster in convenient annotated form, and will be valuable edition for all libraries maintaining a collection in American history.
The Webster Papers project has always been conceived as a combined microfilm-letterpress enterprise. Funds to issue the complete papers on microfilm were provided by the National Historical Publications, and they are now available on forty-one reels including approximately 16,000 items of correspondence. These supplement some 400 reels of official papers available through the National Archives and Record Service. The best guide to the voluminous microfilm edition is the selective, annotated letterpress editon now being inaugurated. In this edition documents have been chosen for their historical significance, they have been transcribed, and persons and events have been identified and placed in context by the editors. These selected documents, even though they comprise no more than one in ten--or for official papers on in fifty--cannot fail to be of immense assistance to the user of the far more extensive micro film edition. The letterpress edition will also provide the less dedicated scholar, the student of the period, and the general reader with the essential Webster in convenient annotated form, and will be valuable edition for all libraries maintaining a collection in American history.BUY NOW
Published February 1st 1975 by Dartmouth
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Daniel Webster was a leading American statesman during the nation's Antebellum Period. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. His increasingly nationalistic views and the effectiveness with which he articulated them led Webster to become one of the most famous orators and influential Whig leaders of the Second Party System.
Daniel Webster was an attorney, and served as legal counsel in several cases that established important constitutional precedents that bolstered the authority of the Federal government. As Secretary of State, he negotiated the Webster-Ashburton Treaty that established the definitive eastern border between the United States and Canada.
Webster tried three times to achieve the Presidency; all three bids failed, the final one in part because of his compromises. Similarly, Webster's efforts to steer the nation away from civil war toward a definite peace ultimately proved futile. Despite this, Webster came to be esteemed for these efforts and was officially named by the U.S. Senate in 1957 as one of its five most outstanding members.
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