USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Known as the “Defender of the Constitution, ” Webster believed in a strong central government. Just two years after his famous last Senate speech, Webster fell from his horse at his Massachusetts home and died of a brain injury. He did not live to see the South secede, or the bloody war that followed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Webster viewed slavery as a matter of historical reality rather than moral principle. He argued that the issue of its existence in the territories had been settled long ago when Congress prohibited slavery in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and divided regions into slave and free in the 1820 Missouri Compromise.

Detailed explanation-3: -God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. Let our object be our country.

Detailed explanation-4: -Daniel Webster (1782-1852) emerged as one of the greatest orators and most influential statesmen in the United States in the early 19th century. As an attorney, he argued several landmark cases before the Supreme Court that expanded the power of the federal government.