THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
JAMES MADISON AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
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Henry Clay
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Daniel Webster
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John C. Calhoun
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Daniel Webster was a Massachusetts senator (Whig) and one of the most distinguished members in Senate history. His trial by fire began in 1850 when he agreed to help Henry Clay of Kentucky push through a compromise bill that would keep the Union together.
Detailed explanation-2: -Daniel Webster represented the Second Bank of the United States both in the Congress and before the US Supreme Court as well serving as Director of its Boston branch on which he made out this $3, 001.01 draft on July 24, 1824.
Detailed explanation-3: -No hanging over the abyss of disunion, no weighing of the chances, no doubting as to what the Constitution was worth, no placing of liberty before Union, but “liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.” This was the tenor of Webster’s speech, and nobly did the country respond to it. . . .