The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union: Selected Documents

ISBN-13: 9780865972735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 492 str.

Daniel Webster; Robert Young Hayne

Opis

The debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differing understandings of the nature of the American Union that had come to predominate in the North and the South, respectively, by 1830. To Webster the Union was the indivisible expression of one nation of people. To Hayne the Union was the voluntary compact among sovereign states. This volume consists of speeches delivered in the United States Senate in January 1830. By no means were Webster and Hayne the only senators who engaged in debate on the nature of the Union. Well over a score of the Senate's members spoke in response in 65 speeches all told, and these senators did not merely echo either of the principals. The key speakers and viewpoints are included in this volume. It opens with Hayne's speech. Webster responded, Hayne retorted, and Webster concluded with an appeal to liberty and union. Other speeches in the volume are by Senators Thomas Hart Benton, John Rowan, William Smith, John M. Clayton and Edward Livingstone.