The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union

by Belz, Herman

• ISBN13: 9780865972735
• ISBN10: 0865972737
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Liberty Fund

Summary

The Webster-Hayne Debate consists of speeches delivered in the United States Senate in January of 1830. 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. Each man spoke more or less for his section, and their classic expositions of their respective views framed the political conflicts that culminated at last in the secession of the Southern states and war between advocates of Union and champions of Confederacy. The key speakers and viewpoints are included in The Webster-Hayne Debate. These speeches represent every major perspective on 'the nature of the Union' in the early nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Note on The Text	xvi
Bibliography	xvi
Speech of Robert Y. Hayne, of South Carolina January 19, 1830	3	(12)
Speech of Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts January 20, 1830	15	(20)
Speech of Robert Y. Hayne, of South Carolina January 25, 1830	35	(46)
Speech of Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts January 26 and 27, 1830	81	(74)
Speech of Robert Y. Hayne, of South Carolina January 27, 1830	155	(30)
Speech of Thomas Hart Benton, of Missouri January 20 and 29, February 1 and 2, 1830	185	(72)
Speech of John Rowan, of Kentucky February 4, 1830	257	(50)
Speech of William Smith, of South Carolina February 25, 1830	307	(42)
Speech of John M. Clayton, of Delaware March 4, 1830	349	(60)
Speech of Edward Livingston, of Louisiana March 9, 1830	409	(74)
Index	483