Authors: Daniel Webster

The Judiciary
1825–1860

Speech on the Presidential Veto of the Bank Bill

Register of Debates, Senate, 22nd Congress, 1st session, pp. 1221–1240, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llrd&fileName=011/llrd011.db&recNum=614 Mr. President, no one will deny the high importance of the subject now before us. Congress, after full deliberation

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The Judiciary
1825–1860

Reply to Jackson’s Veto Message

Source: Daniel Webster, “The Bank Veto,” U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875, Senate, 22nd Congress, 1st session, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llrd&fileName=011/llrd011.db&recNum=614. No one will deny the high importance of the subject now before

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1825–1860

The Webster-Hayne Debates

Speech of Senator Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina, January 19, 1830 In coming to the consideration of the next great question, what ought to be the future policy of

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