or even equals the Cyclopean massiveness of Webster's more fragmentary building. All the speeches that were made upon the other side now read like temporizing trickery in contrast with his majestic treatment of enduring principles. And no one can read his speeches without being impressed by their prophetic as well as their historic character and by the intimate relationship of the tariff to all the great facts of our national life-to the Revolution, the more perfect Union under the Constitution, the Civil War, the unequalled industrial development of the Republican régime, and the renaissance of sectionalism-the "continuation of the Rebellion" as Senator Sherman calls itwhich characterizes the Wilson-Voorhees-Gorman propositions of 1894. Webster took it all in, and whoever understands Webster understands the tariff. Delivered in the United States Senate on Thursday, March 7, 1850. AS REVISED AND CORRECTED BY HIMSELF, AND PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION, FROM THE DAILY ATLAS, MARCH 11th. BOSTON: REDDING & COMPANY." 1850. |
