Daniel Webster’s July 4, 1800 Speech at Hanover

Editor’s note: The full title of the speech below is “An oration, pronounced at Hanover, New-Hampshire, the 4th day of July, 1800; being the twenty-fourth anniversary of American independence.” The speaker is Daniel Webster, who was then a junior at the University of Dartmouth.

AN ORATION.

COUNTRYMEN, BRETHREN, AND FATHERS,

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Restful Blissful Ignorance

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“I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that I’m the only person in the world who reads through back issues of the Ann Arbor Baptist, a periodical from the late 1800s. But periodicals like that were the blogs of their era and within their pages I find such interesting articles and poems.” - Challies

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How the 19th-century temperance movement shaped feminism

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“Emphasizing what the WCTU called ‘organized mother love’ — the belief that women could apply the ideals of motherhood to the social issues of the time — Willard built the WCTU into one of the largest women’s organizations in the world.” - RNS

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