Eloquence & Civic Life: The Oratory of Daniel Webster

The Oratory of Daniel WebsterELOQUENCE & CIVIC LIFE

RHETORIC

DANIEL WEBSTER, 1782-1852.

DANIEL WEBSTER BIRTHPLACE

19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN ORATORS

CLASSICAL RHETORIC

Forensic Rhetoric

Deliberative Rhetoric

Epideictic Rhetoric

WEBSTER THE ORATOR

FORENSIC ORATORY

THE “ATROCIOUS MURDER” OF APRIL 6, 1830

CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE

SCENE OF THE CRIMEGARDNER-PINGREE HOUSE (1804)

THE CONSPIRACY

CROWNINSHIELD SUICIDE

FRANK KNAPP

MURDER IN SALEM

CAPT. WHITE’S HOUSE

THE MURDER WEAPON

“A COOL, CALCULATING, MONEY-MAKING MURDER”

MORBID CURIOSITY

FRANK KNAPP’S END

LITERARY INSPIRATION

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V. WOODWARD

“AND YET, THERE ARE THOSE WHO LOVE IT.”

THE DARTMOUTH MONUMENT

WEBSTER HALL

DELIBERATIVE ORATORY

COMPROMISE OF 1850

SLAVERY OR DISUNION

• California enters the Union as a free state.

• Popular Sovereignty determines slavery in Utah & New Mexico

• Texas border dispute settled.

• Slave trade banned in D.C.

• Fugitive Slave Law enforced.

THE COMPROMISE MEASURES

THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION

“7TH OF MARCH” ADDRESS (1850)

MIXED REVIEWS

REPLY TO HAYNE

ROBERT Y. HAYNE

FANEUIL HALL INTERIOR

HEALY PAINTING: “WEBSTER REPLYING TO HAYNE”

RELIEF SCULPTURE

NATIONAL NEWS

FROM SHORTHAND TO PAMPHLET

EPIDEICTIC ORATORY

PLYMOUTH 1820

PUBLIC MEMORY

COMMEMORATION

THE PAMPHLET

TOAST BY WEBSTER

BUNKER HILL ORATION (1825)

MONUMENT ASSOCIATION

THE MONUMENT IN 1840

THE MONUMENT COMPLETED

INSTANT CLASSIC

MONUMENTS TO WEBSTER

WEBSTER’S MARSHFIELD HOME

JANUARY 18, 1782 – OCTOBER 24, 1852

WEBSTER’S GRAVE

JAMES M. FARRELLUNH Department of Communication