Excerpt from Daniel Webster

Although in truth one of the most human of men, Daniel Webster is, and must remain, for students of American history primarily the orator, jurist, and statesman; and while in this brief biography an attempt has been made to convey some impression of the personal characteristics of the man. and especially of the conditions surrounding his earlier life, space has been devoted principally to the multifold public activities by which his ultimate distinction was attained. The subject is old, and yet ever fresh. The shelves of our libraries groan under the masses of books relating to it. Yet neglected or largely unused materials are still being brought to light; and so intricately do the life and work of the man enter into the very texture of the nation"s history that they are very nearly as incapable of full and final interpretation as is that history itself.

In the preparation of the present sketch liberal use has been made of the earlier biographies, especially of the two excellent ones by Curtis and Lodge, of the standard histories, and of monographs. The very abundant source materials, however, - chiefly the writings of Webster and of his contemporaries, - have been the principal reliance. Since the publication, in 1902, of Professor Yan Tyne"s "Letters of Daniel Webster," and, in 1903, of the eighteen-volume "National Edition" of Webster"s "Writings and Speeches," these sources have been almost entirely available in print.

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