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Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union (Hardcover)
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Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union (Hardcover)
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The debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert
Hayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differing
understandings of the nature of the American Union that had come to
predominate in the North and the South, respectively, by 1830. To
Webster the Union was the indivisible expression of one nation of
people. To Hayne the Union was the voluntary compact among
sovereign states. Each man spoke more or less for his section, and
their classic expositions of their respective views framed the
political conflicts that culminated at last in the secession of the
Southern states and war between advocates of Union and champions of
Confederacy. "The Webster-Hayne Debate" consists of speeches
delivered in the United States Senate in January of 1830. By no
means were Webster and Hayne the only Senators who engaged in
debate "on the nature of the Union." Well over a score of the
Senate's members spoke in response in sixty-five speeches all told,
and these Senators did not merely echo either of the principals.
The key speakers and viewpoints are included in "The Webster-Hayne
Debate." The volume opens with Hayne's speech, which, as Herman
Belz observes, turned debates on "the public lands" into "a clash
between state sovereignty and national sovereignty, expounded as
rival and irreconcilable theories of constitutional construction
and the nature of the federal Union." Webster responded, Hayne
retorted, and Webster concluded with an appeal to "Liberty and
Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," in what later
historians would deem to be "the most powerful and effective speech
ever given in an American legislature." Other speeches in the
volume are by Senators Thomas Hart Benton, John Rowan, William
Smith, John M. Clayton, and Edward Livingston. Together, these
speeches represent every major perspective on "the nature of the
Union" in the early nineteenth century.Herman Belz is Professor of
History at the University of Maryland, and the author most recently
of "A Living Constitution or Fundamental Law?: American
Constitutionalism in Historical Perspective and Abraham Lincoln,
Constitutionalism, " and "Equal Rights During the Civil War Era."
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