eloquence & civic life: the oratory of daniel webster
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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