Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850 Size:36x24 sinewy men who made the

sinewy men who made the American turf — silks and stirrups rendered with the reverence usually reserved for generals

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and Main Street tableaus flicker between Mark Twain's gabled house and the Colt armory's onion-blue dome

carriages wheeling past the southwest gate of the park in the unhurried choreography of a city still learning its own scale

its courses hewn from Aquia quarries and stacked by hands that still remembered the Revolution

Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850 Size:36x24 sinewy men who made theDaniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850. A documentary engraving of the Massachusetts orator on the floor where Clay's Compromise hung in the balance Webster rising not as a Northerner or a Whig, but as an American, his Seventh of March speech already echoing toward the rupture it briefly forestalled. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,