Daniel Webster and the Oratory of Civil ReligionUniversity of Missouri Press, 2005 - 300 страница Annotation Daniel Webster (1782-1852) embodied the golden age of oratory in America by mastering each of the major genres of public speaking of the time. Even today, many of his victories before the Supreme Court remain as precedents. Webster served in the House, the Senate, and twice as secretary of state. He was so famous as a political orator that his reply "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" to Senator Robert Hayne in a debate in 1830 was memorized by schoolboys and was on the lips of Northern soldiers as they charged forward in the Civil War. There would have been no 1850 Compromise without Webster, and without the Compromise, the Civil War might well have come earlier to an unprepared North. Webster was also the consummate ceremonial speaker. He advanced Whig virtues and solidified support for the Union through civil religion, creating a transcendent symbol for the nation that became a metaphor for the working constitutional framework. While several biographies have been written about Webster, none has focused on his oratorical talent. This study examines Webster's incredible career from the perspective of his great speeches and how they created a civil religion that moved citizens beyond loyalty and civic virtue to true romantic patriotism. Craig R. Smith places Webster's speeches in their historical context and then uses the tools of rhetorical criticism to analyze them. He demonstrates that Webster understood not only how rhetorical genres function to meet the expectations of the moment but also how they could be braided to produce long-lasting and literate discourse |
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... values. Webster lived in a romantic era that was much more open to displays of emotion than our own. The Second Great Awakening occurred during his most influential period. Thus, his development of a civil religion resonated with the ...
... values. Webster lived in a romantic era that was much more open to displays of emotion than our own. The Second Great Awakening occurred during his most influential period. Thus, his development of a civil religion resonated with the ...
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... values that not only made Union a transcendent term but also reinforced the lessons of the founders, particularly Washington and Madison. Lincoln used Webster's call for the preservation of the Union as his touchstone. In fact, the end ...
... values that not only made Union a transcendent term but also reinforced the lessons of the founders, particularly Washington and Madison. Lincoln used Webster's call for the preservation of the Union as his touchstone. In fact, the end ...
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... values expressed in his speeches were the same values held in the public consciousness . Webster , however , did more than adapt to the popular public mind ; he changed it by reordering the priority of those val- ues . By surveying his ...
... values expressed in his speeches were the same values held in the public consciousness . Webster , however , did more than adapt to the popular public mind ; he changed it by reordering the priority of those val- ues . By surveying his ...
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... values for developing nationhood. His talent was to use the founders, particularly Washington, to advance the Federalist agenda, often in the guise of making a ceremonial speech. Because of him, the Union became the God-term that ...
... values for developing nationhood. His talent was to use the founders, particularly Washington, to advance the Federalist agenda, often in the guise of making a ceremonial speech. Because of him, the Union became the God-term that ...
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... values . These values became guides to decision - making for the nation's leaders . The complication with such rhetoric is that audiences hold not only themselves but their speakers to the standards that are articu- lated . Thus ...
... values . These values became guides to decision - making for the nation's leaders . The complication with such rhetoric is that audiences hold not only themselves but their speakers to the standards that are articu- lated . Thus ...
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A Boston Lawyer | 39 |
The Lion Returns | 64 |
Chapter 4 | 84 |
Liberty and Union | 100 |
Legal and Partisan Wrangling | 120 |
Abolition Confounds the TwoParty System | 155 |
War with Mexico | 191 |
National Crisis Capitol Gridlock | 214 |
Consummating Compromise | 238 |
Twilight Time | 252 |
Chronology of Major Speeches | 271 |
Bibliographic Essay | 273 |
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