A review of Webster's eloquence in all three classical genres of oratory

1. The Oratory of Daniel Webster
ELOQUENCE & CIVIC LIFE

2. RHETORIC

3. DANIEL WEBSTER, 1782-1852.

4. DANIEL WEBSTER BIRTHPLACE

5. 19TH-CENTURY
AMERICAN ORATORS

6. CLASSICAL RHETORIC

7. Forensic Rhetoric
Deliberative Rhetoric
Epideictic Rhetoric
WEBSTER THE ORATOR

8. FORENSIC ORATORY

9. THE “ATROCIOUS MURDER” OF
APRIL 6, 1830

10. CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE

11. SCENE OF THE CRIME
GARDNER-PINGREE HOUSE (1804)

12. THE CONSPIRACY

13. CROWNINSHIELD SUICIDE

14. FRANK KNAPP

15. MURDER IN SALEM

16. CAPT. WHITE’S HOUSE

17. THE MURDER WEAPON

18. “A COOL, CALCULATING, MONEY-
MAKING MURDER”

19. MORBID CURIOSITY

20. FRANK KNAPP’S END

21. LITERARY INSPIRATION

22. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE

23. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE V.
WOODWARD

24. “AND YET, THERE ARE THOSE
WHO LOVE IT.”

25. THE DARTMOUTH MONUMENT

26. WEBSTER HALL

27. DELIBERATIVE ORATORY

28. COMPROMISE OF 1850

29. SLAVERY OR DISUNION

30. • 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

31. THE CONSTITUTION AND THE UNION

32. “7TH OF MARCH” ADDRESS (1850)

33. MIXED REVIEWS

34. REPLY TO HAYNE

35. ROBERT Y. HAYNE

36. FANEUIL HALL INTERIOR

37. HEALY PAINTING:
“WEBSTER REPLYING TO HAYNE”

38. RELIEF SCULPTURE

39. NATIONAL NEWS

40. FROM SHORTHAND
TO PAMPHLET

41. EPIDEICTIC ORATORY

42. PLYMOUTH 1820

43. PUBLIC MEMORY

44. COMMEMORATION

45. THE PAMPHLET

46. TOAST BY WEBSTER

47. BUNKER HILL ORATION (1825)

48. MONUMENT ASSOCIATION

49. THE MONUMENT IN 1840

50. THE MONUMENT COMPLETED

51. INSTANT CLASSIC

52. MONUMENTS TO WEBSTER

53. WEBSTER’S MARSHFIELD HOME

54. JANUARY 18, 1782 – OCTOBER 24, 1852

55. WEBSTER’S GRAVE

56. JAMES M. FARRELL
UNH Department of Communication