Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, July 1899

by Various

Edwin P. Whipple. "Webster's Great Speeches," Introduction, North American Review, July, 1844.

Mellen Chamberlain, in Century Magazine, September, 1893, p. 709.

Henry Cabot Lodge, in Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 49, February, 1882.

Julius H. Ward, in International Review, February, 1882, p, 124.

General S. P. Lyman, "Daniel Webster," 2 Vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1853.

James Parton, in North American Review, January, 1867, Vol. 104, p. 65.

J. H. B. Latrobe, in Harper's Magazine, February, 1882, Vol. 64, p. 428.

Charles W. March, "Reminiscences of Congress."

[3] Scribner's Magazine, 1894, Vol. xv., p. 118.

[4] When I came into the House of Representatives in 1869, one of the reporters told me that he had the manuscript of Mr. Webster's 7th of March speech, which Mr. Webster gave him. It contained a few sentences carefully composed, but which were spoken almost exactly as they were written. But the larger part of the speech, according to this reporter, seemed to be extempore.