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OUR FOREFATHERS\u2019\nCOVENANTS<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

Part 19<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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April 17, 2020<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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Let's talk about\nsomeone whose name is synonymous with education and learning, and someone whose\nname is likely more used today than even that of George Washington.\u00a0 We're\ntalking, of course, about Daniel Webster, whose name is on the overwhelming\nmajority of the dictionaries used in schools and institutions of higher\nlearning.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

Born\nJanuary 18, 1782 in Salisbury, New Hampshire, Daniel Webster was a skinny lad\nwho had a personal terror of public speaking.\u00a0 Funny thing.\u00a0 For a\nfellow who had such a fear of facing the public, he sure overcame it!<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\nson of rather poor parents, Ebenezer and Abigail Webster, Daniel began to show\npromise of exceptional brilliance even at an early age.\u00a0 In recognition of\nhis service in the French and Indian War, Daniel's father was granted a small\nparcel of land in New Hampshire which he industriously and effectively\nfarmed.\u00a0 It provided enough of an income to the family such that Ebenezer\nand Abigail decided to sacrifice any extras for several years so that Daniel\ncould be privately tutored -- even before he reached the normal age to begin\nhis public education.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Daniel\nWebster had a unique talent.\u00a0 He was born with, and even improved upon, a\nphotographic memory.\u00a0 He had the ability to see something just once and\nretain it to the finest detail in memory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

While\nstill young, his parents sent him off to Philips Exeter Academy for nine\nmonths.\u00a0 The academic brilliance he demonstrated earned him the\nopportunity to attend Dartmouth College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa just\nafter his 19th birthday in 1801.\u00a0 Prompted by classmates and instructors,\nhe began using his memory skills while still at Dartmouth to begin writing\nspeeches for others.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Invited\nto join the United Fraternity Literary Society, he overcame his fear of public\nspeaking sufficiently that he began to engage in public debate.\u00a0 Webster's\nobvious genius for memorization was an enormous help in recalling precise\ndetail, and he put it to good use in public speeches.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

So\nskilled did he become at public speaking that he was invited to deliver\nHanover's Independence Day oration on July 4th of 1801.\u00a0 It was only\nnatural, therefore, that he would be invited to apprentice as a lawyer.\u00a0\nIn 1805, Daniel Webster opened his first law office in Boscawen, New Hampshire,\nand two years later turned it over to his father (who prospered in some measure\nas a result of his son's prominence) when he opened another office in\nPortsmouth.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\nfollowing year, at age 26, he married Grace Fletcher.\u00a0 They had one son\ntogether, Charles Webster.\u00a0 Grace died in the 20th year of their marriage.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

With\npeople like John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton publishing their\nFederalist Papers and inspiring many of those fellow-countrymen to become part\nof the newly-formed Federalist Society, it didn't take long for Webster to\nbecome a member.\u00a0 It didn't hurt, of course, that Daniel's father,\nEbenezer, had become a Federalist.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

It\ntook no time whatever for his peers in the Federalist Society to realize they had\na gem on their hands in Webster.\u00a0 His ability to retain information and\nknowledge, coupled with his developed (and developing) speaking skills made him\nthe ideal articulate spokesman for their political views.\u00a0 At the same\ntime, his skills were put to work as he took on some rather high profile cases\nas an attorney, prosecuting cases against the likes of Jeremiah Mason.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In\n1812, Daniel Webster was elected as New Hampshire's representative to the U.S.\nHouse of Representatives, largely because of his opposition to the War of 1812\nwhich had crippled New England's shipping and international trade.\u00a0 He\nserved two terms in the U.S. House, leaving Congress in 1816.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

After\nleaving Congress, he moved to Boston where he used his legal acumen to play a\nhuge part in the defense of the Constitution.\u00a0 At the same time, his past\nparticipation in Congress caused the beginning of a transition and shift in his\npolitical views.\u00a0 He was called upon to argue some of the nation's most\nhigh-profile cases before the Supreme Court (and in particular, DARTMOUTH\nCOLLEGE v. WOODWARD, and GIBBONS v. OGDEN, along with MCCULLOCH v.\nMARYLAND).\u00a0 His oratory before the Supreme Court firmly established him as\nthe nation's leading Constitutional lawyer.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In\n1823, now at age 35, Daniel Webster was returned to Congress -- this time as a\nRepresentative for the State of Massachusetts.\u00a0 Four years later, he was\nelected as a U.S. Senator.\u00a0 The Federalist Party now dead and an icon of\nhistory, Webster chose to join what was then called the National Republican\nParty (the Whigs, for short).\u00a0 His political views had undergone\nconsiderable change as he recognized the impracticality of some of his previous\nFederalist positions.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Losing\na race in 1836 for the Presidency on the Whig ticket, he nonetheless gained\nmore in national prominence, and when William Henry Harrison ran for President\nin 1840, he was offered the position of Vice-President.\u00a0 He declined with\na dry but humorous phrase he would use again eight years later when Zachary\nTaylor ran for Presidency, \"I do not propose to be buried until I am\ndead.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

He\ndid, however, accept Harrison's offer to become Secretary of State, and it was\na position he held during the Tyler administration following Harrison's\ndeath.\u00a0 In 1845, he was reelected to the Senate where he took up a very\nstrong abolitionist stance, allying himself with Henry Clay and John C.\nCalhoun.\u00a0 When Henry Clay proposed what later became the Compromise of\n1850 in which an effort was made to make peace between the northern non-slave\nand southern slave states, and Webster joined his effort, preachers vilified\nhim with the kinds of accusations we've heard in the past few years against\nPresident Bush.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Rev.\nTheodore Parker said in one of his sermons that, \"No living man has\ndone so much to debauch the conscience of the nation<\/i>.\"\u00a0 Horace\nMann described him as being \"a fallen star! Lucifer descending from\nHeaven!<\/i>\"\u00a0 James Russell Lowell called Webster, \"the most\nmeanly and foolishly treacherous man I ever heard of<\/i>.\"\u00a0 Webster's\nattempt to bring a compromise between the North and South cost him dearly in\npublic opinion, and he never regained his popularity.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Riding\nhis horse one October day in 1852 at his home in Marshfield, Massachusetts, the\nhorse suddenly reared knocking Webster from his seat.\u00a0 The fall caused a\ncrushing blow to his head, and he died the morning of October 24, 1852 from a\nresulting brain hemorrhage.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\u00a0Over\nthe years, Daniel Webster had given some notable and some phenomenal\nspeeches.\u00a0 He never argued anything for the sake of political expediency,\nand because he believed so firmly in the causes he represented, his arguments\ngained all the more in forcefulness.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

It\nwas in 1820 that a decision was made to separate Maine from the Commonwealth of\nMassachusetts.\u00a0 Massachusetts' Constitution to this time was the same one\nadopted in 1780.\u00a0 Inasmuch as its constitution was an adaptation of John\nWinthrop's original charter which held (in part) that \"no man shall be\nqualified to hold office unless he be a Christian, swearing allegiance to Jesus\nChrist,\" delegates thought to modify the wording so that \"a simple\noath of allegiance to the Commonwealth, together with the oath of office,\nshould be taken by all persons chosen or appointed to office. . . . and that a\nprofession of belief in the Christian religion no longer be required as a\nqualification for office.\" (source: The Writings and Speeches of Daniel\nWebster, Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1903)<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Daniel\nWebster was the chairman of this convention and he took to the floor to argue\nagainst this change.\u00a0 His speech was easily one of the most powerful and\neffective in his entire life and career.\u00a0 It puts the lie to the specious\n\"separation of church and state\" claim of the liberal left,\ndemonstrating constitutionally the right of the people to make such requirements\nwithout impinging on the liberties of those who choose otherwise.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Following\nis a small extract of Webster's speech:<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"It is obvious that the principal alteration proposed by the\nfirst resolution is the omission of the declaration of belief in the Christian\nreligion as a qualification for office in the cases of the governor,\nlieutenant-governor, councilors, and members of the legislature. I shall\ncontent myself on this occasion with stating, shortly and generally, the\nsentiments of the select committee, as I understand them, on the subject of\nthis resolution.
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\nTwo questions naturally present themselves. In the first place, Have the people\na right, if in their judgment the security of their government and its due\nadministration demand it, to require a declaration of belief in the Christian\nreligion as a qualification or condition of office? On this question, a\nmajority of the committee held a decided opinion. They thought the people had\nsuch a right. By the fundamental principle of popular and elective governments,\nall office is in the free gift of the people. They may grant or they may\nwithhold it at pleasure; and if it be for them, and them only, to decide\nwhether they will grant office, it is for them to decide, also, on what terms\nand what conditions they will grant it. Nothing is more unfounded than the\nnotion that any man has a right to an office. This must depend on the choice of\nothers, and consequently upon the opinions of others, in relation to his\nfitness and qualification for office. No man can be said to have a right to\nthat which others may withhold from him at pleasure.
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\nThere are certain rights, no doubt, which the whole people, or the government\nas representing the whole people, owe to each individual in return for that\nobedience and personal service, and those proportionate contributions to the\npublic burdens which each individual owes to the government. These rights are\nstated with sufficient accuracy, in the tenth article of the Bill of Rights, in\nthis constitution.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cEach individual in\nsociety has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life,\nliberty, and property, according to the standing laws.\"\u00a0 <\/span>Here is no right of office enumerated; no\nright of governing others, or of bearing rule in the State. All bestowment of\noffice remaining in the discretion of the people, they have of course a right\nto regulate it by any rules which they may deem expedient. Hence the people, by\ntheir constitution, prescribe certain qualifications for office respecting age,\nproperty, residence, and taxation. But if office, merely as such, were a right\nwhich each individual under the social compact was entitled to claim, all these\nqualifications would be excluded. Acknowledged rights are not subject, and\nought not to be subject to any such limitation. The right of being protected in\nlife, liberty, and estate is due to all and cannot be justly denied to any,\nwhatever be their age, property, or residence in the State.
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\nThese qualifications, then, can only be made requisite as conditions for office\non the ground that office is not what any man can demand as matter of right but\nrests in the confidence and good-will of those who are to bestow it. In short,\nit seems to me too plain to be questioned that the right of office is a matter\nof discretion and option, and can never be claimed by any man on the ground of\nobligation. It would seem to follow, then, that those who confer office may\nannex any such conditions to it as they think proper. If they prefer one man to\nanother, they may act on that preference. If they regard certain personal\nqualifications, they may act accordingly, and ground of complaint is given to\nnobody. Between two candidates otherwise equally qualified, the people at an\nelection may decide in favor of one because he is a Christian and against the\nother because he is not. They may repeat this preference at the next election\non the same ground and may continue it from year to year.\"<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

As\nDavid Barton (President and Chairman of WallBuilders)\nnotes, \"<\/i><\/b><\/span>Daniel\nWebster's remarks regarding the committee's report provides compelling\nreasoning which should be considered by every American voter today. Webster's\ncomments emphasize the importance of Christian leaders and Christian principles\nin civil government.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

We've\nspent most of today's Coffee Break dealing with the historical outline of\nDaniel Webster's life, but I'd like to cover more of his speech to the\nMassachusetts Constitutional Convention next week, along with portions of other\nspeeches and forceful arguments in favor of Christianity and Christians in\ngovernment.<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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