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Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850 gift_for_firefighter where a sitting United StatesDaniel 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,