What was Daniel Webster's veiw on nationalism?

Answer 1

Daniel Webster was a member of the Federalist Party and after the 1816 of the Whig Party.

In contrast to the Democratic Party , he saw the United States as a nation with:

- a strong central power;

- a National Bank that would guarantee to the businessmen and traders a stable currency and large credits;

- the autonomy of the States restricted within reasonable limits;

- a tariffs' policy that would protect the Union's manufacturers.

In addition to that he was opposed to the expansionist policy pursued by the Democratic Party, that favored the agricultural masses, as the bearer of international and internal conflicts and in favor of public works, financed by the incomes of the protective tariffs.

In Webster's opinion the Union was a large federal republic which had to respect the States' local autonomy, but first of all had to govern also imposing, even by force, the decision taken by the majority of the Congress. In an address given from the Senatorial room in 1832, in opposition to the ideas expressed by John Calhoun in favor of South Carolina, that threatened to secede because of a sudden increase of tariffs decided by the Federal government, he said among other things:

"I'm for the Constitution as it is and the Union as it is....it is the constitution of the People, the People's government made for the People, by the People and accountable in front of the People...Liberty and Union, now and always, linked and inseparables truth is...that for certain purposes the People of the United States is one people. It is one in making war and one in making peace, one in business and one in setting fees or taxes..."

In a nutshell, his vision of a centralized and authoritarian Union, reflected that of the capitalist classes of the North.

Answer 2

i dont have a clue lol