“The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.”

— Daniel Webster

Second Reply to Hayne (1830)

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Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – … 1782–1852

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