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WEBSTER, DANIEL

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WEBSTER, DANIEL
(1782 - 1852) American lawyer and statesman who verbally jousted with Calhoun in the Senate and later supported Clay's compromise measures on slavery. Interesting L.S. as Secretary of State, 3pp. 4to., Washington, Dec. 11, 1841 to Thomas H. Perkins informing him that ""...it is expected the frigate United States, in which John S. Pendleton, Estr. W. Pollard's successor, will embark for Chile, will sail form Norfolk in about a week from this date. In his last dispatch to the department, dated the 7th. of July, Mr. Pollard states the new Minister for Foreign Affairs had declined asking the sanction of the Chilean Congress to the arrangement respecting the money seized in 1819, until they had learnt the result of an inquiry which they had made through their minister at Lima as to the reported existence there of proof that the money was Spanish property..."" Very good.