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Daniel Webster said, "This government Sir, is the independent offspring of the popular will. It is not the creature of State legislatures; nay, more, if the whole truth must be told, the people brought it into existence, established it, and have hitherto supported it, for the very purpose, amongst others, of imposing certain salutary restraints on State sovereignties."
Edit: The silver tongued Devil claimed to be the oldest American citizen. The jury said, "Even the damned may salute the eloquence of Mr. Webster," but Patriotism was honored.
Craig R. Smith, in "Criticism of Political Rhetoric and Disciplinary Integrity" suggested Lincoln's view of the government as expressed in the Gettysburg Address was influenced by the noted speech of Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster, the "Second Reply to Hayne" in which Webster famously thundered, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" Specifically, in this January 26, 1830, speech before the United States Senate, Webster described the Federal Government as: "made for the people, made by the people, for the people."
I haven't read Benet's book, but I can promise you that Daniel Webster knew the devil, because Daniel Webster knew God. The words of Lincoln and Webster wreak the Bible. You can say they wrote biblically. Webster was the most eloquent of speakers as the Godly words flowed from his mouth.