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Quotation from Speeches on the Compromise of 1850 by Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster
“I wish to speak to-day, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American, and a member of the Senate of the United States.”
Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Webster's Seventh of March speech, opening sentence (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879), Project Gutenberg #12606)
Webster sets the tone of a speech in which he would grant Southern grievances and rebuke both sections.
Citation: "I wish to speak to-day, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American, and a member of the Senate of the United States." — Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Webster's Seventh of March speech, opening sentence (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879), Project Gutenberg #12606). (id compromise-of-1850-speeches-q7)
Virtues: Magnanimity
Portrait: Henry Clay, Matthew Harris Jouett, Public domain.
