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Quotation from Second Reply to Hayne by Daniel Webster
“When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.”
Second Reply to Hayne, Exordium, opening sentence (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879))
Webster opens by asking the Senate to recall the resolution from which the debate had drifted.
Citation: "When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course." — Daniel Webster, Second Reply to Hayne, Exordium, opening sentence (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879)). (id webster-second-reply-to-hayne-q1)
Virtues: Prudence
Portrait: Webster's Reply to Hayne, by Healy (cropped), George Peter Alexander Healy, Public domain.
