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Quotation from Second Reply to Hayne by Daniel Webster
“God grant that, in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise!”
Second Reply to Hayne, Peroration (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879))
Webster refuses to consider what might lie beyond a broken Union.
Citation: "God grant that, in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise!" — Daniel Webster, Second Reply to Hayne, Peroration (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879)). (id webster-second-reply-to-hayne-q7)
Portrait: Webster's Reply to Hayne, by Healy (cropped), George Peter Alexander Healy, Public domain.
