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Authors & Vegetarians. Andover and Exeter, plus some subsequent Ivy, produce a rich pattern of graduates. Exeter has one President (Franklin Pierce) and ten Cabinet members, from Daniel Webster to Henry Morgenthau Jr. Andover boasts a Supreme Court Justice (William H. Moody) and two Cabinet members, including Henry L. Stimson...
...Webster, the political sense of the noun issue ranks only eighth in importance...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where the rationality and precision of Webster do not always prevail, an issue is something around which you rouse strong feelings, upon which you evoke substantive personal commitment, and with which you get votes...
Plymouth trip leaves Sunday morning at 9 a.m., and will last eight hours. Buses will stop at the Adams' mansions in Quincy, Webster's home in Marshfield, and other points along the way. time will be allowed in Plymouth to see Plymouth Rock, a fine reconstruction of the original Pilgrim settlement, and the Mayflower exact reconstruction of the original ship). The tour will also Plymouth museum, and the old cemetery; if there is time, will continue to the Cape Cod Canal...
This attitude is writ large upon the town's constitution. Earlier on in American history, Daniel Webster got himself into a debate in the New Hampshire House of Representatives when he attacked the Tory notion that power follows property. But news travelled slowly in those days and apparently this piece of information never did get to the Eastern Shore. Only citizens who posses title to more than $500 worth of property within the town's limits can vote in Chestertown elections. The great majority of citizens, both white and colored, either rent their land or own considerably less than...