Famous Speeches of American Independence Daniel Webster
"Now for your encouragement I wish you to understand that the Mighty Saint Germain in the beginning of the establishment of the Government of the United States of America, gave to the early patriots the God Law by which the Nation can be governed, can be purified, can be protected, and can be controlled. The God Law was given.
And most people do not yet understand -"I AM" speaking of the masses of the people of this Nation - do not understand that every individual in the government of this Land is under the Control of the God Law in the Constitution of the United States of America. There is provision made there for the God Law of Life to control every department of the government, to control everything within your borders, to control everything that affects the Destiny of the Nation.
You are the people of the Light! You are Violet Flame Freedom to the Earth! You are the Cosmic Christ Sacred Fire Great Command! And now if you will use this Law, you'll become the Law of Cosmic Christ Blue Lightning Protection and Control to that which God has given you in the government of your Nation in the beginning, because Beloved Saint Germain was the Inspiring Intelligence that gave the Declaration of Independence and gave the Constitution of the United States of America to the American people, the early patriots. And therefore the Cosmic Christ Blue Lightning Law that gave that Plan of Government to the people of this world is still the Cosmic Law of Life from the Great Central Sun everywhere through all Systems of Worlds."
Beloved Godfre - The Voice of the "I AM" 2006:09:7,12
Daniel Webster was one of the most prominent lawyers in the 19th century, arguing over 200 cases before the Supreme Court. He represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in Congress and was Secretary of State under three presidents.
Daniel Webster
“Speech at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Capitol.”
Webster's stirring speech makes it abundantly clear that American liberty is unique among nations.
"I have said, gentlemen, that our inheritance is an inheritance of American liberty. That liberty is characteristic, peculiar, and altogether our own. Nothing like it existed in former times, nor was known in the most enlightened States of antiquity; while with us its principles have become interwoven into the minds of individual men."
He defines this unique form of Liberty by being founded on the authority exercised by people themselves, and the balance of powers set out within the Constitution.
"And, finally another most important part of the great fabric of American liberty is, that there shall be written constitutions, founded on the immediate authority of the people themselves, and regulating and restraining all the powers conferred upon Government, whether legislative, executive, or judicial."
Daniel Webster
“Speech at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Capitol.”
BACKGROUND
By 1851, five new states had entered the Union over the previous six years. This expansion added to the membership of Congress and strained the capacities of the Capitol’s already overcrowded legislative chambers. Extensions to the Capital Building would provide new Senate and House chambers and much-needed committee rooms. Shortly before noon on July 4, 1851, a colorful parade reached the Capitol. It included President Millard Fillmore, several veterans of the Revolutionary War, and three individuals who had witnessed the placing of the building’s original cornerstone 58 years earlier. The new House wing cornerstone was then laid using a specially fashioned granite block.
Capitol Architect - Thomas Walter set current newspapers, documents, and $40.44 in coins onto the block and using the same trowel that President George Washington had employed in setting the 1793 cornerstone, a Masonic official performed a sealing ceremony. Then all eyes turned to the east front steps for a view of the nation’s foremost orator, former senator Daniel Webster who gave his famous two-hour address.
HIS MOTIVATION
Webster’s speech on the occasion of laying the Capital building’s cornerstone resounded in his usual enthusiastic patriotic tone.
He began with the celebratory declaration, “This is the New World! This is America! This is Washington! And this the Capitol of the United States!” He went on to speak about the tremendous sacrifice the men who signed the Declaration paid. “It was sealed in blood,” he stated.
Of the liberty that the Founding generation bestowed upon successive generations, Webster proclaimed:
"Every man’s heart swells within him; every man’s port and bearing becomes somewhat more proud and lofty, as he remembers that seventy-five years have rolled away, and that the great inheritance of liberty is still his; his undiminished and unimpaired; his in all its original glory, his to enjoy, his to protect; and his to transmit to future generations."
THEME OF HIS SPEECH
Webster compares the United States of that day with the fledgling nation at the time of the first cornerstone laying. He also notes that he had placed a brief handwritten statement under the cornerstone. That statement included his message to future generations. “If it shall be the will of God that this structure shall fall from its base, that its foundation be upturned…Be it known that on this day the Union of the United States of America stands firm, that their Constitution still exists unimpaired, and with all its original usefulness and glory; growing every day stronger and stronger in the affections of the great body of the American people, and attracting more and more the admiration of the world.”
FACTS STATED IN HIS SPEECH
In this speech, a proud Daniel Webster extols the amazing progress of the United States since 1793. Its growth of territory from 15 States to 31; its increase in commerce from 209 Post Offices to 21,000; its burgeoning of population from 3.9 million to 23 million; the number of public libraries from 35 to 694; the number of colleges of education from 19 to 121 and why it had become necessary to enlarge the Capitol building.
July 4, 1851