Episode 42: The Real Daniel Webster

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🗓️ 29 August 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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http://learntruehistory.com Who is the real Daniel Webster, the "National Conservative" as Richard Current called him or the ardent proponent of nullification and State's Rights circa 1808-1815? The latter is the Webster that no one knows, the Webster that your history teacher or professor won't discuss. Why? Because it blows apart the entire nationalist argument of America history. I talk about THAT Daniel Webster in Episode 42.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Brian McClanahan here. Are you looking for a great website that gives you history the way it was intended to be told with no PC, no Marxism, no progressivism? Well, I've got it for you. It's learn truehistory.com. That's learn truehistory.com. Learn history from great professors who don't sugarcoat it for you.
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0:31.1	This is the Brian McClanahan Show.
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0:51.9	Welcome back to the Brian McClainahan Show. This is episode 42.
0:54.1	And my topic for today is something that I think is... Welcome back to the Brian McClainahan Show. This is episode 42.
1:03.1	And my topic for today is something that I think is really unknown about a very famous individual in American history. And that is the real Daniel Webster.
1:06.3	Now, Daniel Webster is perhaps one of the more important people in antebellum American history.
1:15.8	If you are a conservative, there is a drive to attach Webster to American conservatism.
1:24.2	And really what you have with Webster is a continuation of the nationalist strain of what you might say is a type of American conservatism.
1:37.1	And that begins with Alexander Hamilton.
1:40.3	Though Hamilton was a nationalist, and so were other people at that time, people like Robert Morris and James Wilson.
1:48.2	So this nationalist strain of the founding generation carried forward through those individuals into John Marshall, and then into Daniel Webster, and then into Abraham Lincoln, and on down the line.
2:00.5	So this nationalism, this nationalism, becomes... and then into Abraham Lincoln and on down the line.
2:10.1	So this nationalism, this nationalism becomes a key component of American political philosophy moving forward.
2:11.3	Now, is that conservative?
2:15.1	Is it something else?
2:16.0	Is it progressive?
2:19.3	Well, I think you see it in various strains and Webster along with Marshall and Hamilton I mean they were
2:24.3	conservative in certain regards now were they American conservative or were they
2:29.3	something else is the real question I think Webster is one of the more interesting individuals in that group,
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