He was Minister in five great Powers in succession. He was
present as Secretary when the treaty of peace was signed in
1783. He negotiated and signed the Treaty of Ghent, the Commercial
Treaty of 1815, the French Treaty of 1822, the Prussian Treaty,
and the treaty which acquired Florida from Spain. He was
Senator, Representative, Foreign Minister, Secretary of State,
and President. He breasted the stormy waves of the House
of Representatives at the age of eighty, and when he died
in the Capitol, he left no purer or loftier fame behind him.
"Next came James Lloyd, the modest gentleman, the eloquent
orator and the accomplished man of business. Then came Gore
and Ashmun and Mellen and Mills, each great among the great
lawyers of a great generation. Next in the procession comes
the majestic presence of Daniel Webster, whose matchless logic
and splendid eloquence gave to the Constitution of the country
an authority in the reason and in the hearts of his countrymen
equal to anything in judicial decision and equal to that of
any victory of arms. With his reply to Hayne, it has been
said that every Union cannon in the late war was shotted.
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