Title page from Daniel Webster on the Draft: Text of a Speech delivered in Congress, December 9, 1814

Daniel Webster on the Draft: Text of a Speech delivered in Congress, December 9, 1814

A reprint of Webster’s famous speech against conscription during the War of 1812 against Britain. It was reprinted by the American Union against Militarism in 1917 when America was on the verge of entering World War I and conscription was again an issue in the United States.

Key Quotes

War & Peace

Is this, sir, consistent with the character of a free government? Is this civil liberty? Is this the real character of our Constitution? No sir, indeed it is not. The Constitution is libelled, foully libelled. The people of this country have not established for themselves such a fabric of…