Daniel Webster and the Making of Modern Liberty in the Atlantic World.

Webster's commemorative speeches triangulate between region, nation, and the revolutionary. Atlantic world, with the nation as the central object of definition. Prior to 1830 proponents of the United States Constitution were on the offensive internationally, offering it as a model for republics throughout the Atlantic world. After 1830 those same proponents were more often on the defensive responding to a shift brought about by the dialectical emergence of Garrisonian abolitionism and intensifying Southern secessionism.