Daniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 discipline_artwork The Gentlemans Vice Patent No

The Gentlemans Vice Patent No

The Keepers Blueprint Baltimore Harbor Light Station Plans of 1885 charts the caisson-set sentinel that would rise from the soft Patapsco bottom — a pneumatic foundation sunk through Chesapeake silt

and uplift

the numerals trailing the name suggesting a plate pulled from some larger compendium of American likenesses — Washington rendered

this memorial tract carries the long mourning cadence of a republic still rehearsing how to bury its leaders

Daniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 discipline_artwork The Gentlemans Vice Patent NoDaniel Webster New England's Choice for Twelfth President of the United States 1847 a campaign portrait floated by Whigs who believed the Senate's great voice belonged in the executive chair, printed on the eve of a contest that would instead crown a Mexican War general and leave Webster, again, the bridesmaid of the Republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National