"When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union... Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic... Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" — Daniel Webster, Second Reply to Hayne, January 1830
Webster's audience would have understood the speech as part of which broader political alignment?
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The emerging National Republican coalition that opposed Jacksonian Democrats
- B
The Democratic-Republican faction loyal to Andrew Jackson
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The remnants of the Federalist Party seeking revival
- D
The Anti-Masonic movement of the late 1820s
Explanation
Webster, a Massachusetts senator, was a leading National Republican and later Whig who championed federal authority and Henry Clay's American System against Jacksonian states' rights.