Between the presentation of the Boston resolutions and the close of the session he spoke on the bank, and the subjects necessarily connected with it, no less than sixty-four times.

He dealt entirely with financial topics,--chiefly those relating to the currency, and with the constitutional questions raised by the extension of the executive authority.

This long series of speeches is one of the most remarkable exhibitions of intellectual power ever made by Mr.Webster, or indeed by any public man in our history.

In discussing one subject in all its bearings, involving of necessity a certain amount of repetition, he not only displayed an extraordinary grasp of complicated financial problems and a wide knowledge of their scientific meaning and history, but he showed an astonishing fertility in argument, coupled with great variety and clearness of statement and cogency of reasoning.

With the exception of Hamilton, Mr.Webster is the only statesman in our history who was capable of such a performance on such a subject, when a thorough knowledge had to be united with all the resources of debate and all the arts of the highest eloquence.
The most important speech of all was that delivered in answer to Jackson's "Protest," sent in as a reply to Mr.Clay's resolutions which had been sustained by Mr.Webster as chairman of the Committee on Finance.