When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

They had eight children:
Emily Schotten (1790–1861) who married William W. The Speller was arranged so that it could be easily taught to students and it progressed by age. Webster's identification of his project as a "federal language" shows his competing impulses towards regularity and innovation in historical terms.

(October 16 1758 – May 28 1843) was a lexicographer textbook pioneer English spelling reformer political writer editor and prolific author. His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read secularizing their education. Noah Webster Jr.