The Speeches, Addresses and Writing of Cassius M. Clay, Jr.
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Excerpt from The Speeches, Addresses and Writing of Cassius M. Clay, Jr.: Including a Biographical Sketch The common ancestor of the historic Clays of Kentucky is believed to have been John Clay, a native of England, who came to Virginia as a Grenadier of the British Army during Bacon´s Rebellion. From him it is said Green Clay, pioneer, soldier and statesman, was descended, who was born in Powhatan County, Virginia, August 14th, 1757, and who emigrated to Kentucky when about twenty years of age. He was well educated, a good mathematician and a surveyor. The large bodies of Blue Grass land which he acquired laid the foundation of the ample estate which he left behind him. Kentucky, which was then a part of Virginia, elected him its Representative in the Virginia Legislature and afterward chose him its delegate to ratify the Federal Constitution. He afterward, when Kentucky became a State, was elected a member of the Convention which formed the Constitution of 1799. Thereafter he served in the Legislature several successive terms, during one of which he was elected Speaker. He enlisted as a volunteer in the war of 1812, rose to the rank of Brigadier General, and was placed by Governor Shelby in command of 3,000 Kentucky troops sent to raise the siege of Fort Meigs, a task which he skillfully and gallantly accomplished. After the close of the war he retired to his princely estate in Madison County, where he died on October 31, 1828, in the seventy-second year of his age. To General Green Clay were born seven children, three sons and four daughters, of whom Brutus J. Clay, the father of the subject of this sketch, born in 1808, was the second son. Another son was Cassius M. Clay, soldier, diplomat and writer, who took a prominent part in the Anti-Slavery Controversy which ended in the Civil War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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