Life and Services of Henry Clay
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Excerpt from Life and Services of Henry Clay: Address of Carleton Hunt, January 12, 1901, on the Occasion of Laying the Corner Stone of the Monument of Henry Clay, Lafayette Square, New Orleans, Louisiana The removal of the statue of Mr. Clay to the square which bears the name, consecrated in the affections of all true Americans, of Lafayette, has taken place by order of the city authorities of New Orleans, owing to the congested condition of Canal street, now virtually abandoned to street cars, and is designed to preserve the monument for all time as it ought to be, in a preferable locality, facing the City Hall, in the midst of the suitable surroundings afforded by these grounds, with their walks, trees, plants and beautiful flowers. The present dedication of the corner stone for a new pedestal, has proceeded by direction of a committee of the Common Council, under a resolution of that body passed to do honor to the memory of the great American statesman. The stone has now been laid in the presence of this concourse of the people, by his Honor the Mayor of New Orleans, assisted by the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Ancient Masonic order, who has been accompanied to this place by a Past Grand Master and by the Right Worshipful Grand Secretary. The part assigned to me in the exercises of the day will, as I think, be best discharged by passing in review as rapidly as is consistent with the character of an event in many ways so memorable, the life and services of Mr. Clay. Henry Clay was born in Hanover county, Virginia, April 12,1777. His father, John Clay, a Baptist clergyman, was a person of considerable talents and of high respectability, remarkable for his tine voice and delivery. Henry Clay´s mother was a woman of exemplary qualities and of patriotic spirit. He went to school in a neighborhood known as "the Slashes," near Richmond, in a log house, where Peter Deacon was master. In after years, when he was a candidate to be President, and enjoyed a degree of popularity which is almost indescribable, his picture was constantly to be seen as "the mill boy of the Slashes," riding the family horse, with nothing but a grain sack for a saddle, on his errands to and from the neighboring mill. 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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