The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay, Vol. 3 of 6 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay, Vol. 3 of 6 It is now in the eleventh year since the author published the Life and Times of Henry Clay, in two volumes, bringing his biography and history down to the end of the Presidential campaign of 1844. The author spent the winter of 1844-45 in daily communication with Mr. Clay at Lexington, to collect materials for that work from Mr. Clay´s papers, and from his own lips. Although Mr. Clay did not pretend to dictate to the author, as to the method of that work, he was kind enough to read the proof-sheets, to see that it contained no errors. From the day of the publication of the Life and Times to the present, the author has never found occasion to make any corrections, except of verbal errors. He does not deny that he has seen how he might have improved the work in method, so as to make it more interesting. In the present volume he has endeavored to avail himself of such reflections. Besides having access to Mr. Clay´s papers in the winter of 1844-´45, and obtaining his own views of his life and times, by personal communications with himself for that purpose, Mr. Clay, on the author´s departure from Lexington, in the spring of 1845, gave him facilities for collecting his own letters, in different quarters, as it was never his custom to preserve copies of them. In 1853 the author spent some weeks at Ashland, on invitation of Thomas H. and James B. Clay, to re-examine Mr. Clay´s papers and correspondence, the whole of which passed through his hands, with a view to a publication of Mr. Clay´s Private Correspondence, a volume of which was given to the public in November, 1855. In 1854 the author brought Mr. Clay´s life down, from 1844 to the time of his death, in a single chapter of forty-two pages - very much condensed, of course - as a complement to the second volume of the Life and Times, not knowing then that he would ever be able to do more. But subsequent reflection, and solicitations from quarters worthy of great respect, led the author to the conclusion, that the last seven years of Mr. Clay´s life demanded an elaborate work of at least one volume, and at the request of the publishers of the other three volumes, he undertook the task; and here it is. 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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