Leading Incidents in the Life of Henry Clay
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Excerpt from Leading Incidents in the Life of Henry Clay: His Patriotism, Statesmanship, and Eloquence Ladies and Gentlemen of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: I am asked by your society to recall some of my recollections of Henry Clay - the great "American Commoner," as he was for so many years called and known. This service, while it is for many reasons a very pleasant one, is for other reasons the source of sadness. Henry Clay´s fame and fate recalls the story of the fabled Titan, who, notwithstanding his many gifts to mankind, was doomed to suffer many agonies. Unlike so many public men of the present day, he was never rich, and almost his only possessions were those which belong to great self-denial and to the highest character. My special interest in him was the natural result of his great kindness to young men, and to me especially when a very young man - a kindness beginning in the winter of 1835-36, the winter of the great December fire in the city of New York, and of the suspension of specie payments, by the United States Bank, events leading to important legislation, special and public, the former for the relief of the merchants who suffered most, and the latter to financial legislation affecting almost every form of business, and which in time gave to the country a more national currency and one wholly free from the controversies of the present time. The time named was when the country was represented in the two Houses of Congress by a class of men some of whose names will survive as long as the country lives. 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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