The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay, Down to 1848Derby & Miller, 1852 - 492 sidor This is probably the first biography ever written of the legendary Representative and Senator from Kentucky. Henry Clay (1777-1852) was a pillar of American business and politics for 55 years, from 1897, when he was admitted to practice law in Virginia, until his passing in 1852... Clay served three different terms as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and was also Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829, in the administration of President John Quincy Adams. He was a brilliant orator and public speaker, who thrived best in the opposition. His motto in politics was: "I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT ! " Clay was a staunch political adversary to the policies of President Andrew Jackson... The literary treasures in this biography includes the original transcripts of most of Senator Clay's discourses and speeches! Written by Epes Sargent, the book was completed and edited, after Clay's death, by Horace Greeley, the bigger than life founder of The "Trib" (The New York Herald Tribune). One of my best read on American politics in the first part of the 19th Century. |
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The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay, Down to 1848 Epes Sargent Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1856 |
The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay, Down to 1848 Epes Sargent Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1856 |
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Sida 415 - How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die...
Sida 468 - But it will not, in all probability, be reduced by any thing like that proportion. And then there are some other articles which will continue to be introduced in as large quantities as ever, notwithstanding the increase of duty, the object in reference to them being revenue, and not the encouragement of domestic manufactures. Another cause will render the revenue of this year, in particular, much more productive than it otherwise would have been ; and that is, that large quantities of goods have...
Sida 481 - ... confederacy comprehends, within its vast limits, great diversity of interests: agricultural, planting, farming, commercial, navigating, fishing, manufacturing. No one of these interests is felt in the same degree, and cherished with the same solicitude, throughout all parts of the union. Some of them are peculiar to particular sections of our common country. But all these great interests are confided to the protection of one government — to the fate of one ship ; and a most gallant 'ship it...
Sida 73 - I maintain, that an oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters. This was the great principle of the English revolution. It was the great principle of our own.
Sida 249 - That justice and sound policy forbid the federal government to foster one branch of industry to the detriment of another, or to cherish the interests of one portion to the injury of another portion of our common country...
Sida 86 - ... exhibiting tranquillity, contentment, and happiness. And, if we descend into particulars, we have the agreeable contemplation of a people out of debt; land rising slowly in value, but in a secure and salutary degree; a ready though not extravagant market for all the surplus productions of our industry; innumerable flocks and herds browsing...
Sida 473 - I reply that uniform experience evinces that it cannot succeed in such an unequal contest, and that is sufficient. If we speculate on the causes of this universal truth, we may differ about them. Still the indisputable fact remains. And we should be as unwise in not availing ourselves of the guide which it furnishes, as a man would be who should refuse to bask in the rays of the sun...
Sida 225 - I should be glad to see it, without dishonor — without war, with the common consent of the Union, and upon just and fair terms. I do not think that the subject of slavery ought to affect the question, one way or the other.
Sida 91 - Provided, That the legislature of the said State, by a solemn public act, shall declare the assent of the said State to the said fundamental condition, and shall transmit to the President of the United States on or before the fourth...
Sida 79 - Congress to the expediency of exercising their existing- powers, and, where necessary, of resorting to the prescribed mode of enlarging them, in order to effectuate a comiirehensive system of roads and canals...
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