A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . realityhis State. His great ability and win-ning manners made him populareverywhere. He served in the Ken-tucky Legislature, and, before he wasthirty years old, was elected to theUnited States Senate, of which hewas a member from 1806 to soon became recognized as theforemost chamjiion of the cause ofinternal improvements and of thetariff measures, known as the American System. His speakership of
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . realityhis State. His great ability and win-ning manners made him populareverywhere. He served in the Ken-tucky Legislature, and, before he wasthirty years old, was elected to theUnited States Senate, of which hewas a member from 1806 to soon became recognized as theforemost chamjiion of the cause ofinternal improvements and of thetariff measures, known as the American System. His speakership of theKentucky Assembly, bis term as United States senator again, 1809-11, andas a member of the House of Kepresentatives in 1811, followed precedent, being a newcomer, he was chosen Speaker, and served untilhis resignation in 1814. He was as strenuous an advocate of the war withGreat Britain as Calhoun, and it has been stated that he was one of the com-missioners who negotiated the treaty of Ghent in 1814. The following yearhe was again elected to the House of Representatives, and acted without abreak as Speaker until 1821. He was the most powerful advocate of the recog-. HENEY CLAY. (1777-1S52). DANIEL WEBSTER. 225 nition of the Si^auish-Ainericau States in revolt, and but for Clay the jNIissouriCompromise would not have been prepared and adoj^ted. Absent but a brief time from Congress, he again acted as Speaker in1823-25. President Adams ajipointed him his secretary of State, and heretired from office in 1829, but two years later entered the Senate from Ken-tucky. For the following twenty years he was the leader of the Whig party,opposed Jackson in the bank controversy, and secured the tariff compromise of1833 and the settlement with France in 1835. He retired from the Senate in1843, his nomination for the presidency following a yeur later. Once more heentered the Senate, in 1849, andbrought about the great compromiseof 1850. He died^June 29, 1852. Clays vain s
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