The student's history of GeorgiaFrom the earliest discoveries and settlements to the end of the year 1883Adapted for general reading and the use of schools . the hope of a fairsettlement of the trouble. To this South Carolina Clay, of Kentucky, then proposed a compromise inCongress which was adopted, and the oppressive tariff policywas abandoned. South Carolina immediately repealed thenullification ordinance and peace was again restored. 14. Henry Clay, on being told that he would lose the pres-idency by his course, made the great answer: I wouldrather be right than be Presiden
The student's history of GeorgiaFrom the earliest discoveries and settlements to the end of the year 1883Adapted for general reading and the use of schools . the hope of a fairsettlement of the trouble. To this South Carolina Clay, of Kentucky, then proposed a compromise inCongress which was adopted, and the oppressive tariff policywas abandoned. South Carolina immediately repealed thenullification ordinance and peace was again restored. 14. Henry Clay, on being told that he would lose the pres-idency by his course, made the great answer: I wouldrather be right than be President. 15. During this famous controversy the distinguished John 19 218 STUDENTS HISTORY OF GEORGIA. [1833. Forsyth, then a senator from Georgia, supported the forcebill, the tariff laws, and opposed the Clay compromise. Hiscourse rendered him unpopular. The feeling was so greatin Macon that the crowd made a rag man of the senator, andburnt him in effigy. A grand jury of one of the countiesalso censured him in their general presentiments, expressingtheir disapprobation of his conduct, and asking him to re-sign his seat. But the senator refused to [S33.] ADMINISTRATION OF LUMPKIN, 219
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