. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . n and Lincoln, who ever occupied the chair. At theexpiration of his two terms of office, he retired, in 1837, to the Hermitage,his Tennessee home, resigning his office at Washington to his friend and sup-porter, Martin Van Buren. His sufferings from sickness during the last years of his life were dreadful,but he bore them with the greatest fortitude, never uttering a complaining Sunday morning, June 8th, 1845, it was seen that his last hour had assembled all his family around him, and, in the most affecting manner
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . n and Lincoln, who ever occupied the chair. At theexpiration of his two terms of office, he retired, in 1837, to the Hermitage,his Tennessee home, resigning his office at Washington to his friend and sup-porter, Martin Van Buren. His sufferings from sickness during the last years of his life were dreadful,but he bore them with the greatest fortitude, never uttering a complaining Sunday morning, June 8th, 1845, it was seen that his last hour had assembled all his family around him, and, in the most affecting manner, tookleave of each one. He then, writes one who was present, delivered oneof/the most impressive lectures on the subject of religion that I have everheard. He spoke for nearly half an hour, and apparently with the power ofinspiration. Soon after this he suddenly, and without a struggle, ceased tobreathe. Two days after he was placed in a grave by the side of his wife. Hehad often said, Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wifethere. HENRY CLAY (. POPULAR HERO, IATRIOT, AXU STATESIVIAN i^^ ^^^^«,^y^ITH the close of-the great civil war in 1865 disap-\w^^^^^^^ peared from our politics the great problem which for\pBr sp^ ,.^\ j^^jj- ^ century had absorbed the attention and tasked the abilities of American that period there was always oneovershadowing subject. Whatever other ques-tions of domestic policy came up,—tariff, currency,internal improvements. State rights,—they werealways subordinate to the main question, how topreserve the Union and slavery together. Some,like Calhoun, were ready to abandon the Union tosave slavery ; others, like Garrison, were ready toabandon the Union to destroy slavery ; but between! these extremes stood a great body of able and patriotic statesmen, who loved and prized the Union above all else, and who, to save it, would makeany sacrifice, would join in any compromise. At the head of these, for morethan fifty y
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