History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . —Clay challenged him. 1840] THE WHIG PARTY 41 They met, the diminutive Randolph beingin his dressing-gown. Neither was hurt,as Randolph fired in air and Clay was noshot. Being asked why he did not killRandolph, Clay said : I aimed at the partof his gown where I thought he was, butwhen the bullet got there he had 1842, when Lord Ashburton was inWashington, there was a famous whistgame, my lord, with Mr. Crittenden, play-ing against Clay and the Russian Minister,Count Bodisco, while Webster looked o
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . —Clay challenged him. 1840] THE WHIG PARTY 41 They met, the diminutive Randolph beingin his dressing-gown. Neither was hurt,as Randolph fired in air and Clay was noshot. Being asked why he did not killRandolph, Clay said : I aimed at the partof his gown where I thought he was, butwhen the bullet got there he had 1842, when Lord Ashburton was inWashington, there was a famous whistgame, my lord, with Mr. Crittenden, play-ing against Clay and the Russian Minister,Count Bodisco, while Webster looked on. What shall the stake be ? asked hislordship. Out of deference to HerMajesty, said Clay, we will make it asovereign. Emphatically patriotic, super-eminent indebate, ambitious, adventurous in politicaldiplomacy, a hard worker^ incessant inactivity for his party, temperate upon theslavery question, whole-souled in everymeasure or policy calculated to advancenationality, this versatile man may be putdown as foremost among the leaders of theWhig Party from its origin- till his John a picture by Jarvis in 1811, at the New York Historical Society- CHAPTER II. FLORIDA AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE It _ was a delicate question after theLouisiana purchase how much territory itembraced east of the Mississippi. Louisi-ana had under France, till 1762, reachedthe Perdido, Floridas western boundary atpresent, and was retroceded by Spain toFrance in 1800 with the same extent thatit had when France possessed it. TheUnited States of course succeeded towhatever France thus recovered. Spainclaimed still to own West Florida, thename given by Great Britain on receivingit from France in 1763 to the part ofLouisiana between the Perdido and theMississippi. Spain had never acquired thedistrict from France, but obtained it byconquest from Great Britain during ourRevolution. i8t6] THE MONROE DOCTRINE 43 This claim by Spain, based only on theretro in the treaty of 1800, our Govern-ment
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