The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . HENRY CLAY is noted in Americanhistory as the author of successivecompromises to save the to the Border State ofKentucky, he was perpetually occu-pied in forming mutual alliancesbetween East and West, and espe-cially between North and South,when their various interests weretending to draw the several sectionsin diverse ways. And he succeededin keeping them together—not only during his life-time, buteven by the practical results which have since developed, andhave emerged with tenfold greater pow
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . HENRY CLAY is noted in Americanhistory as the author of successivecompromises to save the to the Border State ofKentucky, he was perpetually occu-pied in forming mutual alliancesbetween East and West, and espe-cially between North and South,when their various interests weretending to draw the several sectionsin diverse ways. And he succeededin keeping them together—not only during his life-time, buteven by the practical results which have since developed, andhave emerged with tenfold greater power since the costlyexperiment of bloody war for disunion. Nullification, Seces-sion, Rebellion have been tried and have failed. The Unionremains the greatest fact of American history. Henry Clay was born in a swampy district called TheSlashes, near Richmond, Virginia, on the 12th of April,1777. His father, a Baptist preacher, died a few years later,leaving a widow and seven children to struggle in early became a clerk in a drug-store in Richmond, andsoon in the V
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