By David S. Heidler
ISBN-10: 1588369951
ISBN-13: 9781588369956
He was once the nice Compromiser, a canny and colourful legislator whose existence mirrors the tale of the US from its founding until eventually the eve of the Civil struggle. Speaker of the home, senator, secretary of country, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the younger Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured in complete eventually during this wealthy and sweeping biography.
David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler current Clay in his early years as a precocious, witty, and positive Virginia farm boy who on the age of twenty remodeled himself into an legal professional. The authors exhibit Clay’s tumultuous profession in Washington, together with his participation within the deadlocked election of 1824 that haunted him for the remainder of his occupation, and shine new gentle on Clay’s marriage to standard, prosperous Lucretia Hart, a union that lasted fifty-three years and produced 11 children.
Featuring an inimitable assisting solid together with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is fantastically written and replete with clean anecdotes and insights. Horse dealer and danger taker, arm tornado and shaggy dog story teller, Henry Clay was once the consummate flesh presser who gave flooring, made bargains, and adjusted the lives of hundreds of thousands.
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Presbyterians became the dominant denomination in literate areas as converts in the Tidewater and Piedmont were matched by Scots-Irish migrations from Pennsylvania into the Shenandoah Valley. 4 Because of this, the number of Baptists markedly increased in the 1760s and 1770s, particularly among lower-class whites and slaves. Preachers could be unschooled and were always uncompensated, at least by any hierarchical authority. ” After John Clay received the call, he organized churches in Henrico and Hanover counties, including a large congregation at Winn’s Church in 1776.
A little more than two years before, Clay’s celebrated contemporary John C. Calhoun had died, and another, Daniel Webster, was gradually succumbing to maladies that were soon to carry him off as well. These three had become the fabled Great Triumvirate of American government. More than mere symbols of the Republic, they became personifications of it. The South Carolinian Calhoun was the South with its growing frustrations and emerging belligerency over the slavery issue. New England’s Webster had become the conflicting ambiguities of the North with its moral repugnance over slavery and its allegiance to a country constitutionally bound to slavery’s preservation.
People on rivers would have heard about it first, possibly in days, but days would have stretched into weeks before most people learned that the greatest political figure in the nation was dead. Time would have cushioned the blow, weakening its power until it became a piece of history, something that had happened a long way off, a long time ago. The telegraph made the news of Clay’s death instant and therefore indelible. Only hours passed before cities from Maine to Missouri began draping themselves in crepe and men from Savannah to St.
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