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... Court House , Va . , one Rob- ert Hughes gave this toast : " Henry Clay : he and I were born close to the Slashes of old Han- over ; he worked barefoot , and so did I ; he went to mill , and so did I ; he was good to his mother , and so ...
... Court House , Va . , one Rob- ert Hughes gave this toast : " Henry Clay : he and I were born close to the Slashes of old Han- over ; he worked barefoot , and so did I ; he went to mill , and so did I ; he was good to his mother , and so ...
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... Court of Chan- cery in the city of Richmond , without guardian , without pecuniary means of support , to steer my course as I might or could . A neglected edu- cation was improved by my own irregular exer- tions without the benefit of ...
... Court of Chan- cery in the city of Richmond , without guardian , without pecuniary means of support , to steer my course as I might or could . A neglected edu- cation was improved by my own irregular exer- tions without the benefit of ...
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... Court of Chancery . Here was where he made his first real beginning in public life . was tall , raw - boned , and lank , with a countenance pleasing but not handsome ; and he was clad in garments of homespun which did not improve his ...
... Court of Chancery . Here was where he made his first real beginning in public life . was tall , raw - boned , and lank , with a countenance pleasing but not handsome ; and he was clad in garments of homespun which did not improve his ...
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... courts of Kentucky , and the most remarkable of these cases was one in which Clay was engaged to defend a Mrs. Phelps , wife of a respectable farmer , who was accused of the crime of murder , having killed her sister - in - law , Miss ...
... courts of Kentucky , and the most remarkable of these cases was one in which Clay was engaged to defend a Mrs. Phelps , wife of a respectable farmer , who was accused of the crime of murder , having killed her sister - in - law , Miss ...
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... Court , Clay was forbidden to proceed on that line of argument , whereupon the young lawyer solemnly gathered up his papers and stalked out of the room , throwing upon the Court in grave tones the responsibility of deny- ing his just ...
... Court , Clay was forbidden to proceed on that line of argument , whereupon the young lawyer solemnly gathered up his papers and stalked out of the room , throwing upon the Court in grave tones the responsibility of deny- ing his just ...
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Page 219 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 59 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Page 54 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Page 54 - Sir, you may destroy this little institution ; — it is weak ; it is in your hands ! I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out. But if you do so, you must carry through your work ! You must extinguish, one after another, all those great lights of science which, for more than a century, have thrown their radiance over our land! " It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet, there are those who love it ." Here the feelings which he had...
Page 332 - As the end drew near, his early craving for the sea returned. The stately mansion of power had been to him the wearisome hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken from its prison walls, from its oppressive, stifling air, from its homelessness and its hopelessness.
Page 41 - Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin, raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
Page 218 - But the rebellion continues, and now that the election is over, may not all having a common interest reunite in a common effort to save our common country! For my own part, I have striven and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way. So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.
Page 209 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Page 219 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in...
Page 209 - While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the Government in the short space of four years. My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject.