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... Henry Clay , I would freely lay it down this day , " exclaimed an old Rhode Island sea - captain on the morning of the Presidential election of 1844. Who has forgotten the passion of disappointment , the amazement and despair , at the ...
... Henry Clay , I would freely lay it down this day , " exclaimed an old Rhode Island sea - captain on the morning of the Presidential election of 1844. Who has forgotten the passion of disappointment , the amazement and despair , at the ...
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... Henry Clay , who was for twenty - eight years a candidate for the Presidency , cultivated his popularity . Without ever being a hypocrite , he was habitually an actor ; but the part which he enacted was Henry Clay exag-- gerated . He ...
... Henry Clay , who was for twenty - eight years a candidate for the Presidency , cultivated his popularity . Without ever being a hypocrite , he was habitually an actor ; but the part which he enacted was Henry Clay exag-- gerated . He ...
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... Henry Clay . And what was his delight to receive a few weeks after , in his distant village , a copy of the Kentuckian's last speech , bearing on the cover the frank of " H. Clay " ! It was almost enough to make a man think of " running ...
... Henry Clay . And what was his delight to receive a few weeks after , in his distant village , a copy of the Kentuckian's last speech , bearing on the cover the frank of " H. Clay " ! It was almost enough to make a man think of " running ...
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... Henry Clay . This was one secret of his power over classes of men so diverse as the hunters of Kentucky and the manufacturers of New England . It used to be accounted a merit in a man to rise to high station from humble beginnings ; but ...
... Henry Clay . This was one secret of his power over classes of men so diverse as the hunters of Kentucky and the manufacturers of New England . It used to be accounted a merit in a man to rise to high station from humble beginnings ; but ...
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... the arrival of a country youth among city blades ; and they afterwards congratulated one another that they had waited a little before beginning to tease him , for they soon found that he had brought with him from the country 8 HENRY CLAY .
... the arrival of a country youth among city blades ; and they afterwards congratulated one another that they had waited a little before beginning to tease him , for they soon found that he had brought with him from the country 8 HENRY CLAY .
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