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Henry Clay
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  • That same year, 1827, Henry Clay, who was still Secretary of State, appealed to the Canadian Government again.†  (source)
  • But Henry Clay had a plan—a plan for another Great58 Compromise to preserve the nation.†  (source)
  • These factors, coupled with the increasing popularity and vocal denunciations of the new Whig party led by Henry Clay, were quickly eroding popular support.†  (source)
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  • With his morbid compulsion for honesty he was too modest to pose coarsely and blatantly as a Henry Clay or James G. Blaine might pose.†  (source)
    Henry Clay = U.S. politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states
  • Another was Henry Clay's Speeches, and another was Dr. Gunn's Family Medicine, which told you all about what to do if a body was sick or dead.†  (source)
  • To the right was the massive marble post office, where hours ago Henry Clay Ford had picked up the letter that he handed to Booth on the front steps of the theater.†  (source)
  • With three others also nominated, and all, like John Quincy, avowed Republicans—William Crawford of Georgia, Henry Clay of Kentucky, and General Andrew Jackson of Tennessee—it became a crowded contest of "increasing heat."†  (source)
  • By 1826 there were so many fugitive slaves living in Canada that plantation owners in Maryland and Kentucky persuaded Henry Clay, then Secretary of State, to ask the Canadian Government to work out a plan whereby these fugitives, worth thousands of dolltirs, could be lawfully returned to their owners.†  (source)
  • How could Henry Clay then hope to win approval to such a plan from Daniel Webster of Massachusetts?†  (source)
  • U.S. Senator and Whig Party leader Henry Clay held little of his feelings back, saying that the society's work was a blessing because it would eventually "rid our country of a useless, pernicious, and dangerous portion of the population.†  (source)
  • In 1848, when he was still in Congress, Lincoln threw in his lot with the shrewd Whig leaders who preferred the ill-equipped but available Zachary Taylor to the party's elder statesman, Henry Clay, as presidential candidate.†  (source)
  • Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster believed that this compromise would heal the rapidly growing breach between the North and the South.†  (source)
  • In 1820 a law was passed to admit Maine and Missouri into the Union together, one free, the other slave, as part of Henry Clay's first great compromise.†  (source)
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