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LIFE OF HENRY CLAY,
Of Kentucky.
BY HORACE GREELEY AND EPES SARGEANT.
And names which should not wither.”
One Volume, 428 pp. 12mo., Steel Portrait, Muslin, Price $1,25
While the youth of America should imitate his noble qualities, they
may take courage from his career, and note the high proof it affords that, under our
equal institutions, the avenues of honor are open to all. Mr. Clay rose by the force of
his own genius, unaided by power, patronage, or wealth. At an age when our young
men are usually advanced to the higher schools of learning, provided only with the rudiments
of an English education, he turned his steps to the West and, amidst the rude
collisions of a border life, matured a character whose highest exhibitions were destined
to mark eras in his countrys history. Beginning on the frontiers of American civilization,
the orphan boy, supported only by the consciousness of his own powers, and by
the confidence of the people, surmounted all the barriers of adverse fortune, and won a
glorious name in the annals of his country. Let the generous youth, fired with honorable
ambition, remember that the American system of government offers on every hand
bounties to merit. If, like Clay, orphanage, obscurity, poverty, shall oppress him; yet,
if, like Clay, he feels the Promethean spark within, let him remember that his country,
like a generous mother, extends her arms to welcome and to cherish every one of her
children whose genius and worth may promote her prosperity or increase her renown.
Life and Speeches of Henry Clay,
BEING THE ABOVE, TO WHICH IS ADDED
HIS MOST ABLE AND POPULAR SPEECHES.
Steel Portrait, 633 pp. 8vo., Muslin, $2 00; Morocco, Marble Edge, $2 50.
The keen demand, the clear reply, the fine poetic image,
The nice analogy, the clenching fact, the metaphor, bold and free,
The grasp of concentrated intellect, wielding the omnipotence of truth,
Upon whose lips the mystic bee hath dropped the honey of persuasion.”
As a leader in a deliberative body, Mr. Clay had no equal in America.
In him, intellect, person, eloquence and courage, united to form a character fit to
command. He fired with his own enthusiasm, and controlled by his amazing will, individuals
and masses. No reverse could crush his spirit, nor defeat reduce him to despair.
Equally erect and dauntless in prosperity and adversity, when successful, he
moved to the accomplishment of his purposes with severe resolution; when defeated
he rallied his broken bands around him, and from his eagle-eye shot along their rank
the contagion of his own courage. Destined for a leader, he everywhere asserted his
destiny. In his long and eventful life, he came in contact with men of all ranks and professions,
but he never felt that he was in the presence of a man superior to himself. In
the assemblies of the people, at the bar, in the Senate—everywhere within the circle
of his personal presence, he assumed and maintained a position of pre-eminence.
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C. M. SAXTON, BARKER & CO., Publishers,
25 Park Row, New York.
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