THE LIFE AND TIMES ОР HENRY CLAY. BY SAMUEL M. SMUCKER, LL. D. AUTHOR OF "PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HISTORY OF NAPOLEON III.," "LIFE AND TIMES PHILADELPHIA: J. W. BRADLEY, 48 NORTH FOURTH ST. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by SAMUEL M. SMUCKER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. A GREAT orator lives in his speeches; an eminent statesman, in the wise and patriotic measures which he may have devised and advocated. That record of the career of these individuals is most complete, which combines together such a proportion of both these kinds of achievement, as will reproduce most successfully the peculiar individuality of the man. The present writer has been guided by this principle in the preparation of the following work. His endeavor has been to comprise within a compass more portable and convenient than that of any other work now existing on the subject, a narrative of the most interesting and important events of Henry Clay's life; at the same time also demonstrating to the reader what manner of man he was, and how noble the actions were which he performed, by furnishing appropriate extracts from his orations, at those precise stages of the narrative to which they respectively be |