LIFE TIME HENRY CLAY 2VL

by Calvin Colton

1846. Volume One of Two. A history of Henry Clay, also known as The Great Pacificator, or The Great Compromiser. He was an American statesman, U.S. congressman and U.S. senator, who was a major promoter of the Missouri Compromise, the compromise tariff of 1833 (ending the Nullification crisis), and the Compromise of 1850, all efforts to balance the rights of free and slave states. Clay was twice the unsuccessful Whig candidate for president. Contents: Mr. Clay's Early History; Mr. Clay's Domestic History; Mr. Clay's Moral Character and Religious Sentiments; Mr. Clay's Personal Qualities and Eloquence; Mr. Clay's Professional Career; Mr. Clay's Wit and Other Brilliant Qualities; Mr. Clay as a Public Man; Mr. Clay as an American Patriot; Mr. Clay and the War of 1812; Mr. Clay on Domestic Slavery; Mr. Clay the Advocate of Universal Freedom; The Cause of Great Effects; The Missouri Question; The Great Conspiracy; Mr. Clay's Internal Improvement Policy; Mr. Clay's Public Land Policy; and Political Character of Mr. Clay's Times. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417944579.

Hardcover

Published February 1, 1975

About the author

1789-1857

From website below:

Calvin Colton
COLTON, Calvin, clergyman, born in Long-meadow, Massachusetts, in 1789; died in Savannah, Georgia, 13 March, 1857. He was graduated at Yale in 1812, and at Andover seminary in 1815, and settled over the Presbyterian church in Batavia, New York Subsequently he entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, but relinquished preaching in 1826 from failure of his voice. After a long tour through the United States, he went to England in 1831, as correspondent of the New York "Observer," and remained four years. After his return to the United States he took orders in the Episcopal church, and published "Thoughts on the Religious State of the Country, and Reasons for Preferring Episcopacy." But he soon resumed the journalistic profession, and distinguished himself as a writer of political tracts and articles advocating the principles of the Whig party.
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