Author: Henry ClayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
An Address of Henry Clay to the Public
Author: Henry ClayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Henry Clay
Author: Robert Vincent ReminiPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393310887
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
"Great biography leaves an indelible view of the subject. After Remini's masterful portrait, Clay is unforgettable." --Donald B. Cole, Newsday
The Papers of Henry Clay
Author: Henry ClayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813156734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
The Papers of Henry Clay span the crucial first half of the nineteenth century in American history. Few men in his time were so intimately concerned with the formation of national policy, and few influenced so profoundly the growth of American political institutions. The year 1837 found Henry Clay hard at work in a successful effort to organize and strengthen the new Whig party. In his attempt to provide for it an ideological core, he emphasized restoration of the Bank of the United States, distribution of the treasury surplus to the states, continued adherence to his Compromise Tariff Act of 1833, and federal funding of internal improvements. The achievement of these goals, Clay reasoned, would mitigate the severe impact of the Depression of 1837 and sweep the Whigs into the White House in 1840. Soon after the election of 1836, Clay began running again for the presidency. By 1838 it was clear to him that he would have to come to grips politically with the long-muted slavery question. This he did in February 1839 in a Senate speech that was so proslavery, anti-abolitionist, and racially extremist that it cost him the Whig presidential nomination at the Harrisburg convention in December 1839. William Henry Harrison was nominated in his stead and won handily. But one month after his inauguration Harrison died and Vice President John Tyler, a states' rights Democrat turned Whig, was elevated to the presidency. Senator Clay emerged from his disappointment at Harrisburg as the acknowledged leader of the Whig party and further unified it in a wide-ranging assault on the Tyler administration's refusal to support Whig principles. By the end of 1843 Tyler had been broken, the Whig party was Clay's to lead, and the Kentuckian was again in the presidential lists. Confident that 1844 would surely be his year, Clay unfortunately failed to see the formation and growth of the black cloud that was Texas annexation. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay
Author: Calvin ColtonThe Literature of the Middle Western Frontier
Author: Ralph Leslie RuskPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 1926 [c1925]
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay, Down to 1848
Author: Epes SargentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. II. Later national literature: pt. I
Author: Life of Andrew Jackson
Author: James PartonA Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368124129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author: Colton