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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. C. C. Clay, Jr., Of Alabama, on the Contest in Kansas and the Plans and Purposes of Black Republicanism: Delivered in the United States Senate, April 21, 1856 No one can misunderstand this language. It means that, when we are trampled under foot, and impotent for our defense, those who have their heels upon our necks will be able to dictate their own terms of emancipation to the southern States. But, sir, why should I adduce proof of a fact which is as notorious as is the existence of an Abolition or free-soil party, and is known to every reading man in the world, except, forsooth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. C. C, Clay, Jr., Of Alabama: On the Contest in Kansas, and the Plans and Purposes of Black Republicanism, Delivered in the United States Senate, April, 21, 1856 The North has not escaped detraction by her own sons; for they allege, that she 'has always had venal men in market, ready to sell themselves to serve the ambitious purposes of the South. Those who proclaim the infamy of their own household, must share the shame and en dure Suspicion and when they wantonly and maliciously charge members of their own family with selling themselves, people will sus pectt that they have escaped that debasement only for want ofa purchaser. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Clement Claiborne Clay, a member of a distinguished family in the Tennessee Valley of Alabama, was born on December 13, 1816 near Huntsville, Alabama, United States. He was the son of Clement Comer Clay, and Susanna Claiborne (Withers) Clay.
Clay was graduated from the University of Alabama in 1834, served as private secretary to his father, the Governor, engaged for a time in editorial work on the Huntsville Democrat, and entered the University of Virginia as a law student under the celebrated John B. Minor, receiving his degree in 1839. He was admitted to the bar on October 2 of the same year.
Clay had a brief service in the state legislature (1842, 1844, 1845) and then he became judge of the county court of Madison County, resigning in 1848 to resume the active practise of his profession. He made an unsuccessful campaign for a seat in the lower house of the federal Congress in 1853 but soon afterward won election as a Democrat to the United States Senate, defeating his fellow townsman, R. W. Walker. He was unanimously reelected in 1859. In the Senate, he was an ardent defender of the principle of state rights and a vigorous supporter of the political philosophy of John C. Calhoun.
With the secession of his state from the Union, Clay withdrew from Congress in February 1861, and returned to Alabama. On the organization of the Confederate government, Jefferson Davis, with whom he had served in the United States Senate, tendered him the post of secretary of war, but Clay declined and secured the appointment for his fellow townsman, Leroy Pope Walker. The legislature of Alabama elected him to the Confederate Senate, but at the end of his two years’ term he failed of reelection. In April 1864, he was appointed by Davis a member of a secret and confidential mission to Canada, the other members being Jacob Thompson of Mississippi and James P. Holcombe of Virginia. This mission was directed to initiate informal negotiations with the Federal government which, it was hoped, would lead to formal negotiations of peace between the United States and the Confederacy.
Early in July the commissioners entered into correspondence with Horace Greeley, seeking through him a safe-conduct to Washington and an interview with President Lincoln. At first Lincoln seemed to favor such a conference but soon decided against it, on the ground that the commissioners were not authorized to treat. For nearly a year Clay was in Canada, but, despairing of any result from his mission, he returned South just before the war closed. While he was preparing to set but on horseback for Texas with General Wigfall, to join General Richard Taylor, he learned in Lagrange, Georgia, where he was the guest of Benjamin H. Hill, that Lincoln had been assassinated and that President Johnson had offered a reward for his arrest.
Clay was accused, with Davis and others, of inciting and encouraging the assassination of Lincoln, of conspiring, while in Canada, to release Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson’s Island, and of plotting raids from Canada against the territory of the United States. Though urged to attempt an escape, Clay refused, rode 170 miles to Macon, Georgia, and surrendered to the commanding officer of the United States troops. He was taken with Davis and others to Fortress Monroe, where he was kept in solitary confinement for nearly a year.
Mrs. Clay and his friends were zealous in their efforts to secure a trial for him, and Clay appealed directly to President Johnson, a former colleague. He was finally released, a broken man, on April 17, 1866, without opportunity to defend himself against the charges preferred against him. The remaining years of his life were spent quietly in the practise of the law and in efforts to restore his health. Apparently he took no active part in the struggle over the reconstruction of the state and did not enter again actively into political life.
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Clay was a member of the Democratic Party. He was an ardent defender of the principle of state rights and a vigorous supporter of the political philosophy of John C. Calhoun.
Clay married on February 01, 1843, at Tuscaloosa, Virginia C. Tunstall, who became “one of the brightest ornaments” of Washington society during her husband’s service, a member of a coterie comprising Mrs. James Chesnut of South Carolina, and Mrs. Roger A. Pryor of Virginia.
