Glazing Henry Clay (The rescue of henry Clay)

Author and publisher of the article

Fergus M. Bordewich; Smithsonian

A restored portrait of Henry Clay hangs in the

U.S. Capitol

According to Richard Allen (historian US Senate) Clay was associated with the art of

the legeslative comproise

Clay’s Congress career lasted about

40 years

Clay was both Senate and HOR for the state of

Kentucky

Served as secretary of state for

John Quincy Adams

Was a candidate for president

5 times

3 time party nominee 1824, 1832, 1844

Clay was a founder of this party

Whig

Was one of the first major politicians to advocate for

expansion of federal power to promote the safety convience and prosperity of the American people

About Henry Clays voice

So eloquent and melliflouos it would move people to tears.

People packed Senate chamber to hear him

Energy and fire

“A great soul on fire” -Oliver Dyer (Journalist)

Appointed to the Senate at age

29 (30 was legal threshold but no one objected)

Only such person in the nation’s history to

be elected speaker of the house on the first day of the sesison

How did Clay make SOTH

• the most powerful office after the president

• control committees

• made it possible for the body to get anything done

He had a talent for _______ which helped the nation because

• creative compromise

• drew the nation back from sectional crisis and possible dissolution

1820 Missouri problem

• Missouri was about to be added as a stae

  • disbalance the number of free vs slave states

• Slavery was at the crux of the matter

• Drew a line across Lousiana purchase line all states North did not have slavery, south will have slavery

  • Missouri comrpomise 1820

  • Calhoun Clay Webster

• Maine was a free state

• Praised as “great pacificator” and “second washington”

Clay and slavery

• A slave owner himself

• opposed the expansion of slavery

  • a curse to master and a grievous wrong to the slave

• Defended it saying it was lawful and crucial to southern econoy

• against immediate emancipation “ and favored gradual emancipaition and returning slaves to Africa

• OVER ALL SURVIVAL OF THE UNION

Clay never used

threats, abuse, but he is mild, humble, and persuasive by begging instruction, and ajuring.

Clays wrath was as continuous pearls of

thunder and interupted by repeating flashes of lightning

Clay was one of the most

effective senators in america

South Carolina issue

1833

• nullify federal laws they did not approve of

• defuses tensions between state and federal govenment

California

1850

• south was gonna succeed after California ammited as a free state

• gave a speech even though he had terberculosis and was very old (72)

• epic speech 2 days long

• “scheme of accommodation”

• directly opposed to any purpose of secession or separation

The only alternative is war and the death

of liberty for all

both northerners and southerners should

pause

before the measures were enacted clay

collasped from exaustion

californias comromise

• claifornia is a free stte

• utah and New Mexico terrirotyues would not be allowed prohibit slavery to please the south

• slave trade ended in Washington DC

• Fugitive slave act- servere penalties to anyone aiding fugitive slaves making it easier for slave owners to recover their human properties

• the compromise was seen as the definitive settlement of slavery

• delayed vicil war for 10 years

he always knew

the right thing to do at the right time. each side gained something and lost something. no one gets all the marbles

Corrupt bargain

1824

tariff compromise

1833

comrpomise of 1850

1850

placate

make someone less angry/hostile

mellifluous

pleasant voice to hear

lineament

distictinive feature

countenance

of a persons face/facial expression

bondage

state of being a slave