Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Clay” in chapter 32 of Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1:

...he absolute property of the States; that it required the specific legislation of Congress to give the Territories any rights, and those were not derived, and could not be, from the Constitution. Mr. Clay was violently opposed to the extension of slavery, and he had his advocates among the Southern Congressmen. So, the defection from our ranks left the really serious men who, loving the Union, desir...
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