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Browsing named entities in James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley. You can also browse the collection for Henry Clay or search for Henry Clay in all documents.
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Chapter 27: recently.
Deliverance from party
a private platform
last interview with Henry Clay
Horace Greeley a farmer
he irrigates and drains
his advice to a young man
the daily Times
a costly mistake
the isms of the Tribune
the the whig party.
In the summer of 1852, Horace Greeley performed the melancholy duty of finishing Sargent's Life of Henry Clay.
He added little, however, to Mr. Sargent's narrative, except the proceedings of Congress on the occasion of Mr. Clay'Mr. Clay's death and funeral.
One paragraph, descriptive of the last interview between the dying statesman and the editor of the Tribune, claims insertion:
Learning from others, says Mr. Greeley, how ill and feeble he was, I had not intended to call upon humble and inoffensive negro whom they had learned to regard as a neighbor.
I think I may without impropriety say that Mr. Clay regretted that more care had not been taken in its passage to divest this act of features needlessly repulsive to Northe