How To Use Henry clay In A Sentence
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And that fired her sense of injustice, and so she became an anarchist at that time, and she was, as we ` ve already said, associated with Berkman (ph), the would-be assassinator of Henry Clay Frick (ph), and she was this sort of fire-eating orator and rhetorician who went around the country giving these speeches about how, you know, you should resist tyranny.
Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt�s America
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One of the nation's top political leaders, Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, supported Henry Clay's compromise. Webster believed that slavery was evil.
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Compared with some of the bigger museums, the Frick, housed in a mansion on Fifth Avenue built by Henry Clay Frick, is a remarkably calm setting.
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Henry Clay Frick left his house and collection to New York in 1919 and Isabella Stewart Gardner was equally munificent to Boston in 1924.
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And there was a problem that worried him. Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were fighting each other for power in the new administration.
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The 1848 political season was just beginning, and already it was reaching a white-hot intensity—kindled in part by that dynamic dynast of American politics, Henry Clay, whose magnified presence shone over the nation like a late afternoon sun over the sea.
A Country of Vast Designs
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Whig leaders turned away from their early choice of Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky as their candidate. There was too much popular opposition to him.
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Henry Clay was known as the Great Compromiser
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[Page 347] back to us with their honors thick upon them; I remember one who returned with the prize in oratory from a contest between several western State universities, proudly testifying that he had obtained his confidence in our Henry Clay Club; another came back with a degree from Harvard University saying that he had made up his mind to go there the summer I read Royce's "Aspects of Modern Philosophy" with a group of young men who had challenged my scathing remark that Herbert Spencer was not the only man who had ventured a solution of the riddles of the universe.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky offered a compromise.
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Whig leaders, especially Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, tried to control the new president. Clay proposed detailed legislative programs for the new administration.
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The increasing bitterness over the issue of slavery put Whig leader Henry Clay in a difficult position.
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His competition would be the incumbent, Andrew Jackson (Democrat) and Henry Clay (National Republicans).
