The Works of Henry Clay, Comprising His Life, Correspondence and Speeches, ed. Calvin Colton (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904), vol. 8, 13–15, 17–18, 25, https://archive.org/details/worksofhenry02clay/page/10/mode/2up. . . .
Henry Clay, Advice to His Countrymen. The Speech of Henry Clay. . . on the War withMexico (New York: H. R. Robinson, 1847), available at https://library.uta.edu/usmexicowar/record?content_id=224. . . . Shall
Source: Henry Clay, “To the Editors of the National Intelligencer,” Washington National Intelligencer, April 27, 1844, p. 3, available at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045784/1844-04-27/ed-1/seq-3/. Clay wrote his letter on April 17, but it
Source: Congressional Globe, 31st Congress, 1st Session, 244–47, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=022/llcg022.db&recNum=331. Clay presented his resolutions in a speech. We reprint here only the text of the resolutions. It being desirable, for the
Source: Statutes at Large, 16th Congress, 1st Session, 545–48. Available at https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=003/llsl003.db&recNum=586. An act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and
Source: Register of Debates, Senate, 23rd Congress, First Session (Washington, D.C: Gales and Seaton) 66, 834-36. December 26, 1833 . . . At all events, he [President Andrew Jackson] seems
‘–excerpts– Mr. President [of the Senate], I approach now to the question of what the consequences must be of the defeat of the measure now before the Senate, and what
Mr. President, I have said that I want to know whether we are bound together by a rope of sand or an effective capable government competent to enforce the powers
The day is dark and gloomy, unsettled and uncertain, like the condition of our country, in regard to the unnatural war with Mexico. The public mind is agitated and anxious,
The public attention has been drawn to the approaching arrival of the Hornet, as the period when the measures of our government would take a decisive character, or rather their
