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1 online resource (984 pages) |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Symbols & Abbreviations; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY; To THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY; To HENRY CLAY, JR.; To ENOCH COBB WINES; To HENRY CLAY, JR.; To DEMETRIUS A. GALLITZIN; To NICHOLAS BIDDLE; To EDWIN HARRIMAN; To UNKNOWN RECIPIENT; To FRANCIS T. BROOKE; To DANIEL WEBSTER; To JAMES ERWIN; To ALEXANDER W. STOW; To ALEXANDER HAMILTON; To MATTHEW L. DAVIS; To SAMUEL L. SOUTHARD; From MATTHEW L. DAVIS; To ALEXANDER HAMILTON; To JOHN G. WHITTIER; To SAMUEL L. SOUTHARD; To ALEXANDER HAMILTON; To GEORGE D. PRENTICE |
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To SAMUEL L. SOUTHARDTo FREDERICK FREEMAN; To JAMES BROWN CLAY; From PETER B. PORTER; To SAMUEL P. LYMAN; To PETER B. PORTER; To ALEXANDER HAMILTON; From PETER B. PORTER; From JAMES WATSON WEBB; To FRANCIS T. BROOKE; To NICHOLAS BIDDLE; From JAMES G. BIRNEY; To PETER B. PORTER; To NATHANIEL P. TALLMADGE; To PETER B. PORTER; To JOSEPH CHILDS; From NICHOLAS BIDDLE; To CHILDREN OF UNIDENTIFIED FRIEND; To SAMUEL WOOD, JR.; To JAMES B. CLAY; To ROBERT SWARTWOUT; To THOMAS HART CLAY; To PETER B. PORTER; From LEWIS TAPPAN; To JOHN M. CLAYTON; To THOMAS HART CLAY; To LUCRETIA HART CLAY |
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To ALEXANDER HAMILTONTo PETER B. PORTER; To FRANCIS T. BROOKE; From LEWIS TAPPAN; To GULIAN C. VERPLANCK; To PETER B. PORTER; To ISAAC WAYNE; To HARRISON G. OTIS; To RUFUS W. GRISWOLD; To ROBERT SWARTWOUT; To NATHAN SARGENT; To PETER B. PORTER; To EDWARD C. DELAVAN; To DAVID CROWELL; To HUGH L. WHITE; To CORNELIUS C. BALDWIN; To FRANCIS T. BROOKE; To ALEXANDER HAMILTON; To HARRISON G. OTIS; From NICHOLAS BIDDLE; To NICHOLAS BIDDLE; To PETER B. PORTER; To NICHOLAS BIDDLE; To HARRY I. THORNTON; To FREDERICK MARRY AT; To HARRISON G. OTIS; To FRANCIS T. BROOKE; To PETER B. PORTER |
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To ALEXANDER HAMILTONTo NATHANIEL P. TALLMADGE; To JAMES G. BIRNEY; To FRANCIS T. BROOKE; To HARRISON G. OTIS; To ROBERT SWARTWOUT; To EDWARD GREENE; To ELIAS W. LEAVENWORTH; To ALEXANDER R. WYCKOFF; To HENRY CLAY, JR.; To AMBROSE SPENCER; To JOHN W. WHITE1; To FRANCIS T. BROOKE; To PETER B. PORTER; To HARRISON G. OTIS; To JOHN O. SARGENT; To FRANCIS T. BROOKE; To HENRY CLAY, JR.; To HARRISON G. OTIS; To FRANCIS T. BROOKE; From PETER B. PORTER; DRAFT OF SPEECH IN SENATE; To HARRISON G. OTIS; To ALEXANDER HAMILTON; To PETER B. PORTER; To AMBROSE SPENCER; To JAMES CALDWELL; To HARRISON G. OTIS |
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To FRANCIS T. BROOKETo J. GARLAND1; To CHARLES HAMMOND; To ALEXANDER HAMILTON; To NATHANIEL P. TALLMADGE; To JOHN P. KENNEDY; To MATTHEW L. DAVIS; To RICHARD HENRY LEE; To LEWIS F. ALLEN; To JAMES ERWIN; To PETER B. PORTER; To JOHN P. KENNEDY; From JOHN BELL; To JAMES B. CLAY; To JOHN C. CRUMP; To KENNETH RAYNER; To PETER B. PORTER; To FRANCIS LIEBER; To JOSEPH R. INGERSOLL; To RICHARD H. WILDE; To LUCRETIA HART CLAY; To OLIVER H. SMITH; From WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON; From ALLEN A. HALL; To BENJAMIN W. LEIGH; To WILLIAM H. SEWARD; To PETER B. PORTER; From OLIVER H. SMITH; To OLIVER H. SMITH |
| Summary |
The Papers of Henry Clay span the crucial first half of the nineteenth century in American history. Few men in his time were so intimately concerned with the formation of national policy, and few influenced so profoundly the growth of American political institutions. The year 1837 found Henry Clay hard at work in a successful effort to organize and strengthen the new Whig party. In his attempt to provide for it an ideological core, he emphasized restoration of the Bank of the United States, distribution of the treasury surplus to the states, continued adherence to his Compromise Tariff Act of |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.
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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 fast |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Politics and government
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1829-1837. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140430
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Seager, Robert, II, 1924-2004
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Hay, Melba Porter, 1949-
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| ISBN |
9780813156736 |
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0813156734 |
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