The Papers of Henry Clay The Whig Leader, January 1, 1837-December 31, 1843 / Volume 9, The Whig leader, January 1, 1837-December 31, 1843 / [electronic resource] : Robert Seager II, editor ; Melba Porter Hay, associate editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, author.

Contributor:

Hay, Melba Porter, 1949- editor.

Seager, Robert, II, 1924-2004, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (984 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Language Note:

English

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 1833, and federal funding of internal improvements. The achievement of these goals, Clay reasoned, would mitigate the severe impact of the Depression of 1837 and sweep the Whigs into the White House in 1840. Soon after the election of 1836, Clay began running again for the presidency. By 1838 it was clear to him that he would have to come to grips politically with the long-muted slavery question. This he did in February 1839 in a Senate speech that was so proslavery, anti-abolitionist, and racially extremist that it cost him the Whig presidential nomination at the Harrisburg convention in December 1839. William Henry Harrison was nominated in his stead and won handily. But one month after his inauguration Harrison died and Vice President John Tyler, a states' rights Democrat turned Whig, was elevated to the presidency. Senator Clay emerged from his disappointment at Harrisburg as the acknowledged leader of the Whig party and further unified it in a wide-ranging assault on the Tyler administration's refusal to support Whig principles. By the end of 1843 Tyler had been broken, the Whig party was Clay's to lead, and the Kentuckian was again in the presidential lists. Confident that 1844 would surely be his year, Clay unfortunately failed to see the formation and growth of the black cloud that was Texas annexation.

Contents:

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

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

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

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

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

To NATHANIEL P. TALLMADGE

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813156736

0813156734

OCLC:

933515977