Henry Clay of Kentucky 1842 era-gilded_age the Charles Town morning rendered

the Charles Town morning rendered with the gravity of an abolitionist icon already passing into legend

distillers

depending on which side of expansion you stood

issued in the year the Republic paused to count itself — wounds still fresh

rendered in the sober engraved manner reserved for men whose weapon was the lectern rather than the rifle

Henry Clay of Kentucky 1842 era-gilded_age the Charles Town morning renderedHenry Clay of Kentucky 1842 a campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig powers, rendered in the year he resigned his Senate seat to chase the presidency that would never quite be his. The lithograph carries the rhetorical thunder of a man who believed the Union could be argued into permanence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National