id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 12771 Parton, James Famous Americans of Recent Times .txt text/plain 177747 7910 68 Of our public men of the sixty years preceding the war, Henry Clay was appears in politics only as the eloquent champion of the policy of Mr. Jefferson, whom he esteemed the first and best of living men. [Footnote 2: Daniel Webster once said of him in conversation: "Mr. Clay is a great man; beyond all question a true patriot. years in the United States were Henry Clay, John C. other men of his time, to the people of New England. was lord paramount in the great State of New York, and Calhoun was of the present day cannot realize the state of things in the year new United States Bank, Girard waited until the last day for receiving man-of-all-work for the New York papers, daily and weekly, earning but present time it takes an intelligent man a year to learn how to New York as no man of his day knew it. ./cache/12771.txt ./txt/12771.txt