Another writes thus:-

DEAR SIR:—I thank you for your kind
ness in sending your good paper to me, a
stranger, upon trust. When I asked the fa
vor I felt that it was asking too much; but
from my anxiety to read it, and to have oth
ers read it also, I ventured to make the re
quest, and I hope that you will lose nothing
by granting it. I will send you one dollar in
this; and the first week in April, if I live,
shall send you more than I promised you. I
intend to send some for books; I am in
haste to get the "White Slave," "Autographs
for Freedom," and also the great and
good men's Speeches in Congress, in favor
of Freedom. I prize your paper so highly
that when it fails to come I feel so disap
pointed, that it seems worse than it would
be to go to bed without my supper. One
failed of reaching me in December; and the
4th number of this volume has not been
found in the ofice. I feel the loss myself;
and I have a son-in-law who has been a wor
shipper of Henry ClayClay, Henry

Henry Clay (1777-1852), a native Virginian, entered politics during the 1790s in his adopted state of Kentucky and rose quickly to national prominence. As a congressman, senator, secretary of state, founder of the Whig party, and regular presidential candidate, Clay espoused broadly nationalistic programs designed to avoid sectional antagonism caused by the issue of slavery. He figured prominently in the debates that led to the passage of the Missouri Compromise, and he was a leading architect of the Compromise of 1850. His support of the American Colonization Society earned him the lasting hostility of Garrisonian abolitionists. In Congress, Clay vigorously opposed abolitionist petitions against slavery in the District of Columbia. Robert V. Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (New York, 1991); Richard H. Sewell, Ballots for Freedom: Antislavery Politics in the United States, 1837-1860 (New York, 1976), 109; DAB, 4:73-79. and Daniel Webster,
and who, I hope, is convinced by this time
that great as they were, they could not make
slavery right.

R. S.