COMPROMISE LEGISLATION.

Birth and education

Studies law

Favorite in society

Settles in Lexington, Ky.

Absorbed in politics

Marriage; personal appearance

Member of Congress

Speaker of the House

Advocates war with Great Britain

His speeches

Comparison with Webster

Peace commissioner at Ghent

Returns to Lexington

Re-elected speaker

The tariff question

The tariff of 1816

The charter of the United States Bank

Beginning of slavery agitation

Beecher in England, on cotton as affecting slavery

The Missouri question

Clay as a pacificator

Internal improvements

Greek struggle for liberty

Tariff of 1824

The "American system"

The cotton lords

Clay's aspirations for the presidency

His competitors

Clay secretary of state for Adams

Jackson's administration

Clay as orator

His hatred of Jackson

The tariff of 1832

The compromise tariff of 1833

Clay again candidate for the presidency

Political disappointments

Bursting of the money bubble

Harrison's administration

Repeal of the Sub-Treasury Act

Slavery agitation

Annexation of Texas under Polk

Clay as pacificator of slavery agitation

John C. Calhoun

Anti-slavery leaders

Passage of Clay's compromise bill of 1850

Fugitive-slave law

Clay's declining health

Death

Services

Character

_DANIEL WEBSTER_.

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