Cassius Marcellus Clay

Cassius Marcellus Clay

Author: H. Edward Richardson

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0813147875

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The most colorful member of Kentucky's most illustrious family, Cassius Marcellus Clay is a legendary figure in the Bluegrass. This lively biography records both the traditions surrounding Clay and the historical facts of his life, which are themselves the stuff of legend. Although Clay was a dedicated emancipationist, his real interest lay in broad issues of human freedom. The story of Clay's True American, his service in the Mexican War, his accomplishments as Lincoln's minister to Russia, and his active post-Civil War political life are all told against the background of the climactic events of a lifetime that spanned almost a century of American history.


Cassius M. Clay

Cassius M. Clay

Author: Keven McQueen

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2001-06-16

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1618587870

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The emancipationist Cassius M. Clay has long been one of Kentucky's most controversial and misunderstood figures. This new biography examines his important, though undervalued, place in history from the anti-slavery movement to his role as Lincoln's minister to Russia during the Civil War. Along the way the many fights, romantic entanglements, and political battles of Clay's life are explored. The author, a former guide at Clay's mansion, White Hall, unearthed long-forgotten documents such as newspaper and magazine articles, interviews with Clay, and family letters. As a result, this book contains much information found in no other Clay biography and therefore debunks many long-standing myths. In addition to the biography of Clay, the book contains a room-by-room tour of White Hall, several informative appendices, and a collection of ghost stories concerning Clay's mansion, making Cassius M. Clay: Freedom’s Champion ideal for both history buffs and the public at large.


Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters and Fighting Techniques

Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters and Fighting Techniques

Author: Paul Kirchner

Publisher: Paladin Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9781581607420

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In 1827, James Bowie carved his way into American history at the Sandbar Fight, and soon every fighting man of the South and West had to have a knife like his. The bowie knife could cut like a razor, chop like a cleaver, and stab like a sword, and many considered it deadlier than a pistol at close range. So great was the dread it inspired that by 1838 it was banned in several states—a ban that did little to stanch the flow of blood. Bowie's story is well known, but what of the other cutters and stabbers of his day? Gunfighters have long been celebrated, but those who fought with the bowie knife have been largely ignored—until now. Unearthing accounts from memoirs, court records, regional histories, and newspaper archives, Paul Kirchner, author of the Paladin bestsellers The Deadliest Men and More of the Deadliest Men Who Ever Lived , presents their stories for the first time in Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters, and Fighting Techniques. Kirchner identifies and profiles the four greatest bowie knife fighters of history, as well as numerous other wielders of the blade. He details the weapon's use in the Texas War of Independence, the Mormon exodus, the Mexican War, the slave system, the Gold Rush, Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War, the Lincoln assassination, the Indian Wars, and the Western frontier. The book describes bowie knife fighting tricks and techniques and provides numerous accounts of knife-against-knife and knife-against-gun encounters. Its final chapter surveys the continued use of the bowie and other fighting knives in modern warfare.


SPEECH OF CASSIUS M CLAY BEFOR

SPEECH OF CASSIUS M CLAY BEFOR

Author: Cassius Marcellus 1810-1903 Clay

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-27

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781363973378

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Speech of Cassius M. Clay Before the Law Department of the University of Albany, N. Y

Speech of Cassius M. Clay Before the Law Department of the University of Albany, N. Y

Author: Cassius Marcellus Clay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781333256289

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Excerpt from Speech of Cassius M. Clay Before the Law Department of the University of Albany, N. Y: February 3, 1863 The founders of our Republic were not ignorant of this fact: and, in the enacting clause of the Constitution, they declared one of its great objects to be, to establish justice. Tautological was it then in them to include liberty, among their purposes. For, without justice, there is no liberty; and what is liberty but justice - which, perceiv ing the true relation of all things, obeys them? Theseeternal relations of things are laws. Well may it then be said, that without law, there is no liberty. I stand before you the defender of law. A citizen of the United States, and a Republican, I would vindicate my party, and my country; for I believe they are one. I stand by the Union, the Constitution, and the laws. T 116 Constitution as it is. The Union as our designed it: as it ought to be: based not upon injustice, usurping the name of law; but truly upon the law of nature, and of nature's God. First, then, we claim the name of Republican, be cause it best represents what we are; it is a good name: let us never abandon it It is not our fault, in this crisis of life and death to the nation, that party names and party organizations are revived. I ardently hoped that, in this struggle for our national being, all citizens of the United States of America would have stood for them, in support of their chosen powers that -be. But the Democratic party has decreed otherwise: and we have nothing left but to accept the issue. I accept it with reluctance, but not with fear. I have no personal enmities to avenge the friends of my country are my friends: the enemies of my country are my enemies. If we are right, we will stand if we are wrong, we will fall. It is a signifi cant fact, that, the foes of our Republic abroad, in the rebel States, and in our Northern homes, all take common ground against us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.