Williams, Sherman · Boston, Ginn & Company · leaf 163
icence had given hima commanding influence in society. There is, it must be said, a debit and a credit side to everyaccount, and even the invention of the cotton gin was notan immediate and unmixed good. Previous to its inventionslavery, as an institution, was dying out in the South becauseit was… … Henry Clay 154 HENRY CLAY 1777-1852 Henry Clay was a man concerning whom great differ-ence of opinion prevailed. Andrew Jackson, without doubt,thought him the incarnation of all that was evil in publiclife; his intimate friends believed him to be the imper-sonation of nearly all the virtues and…
