Born in Kentucky to a wealthy planter family, Clay entered politics during the 1830's and grew to support the abolitionist cause in the U.S., drawing ire from fellow Southerners. [18], First Senate appointment and eligibility[edit] Clay's influence in Kentucky state politics was such that in 1806 the Kentucky legislature elected him to the Senate seat of John Breckinridge. What became known as the Pottawatomie Massacre occurred on May 25, 1856, and resulted in the deaths of five pro-slavery settlers. The documentary brings this dichotomy into closer focus and provides a good background for discussion about economics and cultural values. The Glory and Downfall of Ulysses S. Grant, The Confederacy's Response to Lincoln's End, Duel-Happy Abolitionist Cassius Clay Was The Most Metal Politician In American History. Clay threw his support behind John Quincy Adams and won the presidency for Adams. The operation began on October 16, 1859, with the planned capture of Colonel Lewis Washington, a distant relative of George Washington, at the formers estate. An entrepreneur who ran tannery and cattle trading businesses prior to the economic crisis of 1839, Brown became involved in the abolitionist movement following the brutal murder of Presbyterian minister and anti-slavery activist Elijah P. Lovejoy in 1837. In 1832 the National Republicans unanimously nominated Clay for the presidency, while the Democrats nominated the sitting President Jackson. He served three different terms as Speaker of the House of Representatives and was also Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829. Clay lost by a wide margin to the highly popular Jackson (55% to 37%). Hampered by a crippled hand, Wythe chose Clay as his secretary. This did not sit well with Clay. He sought to maneuver the Republican presidential nomination for himself in 1860 and later a Cabinet post for himself in 1861. His supporters included the National Republicans, who were beginning to identify as "Whigs" in honor of ancestors during the Revolutionary War. Clay used his influence with Tsar Alexander II to have Russia back the Union in the war. Described later by Friedrich List, it was designed to allow the fledgling American manufacturing sector, largely centered on the eastern seaboard, to compete with British manufacturing through the creation of tariffs. A founding member of the Republican Party in Kentucky, he was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as the U.S. minister to Russia, where Clay is credited with influencing Russian support for the Union during the American Civil War. Adapted from the masonrytoday.com website. When Clay was appointed Secretary of State, his maneuver was called a "corrupt bargain" by many of Jackson's supporters and tarnished Clay's reputation. Such an occurrence, however, has not been repeated since. Husband of Elizabeth Watkins Henry Clay helped establish and became president in 1816 of the American Colonization Society, a group that wanted to establish a colony for free American blacks in Africa; it founded Monrovia, in what became Liberia, for that purpose. Finally, Clay walked the walk on his anti-slavery beliefs and, 20 years All Rights Reserved. He came from a large political In November, a jury found Brown guilty of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia. During the brawl, one of the brothersattempted to shoot at Clay's head several times, but the pistol wouldn't fire. He also married and started a family during that time. This bold move had the intended effect and cemented Ali as a crusader for equality and African American rights, but ironically, the name Cassius Clay was taken from a man who had fought for abolition his entire life. [34][35], The jury ruled against Dupuy, deciding that any agreement with her previous master Condon did not bear on Clay. Underground Railroad Fort Sumter 4. WebJohn Brown summary: John Brown was a radical abolitionist whose fervent hatred of slavery led him to seize the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry in October 1859. Cassius Clay was an early Southern planter who became a prominent anti-slavery crusader. Garrison's arguments were to him "as water is to a thirsty wayfarer. John Jay: Abolitionist and Slave Owner. It was not. WebHistorical Marker #2076 in Bracken County commemorates abolitionist John Gregg Fee. He had opposed the annexation of Texas and the expansion of slavery into the Southwest, but had volunteered because of Mexicos attempt to seize the state, which it still claimed. In 1835, Clay was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives where he served three consecutive terms. 1851, graduated from. [14] Some of his clients paid him with horses and others with land. Late in the afternoon of October 17, 1859, President James Buchanan ordered a company of Marines under the command of Brevet Colonel (and future Confederate General) Robert E. Lee to march into Harpers Ferry. Clay left the Senate to recuperate in Newport, Rhode Island. Booth, a native of Maryland, was a fierce Confederate sympathizer during the Civil War. Brown's bullet struck the scabbard and embedded itself in the silver. John Brown. PBS.org. [30] Like other Southern Congressmen, Clay took slaves to Washington, DC to work in his household. Her legal challenge to slavery preceded the more famous Dred Scott case by 27 years. Educated at Augusta Academy, Miami University, and Lane Seminary in nearby Cincinnati, Fee began his missionary work in Lewis County, Kentucky. Jackson vetoed a bill which would authorize federal funding for a project to construct a road linking Lexington and the Ohio River, the entirety of which would be in the state of Kentucky, because he felt that it did not constitute interstate commerce, as specified in the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. [3] In 1815, while still in Europe, he helped negotiate a commerce treaty with Great Britain. In 1876 he brought in a partner to manufacture threshers, and the company became Belchamber and Parker. John P. Parker School, in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a pre-kindergarten through 6th grade school named after him. He hoped the attack would help lay the groundwork for a revolt, but historians have called the raid a dress rehearsal for the Civil War. Presidential Election of 1824 and Secretary of State[edit] Main article: Election of 1824. In the Browns men were able to capture several local slaveowners but, by the end of the day on October 16, local townspeople began to fight back. Spare the men; they are innocent. Naval Yard until Union troops could arrive. Influenced by abolitionist poet John Greenleaf Whittier and abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison, he became active in the New England Anti-Slavery Society. Henry Watkins moved the family to Richmond, Virginia. Clay rejoined the Republican Part in 1884. Henry Clay, Jr. enslaved a man named John Henry Clay, whose descendants gained notice in the 20th century. Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., grandson of John Henry Clay, named for the abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay. Although his family had owned slaves, Clay became an abolitionist early in his life after hearing a speech by William Lloyd Garrison while at Yale in 1832. He eventually founded the abolitionist newspaper True American. They were cousins of both Kentucky politician Henry Clay and Alabama governor Clement Comer Clay. Clay grazed Marshall once, just below the chest. Clay's plan to end ACTIVITIES He was one of the few black people to patent an invention before 1900. Clay was even a potential Vice Presidential running mate of Lincoln before losing out to Hannibal Hamlin. Clay had just finished an anti-slavery speech when he was approached by several brothers, the sons of a local pro-slavery politician. He further asserted in his autobiography that while Clay may have gotten rid of his slaves, he "held on to white supremacy." During the Mexican-American War, when he arrived in Mexico as captain of a company of Kentucky volunteers, he and his men were captured almost instantly by the Mexicans. [34], In 1840 Henry Clay finally gave Charlotte and her daughter Mary Ann Dupuy their freedom. [38] The resolutions included: Admission of California as a free state, ending the balance of free and slave states in the senate. Start Date 11/12/2022 - Please rate your reaction. As he was preparing to return to Lexington in 1829, his slave Charlotte Dupuy sued Clay for her freedom and that of her two children, based on a promise by an earlier owner. Polk's populist stances on territorial expansion figured prominentlyparticularly his opinion on US control over the entire Oregon Country and his support for the annexation of Texas. Henry was the seventh of nine children of the Reverend John Clay and Elizabeth (ne Hudson) Clay. Parker, who was African American, helped hundreds of slaves to freedom in the Underground Railroad resistance movement based in Ripley, Ohio. Once in Russia, Clay had influence on the War back in the United States. Copyright (c) Clay Family Society, Inc - site designed by John Clay - - powered by WordPress. Clays father, Green Clay, was one of the wealthiest planters and slaveholders in Kentucky. Senators, Armistead Thomson Mason (aged 28 in 1816), and John Eaton (aged 28 in 1818). Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859, at the age of 59. Enraged, Clay pulled out his Bowie knife and fought through Brown's allies. Father of George Hudson Clay; Betty Hudson Clay; Sarah Watkins; John Bruce Clay; Henry Clay, US Speaker of the House, Senator, Sec'y of State and 4 others; Rev. Cassius' sister Elizabeth Lewis Clay (17981887) married John Speed Smith, who also became a state and US politician. Parker managed the company, which manufactured engines, Dorsey's patent reaper and mower, and sugar mill. However, Browns financial losses continued to mount, although he did remarry in 1833. They were instructed that the sealed orders were to be opened only if Britain and France entered the war on the side of the Confederacy. It threatened to secede from the Union if the Federal government tried to enforce the tariff laws. [2] He earned the money through his work in two of Mobile's iron foundries and occasional odd jobs. In 1833, Clay married Mary Jane Warfield, daughter of Mary Barr and Dr. Elisha Warfield of Lexington, Kentucky. When he founded it, Clay reportedly said he was the first to "beard the monster in his den." Clay left the Republican Party in 1869. Two generations from slavery, all six went to college and entered the middle class. Brown bought a farm there himself, near Lake Placid, New York, where he not only worked the land but could advise and assist members of the Black communities in the region. WebWhile making a speech for abolition in 1849, Clay was attacked by the six Turner brothers, who beat, stabbed, and tried to shoot him. Initially, Browns business ventures were very successful, but by the 1830s his finances took a turn for the worse. Clay was elected to three terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives, but he lost support among Kentuckian voters as he promoted abolition. His anti-slavery activism earned him violent enemies. During a political debate in 1843, he survived an assassination attempt by Sam Brown, a hired gun. It brought in Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state (thus maintaining the balance in the Senate, which had included 11 free and 11 slave states), and it forbade slavery north of 36 30' (the northern boundary of Arkansas and the latitude line) except in Missouri. The group received military training in advance of the raid from experts within the abolitionist movement. Senate career[edit] The Nullification Crisis[edit] Main article: Nullification Crisis After the passage of the Tariff of 1828, dubbed the "tariff of abominations" which raised tariffs considerably in an attempt to protect fledgling factories built under previous tariff legislation, South Carolina declared its right to nullify federal tariff legislation and stopped assessing the tariff on imports. These internal improvements would be financed by the tariff and by sale of the public lands, prices for which would be kept high to generate revenue. He ran and lost again in 1832 and 1844 as the candidate of the Whig Party, which he founded and usually dominated. The scabbard of Clay's Bowie knife was tipped with silver and, in jerking the Bowie knife out in retaliation pulled this scabbard up so that it was just over his heart. Brother of Edward C. Clay During his term, the controversy over the expansion of slavery in new lands had reemerged with the addition of the lands ceded to the United States by Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War. He saved and rescued fugitive slaves for nearly fifteen years. Clay had such a reputation as a duelist that it was said he had slain more men in duels than any other man in America. The anti-abolitionist movement had been sending Clay death threats for years, and attempts had been made on his life in the past, but in 1843, his abolitionist crusading became too much for them. He was chosen Speaker of the House on the first day of his first session, something never done before or since (except for the first ever session of congress back in 1789). It was the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. [11], Henry Clay and his wife, Lucretia (ne Hart) After beginning his law career, on April 11, 1799, Clay married Lucretia Hart at the Hart home in Lexington, Kentucky. He came from a large political family which included his father and his brother, Brutus, entering politics. Clay's estate, Ashland, in Lexington, Kentucky Clay continued to serve both the Union he loved and his home state of Kentucky. "use strict";(function(){var insertion=document.getElementById("citation-access-date");var date=new Date().toLocaleDateString(undefined,{month:"long",day:"numeric",year:"numeric"});insertion.parentElement.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(date),insertion)})(); FACT CHECK: We strive for accuracy and fairness. Tarleton Clay worked toward emancipation, both as a Kentucky state representative and as an early member of the Republican Party. He relocated the family business and his four surviving children to present-day Kent, Ohio. It was at Yale that Clay heard abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison speak. [4] They had ten children, six of whom lived to adulthood: Later, he adopted Henry Launey Clay, believed to be his son by an extra-marital relationship while in Russia.[5]. [17] As a legislator, Clay advocated a liberal interpretation of the state's constitution and initially the gradual emancipation of slavery in Kentucky, although the political realities of the time forced him to abandon that position. [37] Establishment of boundaries for the state of Texas in exchange for federal payment of Texas's ten million dollar debt. Alexander the II took the step of warning Britain and France that if they recognized the Confederacy they were risking War with Russia. The Civil War started before he departed and, as there were no Federal troops in Washington at the time, Clay organized a group of 300 volunteers to protect the White House and US Naval Yard from a possible Confederate attack. Opposition to Jackson and creation of Whig Party[edit]. 22 in Lexington, Kentucky. Second Senate appointment[edit] In 1810, United States Senator Buckner Thruston resigned to serve as a judge on the United States Circuit Court, and Clay was again selected to fill his seat. During the Civil War, he recruited a few hundred slaves for the Union Army. For most people, the name Cassius Clay is associated with one man and one man only: Muhammad Ali. Later, as one of the peace commissioners, Clay helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent and signed it on December 24, 1814. His sons were involved in the abolitionist movement in the territory, and they summoned their father, fearing attack from pro-slavery settlers. MEMORIAL ID 55636972, _________________________________________________________. [23], Speaker of the State House and duel with Humphrey Marshall[edit] When Clay returned to Kentucky in 1807, he was elected the Speaker of the state House of Representatives. Even though the 1852 pro-slavery[43] novel Life at the South; or, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is, by W.L.G. [2], The "Parker Pulverizer" was a reference to "a 'clod-smashing machine' which Parker first invented while yet in Mobile.". [16], State legislator[edit] In 1803, although not old enough to be elected, Clay was appointed a representative of Fayette County in the Kentucky General Assembly. It is in Springfield that many historians believe Brown became a radical abolitionist. This was a singular achievement for a 34-year-old House freshman. Cambridge University Press. Four major candidates, including Clay, sought the office of president. He may have been freed or "given his time" by one of Clay's sons, as Dupuy continued to work at Ashland, for pay. His house in Ripley has been designated a National Historic Landmark and restored. In the ensuing fight, Clay fought off all six and, using his Bowie knife, killed Cyrus Turner.[9]. Clay, seeing that there were no troops in Washington, D.C. at the start of the war, organized 300 volunteers to guard the White House and U.S. Some soldiers reported he even opened his shirt to submit to the final blow. Bordewich, F.M. 1856, became a principal of a school in Illinois; he later taught in St. Louis. In addition to finding some business success, Brown quickly became immersed in the citys influential abolitionist community. Perhaps the most famous athlete of the 20th century, Ali famously rejected the name Cassius Clay when he joined the Nation of Islam and refused to answer to what he had dubbed "my slave name.". Her age varies in the few extant records; the 1900 US Census indicates that she was born in May 1882, suggesting that she may have been as young as 12 when she married Cassius M. Clay. In 1878 after 45 years of marriage, Clay divorced his wife, Mary Jane (Warfield) Clay, claiming abandonment after she no longer would tolerate his marital infidelities. The "freedom suit" received a fair amount of attention in the press at the time. He was bombastic and charismatic, but could also be vicious and cruel. By 1819, though, he had returned to Hudson and opened a tannery of his own, on the opposite side of town from his father. (1911). Pedigree Rsurrection & Big DNA Discoveries. Afterward, Clay promptly passed out before he was rescued andtreated. The victim was a free Black manone of the very people the abolitionist movement sought to help. Hale Giddings Parker, b. In 1833, Clay helped to broker a deal in Congress to lower the tariff gradually. His family home, White Hall, is maintained by the Commonwealth of Kentucky as White Hall State Historic Shrine. [1] During his apprenticeship in a foundry, John attempted escape to New Orleans by riverboat and had conflicts with officials. In 1853, Clay granted 10 acres of his expansive lands to John G. Fee, an abolitionist who founded the town of Berea. Geni requires JavaScript! There he became friends with George Wythe. Despite having been shot in the chest, Clay tackled Brown, and with his Bowie knife removed Brown's nose and one eye and possibly an ear before he threw Brown over an embankment. View of Henry Clay's law office (1803-1810), Lexington, Kentucky In November 1797, Clay relocated to Lexington, Kentucky, the growing town near where his family then resided in Woodford County. When he got to Brown, he wasn't content to simply stab him. Clay, a strong and imposing man, wrested his knife back from the brothers and proceeded to chase them away. While at Yale, he heard abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison speak, and his lecture inspired Clay to join the anti-slavery movement. It had the opposite effect. In November 1972, Joe Biden was elected to the Senate at the age of 29, but he reached his 30th birthday before the swearing-in ceremony for incoming senators in January 1973. Clay supported the Greek independence revolutionaries in 1824 who wished to separate from the Ottoman Empire, an early move into European affairs. Although his first congregation numbered WebRise And Fall of the Slave South, University of Virginia. In the ensuing fight, Clay fought off all six and, He rejoined the Republican party in the campaign of 1884. Wszelkie prawa zastrzeone, Jak podnie atrakcyjno witryny handlowej, Statusy z blipa w real-time search Prima Aprillis, Godzina dziennie z SEO. The Browns were strict Calvinists and believed enslaving people was a sin against God. Jonas Clay (c1617-c1663) 1st New England Clay, He Helped Capture Geronimo by Ned Boyajian, Voices from the Century Before: The Odyssey of a 19th Century Kentucky Family, Clay, Bruce, and Kavanaugh Families Lineage Memorial Revisited, Our Mothers Dresses & Silver Children-The African American Family of Henry Clay, Calling of Ancestors: Finding Forgotten Secrets in My DNA. [11] As Minister to Russia, Clay witnessed the Tsar's emancipation edict. The Missouri Compromise and 1820s[edit] In 1820 a dispute erupted over the extension of slavery in Missouri Territory. Henry and Lucretia Clay were great-grandparents of the suffragette Madeline McDowell Breckinridge. [2][3] Parker was one of the few blacks to patent an invention before 1900. [15], Clay resigned his commission in March 1863 and returned to Russia, where he served until 1869. WebAbolitionists, 1780-1865 Lauren Anderson, Harvard College Class of 2021, Social Studies On March 16, 1827, the Black abolitionists Reverend Samuel E. Cornish and John Brown Russwurm set out on a task: to plead our own cause. This phrase became the opening statement of Freedoms Journal, an abolitionist newspaper owned by the two publishers. A colleague of Clayonce said of him,"He would fight the wind did it blow from the South side when he wanted it to blow from the North.". Although Brown and his men were able to take the Harpers Ferry armory during the morning of October 17, the local militia soon had the facility surrounded, and the two sides traded gunfire. Not only that, he was an open and vocal advocate for the abolition of slavery in the 1840s, in Kentucky of all places. Clay was a pioneer when it came to plantation owners who became anti-slavery crusaders. He had invented the pulverizer while still a young man in Mobile in the 1840s. Clay was a mason and member of Davies Lodge No. The Brown familys new home of Hudson, Ohio, happened to be a key stop on the Underground Railroad, and Owen Brown became active in the effort to bring former enslaved people to freedom. By passing the law, which President James Monroe signed, the U.S. Congress admitted Missouri to the Union as a state that allowed slavery, and Maine as a free read more, English soldier and explorer Captain John Smith was born in Lincolnshire and had an adventurous life as a soldier, pirate, enslaved person, colonist and authorthough many historians question the details of his life. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, read more, John Jay was an American statesman and Founding Father who served the United States in numerous government offices, including the Supreme Court where he served as the first chief justice.The New York native drafted the states first constitution in 1777, and was chosen read more, The grandson of Italian immigrants, John Gotti (1940-2002) was born in the Bronx, N.Y., and grew up in a life of organized crime. It quieted the controversy between Northerners and Southerners over the expansion of slavery, and delayed secession and civil war for another decade. While making a speech for abolition in 1849, Clay was attacked by the six Turner brothers, who beat, stabbed, and tried to shoot him. According to newspaper reports at the time, Dora was 15 to 16 years old. Clay was born on October 19th, 1810 in Madison County, Kentucky. However, during his time at Yale he attended a speech given by the famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. The former slaves were given the opportunity to remain at White Hall and work for wages, which many of them did. Major-General Cassius Marcellus Clay (October 19, 1810 July 22, 1903) was an American planter, politician, military officer and abolitionist who served as the United States ambassador to Russia from 1863 to 1869. "[2] A plantation owner, Clay held slaves during his lifetime but freed them in his will. [19] On December 29, 1806, Clay was sworn in as senator, serving for slightly more than two months that first time. [34] While no deed of emancipation has been found for Aaron Dupuy, in 1860 he and Charlotte were living together as free black residents in Fayette County, Kentucky. During a political debate in 1843, he survived an assassination attempt by Sam Brown, a hired gun. The Washington family continued to own enslaved people. At the time of his death, Clay's father owned more than 22 slaves, making him part of the planter class in Virginia (those men who owned 20 or more slaves).[6]. Brown was forced to move his remaining men and their captives to the armorys engine house, a smaller building that later became known as John Browns Fort. Clay was a member of a large and influential Clay political family. Senator Henry S. Foote of Mississippi, who had suggested the creation of the Committee of Thirteen, later said, "Had there been one such man in the Congress of the United States as Henry Clay in 1860'61 there would, I feel sure, have been no civil war."[41]. [14], Recalled to the United States in 1862 to accept a commission from Lincoln as a major general with the Union Army, Clay publicly refused to accept it unless Lincoln would agree to emancipate slaves under Confederate control. It may be moderate, it may exacerbate. Clay was briefly a candidate for the vice presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention,[3] but lost the nomination to Hannibal Hamlin. [3], Clay had a reputation as a rebel and a fighter. (Booth would later assassinate President Abraham Lincoln over the latters decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.). Clay's plan to end sectionalism Lecompton Fraud 5. surrender began Civil War American Plan 6. won 1860 Presidential election Abraham Lincoln 7. proslavery constitution in Kansas Dred Scott Dupuy's attorney gained an order from the court for her to remain in DC until the case was settled, and she worked for wages for 18 months for Martin Van Buren, the successor to Secretary of State and the Decatur House. Clay read law by working and studying with Wythe, Chancellor of the Commonwealth of Virginia (also a mentor to Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall, among others), and Brooke. Before the fateful night at Fords read more, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. [37] A declaration by Congress that it did not have the authority to interfere with the interstate slave trade. 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