HENRY CLAY: THE GREAT COMPROMISER, PART II: Gov. Brown of Ga had high words of praise for Clay

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I always enjoy hearing what people in history have said themselves and not what someone else thinks they said. While reading word for word the Republican Party Convention of 1868, i got to read for the first time how X-Governor Joe Brown of Georgia had to say about Henry Clay. I am somewhat paraphrasing this but words to the effect "when Henry Clay died i knew that civil war would not be far away." I think what he was saying was now there was no buffer between North and South and soon the two would clash.

-- posted by FortBrooke1824