The Arizona sentinel., 1886-08-14
CLAY'S EXECUTOR.
His Affectionate Tribute to the Famous Orator.

Famous Orator.
 : Mir. Harrison has not been without
 distinguished honors in his lifetime. He
 was appointed, without solicitation, Sec
 retary of Legation to Spain, when the
 unfortunate William Barry was sent as
 Minister to that country MT. Harrison
 declined the place, and Mr. Barry died
 at Liverpool as soon as he had crossed
 the Atlantic. He was also nominated
 by the President to the United States
 Judgeship of the Territory of Arkansas.
 For prudential reasons this was declined,
 but the President refused to withdraw
 the nomination. Congress adjourned
 before the matter was acted upon. But perhaps the highest distinction is that he
 was the organizer of the present com mon-school system of Lexington, and over which he was superintendent for many years. At recent school cele- bration hundreds of the pupils of these schools f1ocked to the residence of the
 grand old man" to do him honor. and,
 be it sad, no honor could have been shown him in which he could have taken an equal pride.
 MT. Harrison memory of past events Is very distinct, and upon nothing in the past does he take so much delight in dwelling as upon Henry Clay and his associations with him. Clay was a Whig and Harrison Democrat, but, nevertheless, Clay was his idol For his character he had the profoundest ad- mirat;on. Many times he would come into our office,' said MT. Harrison, ''when he was at home from Washing ton, and talk of the great events which were transpiring and in which he had taken such an eventful part. But he never spoke with vanity. His allusions to himself were modest. His converse tion was simple in every respect, but there was always something, in his man. ner difficult to describe which impressed his hearers with the loftiness of his char acter. 1 used to feel when he came in- to the room, no matter how trivial were his remarks, that I was in the presence of a being greatly gifted. The feeling his presence affected me with was his possession of power. I said one day to my partner, MT. Hunt: I don't know how it is with you, MT. Hunt, but MT. Clay never comes in here that l am not at once affected by his pres ence, even before he has spoken word. MT. Hunt acknowledged that he had experienced similar feeling, and Mr. Hunt was himself a person of great character and of the highest type of manhood.
 'As a man of business" continued MT. Harrison, ''Mr. Clay was scrupu- lously exact He sometimes would say: Harrison, have no money with me, and l want to borrow dime. I will return it to you in the morning when I come in from Ashland The next morn ing he never failed to walk in with silver ten-cent piece between his fingers to liquidate the debt I am quite sure, l often said to him, MT. Clay, that you borrowed that from Mrs. Clay just be- fore you left home, and that you have carried it between your thumb and fore finger all the way to this office for fear of forgetting it. Sometimes" contin- | ued MT. Harrison, "he would send me from Washington power of attorney to indOrse his name upon notes drawn | by his son James. We'll, 1 had nothing | to do with the amounts. I simply obeved | instructions, without keeping memo randum of the amounts or. number of ! the notes. On MT. Clay's return home he would at once begin looking into his business affairs. Calling his son, he would inquire how many notes Harri- son had indorsed for him, and their l amounts James beng unable to tell. 1 having taken no account of them. his father would eXclaim: I am amazed at you, James. Suppose I should suddenly de without having made provision for the payment of these debts. Go at once, my son, obtain correct memorandum of these notes, and bring it to me inn mediately, that l may make provision for the payment
 1.-The most singular way, however, said MT. Harrison, ''in which MT. Clay | exhibited this business precision was in his methodical preparation and arrange ment of his affairs before fighting a | duel. Invariably he spent some time in | the inspection of his accounts, and | drawing up complete memorandum | thereof deposited it in care of Mrs. | Clay, to be brought to light in case he should be killed, This was curiously in- stanced after his fight with Humphrey | Marshall. Both gentlemen were mem bers of the Kentucky Legislature. Clay was an advocate of the American sys- tenn. advocating the wearing of home spun and other American fabrics in preference to goods of foreign importa- tion Marshall was a Federalist and suspected Mr. Clay of demagoguery. He made some remarks about Clay which caused the latter to issue challenge. In the duel Clay was shot in the leg, and was confined to his bed for some time. While in this condition a builder who had recently finished house for Mr. Clay called to obtain a settlement. MT. Clay requested Mrs Clay to bring forth the memorandum he had left with her. It was found to contain an exact statement of the account between Clay and the. builder, and upon that the set tlement was made.
 Clay's emotional nature was a theme