The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04
GEN. CASSIUS N. CLAY
A Visit to the Noted Southern
Ab0lit0niSt.
CHAT WITH HIM ABOUT GREAT MEN
Farm-His "reminiscences of Great Men
at Home and Abroad.

RICHMOND, KY, Oct. l. 1S91.-[Special
correspondence of The SUNDAY HERALD. =
Within six miles of this town, in the richest
of the famed blue grass region OF Kentucky,
lives one of the most interesting charac
tiers in American history. General Cas-
sius M. Clay, the first a0olitionist of the
slave holders of the south, a prominent
candidate for vice President at the time
that Haml n was nominated, our minister
to Russia during the administration of
Abraham Lincoln, aud for the past fifty
years one of the leading thinkers of the
country, he is to-day eighty two, almost
as strong intellectually and physically as
he was when he made his first abolition
speech as student in Yale college nearly
sixty years ago. His fourscore years have
not diminished his courage, and his arm is
as ready to strike in his own defense to-
day as it has been in the many deadly en-
counters OF his past, wherein in self-defense,
he has used the pistol and the knife in the
support of his doctrines and has fought to
the death. There is no Drawer man in the
| United States to-day than Cassius NJ. Clay,
and l doubt whether there is a gentler or
more cultured one. | have spent several
| days with him on his estate known as
White Hall and have had hours of chatty
conversation with him about the great men
he has known, and as 10 some of the most
stirring incidents of his eventful life.
GENERAL CLAY AT WHITE HALL.
Cassius M. Clay was perhaps the richest
young man in the south. His father mac
l.Nfv h
two hundred acres of the very best Ken
lucky blue grass. White hall is one OF the
finest mansions of hesouth. General Clay
was born upon the spot on which he now
lives, and his fathers house cost fifty thou
sand dollars and General Clay has added
such improvements TO IL as make 1t cost
thirty Thousand dollars more. 1t is great
red brick of three stories, OF nearly al
hundred feet front, and almost the same
depth. Ii stands on d knoll, and rich roll
ling country of forest and lawn slopes Out
on every side of it. a wide hall is entered
through big front door, and as you go In
you see in inches on either side OF you
busts of Henry Clay and Horace Greeley
The bust Of Greeley was taken when he
was young man and it was made by Joe
Hart, the famous Kentucky sculptor, for Mr.
Clay. Henry Clay's bust is also by Hart
aud both of them are originals OF grea
value. The hall is SO large that you coult
turn wagon load of hay about in 1t, with
out touching the walls. 1t is furnished
with sofas and chairs, none of which ar,
less than an hundred years old, and upoI
its walls hang works of art by famous
European painters. Gortchakoff and thu
Empress Of Russia look down upon yol
from the left as you enter, and on the RICH
you see a magnificent painting by Land
s. er of Russia, Of the Gear Alexander ii
riding in sleigh. To the right OF this hal
are the parlors. Their ceilings, like tina
OF the hall, are At least twenty feet high
and they are luxuriously furnished an,
have many beautiful paintings. TO the lef
| of the hall is the generals library, consist
, ing of two large rooms, and back of this i
the dining-room. The second floor is of tn
t same generous dimensions, and my bed
room had ceilings fifteen square. Shortl
altar was shnWn to Dav ro0m Mate G