The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04

''What do yon think Of George Remnants
articles or Russia!' said l.
L don't think much of them" replied
General Clay. Il don't think the man is
acting like gentleman. He accepted their
h0spitalilles and he is now miscOnstruing
and disappearing them. L don't be-
leve there are any greater cruelties com
uitted in the Russian prisons than there
are in the American prisons. We have
lately had an investigation here in Ken
lucky, and the testimony goes to show that
our prisoners were fed on bad meat. The
warden complained of it, aud he is dis
charged, and we let our prisoners to the
same people who have oppressed them.
, Russia is great country, and the United
States owes great deal TO Russia. They
were our frienes during the late war, and L
can tell you we needed friends then. The
English were as strong for the south az
were the people of South Carolina. Ger
many and France both wanted to see US
fail. They all supported the south in an
underhanu way and had it not been for
their fear of Russia, they would have sup
I ported it openly. 1 enjoyed my stay at St.
/ Petersb burg. | was on close terms with the
I Gar, and [ knew Prince Gortchacow init
mately. He was one of the greatest men
OF Europe and he was practically the gov
ernor OF Russia. He was the equal o5 Bis
marck or Disraeli, and he was a man Of
equal culture with either of them"
4 STORIES OF HENRY CLAY.
! Cassius NJ. Clay was a cousin of Henry
. Clay, Lexington is not more than an hours
rae from Richmond, and General Clay
knew his great relative well. He says that
Clay would have made great general, and
he says that the similarity in all respects
between Clay and Jackson was striking.
They had heads very much alike, and they
were intellectually much the same in char
acter. II believe that Clay would have
of ha HoA ba
had chance to distinguish himself in the
army, and the only man in the past whom 1
can compare, with Clay and jackson is
julius Caesar. All three possessed great
moral courage, all were statesmen, and
CLAY would have made, | think, an equally
good general with Jackson or Caesar. Clar
hal remarkable physical courage. They
tell a story of him in Lexington during his
early law practice there. He was a tall
gaunt young fellow of twenty-one or
! twenty two years Of age when he imagined
himself insulted by a man who was ten or
fifteen years older than he was and who
was very much stronger. Clay attempted
to fight the man ana the man knocked him
down. Now it was the custom in those
days for the under man, when he found he
! could not succeed against his adversary, to
: CRY enough and the man then got off him.
! Clay would not cry enough and the crowd,
. thinking ne would De killed, pulled the man
TN. No sooner had Clay gotten to his feet
, than ne went at the man again and he was
= again knocked down and pounded. The
man was pulled IF and Clay again attacked
him ard finally in order to save Clay from
being killed, his friends took his opponent
" into a store and kept Clay on the outside
: for fear he should fight himself to death.
L Clay had number of duels and he had 9
= good military mind"
" CLAY AND WEBSTER.
{ oHow did he compare with Webster ~
d asked.
d Henry Clay was an entirely different mar
n from Webster" replied Cassius NJ Clay
/, webster was great man intellectually
n but he had none of the natural Quickness o.
d CLAY, and l don't think he had as great
j. soul as Clay had. He was not a man o
N great personal magnetism, and / dom
% think his moral character was as good a.
Y that Of Mr.. Clay's. L first met him when
: was a boy on my way to college, and l wa
"a greatly impressed with him then, and b.
g. was ClGy's superior in education and Il
n generalization. He had none of the quick
Ie ness Of Clay however. He was not as gros
ID as Webster, and as far as his relations wit
a. the other sex are concerned, he was q nue.
o. purer MAJ. Clay was particular abou
ID money matters. Webster was perpetual,
1, borrowing from his friends anu he lett
a will full Of requests which his friends wer
10 to pay 1 don't think anyone who eve
e. knew Henry Clay failed to like him. H
Of was friend of mine and he was my Law
IN yer in the suit which was brought agains
a. me for carving up the notorious bully, :
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