The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-07-25
AN HEROIC FIGURE,


or IN the same year Pope Leo he passed away days
man the great poh Equal span of life the venerad head
Inc Roman church. few who know his life work will doubt
equal in greatness OF spirit His whole lie spent fighting what
he considered great national working righteous
If ever there life NJ Clay led it. Not
strenuous the effort to keep the head of popular
out regard to the moral qualities the strenuous
speed to keep up with the quick turning tides public fancy was
lie strenuous for principles almost without exception unpopular
the community in which he lived and with the through
which he sought to advance them.
Born Kentucky Of avehodng parents heir to large heritage
OF slaves his youth younger manhood was spent unene
effort to abolish slavery He fought war; and vet op
posed the annexation OF Texas in community that
annexation their then only defense against campaign
OF 1860 he advocated the election of Abraham state which
Lincoln With the breaking of the he epoued
of the was undoubtedly at least
IN its active expression, in favor of the conederacy.
10 what heights might such had he sought
the popular side instead Of being prncpe he filed
know the popular will ambition high That he did
neither OF these things and carved for himself
manly high tribute to both his ability his rectiude
he was born in Madison county Kentucky October He
graduated Yale 1882 He sought abolition of slavery in Ken
lucky and America until abolished by the civil IS45
h Le%gt0n the rue American paper devoted to the
teerS AT the outbreak Of the civil he raised regiment nion
soldiers in Kentucky and received President Lin
coin In 1862 he appointed to Russia and remained as
such until o In the 4os he several times elected
lucky legislature.
His career throws interesting light slavery question
He not alone in his abolition views Henry Clay Of his state
OF slavery There ansavery conventions and
lied anslavey sentiment in Kentucky within the
civil In 88 important antisvery convention held
Lexington TO this Carter H. present mayor
of Chicago well Cassius NJ Clay delegate The
that the old astocc element OF Kentucky the element that lived
barona spendo estates which looked everything from
the standpoint Of the gentleman which recognized nobesse obge
was unctured with the apohQn spirit 10 them neither slaves nor
anything else means OF making money. Slaves were
part conditions in which they bor and therefore such
minds free hope believe that slavery could be done away
with Their fathers had fought in the War of the Revolution and
the Of 1872 and mbbed the spirit of freedom independence
equality right part discipline of these strug
giles Cau NJ Cays father Gen Green Clay who distinguished
himself in the of 1872.
venaiy cowardice that made the
slave power did not have its origin among that class OF landed gentle
among those freedom loving spirits who carved of the
wds OF the then southwest They sconed to believe that the roV
dence that made hem made them only wiring dollars from the
requted toll Of the the commercial spirit that made
slavery its god the commercial spirit that anged that re
whoesome native Kentucky spirit 1t the commercial spirit
long cherished hope OF the best minds OF Kentucky OF others
of the southern 1t only when mems minds became
ed with the idea that there to be made of slavery that
through slavery there could be wrought the tranubstanaon OF the
body and blood of a human beings into the bread and
warped that men began to preach divine authority for the abomnab
institution.
the commercial spirit
abuses Not that boadmnded pnncey spirit OF the true merchant
which would increase the material good the world by dispensing
without requta 1t this spirit now 1t was IN the days OF slavery
which would silence kill every raised agns its particular
methods Abuses which large interests making
easily reformed The reforms that are hard are those that like the
abolition OF slavery require the destruction of system
against this trucking selfish murdeous spirit in whatever
forms manifested ITSELF that Casu Maeus Clay fought and
fought throughout his life.
That in the active life of hree-quarters century,
he have INDUCED some views that seem vagares not surprising
Yet when his whole life gone and that he
stan fighting what he deemed great evils fighting the sacrifice of
every ambition that the world has
large proportion of them real evils and marvel that all good
his side in the ranks of knghtserrant
the great reckoning that he oener right than even now he
given credit for?
intellectual capacity the who free and
ernment through period covering than half century ca
high office through their urages and will when he
tagonsm the firmly held opinions of the majority through whom
alone he could achieve that which he did achieve?
MR., DOOLEY ON OUR PECULIAR ACTIVITY