THE FARMER OF KENTUCKY. Written for the Clay Minstrel. Tune — The Hunters of Kentucky. Ye honest Whigs and voters true, Who’d save your nation’s glory, Come listen and I’ll tell you who Can keep her name in story. ‘Tis freedom’s agriculturalist, Whose crops are always lucky. The last, the greatest, and the best, TheContinue reading “Clay’s Manure”
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Where are Your Orations Now?
THE ORATOR’S COMING. TUNE. — The Campbells are coming. The orator’s coming, huzza, huzza! The orator’s coming, huzza, huzza! The orator’s coming, our nation to save, From the grasp of false Tyler, the despotic knave, The bold demagogues that would ruin our state, Must yield to our Solon, and Cicero great, He has long litContinue reading “Where are Your Orations Now?”
An Unexpected Endorsement
While Colonel Johnson was on a visit to Pennsylvania, he was asked what opinion he entertained of Henry Clay. His reply was “As an orator, and a statesman, he is one of the greatest men living.” Notes: It isn’t every day that you get the opposing party to endorse your man, is it? Richard JohnsonContinue reading “An Unexpected Endorsement”
Gone to Texas
HERE’S A HEALTH TO OUR OWN HARRY CLAY. Tune, — Hurrah for the Bonnets o Blue. Here’s a health to the workingman’s friend. Here’s good luck to the Plough and the Loom, And who will not join in support of our cause, May light dinners and ill-luck illume. It’s good from true faith ne’er toContinue reading “Gone to Texas”
Yet More Filler from the Song Book
Mr. Madison’s estimate of Mr. Clay. — He invited him repeatedly into his Cabinet, and offered him the mission to Russia, then deemed very important. He even proposed to put Mr. Clay at the head of the army; and was only deterred from sending of his name to the Senate for the appointment in GeneralContinue reading “Yet More Filler from the Song Book”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 