Manuscript Database

Creator/Title

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 To Henry M. Brackenridge, Tarentum near Pittsburg, Penn. Ashland [Ky.], 12 Nov. 1843. ALS, 14pp.

Call No.

Mss. C C

Content

In discussing the Compromise of 1833 Clay states the " ill" worked by the Compromise after 1840 was the "fault of the Van Buren Congress in failing to provide an adequate current revenue, and... to provide for the Tariff."

Subject Heading

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862