Senator Mitch McConnell spoke about Henry Clay and the discussions that took place during the Compromise of 1850. He discusses the context behind the compromise, the strategies taken by Henry Clay ...

For just as Clay warned that a failure to compromise in 1850 could result in "unhappy and disastrous consequences to our beloved country," so, too, could we see the same happen to our economic ...

Born in 1777, during the Revolution, Clay was the seventh of nine sons of John and Elizabeth Clay. “Sir John,” a Baptist minister, died in 1781, leaving Henry two slaves in his will.

Clay’s skills at compromise were put to another test in the early 1830s. South Carolina objected to a tariff code that benefited Northern manufacturers at the expense of Southern planters.

The National Book Award–winning biographer of Andrew Jackson focuses on Henry Clay, who as an aging, ill Kentucky senator spearheaded the Compromise of 1850, a complex balancing of Northern and ...

On the Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How It Changed the Course of American History John C. Waugh. Scholarly Resources, $28.95 (217pp) ISBN 978-0-8420-2945-2 ...

In the Senate in 1850 Clay negotiated another compromise between an even more dangerously divided Congress and country. Rimini credits Clay with helping delay Civil War for a decade.