Clay's great speech in the Senate on the Compromise Measures, and although I believed him to be radically wrong, I felt myself at times drawn toward him by that peculiar spell which years before had bound me to him as my idolized political leader.
Julian expresses his conflicted admiration for Henry Clay despite disagreeing with his political stance.
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