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Clay was a very great man—a born leader of men.
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He acknowledges Henry Clay's significant leadership qualities and contributions to society.
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Directly he came out and said: “I may be doing wrong, and don’t feel entirely sure of my ground, but I am going to let you gentlemen go.
But, I tell you what, if you’ll put up five hundred dollars I’ll put up five hundred more, we’ll fetch our chap across and set him in as a claimant, and, my word for it, Kenealy’s fat boy won’t be a marker to him!
The exact reversal of the Lear suggestion in the last act was an inspiration, his own and not Boucicault’s.
He said he was as good a rebel as lived, that he was only waiting for his wound to heal to get back into the Confederate Army, and that if they wanted to hang him for a spy to go ahead.
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