Excerpt from The Last Seven Years of the Life of Henry Clay But the much-respected author of the work before us, writing - not history, but eulogy has ignored the great facts underlying his careful narrative of these demonstrations. His last volume is, throughout, an apology for the last seven years of Henry Clay's life. Probably, no man could have done it better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.