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Henry Clay Speech Broadside (Taylorsville, Virginia)
Collection
Identifier: SC 00228
Scope and Contents
Printed broadside of speech by “The Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, delivered June 27, 1840, on the occasion of a Public Dinner, given in compliment to him, at Taylorsville, in his native county of Hanover, in the State of Virginia.” Hanover, Virginia. June 27, 1840.
Dates:
1840 June 27
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Independence Day Oration
Collection
Identifier: SC 00033
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a handwritten oration containing ruminations on the Declaration of Independence and the need for education to prevent the fragmentation of the union. The speech also memorializes Henry Clay, Senator from Kentucky, who had died recently. The booklet is unsigned.
Dates:
1852 July 5
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center