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Jefferson's administration. Mr. Clay's error, we think, arose from his not perceiving clearly that a protective tariff, though justifiable sometimes, is always in itself an evil, and is never to be accepted as the permanent policy of any country; and that, being an evil, it must be reduced to the minimum that will answer the temporary purpose.
At the moment when Clay's situation seemed most hopeless and while his horrified companions were looking on with the silence of despair Nugget leaned forward in his canoe, opened the hatch, and drew out a big ball of cord. "Ned! Ned!" he shouted eagerly, "can you do anything with this outline? I forgot I had it." Ned's face flushed with joy, and paddling alongside of Nugget he snatched the cord.
After obtaining the rudiments of a legal education in Richmond by service as a lawyer's clerk, he removed to Kentucky. He was soon famous as a criminal lawyer, and a little later as a politician. The rest of his life was spent in Congress or cabinet. Clay's speeches read ill, but were powerful in their delivery. He spoke directly to the heart.
"A man wants to know can he see you?" "Who can he be?" "He's a puddin'-faced, red-headed bloke, wearin' a blue sweater under his coat like the bike riders," was Andrew's very unknightly description of the knight whom I had chosen to play lead in the drama of the beautiful young lady at Clay's. "That's a particular friend of mine, you may show him in," I said.
Out past the placard advertising Mrs Clay's boats gleamed the highroad, and from where we walked could be seen a now unused old stone milepeg, carved in Roman lettering, its legend differing somewhat from that in modern figures painted on the miniature wooden post by which it had been deposed.
Jackson and his friends always maintained that he was cheated out of the election, that Adams and Clay made a bargain between themselves, which seemed to be confirmed by the fact that Clay was made Secretary of State in Adams's cabinet; although this was a natural enough sequence of Clay's throwing his political strength to make Adams president.
Clay laughed and dropped down beside her. "Well?" he said. "You have been rather unkind to me this last week," the girl began, with her eyes fixed steadily on his. "And that day at the mines when I counted on you so, you acted abominably." Clay's face showed so plainly his surprise at this charge, which he thought he only had the right to make, that Miss Langham stopped.
As Nugget blushed an angry red, and made no reply, it is to be presumed that Clay's remark contained more truth than fiction. "You fellows are all counting your chickens too soon," said Ned. "A good many miles separate us from home, and as likely as not there are more rough times in store for us."
Then the boys shouldered their fishing rods and hurried back to camp, arriving there just as Ned and Randy paddled up the mouth of the stream. Clay's adventure which he related with conscious pride caused somewhat of a sensation. Randy and Nugget wanted to break camp at once, and Clay was more than inclined to side with them. "Nonsense!" exclaimed Ned.
Clay's speech, in the second Annual Report, he declares: "It is not proposed to deliberate upon, or consider at all, any question of emancipation, or any that is connected with the abolition of slavery. On this condition alone gentlemen from the South and West can be expected to co-operate. On this condition only, I have myself attended."
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