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 American Minute with Bill Federer

 June 29

 "I would rather be right than President," stated Henry Clay, who
 died JUNE 29, 1852.

 The son of a Baptist minister, Henry Clay was elected Speaker of the
 U.S. House 6 times, serving in Congress over 40 years with Daniel
 Webster and John Calhoun.

 The State of Kentucky placed Henry Clay's statue in the U.S.
 Capitol's Statuary Hall.

 Struggling to hold the Union together prior to the Civil War, Henry
 Clay stated in 1829 to the Kentucky Colonization Society in
 Frankfort:

 "Eighteen hundred years have rolled away since the Son of
 God...offered Himself...for the salvation of our species...

 When we shall...be translated from this into another form of
 existence...we shall behold the common Father of the whites and
 blacks, the great Ruler of the Universe."

 In an obituary address upon his death, Representative John C.
 Breckinridge recalled Henry Clay as saying:

 "The vanity of the world, and its insufficiency to satisfy the soul
 of man, has been long a settled conviction of my mind.

 Man's inability to secure by his own merits the approbation of God, I
 feel to be true."

 Henry Clay concluded:

 "I trust in the atonement of the Saviour of mercy, as the ground of
 my acceptance and of my hope of salvation."