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Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878
Subjects: Biography Portraits
Publisher: New York : Johnson, Wilson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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faras Practice, in the old time-honoredelements. The Mill-boy of the Slashes, theelectioneering sentimental watchwordto which we have just alluded, datesfrom this period. It had its founda-tion, says his biographer, Mr. Colton,in the filial and fraternal duty ofHenry Clay, who, after he was bigenough, was seen whenever the mealbarrel was low, going to and fro onthe road between his mothers houseand Mrs. Darricotts mill on the Pa-munkey River, mounted on a bag thatwas thrown across a pony that wasguided by a rope-bridle; and thus hebecame familiarly known by the peo-ple living on the line of his travel asthe Mill-boy of the Slashes. So the boy grew up in rude countrylife till, at the age of fourteen, hismother contracting a second marriagewith a gentleman of character, Mr.Henry Watkins, and removing with herhusband to Kentucky, he was left be-hind in a situation in a retail store atRichmond. He was not long in theemployment, for we find him the nextyear, through the agency of his step-
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^^ d. 7 HENET CLAY. 229 father, who appears to liave ajiprecia-ted the lad, engaged in the office ofMr. Peter Tiusley, clerk of the HighCourt of Chancery. His time was sowell spent here, gaining the reputationof an intelligent, studious youth, intentupon his book, while others were attheir games or dissipations, that hewas so fortunate as to secure the atten-tion of no less a personage than thevenerable Chancellor Wythe, who, itwill be remembered, also exercised animportant influence over the early yearsof Jefferson. The chancellor, whosetrembling hand needed assistance,struck by the ability of the youth,employed him as his amanuensis, aposition which brovight him directlyinto contact Avith the superior resour-ces of one of the most cultivated andrefined minds in Virginia. The chan-cellor was a good linguist, eminentlyskilled in comjjosition, and of a fiieud-ly turn to impart his knowledge to hisassistant; so that the copyist becamein a measure his privileged pupil. Thelegal rejjortj

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