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Clay, Cassius
Marcellus (b. Oct. 19, 1810, Madison county, Ky., U.S.--d. July 22, 1903,
Whitehall, Ky.), American antislavery leader who served the Abolition movement
in spite of his Southern background.
Although he was the son of a slaveholder
and a relative of the Kentucky senator Henry Clay, who--true to his byname (The
Great Compromiser)--favoured only gradual emancipation, Cassius Clay was deeply influenced by the Abolitionist William Lloyd
Garrison while he was still in college. He entered the Kentucky legislature
(1835) but was defeated in 1840 on the slavery issue. He established an
antislavery publication, the True
American, in Lexington, Ky., in 1845 but was forced by attacks from
pro-slavery Kentuckians to move it to Cincinnati, Ohio, and then to Louisville,
Ky., where it was renamed The Examiner.
Clay was one of the founders of the Republican Party in 1854. He served as U.S.
minister to Russia (1861-62 and 1863-69) and helped negotiate the purchase of
Alaska (1867). He left the Republican Party in order to support Horace Greeley
in the presidential election of 1872 but supported Republican James G. Blaine as
presidential candidate in 1884. He was adjudged insane shortly before his death.
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