Identifier : lifeofhenryclays00fros ( find matches )
Title : Life of Henry Clay, the statesman and the patriot : containing numerous anecdotes ; with illustrations
Year : 1852 ( 1850s )
Authors : Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects : Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Statesmen
Publisher : Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston
Contributing Library : Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor : The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Phoenix Hotel, in Lexing-ton, is supplied with thirty gallons of milk perday from Ashland, in the summer, and twenty inthe winter. Mrs. Clay is the first up in themorning, and the last to bed at night. WhenGeneral Bertrand was a gaest at Ashland, he wasmuch astonished at the extent and variety ofduties discharged by Mrs. Clay, and at the acti-vity and system with which they were accom-plished. The servants, in door and out, caredfor in health and in sickness, in infancy and inold age, well-housed, well-clad, well-fed, exemptfrom the anxieties of life, and always treatedwith indulgence, would never have known theywere in a state of bondage, if they had not beentold. The reader will not, we presume, be displeasedto learn something more of Ashland. We extractfrom the same source as the above, the followingbrief and interesting description: Ashland,comprising the house, gardens, and park, is situ-ated a mile and a half south-east from the courthouse in Lexington. The whole estate consists
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ASHLAND, THE RESIDENCE OF MR. CLAY. HENRY CLAY. 67 of between five and six hundred acres of the bestland in Kentucky, which, for agricultural pur-poses, is one of the richest States in the Union.Ashland proper was projected for an elegantcountry-seat. The house is a spacious brickmansion, without much pretension in architec-ture, surrounded by lawns and pleasure-grounds,interspersed with walks and groves, planted withalmost every variety of American shrubbery andforest trees, executed under the direction of Mr.and Mrs. Clay. Mr. Clay appears to have de-lighted in gathering around him the plants andtrees of his own country, there being amongthem few exotics. As the domicil of the greatAmerican statesman, Ashland is one of the house-hold words of the American people. Havingbeen deeply lodged in their affections, so long asthe memory of the great proprietor is cherished,it cannot fail to have a place in history. And, we may add, it is an evidence of whatenergy and talent?talent not ash

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