resumed writing for the Richmond Times (now the Times-Dispatch), and for a time served as its editor. His works include: Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States (1880), A Reply to A Fool''s Errand, By One of the Fools (1881), The Pool and the Trust (1897), History of the Virginia Debt Controversy (1897), A History of Virginia Banks and Banking Prior to the Civil War (1907), The Curse of the Day (1907), Some Reminiscences (1909), and The Sherman Law, What it Was, What it is and What it Should Be (1912).  (less)

Mr. Clay is so thoroughly interwoven with the civil and political history of the country, that it would be impossible to do full justice to it, without embracing a range of topics and an exactness of detail, that would extend the present volume far beyond the limits which we must necessarily allot to it. During the last twenty years, scarce a single great and salutary measure has been adopted, upon which the signet of his wisdom is not set, and therefore we may well leave to the Nation's future historian the task of furnishing a minute record of his intellectual achievements. Our task will be of a less ambitious character. Henry Clay was born in Hanover county, Virginia, on the 12th of April, 1777. His father, a clergyman of considerable talent and high respectability, died while Henry was yet a child. By the kindness of a gentleman in Virginia, we have been furnished with a variety of interesting anecdotes in relation to the ancestors of the subject of these memoirs, but we scarce deem it expedient to give them to the publick. We are writing the life of a man, whose fame, whatever it may be, is his own creation, and not an inheritance from his progenitors. His claims todistinction are rested on something better than a penny worth of ribbon transmitted from generation to generation the light which hovers around his name, is something more glorious than the phosphorick ray, that gleams from amid the bones of a buried ancestry. At an early age, Henry Clay, having obtained a common-school education, was placed in the office of Mr. Tinsley, Clerk of the High Court of Chancery, at Richmond, Virginia. In this situation, he met occasionally with the distinguished men of the State, and, at length, by his amiable deportm...@4+…¸Qìÿ¾Û€  (less)

TYLER FEY, KILLED IN AN ATTACK BY IRAQI INSURGENTS . . . THE APPROACH OF HURRICANE FRANCES HAS PROMPTED MASSIVE EVACUATION IN FLORIDA. IT ISTWICE THE SIZE OF HURRICANE CHARLEY THAT STRUCK STATE JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO . . . TWOWAY INTVU WITH BRYAN NORCROSS , METEROROLIST WFOR MIAMI STATION ABOUT HURRICANE FRANCES AND OTHER HISTORIC HURRICANES . . . HURRICANE FRANCES APPROACHES,FLORIDANS PACK AND LEAVE BUT SOME ARE WORRIED ABOUT LOOTERS . . . TONIGHT, PRESIDENT BUSH WILL ACCEPT THE NOMINATION AND LAY OUT HIS GOALS FOR FOUR MORE YEARS . . . STANDOFF AT SCHOOL IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA CONTINUES,HEAVILY ARMED ISLAMIC RADICALS HOLD OVER 300 CHILDREN AS HOSTAGES . . . A LOOK AT PROMISES PRESIDENT BUSH MADE AT 2000 CONVENTION, ISSUES OF AMERICAN SENIORS AND MEDICARE . . . I...  (less)