Lincoln Story Book, The

<h3>NOT THE RIGHT "CLAY" TO CEMENT A UNION.</h3> <p>In 1864, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York <i>Tribune</i>, and a great authority among the farming class and the extremists, consented to attend an abortive peace consultation with Southern representatives, George N. Sanders, Beverly Tucker, and Clement C. Clay, at Niagara Falls. Clay was so set upon Jefferson Davis being still left as a ruler in some high degree which would condone his action as President of the seceded States, the project, like others, was a "fizzle," as Lincoln would have said. To our President, Henry Clay was the "beau-ideal of a statesman"; but it was clear that his namesake was not of the Clay to cement a new Union! <br/> <br/> <br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />