THE BOSTON HOME OF MR. SUMNER, AT 20 HANCOCK THE RENDITION OF ANTHONY BURNS, SUMNER'S TOMB IN MT. AUBURN CEMETERY, NEAR BOS ΤΟΝ, THE TILDEN HOMESTEAD, WHERE PAGE 237 243 248 BORN, AT NEW LEBANON, N. Y., 260 265 270 ERS, N. Y., . 275 MR. TILDEN'S LIBRARY IN THE GRAMERCY PARK HOUSE, BRYANT PARK, FIFTH AVENUE AND FORTY SECOND . THE BIRTHPLACE OF MR. BLAINE AT WEST BROWNS- MR. BLAINE AT THIRTY YEARS OF AGE, WHERE MR. BLAINE WENT TO SCHOOL AT WEST BROWNS VILLE, PA., MR. BLAINE'S HOME AT AUGUSTA, ME., . MR. BLAINE'S WASHINGTON HOME, AT 17 MADISON PLACE, GARFIELD'S BOYHOOD HOME, THE GARFIELD MONUMENT AT WASHINGTON, THE HOME OF GARFIELD AT MENTOR, O., 291 298 307 316 319 GENERAL GARFIELD IN 1863, 323 324 "THE WEEDS," THE CLEVELANDS' HOME AT HOLLAND PATENT, N. Y.,. GRAY GABLES, MR. CLEVELAND'S SUMMER HOME AT THE HOUSE IN WHICH PRESIDENT CLEVELAND WAS BORN, STATESMEN I. HENRY CLAY. WHEN Abraham Lincoln was forty-three years old, that is to say in 1852, he was invited by the citizens of Springfield, Ill., to deliver a eulogy on Henry Clay, who had just died. Among other things, Lincoln said of the man whom he had idolized through life: "His example teaches us that one can scarcely be so poor but that, if he will, he can acquire sufficient education to get through the world respectably.” In this regard Clay and Lincoln were not much unlike. Both were born into a lot of poverty; both rose to high distinction in the State. It may be said, however, that the poverty of Lincoln's boyhood was more abject and his lot harder than Clay's. Henry Clay was early known as the Mill Boy of the Slashes. In later years, when he was a candidate for the Presidency, this title was the slogan of a hot political canvass and was thought to be worth to Clay a great many votes. His mother was a widow living in a low and swampy district of Virginia known as the Slashes. As a lad, Henry was often sent to Daricott's mill, on the Pamunkey River, riding on horseback, with corn to be ground or meal to be brought home for the family of seven boys and girls. The neighborhood along the route of the boy's frequent travel knew the future statesman as the Mill Boy of the Slashes. There is a tradition that when Mrs. Clay, who was left a widow in 1781, in the thick of the war of the Revolution, when Henry was four years old, was surprised one day by a visit from General Tarleton on one of his raids through Virginia. He threw on the table a handful of gold and silver in payment for property taken by his men, and it is told of the widow, that as soon as Tarleton had gone, she high-spiritedly swept up the coin and threw it into the fire. She might better have kept the money, for the family were very poor. Many years afterward, at a Fourth of July dinner at Campbell Court House, Va., one Robert Hughes gave this toast: "Henry Clay: he and I were born close to the Slashes of old Hanover; he worked barefoot, and so did I; he went to mill, and so did I; he was good to his mother, and so was I. I know him like a book and love him like a brother." And a year earlier than this, at a dinner at Lexington, Ky., in honor of him by his old friends and neighbors, Clay said: "In looking back upon my origin and progress through life I have great reason to be thankful. My father died in 1781, leaving me an infant of too tender years to re |