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 of great disadvantage.… His integrity as a public man remained without blemish throughout his long career. He preserved an equally intact name in the conduct of his private affairs. In money matters he was always a man of honor, maintaining the principles and pride of a gentleman."

He was six feet one inch high, erect, and commanding; with high forehead, prominent nose, blue eyes, large mouth, and a powerful, melodious voice. The North American Review, for January, 1866, says: "In no man of our knowledge has ever been combined so much of the forest-chief with so much of the good of the trained man of business as in Henry Clay. This was the secret of his power over classes of men so diverse as the hunters of Kentucky and the manufacturers of New England." Of typical Southern make, long-barrelled, tall, wiry, alert, daring, that seething brain kept the body too active to ever let it get far out of condition.