Excerpt from In Re Morton McMichael: Including Unpublished Letters by Henry Clay, William M. Thackery and OthersNorth American, and the United States Gazette. He owned and edited those papers until his death. His active career as a journalist was from 1844 until 1879. In politics he was a Whig while that party was in existence and he was an admirer and friend of Henry Clay. He was a delegate to the convention that first nominated Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency and from that time was a Republican until his death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.