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Clay, Cassius Marcellus

statesman, was born Oct. 19, 1810, in Madison county, Ky. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1835, 1837 and 1840, and of the national whig convention of 1840, at Harrisburg. He stumped the northern states for Henry Clay for the presidency in 1844; in 1845, issued, in Lexington, The True American, weekly anti-slavery paper; in August his a press was seized by a mob, and the paper was afterwards printed in Cincinnati and published in Lexington, whither he had removed in 1840, and later in Louisville.