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not forget how chivalrously he received Clay's 

 fire. This duel made him the warm friend of the 

 sage of Ashland ; and when Randolph, weak and 

 dying, visited the senate-chamber for the last 

 time, his soul shone out in all its true nobility 

 and he paid a touching and beautiful tribute to 

 the oratorical powers of the great Kentuckian, in 

 asking to be raised up from the sofa in order that 

 he might for the last time on earth hear Henry 

 Clay speak. These were his words : " Raise me 

 up ; I wish to listen to that voice once more." 

 Beautiful, are they not, especially when we think 

 of them in connection with the arrogance of the 

 patrician representative from Virginia to Speaker 

 Clay in the winter of 1815-16 ? 



The game qualities of American Eclipse were 

 transmitted by him to his descendants. His 

 daughter Ariel was one of the greatest racers ever 

 on the turf. In her memorable career she ran 

 fifty-seven races, aggregating three hundred and 

 forty-five miles, and was a winner forty-two times. 

 She was bred in 1822 at Flatbush, Long Island; 

 her dam was by Financier, her grandam Em- 

 press by imported Baronet, and her great- 

 grandam by imported Messenger. 



Ariel was a very handsome mare, a gray, of 



