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Quotation from Speeches on the Compromise of 1850 by Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster
“If my plan of peace, and accommodation, and harmony, is not right, present us your plan.”
Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Clay's speech, February 5-6, 1850, closing section (Calvin Colton, The Last Seven Years of the Life of Henry Clay (1856), appendix, Internet Archive OCR text)
Clay challenges critics of his resolutions to offer a workable alternative.
Citation: "If my plan of peace, and accommodation, and harmony, is not right, present us your plan." — Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Clay's speech, February 5-6, 1850, closing section (Calvin Colton, The Last Seven Years of the Life of Henry Clay (1856), appendix, Internet Archive OCR text). (id compromise-of-1850-speeches-q1)
Virtues: Prudence
Portrait: Henry Clay, Matthew Harris Jouett, Public domain.
