At age eighty-four, this man installed a cannon outside his house and imprisoned fifteen-year-oldDora Richardson in his attic as part of a forced marriage.
At age eighty-four, this man installed a cannon outside his house and imprisoned fifteen-year-oldDora Richardson in his attic as part of a forced marriage. This man was mocked by John Hay aslooking "like an admirable vignette to 25-cents worth of yellow-covered romance" when heorganized the Strangers Guard, which protected the White House during the Civil War. This mandonated the land that became Berea College and killed Cyrus Turner and others who attacked himduring his speeches with the Bowie knife that he always carried. He resigned his generalship in theUnion Army when Lincoln would not immediately emancipate all slaves. As a reward for helping tofound the (*) Republican Party, this man served for almost the entire 1860s as the minister to Russia.Earlier, he was forced to flee to Cincinnati after attacks on his abolitionist newspaper The True American.For 10 points, name this Lexington-based politician who capitalized on his relation to a more famousKentuckian to become a leading Southern advocate of abolition, and who inspired the original name ofMuhammad Ali.
At age eighty-four, this man installed a cannon outside his house and imprisoned fifteen-year-oldDora Richardson in his attic as part of a forced marriage.
Cassius Marcellus Clay