Note 19 — Chapter XII · THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CIVIL WAR.
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Mr. Clay (C. C. Clay, Jr., of Alabama), chairman of the Committee on Commerce, drew up in the room of that committee the original ordinance of secession for the State of Alabama, while he, a rebel traitor, was drawing the pay of this government. It was drawn upon government paper, written with government ink, and copied by a clerk drawing $6 a day from this government. I found it in that room and I have it now.—Zachariah Chandler in the Senate, April 12, 1864.