C.C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame every joint a quiet argument

every joint a quiet argument with the surf off Cohasset

issued in the order's golden-age decade when lodges multiplied across Gilded Age cities and brotherhood itself had become a kind of civic religion

and the long blue shadow of the Sangre de Cristos at dusk

when the country was hollowed by Depression and the new president told a frightened nation that fear itself was the enemy worth naming

C.C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, 19th Century Frame Style:Bourbon Frame every joint a quiet argumentC. C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, 19th Century. A Senate portrait of the Alabaman in the years when Southern men spoke of states' rights with the certainty of scripture, his likeness rendered in the careful gravity reserved for those who carried Manifest Destiny's confidence and its rot in equal measure. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional