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Clay then wrote to his agent in Washington, Philip Fendall, encouraging him to order the marshal to “imprison Lotty.” He added that her husband and children had returned with him to Kentucky, and that Charlotte’s conduct had created “insubordination among her relatives here.” He added, “Her refusal therefore to return home, when requested by me to do so through you, was unnatural towards them as it was disobedient to me…. I think it high time to put a stop to it…How shall I now get her, is the question?” The Day Henry Clay Refused to Compromise, Smithsonian Magazine, 2012 This is a reply to the other reviewer who complained that Henry Clay was a "great abolitionist" and the Park name change was unjustified.