Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-05-19
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1912.

had made on the floor of Congress, h,
had been in a state of beas,ly intoxica
ton, is equal 10 any thing OF the kind VIZ
ever read, and will draw tears from man,
an eye.
represent the 10Th Congressional Dis
trict of Kentucky, (cheers) and Ashland
is in tina. district. (Here the cheering
was terri6c.) Earth doesn't bear no
bier yeomanry than those who sent me tc
those Halls. Cheers For worth, ;sl
ent, spirit, energy, enterprise, goodness o
of heart, intellectual capacities, noblenes:
ofsoul, and sterling independence OF char.
ac,er, defy this republic within oil its
broad bounds to find a set Of men with
qualities reaching over those that sent me
there. Most tremendous cheering. J.
And it was not the first time they have
trusted me by many. [Cheers.l They
had tried and trusted me often, and over
again. Cheers.l And when they hear
and see these things published of mo in
This paper--and Kentucky full well knows
me and all my habits and feelings, and
the effect of these things, they mus, look
with some surprise, and imagine that a
vast change has come over the charac-
ter Of their representative, if he could pre-
sent himself in that intellectual arena, TO
contend with the talent and the dignity
ard gentlemanly bearing that characterize
the members of the Congress of the Unit.
ed States, and present himself in collision
with the intellect and the spirit and the
learning and skill and spirit that are TO be
found in that Congress, without taking
some pains TO have his body and his intel
lect in little better trim than he is repre-.
scented 10 have had in that paper. Loud
cheers, and cries of alt was false--nobo.
dy minds It."] But let it pass [Cheers. |
Let it pass. | draw from it an additional
moral; let the young, the proud, the tai.
ented, beware how he stains even the hem
of his garment, land mine was stained
deeper than the hem, admit) when he
sees TO what enormous lengths those who
are SO disposed by envy, hatred or malice,
will 60 to blacken his good name.--
[Cheers.
But perhaps it is only just penalty,
which | ought to pay for the follies have
been guilty Of. Time was when it would
have wounded me to the quick--not on
account of myself, but on account Of
others very dear and very near to me.--
Thank God, it can wound me no longer,
[cheers. And that sacred pledge ofthe
Washingtonians is the blessed shield that
preserves me harmless from these poison.
ed arrows fmalignity, [cheers.l have
relations in kentucky, and there is cling
ing around my heart all those tenderest,
dearest feelings, that are connected with
the relations Of brother and Of son.
lCheers. These arrows, poisoned and
barbed--aimed as they we're, AT me alone
for | cannot believe the man demon
enough to have intended them for others
these arrows met my heart scathless, but
past from me, and glancing, lodged IN the
breasts of :hose dear connections, where
they quivered and ranked TO the core.--
It's terrible thing for son six hundred
miles from his mother, to see oil those
paragraphs, and to know that they will all
go to that mother. That she is looking
out anxiousl y for every thing that will say
aught of that sons career at distance
that the sound of the wheels of the mail
stage are listened for with fervish eager
ness, that she may hear something noble,
glorious, which that darling
son has achieved, and that such oil and
that such balm as this account which |
have given, shall be all that is poured in
to her fond heart TO reward her for all her
care and holy love. Here several Of
the ladies wept btterly.] Then even the
drunkard's heart can feel-that can feel
nothing else-the agony that nothing
known on earth can equal. Cheers of
sustainment and tears from the ladies', and
some of the gentlemen shed tears also.
But that'sgone by; [cheers. That pledge
is my shield. [Cheers.l And this is
natural shield which can convert even ca.
lumny into defence.
He concluded by abiding to the inhu.
ence which women might exercise in be.
half Of the Temperance cause, said he
would speak again on the importance Of
this point, and that if the ladies would
take the matter in hand, not ten years
would go by, before every trace Of the
evil would disappear from our land.