Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-09

could not endure, part slave and part free.
and that there was an irrepressible conflict
! between the two; and out Of that doctrine
| came the civil war which consumed this
/ land for the past five years Now that the
war is over we have the same identical
questions as to the terms of intercourse be-
tween these States lately slaveholding. and
the other States of the Union. saw, in re-
gard to the question of slavery, let the
dead past bury its dead" l accept the
situation. Slavery is abolished, and abol-
ished It will remain but whether for the
good or evil Of this county, let the future
determine. Of that, / say nothing. 1t is
the hand Of Providence; there wisely let it
be left
This is the third time it has been my for
tune to tread the soil Of Kentucky. When
last within your limits, it was as a prisoner
OF State. Yes, in ADRIAN LIECoLN's time
there we're pr soners of State, and bastile,
a tower, aye, and tower hall. With allie
Of soldiers, not permitted TO commune with
friends, / passed through Kentucky, for no
other crime than that, having learned it as
the right of American citizens to entertain
whatsoever opinion they chose to entertain
upon public affairs, and in popular assem-
blies to express that opinion, dared, never
theless, to assert that right. To-day am
free man among you. A voice, THANK
God for that" You have free assemblies
now. Once before ] visited Kentucky, pass
ing through your Capital, as one of that
long and solemn funeral corteqe which fol-
lowed the remains Of that great orator to the
grave. / saw yesterday, the monument
which the kindly affections of the people of |
Kentucky had erected to that great man and |
true patriot, in marble, standing erect, as
imposing, as majestic, as God-like, as when |
he Numbered in the American Senate. ZAP |
plause. / saw the tears that streamed from |
the eyes Of men and women of his own be- /
loved State, on the threshold of Ashland, |
where, for so many years, he had lived, for |
so many years been loved.
/ heard that most impressive of all vener- |
able services, and followed the long fune- |
raj procession through the streets of Lex |
ington, draped in mourning; ard saw laid |
away, in an honOred grave in the cemetery |
of that city, the immortal remains of him
whose name, by nativity, belonged to the
grand old Commonwealth of Virginia, by
adoption became the heritage of Kentucky, |
and, by the consent of the people of Ameri-
ca, part of their inheritance Applause
A short time before he died, addressing a
public assembly, possibly here in Frankfort,
1t may be upon this very spot, l remember,
in referring to that grand organization of
which he was the parent, that party which
he loved, and which so loved him, but which
even then was being poisoned by contamina-
ton with the political sentiments which, so
rife then, have sowed the seeds of discord
and civil war, ripening since into bounti-
full harvest. Referring to that party, he said
that if ever the time should come when the
Wing party became corrupted into a misera-
bic, contemplate, fanatical party, he would
then fOrsake it and join hands with the men
Of that organization, by whatsoever name
known, who would stand by the Constitu-
ton and the Union as the fathers made it.
[ Loud applause Men of Kentucky, ava
ken to the voice Of your departed patriot
Place your ears now where his mortal re-
mains repose, and hear the voice coming up
distinct as in that hour, for remember that,
though dead, HENRY CLAY yet speaketh.