The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-08-10
The Campaign in Kentucky.
KNOTT HEARD FROM.
HE VENTILATES THE MILITARY AND
q POLITICAL CAREER OF THE RADI-
CAL CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR 49,

| % POLITICAL CAREER OF THE RADt-
CAL-CANDIDATEF FOR GOVERNOR -
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Hon. j. Proctor Knott, member of
Congress from kentucky whose inim-
liable speech on the glorious Duluth
and the Northern Pacific Railroad set
the whole nation laughing last Sum-
mer, is at 1t again. In recent speech
he drew the~following picture of the
military and political career of GeIer-
al Harlan, the Radical candidate for
Governor of Kentucky. en COLTS fif
THE CANDIDATES, ~ @.,5...
| Kentucky must furnish. the van
guard of the Democracy IN this con-
test. She has ever been true to her
prestige; having ever performed her
duty true and faithful she will do; it
in this crisis. If, said he, the approach
| ing election involved no more than
the mere expression of personal
preference between the candidates
presented for our suffrages, ] should
not have word to say, For while
am aware that no eulogy of mine could
lend a solitary ray of additional lus-
| ter to the bright escutcheon of Gov
ernor, Leslie, [ should scorn to stain a
single leaf in the glittering chaplet of
General Harlan.-(Applause.) m m
t. sstehs HARLAN DULUTHED. n
j. Ihave known him long and well as
a most genial gentleman, a profound
lawyer, and a scholar of varied and
all in all, he is man of whom 1 am
personally fond. AS public man L
am free to acknowledge that he has
perhaps the advantage of Governor
Leslie. e.-Renowned alike ..aga ,., -,
z ssss1v j. AS A WARRIOR. ...IIr....4s r
and as statesman, his career has been
such as to dazzle the enraptured vision
of every beholder with the associated
splendors of a thousand brilliant
achievements, which constitute the
brightest gems in the diadem of his
country's glory. aeGreat Applause. D.
His military record especially is the
theme upon which every patriot must
delight to dwell.-(Applause.)
Il confess that I cannot refer to it
without feeling every fibre and tissue
of my being tingle with a thrill of
martial ardor. daughter and ap-
plause.) 1 remember how his impa-'
tielit blade leaped from its scabbard,
when the first notes of civil diseord
echoed along the lowering horizon of
1851, or how it CLEANED like meteor
along his terrible pathway as he swept
like a tornado to the dread carnival of
death. The awful sublimity of his
going forth to immediate himself upon
the blood stained alter of patriotism
will haunt me to my dying day-(Ap-
plause.1 1t reminded me of Ossian's
description of Cuthullin, as he rushed
in the sound of his arms like the ter
,rible spirit of Loda, when he comes
in the roar of thousand storms, scat
tering battles from his eyes DIM
1mense Applause.) What, deeds of
prowess he might have won upon the
CORY field, what hecatombs of slaugh-
tered rebels might have gone down
chant blade, had he ever met his
of battle, the pen of history will never
quench his blazing blade in the blood
of ]. traitors, he was called from the
paths of martial glory to the more ar
duous. duties of civil life. (Great
Langhter.) Iknow we much needed
his services in the Cabinet. i am will
ing to admit that there was not anoth-
er lawyer in the whole length and
breadth of the Commonwealth, from
Maysyille to Mills Point, who. was
capable of discharging the distinguish
ed functions of Attorney General
(laughfe0 yet l. cannot but deplore
the inexorable necessity which COM
PEELED him. to quit the tented field and
bid farewell forever to all the pomp
and spIendor of glorious war." In
fact i consider the resignation of Gen.
Harlan as othe direstiIcalamity which
could have befallen our beloved coun-
try under the circumstances Qaughter)
for am convinced that had the Con-
federate leaders been convinced that
there was no other means of escaping
q direct conflict with General Harlan
upon the open field, they would have
laid down their arms at once. u (Re-
neWed Laughter.1 But when Lee, and
johnson and Beauregard ascertained
that General Harlan had resigned they
plueked up fresh courage and deter
mined to prosecute the war to the
bitter end. Qaughter.) m E;aseE on,
q 1t can, however, be said of General
Harlan, as it can Of but few military
heroes of equal prowess and renown
that when his tear-dimmed eye rested
for the last time upon the war-worn
forms of his command, when he bid
them last long adieu upon the tented
field, he had the proud satisfaction of
that he never led them into
danger in his life. prolonged laugh
ter and applause.) 'L. ' ~ -'S''
I. But while 1 could dwell forever
with increasing raptures upon this de-
lightful theme, l could not withhold
a fitting tribute to his equally brilliant
and extraordinary career
# A. AS A STATESMAN. Ae"
Z Endowed by nature with a genius
capable of embracing in asingle grasp
every theory of government science,
his public life has been perfect picto-
rial Kaleidoscope, exhibiting every
variety of combination,
every principle and tenet of every par
ty that has had its existence on this
continent, from the hour of his birth g
down to the present moment. Far
back in the days of his college youth
he was more brilliant exemplification
of the old line Whig party than either
the godlike w ebster or the immortal
CLAW. In 1856 the instrument revolyed
and behold all the resplendent glories i.
of Know Nothingism in all the gor-
geous sheen of a thousand glittering
spangleS. In ISoU III feVolVeu againS
and loi the simple but comprehensive
creed, of Bell and Everett--a triad of
the Union, the Constitu-
tion, and the enforcement of the laws"
In 6Fitturned again, and there were
ali the old family Jewels of the DEM
ocracy blazing forth in food of eff
fulgence eradicating the entire Com
In 1866 the machine
Iurned again and the dim outline of the
third party fell feebly upon the vision.
In 1865 occurred another revolution
Of the protcan table, and there were
MI the multiplied horrors of Radical-.
ism in all the intricate mazes of chaot-
lc confusion. (AppIanse.l What will
appear when it shall make another
revolution is beyond the power of my
to conceive. Perhaps the
instrument will explode like tremen-