The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1879-08-08

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adverse circumstances, he managed to &C..
qulre a good English education, 10 which
he has added by hard study, and many
yearr practice, frst-rsie attachments A. a
lawyer. Though he has been quite sue
ccssful In his profession, 40 far A. patron
age goes, having. perhaps, performed A.
much professional labor a. any man Of HE
age In Kentucky, yet, he has failed to nc.
qulre riches. lie has earned "harls" Of
money, but hasn't barreled Il. lie has, in
his own interest all the elements Of a had
collector and a. TO saving money, he don't
know what that means. lie will soae
times take money from HE debtor when
offered, but he viii not asa for Il under
any state Of case. IL he needs little cash
at any time, in preference to making some
body pay him just debt, he will patron
i've the neare-, Shylock 10 raise Il. In a
word, his extreme kindness, together with
generosity that has no bounds, has made
II impossible for him 10 become wealthy,
or even entirely independent. His rela-
lions are in moder ate circumstances
ny Of them horn broke. like himself SO, Il
IL not to him and his kin that We allude
when We speak Of the @money power"
sometimes
In his early manhood, upon the break.
ing out Of the Mexican war IN 1876, he
volunteered asa private soldier, Joining
the 6rsi company that was ~handy" anil
marched to the seat Of war. Through that
campaign he bore himself as soldier In
the highest sense Of the term. fighting gall
lantly Al Buena Vista, and acting the man
every where else.
Early in 1861, his duty TO his country,
as he conceived, demanding his services in
the Geld, he promptly offered them As a
soldier in the Union army, and went to the
front In command Of the lst Kentucky
Cavalry. Before taking this step, he bold
ly and explicitly announced TO the world,
his reasons for taking the Union side Of the
great conflict lie declared his belief that
disunion meant the destruction Of Civil
Liberty on this eOntinent-thst the perma-
nent establishment Of two republics in this
country vas impracticable-that when dis
memberment once began no mortal could
foretell whore Il would end-ihat anarchy
with all i,s dire evils and inexPressible
miseries was almost sure TO follow disco
luton Of the Union-and that. In short,
the only safe and sure way to preserve our
free institutions was by preserving the Gov
eminent a. the fathers made t. He de-
clSred, with strongest e.nph aais, that he
did not favor the destruction ofslAye-hold.
ers' property. or the slightest interference
with the institution 81 slavery, and that In
espousing the Union cause, he meant no
hostility to the Constitutional rights Of
any person, but, on the contrary, IL was for
the preservation Of the Constitution and
Of all rights under il that he proposed TO
face the perils Of war.
How perfectly sincere he was in these
declarations, his subseqnent history abun.
dainty attests. so soon a. hi. regiment
was organized, he went in quest Of the en-
envy and when he found him he fought
him with the courage Of a lion, and fought
him again and again. whenever found, un-
ill in short time accounts Of his achieve
ments in the Geld were ringing all over the
continent, to his great honor. His fame as
commander and efficient fighter was at
once established. But with all his bravery
and CALAMITY in battle, and all his won
derful success in military exploits, he
made more character for himself by the
sense Of justice and the noble maRnanimi-
~ which he displayed in war than by all
the damage, great as il was, which he in
hicted upon the enemy. lie treated the
enemy according TO the bes. principles Of
chiyalry. And, unlike many Others in
that day Of devilment, he had senseenough
to know who the enemy was; and to know
that il was his mission to fight the rebel
army and mol to make war upon citizens at
home, and to know that IL was his mission
to conquer, and II need be, to kill the reb-
els in open battle and not to murder them
when, BY the fortunes Of war they fell into
his power.
The war was not long In progress until
the abolitionists OF the East began to
elamor for the destruction Of slavery. Not
withstanding the Union party in Congress
had, by solemn resolution declared I'M
qualihedly that the war should not be
prosecuted for the disturbance Of any
proPerty-righis, whatever, but solely for
the preservation Of the Union. these agi-
tators, these enemies Of the country, who
had done more to excite the ill-fseling be-
tween the sections, which eliminated in
the attempted dissolution, than all others
combined, were not content. With them
the war was not wsged for the Union, but
for vengeance against the South. To res
tore the Union, and with II, the peace and