The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-19

truly "a colossal uuin-aru That i- COm-
plp.c and irrpu,dIuhle hc heir Ol Hu
lunurpd maine. the scion of house famous
in keutucky and thc matte lOr su years,
aud loo virginia Tor utnrly I'D .oars before
that, an orator, q statesman. u Presbyterian
laymau who has spoken with authority la
general assemblies, and a man selected ut
all Americans To present our case Go the
nation az the Worlds fair-cycu this man
has ri-ked all that and bartcred the mighty
space of bis large houors fora woman whom
the ordinary man Of the world would not
look at twice Verify 90 goes far to prove
that ON one subject at least
Great wit TO- madness nearly is allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Forms of Condemnation.
Other men have been ruined in Washing
ton but it is probable that none ever fell
50 suddenly from so high an eminence
Congressman Bowen Of South Carolina
was convicted Of bigamy, sentenced to the
district prison and pardoned out by Presi-
dent Grant, but Bowen never was man
OF character aud in a subsequent libel suit
at Charleston was proved to have been
guilty of "A remarkable variety of misdeeds.
Congressman Whitthorne was convicted Of
selling cadetships, but the public had
scarcely known and soon forgot him.
The Credit Mobilier IN, uiry dug the
graves of "A score of truly gr at regulations,
but neither Cakes Ames MOI James Brooks,
Patterson nor any of the rest received 50
complete a condemnation ls this. When
! the Beecher trial closed, public opinion
might be said to have been fairly divided,
and generally in such case people divide
very largely, according to c asses. In this
case, however, the defendaG is condemned
by the religious for his ny 1ocrisy, by the
moral for his vice, by good ciety for what
they call his odious treacher to Mrs Black
burn, by his colleagues in congress for his
folly and by men of pleasure for his detest-
ably bad taste.
The Breckinridge amily.
1t remains but to add leaf from truly
remarkable family history to emphasize
the greatness of this ruin. The original
American Breckenridge was Scotch Gov
enanter who fled from Great Britain dur
ing the bloody persecution under Charles
ii. The family he founded soon became
famous in Virginia. His grandson, James,
won fame as a soldier with General Greene
and became federal congressman, repre-
senting the Botetourt district. He helped
establish the University of Virginia and
promoted the Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
His brother John was elected to the legis.
lature at 10 and later TO congress, went tC
Kentucky in 1898 and founded the famous
family at Lexington. 1t is pretty clearly
proved that he drafted the famous resolu
tons of 119S, and he was afterward United
States senator and attorney general. His
son John became a famous clergyman anC
Presbyterian polemic, while another son
Robert j., became still more famous a!
writer. orator and divine. In short, he wa
! the Henry Ward Beecher of the south. H,
: presided over the national Republican con
t vention of 1864, while his son was servin!
2 in the Confederate army, and that son i
3 the defendant in this case.
= The son of the Rev John Breckinridg
t became vice president of the United State
e and general in the Confederate army, ant
D his son Clifton is the already famous con
t gresham from Arkansas. For 100 year
t has this family been producing orators
| statesmen, soldiers, iurists and great cler
l gymen, and the end of the line is in thi
queer stuffy old courtroom in a trial whicl