The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-06

y. Z bF6ChIIIIuSe Was SLeetcu HCiC u
day by an audience of 5000 people, rep
resenting the voters of the Seventh
congressional district and many people
from the surrounding country.
The speaking was in the opera house,
and half hour before Colonel Breckin-
ridge arrived the auditorium was full
of people.
When he advanced toward the stage
from the rear entrance. the audience
stood up and yelled wildly for five min
utes.
The colonel was filed with emotion.
which shook him from head to foot.
He made the most powerful address
ever delivered to a Kentucky audience.
When he spoke of the action of the
ministers union in this city, which took
action against him, he assumed the
most defiant look and strained every
nerve in his body; his fists were
clenched and his expression was that
of a brave man thoroughly enraged.
He gave the public press some very
had no criticism for the judge who sat
in the trial, fifty voices shouted at
once, Il have, 1 have"
The reception was certainly enthusi-
aStic, and while every man in the
house will not cast his vote for Brock
inridge, it was plainly to be seen that
he had many friends who intended to
stand by him.
Reviews His BOYhood.
After reviewing his boyhood life at
Lexington, public services in the Con-
federate army and in Congress, Colonel
Breckenridge said: st do not wish this
nj n h
Tense to make for what have done,
and of which l have been guilty En-
tangled by weakness, by passion, by
sin, in coils which it was almost inn
possible to break. L did everything that
was WITHIN my power to prevent a pub
nc scandal, except the one thing which
Tor no moment entered my mind
Your reelection of me can neither
take from nor add to the punishment
| nave suffered. 1t has not been through
hypocrisy that my life has not been
consistently wrong; l knew the secret
SIN; tried to atone for it in WAYS that
II is not becoming in me to more than
aiiude to- How many kind words did
this atonement produce to others: how
much of self-control and how much Of
selI-Sacrlnce; how much of earnestness
and labor in aid of good things and IN
Sood causes? When / came to make 2
pupllc utterance under any circum-
stances to any audience, how cautious
was that no word of mine might
tempt others to be guilty, as I was
guilty.
Breathes Freely Now.
Now that exposure has come, there
is an element of gladness in it. 1 care
not now what letters come in nv mail.
L care not now for the closet door to be
opened-there is no skeleton there. and
can go into the clear sunlight ont
OF mystery and look up through the
plue skies into the upper world with
the feeling there is no cloud there
am not afraid that from the horizon
VIII suddenly come a clap of thunder
and a flash of lightning that will des-
troy me and mine. This is of the
past. 1 will wear with me the scars.
but L will no longer carry the dread. /
Will come out of that storm. however.
long as it may last in some respects
conqueror. Sweet domestic relations,
which absolutely need, and out of
which l have no life, are mine.
The extent of my guilt was truth
IuiIy confessed by me to its uttermost
boundaries without justification or
palliation. To that extent l was guilty:
beyond that | was innocent Whatever
charge of any kind made against me by
any persons not confessed in that
solemn testimony, for the truth of
which appealed to God. is false. /
desire this acknowledgment and denial
to be fully understood. that there may
be no more misunderstanding hereafter.
In your presence today, and in the
presence of the district, / repeat that
for that sin of which was guilty. /
have no justification, no palliation, and
ask for no condonation
Devoted to You"
IF some in your midst can better do
the work you want done than 1 your
representative, choose him; choose one
whose life has been stainless, whose
morals your young men can initiate
with profit, whose days have been pure
and whose nights have been sinless.
whose ability is ample, whose ex-
perience is wide. When some one
comes to write this history, whatever
blame may attach to me, he may write
of me that, even with that blame, he
loved the poor; he toiled for his fellow
men; he labored for good causes; loyal
to principles and faithful to truth
devoted to you"