Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-23
Col. Breckenridge Denounced.

Twenty thousand people attended
the Owens barbecue at Lexington. XIV.
yesterday. Preparations had been
made to entertain fifteen thousand. and
the provisions fell far short Of supply.
! ing all.
The speakers were Messrs. W. G.
Owens and G. c. Lock hart Judge Geo.
b. Kinkead, Judge Jere r. Morton and
Prof. G. NJ. Albert, of Lexington.
There were five thousand ladies pres.
ent, and the affair was stupendous
upheavel of the time-honored Ashland
district against being longer represented
in Congress by w. c. p. Breckenridge.
The speeches all teemed with the most
scatbing denunciations of Breckenridge.
aad were the most sensational Yet
spoken against him.
Judge kinkead, for years neighbor
Of Breckenridge, was exceptionally st.
we're in appealing for Mrs BIacKburn's
defense and Breckinridge's retirement.
He said: "Breckinridge declares his
opponents are throwing stones at lin
made Of lies, yet he does not tell wha.
lies are being told. He has been
c!arged with the most hideous otienses
in public, but he has not denied them.
How absurd for Col. Breckenridge 10
charge that his opponents are lying
about him. Review the long list Of
crimes, admitted and proved, which
during his life made up his character.
Think for moment of Col Breckin-
ridge infamed with virtuous indigna-
ton ut the utterance of 8 lie.
"Peview the life that he himself discosC%
picture this chosen orator enveloped III =
cloak of sanctity as he appears through Tie
long series OF years before august religious
orders Sc him again in the role of morality
and virtue us he points the true course TO the
little inmates of the female seminary, and
then follow them through nine long years Of
secret infamy and vice. Meet him, husband
an'. father, aud let him conduct you as he
docs in his testimony from the home he
should have guarded 10 the brothel he
should have Stunned. See him land III tho
city Of his home AMI go with him through the
disgusting details of his own testimony in
that first visit with his cyprian TO that
hrothcl in his own town. With what brazcM
forehead did he leave this place aud seek tho
society Of his home, and Of what material is
the fibre OF his heart that Fastening through
his meal he hied himself again 10 the degIal-
ing meeting. Hypocrisy herself must have
turned pale as she viewed the daring votaly
At her shrine. See him again as he introiuc.
Cd his mistress into the school NJ which your
little children are taught, and toward which
he occupied ut that time the relation OF tris.
tee
Mr.. Owens in his reference to Breckinr:dgc
said Il have heard it said that in the crn-
cial test of battle. his cowardly heay; would
sink in craven fear. But let the history oi
t.day forever silence such deiractors Tie
American blood shed at the Alamo was Drawer
and better than that which sprirkled the
Spartan pass but the men from whose veins
it flowed were lily-lvered towards when com
pared with the superb audacity Of this man
VINO with fire.front covered with every
wound that dishonor's blade can carve, cooliy
contronts the people of this district and asks
them to press once more their crown OF honor
upon his shameless brow