The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-23
OBSCURE BORDER HEROES.
CHAMP CLARK,s CHARACTERIsTIC
SPEECH IN THE mo-
A Specimen or Southwestern Oratory That
Made the Members Baush, Sometimes
with ans Sometimes At the Speaker.

represents the Ninth Missouri district in Con-
gress, drew upon the history OF his native state
for the principal part OF his characteristic speech
on 1.-THE Obscure Heroes of the Border" deliver
cd In the House q few days ngo. The speech was
made with the avowcd purpose OF killing the bill
for the creation Of a retired list In the revenue
marine service. but 1t was much more entertain
ing than the usual dull talk against time. MIR.
CLARK was born and reared near Lawrenceburg
in Anderson county. This fact makes clearer
some references to his youthful experiences as
related in his address. lie said In part.
VI theme to-day Ia the heroes OF the border
States during the war, of both the blue and the
gray. ! said on Saturday, and they laughed and
jeered at me for the assertion. that | was just
about II year too young to squeeze into the war.
They thought that was funny. They do not
know how a man feels who was born and has
lived all his life in that thin border land. Ken
lucky, West Virginia. Missouri, Kansas. and
Tennessee. Mr.. tllnIrinUn, IL tho history OF
count ali OF Sir Waite SCOTS novels There
my people and my wifo's people lived and died.
There. my children were born, There two of
under heaven and hate the men who jeer.at
man feels. lilo is not a bully, he /. not
quarrelsomc, but .ho understands how to take
b blS SMs P "a me. ls hfrl Epeaks and that Sppla Mss bor n
and reared in. Kentucky, that ! lived two years
~ 10 West v ! mia, ana nd mGst people In that state
obliged to them for the kind things they have
said about me-, ! lived eleven weeks IN Kansas,
and | spent the remainder of my life In Mis-
souri,: Wien the war began / was eleven years
old: | was n boy. | wanted ia. 20 into the army,
They laughed the other day when said I tried
to get into both armies. That Is the truth. IL
Is "a matter of history, and | am going ~ repeat
politics. l tried to join Frank Wolford,s cavalry.
They would. not have me. | tried to join Nor
gnn's, and they would not have me.
"nONNn thpre whore I wns living NM Conn ma nv
went into Frank Wolford's cavalry, and another
went into John Morgan's cayiIry. Wolford wa.
ever stood on this floor. He sat in this Congress
twice. He was II rough Kentucky mountain
passed the highest encomium that can be passed
on a lawyer. tLauGh,er.l He would not wear a
They said that they never could get enough OF
that regiment together TO have a dress parade.
sSfsPt on the srom of 4. eat tdSr and du S9sn they af
the compass. When the. war closed there
were, not enough men left OF that gal
tie, The truth is that the First Kentucky Fed
eral Cavalry died on the field Of battle. silas
youngest man in the. regiment. some way lie
escaped, to live. though he was badly shot, and
had TO he taken to a hospital.
pany went into Morgan's cavalry. They were
mad Up 20, of the 11sa foyer ~ En Of the ,n Ken ~, + So ThI.i
OF the First Kentucky Federal Cavalry. sits
oyer on that side;, that the Colonel OF
sits over here. and that Col. William ..
T.. Breckenridge. who went in AS a pri-
sion in The finest band Of soldiers that ever rode
TO battle. also sits here. | am proud to be .
" remember when / was a boy the refrain
went through Kentucky:
John Morgan. heel Is on thy shore,
His hSn% Is on Thy . atab6iisGds door.
kentucky; d, Kentucky
He'll ride her ii iii y 6er bss S9p Il sore, mare any more
Kentucky; o, Kentucky
tLaughter.l THAT song has been running
through my head and singing in my heart ever
II want to tell you how Morgan traded
gan marched thryou@9 Ohio and Indiana yet by
lie took the good Kentucky horses and rode
them. you know, until they got stove up, and
s swan sS qRr horses: lie fh' Would n come y across rTs w a man an
In Kentucky. and he would say: You have n
ssy fo s% aP Union ! T mani, III he M " ahs . %sn ' TSsia
| Wil Goniiscate II lAppiapsei Il the man
To contribute the horse To the cause OF good
government tApplause.l Anyhow. he took
the horse; lkaughterl c,,,uu., .n,
say now in the face OF the American people that,
If the men who served on the Federal side. who
had served on the Confederate side, the result OF
the war would have been different. Take the
dore Roosevelt says they were the finest men In
the army, l believe him on that proposition, al.
though | do not believe a word he says about
900 or o,ooo from West Virginia. Take
tho gallant men from Maryland; Take
$1,000 that Missouri, sent and put Frank
Blair at tho head OF them, and the southern
toniedcracy would have achieved its indepen-
dence, These people, saved the Union. They
could have established the Confederncy. Think
Of, IF E rrSaf ar nIni? lTffSa s aFa ssst Of h1 it, Of 6l aeT Gssr ~
a. Metrrloo; The charge Of the light briE Z, ga At
with what Blair could have done at the head Of
those Marylanders, West Nirginians, Tennessee
ans, .kentuckians, and Mlssourians. With them
AT his back lie could have marched to the frozen
ocean. .,
about a mans being "a Union man or a rebel in
those border, states some fellow here. who was
s sre vi al hI hi% dI arm Sir ,nr " wf ~ a gsIS 9 am n Snins sG 10
vindicate, the border man to-day. IL was very
easy 10 he a uni3n man up in the state Of
he n rebel downI In the State OF Mississippi; very
in Kcntucky and Missouri during the war a man
had m"rd to ieSi Of hs tGPsn shs When ya he got up in ths
was still there. lLaughIer,l
"l want 10 tell you Of an arilhmstiG class
arithmclician- "A sort OF lightning calculator.
4 s]troiling phre9ologlst from England came
laughter His name was Charles II, Whittern.
] love Ia think OF him. lie was the best school
teacher | ever saw. lie built up a reputation as
a man who could teach arithmetic. There were
three grown men in that class. and | was a
little boy, and they all made n pet OF me.
am going 70 tell yon about two Of
those men, maybe "A third one. When the
war began there was a man in that class 10y the
name Of Orville Is. Young. want his nams
60 go down in this record. and il will go down in
history before get through with him. lie was
80 years Of age, lie studied for "A month tn see
whether lie ought To become a minister ~ the
Gospel in the Christian Church, vulgnrly
known as the 'Campbclllte' Church. or whether
he ought 10 enlist In the Federal army Ia de-
fence of his country.
lie finally decided that he ought 10 enlist In
the Federal army as "a private soldier. lie en-
listed in John Nj. HarlRn's Tenth kentucky In
1Antry, after Rousseau and Morgan and
WolfOrd had taken out the daredcvils.
This was after Stewards ninety days
picnic was over, and when the law
yers and merchants left their business,
and farmers left their farms. and men left their
wives and little children % join The army. Young
went 70 Lebanon and enlisted ana was accom-
panied by his brOtheT-in-law, squire Land, wh1
went along with him Ia take back home
the horse he rode. Young Was going 10 marry
Land, sister .afte. the war, If he lived. Land