The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-06
HE CONFESSED ALL.


stroy me will feel glad that their con-
spiracy was unsuccessful
HE CONFESSED ALL
1.-THE extent of my guilt was truthfully
confessed by me to its uttermost boun-
daries. without justification or palliation.
To that extent 1 guilty; beyond that
/ was innocent. Whatever charge of any
kind made against me by any person not
confessed in that solemn testimony. for the
truth of which 1 appealed to God. is false.
I do not know the number nor the char
acter of all the ISLANDERS which have been
published in the papers or circulated from
mouth to mouth in the district Whatever
they are, from whatever source whosoever
their author. If they are not confessed In
that statement, i denounce as false L de-
sire this acknowledgment and denial 10
be fully understood. that there may De no
misunderstanding hereafter. In your pres
ence to-day, and in the presence OF the
district. repeat that for that sin Of which
palliation, and / ask no condonetion.
when David fed from Jerusalem to meet
e e ef the som o as Cara
forth and cursed him as he came and cast
stones at him. May I, who have been
take unto myself somewhat Of the consola-
ton which David took? He had sinned:
he had sns & th 5 h Him had Sogsd s
crowned him with inestimable and NUMBER,
less benefactions. but who had not deposed
aside for inferior and less worthy men;
who still trusted him with the government
Of His is chose na pfn psi ne pe ppse ser
wrath at those who had cursed him with
the trustful declaration: 1T may be that
the Lord will look on mine affiiction. and
that the Lord will requite me good for His
cursing this day.
for me first to speak in the canvass which
Is approaching and after what has oc-
Cured. For nine months have borne in
Here among the people who have known
me since my boyhood, tender once more
to the district which has honored me my
service as it's Representative. During the
terms I have held your commission, as TO
all that was public. as to everything that
pertaned to the services Of the eonsSInncs ognry
performed those duties to the very best
of my ability; as to all that nave no de-
fense apology.
STILL HAS COURAGE.
"Nor has the guilt which l have asknowl-
edged robbed me of my manhood, of my
courage, of my earnestneSs to aid good
causes nor my capacity to do good labor.
1t has not diminished my loyalty to my
friends, my allegiance to truth or my de-
votion to principle. 1t has not weakened
my love for you and this precious district,
for the State with which my destinies are
enwrapped. for the country whose glory
is dear to my heart; nor has 1t obliterated
which has always dominated me.
There are those in this audience who
were my schoolmates, either In the pubic
schools of Lexington, out at Pisgah, with
it's glorious memories, or out at North
Elkhorn. with its sweeter and more be-
loved memories, or at TRANSATLANTIC, and
who have known me in all the relations
of life since then; there are those who
first knew me through our service In the the
confederate army; they saw me in, the
camp, in the bivouac, on the march ana
in the lesser hardships of the battle; and
since peace was declared; there are those
to whom I have been lawyer, counselor,
whose lives were in my hands as L pleaded
for them before the juries of the country,
whose estates depended upon my fidelity;
there those here who have seen my
private life, as | shut the door of my home
coming out or as / closed ii going IN. To
these I now come. fallible human being.
fallible human man, but may not say a
loving. grateful. laborious citizen, an hon.
est public servant
IF some one in your midst can better do
the work you want done as your repre-
sentative, choose him; i shall submit; some
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 abili-
ty is ample, whose experience Is wide. For a
hundred years this district has been repre-
sented by men. They have not always been
sinless men, and whether you re-elect or
reject me- hereafter when some one comes
to write it's history, whatever blame may
attach to me. he will write of me that, even
with that blame, he loved the poor he
toiled for his fellow-men, he labored for
good causes; and this historian turns
over the pages Of the record in which my
utterances are contained, he will rise from
them with the belief that 1 was loyal to
my principles faithful to truth, devoted to
YOU.