Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1895-08-06
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came to close when on Friday after
noon Gen. Frank Lane Wolford breath
ed his last at bis home in Columbia
Born in Adair, the county in which M
died, Sept. 2, 1917, he developed at ar
early age fondness for the law and ht
soon became a most successful! practi
toner, especially in criminal cases, In
which his services were always in de-
mand, and in which be depended more
on his imagination and upon his rugged
orstory than upon the law and facts. He
has surprised many criminal by hsv-
ing him turned loose when the trem-
bling fellow expected and deserved Sc
we're punishment. As upon the roetrum,
be was power upon the hastings. Es-
pousing the cause OF whiggery, he took
an active part in politics and many a
democrat went down in disgust before
his oratorical efforts. Among the first to
volunteer in the war with Mexico, he
did valiant service there and was more
than once wounded in battle. Return
ing home he was elected to the Legisla.
ture on the Wing ticket, to whose prin-
ciples he was always loyal. But the
Wing party was not born to survive and
when it died, Gen. Wolford became a
Know Nothing. He was an intense
Union man and at the breaking out OF
the war he recruited the lst Kentucky
Cavalry and became its colonel. 1t did
noble service for the cause and it's his
tory during the four years struggle reads
almost like a romance. Its gallant CON-
mander was frequently promoted and
when he was chosen presidential elector
in 1864 he had risen to the rank Of gen.
eral. II was during this campaign that
he was arrested for alleged reasonable
utterances and thrown in prison at
Washington, from which he was finally |
released, after he had written letter
TO President Lincoln, which as q plea for
the right OF free speech has hardly an
equal. After the war, he was for ex-
tending the fullest amnesty to those who
were in rebellion against the government
and be did more than any other man to
bring about peace and order out OF strife
and chaos. On a platform Of general
amnesty, he defeated Col. Silas Adams
for the Legislature, and while there
brought in the Amnesty bill he had
promised to introduce, which restored
ex-C onfederates to full rights and priv
leges. Since then the democratic party
has never had holder or more earnest
advocate. He was candidate for clerk
OF the court OF appeals in 1882, but was
by combustion defeated for the nomi-
nation. He then ran for Congress and
was easily elected. His unique charac-
ter and original methods were the won
der Of bis fellow members, none OF whom
ever dared to tackle him twice in de-
bate. Though deluged with letters from
bic constituents during his term, asking
his aid in various matters, he only an
,wered one and then to say he was there
% attend to public matters and not to
private affairs. Hundreds of anecdotes
Illustrative OF his peculiarties and great
less of heart are told, and We hope some
lay to get Col. Thomas P. Hill to give
'ur readers the benefit OF some OF his
,ersonal recollections Of the wonderful
nan, of whom be was great friend and :
rdent admirer.
Two wounds received in the thickest
fthe fray in the war between the States, ,
aused the death of Gen. Wolford. One
vas in the right hip, the other in the left :
Ok and they never healed, but were a
ource OF continual pain to the old hero, u
rho never murmured or complained. He
ad constitution OF iron and a nerve OF
teel or they would have killed him long Q
go.
Said Col. Hill yesterday: she was the 7
randest man Kentucky ever produced. q
/ WAS he who kept Kentucky in the n
Inion and prevented her citizens from s
cling pillaged in war and expatriated I,
eace. He was absolutely without fear r
nd when convinced that he was right,
cath or other consequences were never
The bravest man l ever /,
Nv, the most magnsnimous and one ab. b
,lutely above animosities or resent q
tents, Gen. Wolford was without peer
nd his name will be forever cherished
y Kentuckians and other patriots who
lmire the manly virtues for which the
sneral was remarkable. Grand man !"
Q was Afraid to meet no man on e'
nth and not afraid but willing and
,xious to meet his God, when the sum- u
ODDS came Gen. Wolford went to his re- II
ard with the plsudits not only OF his -,
low man, but of Him Who doeth all "
ings we'll. May the sod rest lightly u
BON him"
EDITOR DAMS has disposed OF his in A
rest in the Middlesboro News to George