The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-27


 the other ana very little of that. and thereby lost his third and last horse to Confederates disguised in blue uniforms.
 The speaker then told how the men of the border divided on the issues of the war.
 .Neighbor against neighbor." he said father against son. brother against brother, slave against master. and ire quently wife against husband: the fierce contention entered even into theology, and plotted out the friendships of life time.'
 He sketched the character of the Ken tucdans whom he characterized as na- tural warriors born on soil sown with dragons teeth, and said that the men of Missouri. a Kentucky colony. had in- herited their characteristics. He told the story of the doctrine of armed neutral ity" which he declared was the most preposterous theory ever matched in the brain of men.
 Ut is generally assumed" he said, by the wiseacrcs who write the histories that in the border States the old, wealthy, prominent slave-holding families all ad- hered to the Confederacy, and that only the poor, the obscure natives and the immigrants from the North stood by the old flag This is a serious mistake. The great historic dominant family connec- tions divided. Prominent people wore the Confederate gray. Others just as prom inent wore the Union blue"
 He enumerated the family divisions on the var issue of the Breckinridges, Han- sons, Clays and Crittendens. and told of the loyalty for union of John Marshall Harland, Lowell H. Rousseau and Ben jamin H. Bristow.
 f'Harian's 10th Kentucky infantry said Mr. Clark, had Colonel Hayes for it's commander after Judge Harlan re- signed. Tn the matter of swearing, Hayes could have given pointers to Our Army in Flanders The Chaplain of that reg iment was Christian militant At Chick amauga, Hayes ordered the Chaplain to go to the rear among the wounded. where he belonged, but he flatly refused to obey. On the contrary. with the light of battle in his eyes, he rushed to whefe the fight ing was the hottest, and concluding that some cuss words were necessary. and be- ing unwilling to cuss in the first person, he proceeded to do 1t by proxy. shouting Boys, give 'em hell. as Colonel Hayes says
 Tt is safe to say that had none of the great families; none of the slavehoAers stood for the Union. Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland would have seeded and if they had gone with the South uuani- mously the Confederacy would have achieved it's independence. This brings me to the central idea of tfis speech the main fact-of which I never think without anger and resentment, for 1 be. lieve that justice should he done, even in writing history, though the heavens fall. and it is this: Population con. sidered. Kentucky and Missouri sent more soldiers to the Civil War than any other States and receive less credit for it. They were splendid soldiers. too. Theodore Roosevelt says that by actual measure- ment the Kentucky Union soldiers were the finest specimens of physical man. hood who were in the Federal armies; and when Jefferson Davis, himself a re- nowned soldier, reviewed the army at Corinth, he declared Cockrelfs Missouri brigade to be tho most magnificent sol diers bts trained military eye had ever gazed upon
 Tt is said that figures will not lie, and here they are. To the Union armies Missouri contributed 1oe,1il soldiers: Kon- lucky. Ts,76o; Maryland. i6,sSs; Tennessee 3i,o3a and West Virginia, Sc. .(lss making ! grand total of 294.68a. Suppose a case Suppose that George Fl. Thomas had gone with his State, es all his brothers in arms from Virginia did, and that when Pickett made his spectacular charge at Gettysburg, Thomas had in the nick of time reinforced him with the 294. .669 veter- an Kentuckians, Missourians. Mary flanders. West Virginisns and Tenncs- seeans then fighting in the Union armies. can any human being fail to understand what would have been the result?"
 The speaker expressed the conviction that the declaration of Lincoln in his first inaugural address that he had no inten- ton to interfere with slavery in the States where it already existed held the border States faithful to the Union. The speaker concluded his address by relat- ing a number of instances of daring. hefoism and cruelty in the border States. As to his own State he said;
 "In Missouri the war was waged with unspeakabie bitterness. sometimes with inhuman cruelty. It was fought by men in single combat, in squads, in companies, in regiments. in great armies. in the open. in fortified towns and in ambush. under the stars and stripes. under the stars and bars. and under the black flag. The arch fiend himself seems to have beenr on the field in person. inspiring. directing. commanding.