The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-14


HON. HENRY
lures in woodcraft and warcraft and
statecraft: the period OF the Clays the
Disadvantages and the Crlttendens. with
It's sublime struggle to preserve the Union
OF the States us 1t had come down to
them from the Revolution, with always
tho MarshalIs and the Wlckliffes. the
Boyles and the Rowans, the Johnsors
and the Browns, the Adairs. the Deshas,
and the McDowells, somewhere at the
,fore--"Oid Ben Hardin having MICH
all to hin1sclf--none OF them greater than
he; the period Of the War of Sections;
when even the SClays, the crittendens
and the Breckinridges were divided
when for a season the skies were hung
In sable and all was dark as night the
very sacrifices that had gone before
seeming 70 have been made In vain, the
dark and bloody ground OF barbaitcl
fancy, come into actual being through
the passions anu H mistakes OF Christian
men: and. finally, the period after the
War OF Sections. when the precept once
a Kcrtuckian. always Kentucfian.@#
was met BY. the answering voice. blood
IL thicker than wat err " and tho Good
Ices the Billiards. and the Speeds. the
TIarlans, the Frys and the Murrays.
.clasped their hands across the breach
and made short shrift Of the work Of
5Rccons truction with the Buckners. the
5Prestons and the Dukes. Thus Is 1t that
here Mt least the perplexed grnn i1l "
cannot distinguish between the grizz.ed9f
grandfather who wore the blue and the
griszed grandfather who wore tho sray ".
Soldiers in B 9th Armies.
Z Kentucky which gave Abraham Lib
coin to the North and Jefferson Davis
10 the South, contributing q very nearly
B equal 4 Quota OF soldiers to each OF the
contending armies OF trat greuts ltct-e
IN. pointsof fact, MS many 4 Ehting men
as had ever voted IN any elect ion--a larger
: per centnnl OF the population than has I
ever been furnished In time ofB3;war by
any modern State--<entucky. thus rent
by civil feud. was first to know the :ba tile
was ended ana to draw together n re-
united brotherhood. Kentucky str.,ic K the
earliest blow for freed ON furnished the me
flrst martyrs to liberty, in Cuba. It was
a Crittenden, smiling before a file Of
Spanish nusketry, refusing to be blind
folded orr to bend the knee, for the IA tai
$yolley. who uttered the keynote OF his
race. "a Kentuckian always faces his
enemy and kneels only to- his G ~ Il
was mother Kentllckian y the gallant Holt
man, who, fundaunted by the dread deSi-
nation OF cruel DEATH y-lot. having
drawn q white bean for himself. brushed
his friend aside and drew an 9th er IN MS
stead. All. yes So We have our Dur inors
along with our herpics.s and laugh anon at
ourselves, and our tnlshaps and our jokes
but we are nowise3a bloody-n,itlded peo-
pie: the rather q sentimental. hospitables
kindly people, caring perhays too much
for the picturesque and too little for con-
4 seo,,cnc cs. Though our jests be some
times rough, they are robust and Clean.
We are provincial people and we re-
Ioicc in our provlnclalisn. We have al
ways piqued ourselves upon doing 4 our
5loye-making and our maxim s. $ we
t,o%our blowing, In a straight furrow; and
Vet Ut Is true that Kentucky n ever e ~
Fcountered darker days than ca me upon
us when the worse that can befall a
4 Comnlorwealt seemed passed and gone
THE stubborn war between the Old Court
party and the New Court party was
bitter enough: but 1T was not 50 ms
2placable us the strife which strangely be--
gan with the discussion of an honest al ~
\ ference of opinion touching a purely eco
10y. can there be ono living IScntuckian
who does not LOOK back with horror anu
arrangement upon the htlss.oi.s anu y 9
scidents of those evil days.
Always Stand Together.
General Grant once said to me: You.
5Kentuclsians are a clannish set Whilst
Twas in the White House, II a Ken.
.tuckian happened to get in harms way,
or wanted an Office. the Kentucky con-
Etingent began to pour in;%ln case ne,
was a Republican, the Democrats said,
lie was a perfect gentleman IN case q
Democrat. the Republicans SAID the ga ga
thing; can It be that you are III per-
feet gentlemen?" With unblushing can.
dor, | told him tina TIVE were, that We
fought our battles, as we washsd our
linen, at home, but that outside when
trouble came, It wns Kentucky against
the Universe. Mr. Tllden said OF q lad
In the Bluegrass country who had fallen
from a second-story window upon stone
paving without hurt and had run away
to his play. that 1t furnished conclusive
proof that che was destined for q great
career in Kentucky politics. Let mo
frankly confess that, peacelnak er though
i am, and at once the most arliable md
placable OF men, there have been times
when r. even l. lalf-wanted to so down
ia the cross- roa ds and swea r at The
court That was when things did not
swing to suit me That was when the
majority appearSs to think they knew
more than ] did, We GROW so used to
blessings that NO heed them not and look
beyond. Yet, when trouble, or danger
assails US, or humiliation, ar SORROW
OF, when leagues, oceans, continents lie
beSweenS our selves and tho vanished land
from whose sacred llntels ambition has
lured us. or duty torn-Tand the familiar
scenes rise zip before us how small these
Nov tl,ey perish from usI * ! have stood
supon The margin Of a distant sea and
Swatohed the ships 80 by enyious that
gthelr pr rows were westward bent have
marked tho glad waves dancing to the
setting sun heartslcls with 4 thoughts' or
home, Ard thus wistfnl, ycarning, ready
ito take my dearest enemy by the iland
ana forgive him. yea TO sop gravy VIA