The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-14
WEATHER FORECAST. Washington, June f5--Alabama, Fair in north, showers In south Thursday; Friday. fair, variable winds.
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 awed by the telling of tine wondrous tale; how even as the Dardanae follow ed Aeneas, the virginians followed Boone;. the route from Troy to Iloer hazard than that betwlAt the shores of the Chesapeake and the falls of Ohio; the mountains standing gorgon-iike across the pathless way as If. defend ing each defile, to hold inviolate some dread, forbidden secret; the weird wastes of wilderness beyond, the ford less stream. the yawning chasm, the gleam of the toniahawk and the miss of the serpent. yet ever onward, spite of the haunting voice of the Elements, stripped for the death-struggle with man, spite of the silence and the soil- tude of rel.Ictant nature, iike se. some rnae Intrusion; ever onward, before him the promised land of the hunters vision; In h.s soul the grace of God. the fear or hell and M the l0ye1, TIry'n,s sirenie Heaven smile upon her as she prepares to celebrate with fitting rite three centuries Of ma- jestic achievement, the star crown upon her brow, the dis.aff in her hand, nor spot nor blur to dim the radiance of her shield.
 homespun in quest of h omes; their war rant their rifles. their payment the blood of heroes. nor yet forgetting a proverb the Chinese have that it needs a hundred men to make fortress, put only a woman can make a home." for they were quick to go back for their women, their wives md their sweet hearts, our grandmothers, who stood by their side, beautiful and dauntless, to load their fowling- pieces, to dress their wounds, to cheer them on to battle, singing their simple requiem over the dead at Boonesborough and bringing water from the spring at Bryan's Sta tion. heartbroken only when the news
 am here to welcome you in the name of all the people of this lively citv. in the name of all the people or the renowned commonwealth, to wei come you as kith and kin: but you Will not expect me. 1 am sure, to add thereto more than the merest outline of the history of Kentucky. as it Is known to each and every one of you, rom the lead of Harrod and Henderson, or Boone and Kenton. blazed their way through the forest, and the heroes, led Clark, rescued the land from the sav- age to the hour which smiles upon us here this day; a history resplendent with illustrious names ana deeds. sep arating itself into three great epochs and many episodes and adventures in wood craft and war-craft and state craft; the period of the Clays the Breckinridgss, and as,s the I'rSes io preserVe the union of the States. as 1t had come down to them from the fevolu, tion. with always the Marshalls ana ana Rowans, the Johnsons and the Browns the Adairs, the Deshas and the Mc, Nc, Doweils, somewhere st the fore- oio Ben Hardin" haying s,e niefe all tbsn .U nim be: the period of the war of sections when even the Clays the Crfttendens and the Breckinridges were d'vndea srs hung in sable and all was dark as night, the very sacrifices that had gone before seeming to have been msas gronnda v of fsn barbar,c fancy, come into actual being through the passions and mistakes of the Christian men ana ilnaisy fIona when le etihoa the reespt once Ken tuckian always Kentuckian:" was met by the answering voice. blood IS thicker than water and the Goodlnr. tSs Hsr. ians, the Frys and the Murrays. elapsed their hands across the breach and made short shrift of the work oi Prestons and the Dukes This Is t that here, at least the perplexed grandchild cannot distin nguish between the grizzled grandfather who wore tne blue and the grizzled grandfather who wore the grey
 Equal quota of Soldiers.
 Kentucky. whicn gave Abraham Lin- coin to the North and Jefferson Dav.s the contending armies of that great conflict---in point of fact, as many fighting men as had ever voseo ' tr m ahs ,hs population than has ever been iul nished in time of war by any moderii state-Kentucky thus rent t,y py crvus ss ended and to draw together in re- united brotherhood. s
 Kentucky struck the earliest blow Tor freedom, furnished the first martyrs 10 IG Ia ruh If CrtfIenQen, smiling before file or spanish mus ketry, refusing to be blindfolded or to bend the knee, for the fatal volley' wno uttered the keynote of his race. Kentuckian always faces his enemy and kneels only to his God" It was an- other Kentuckian. the gallant Holman who. undaunted by the dread declma- ton, the cruel death-by-lot. having drawn white bean for himself. brush ed his friend aside and drew another in his stead. An, yes. we have our hu- mors along with our heroles, ana laugn anon at ourselves, and our mishaps and our Jokes: but we are nowfse bloody minded people; the rather sentiment- al, hospitable kindly people caring and too little for consequences. Though our tests he sometimes rough, they are robust and clean. We are provincial people, and we rejoice in our provin- selves upon doing our love making and our lawmaking as we do our plowing, in a straight furrow and yet it Is true that Kentucky never encountered dark CT days than came upon us when the worst that can befali commonwealth seemed passed and gone. The stub born war between the Old Court Party and the New Court Party was bitter enough: but 1t was not so implacaDle as the strife which strangely began with the discussion of an honest differ ence of opinion touching purely eco rot,ric question. of National. not State, hR living Ken fuckian who does not look back with horror and amazement upon the pas sions and incidents of those evil days?
 Kentuckians are Clannish.
 General Grant once said to me; You Kentuckiars are q clannish set. Whilst I was in the White House, if a Ken tuckian happened to get In harms way, or wanted an ofice, the Kentucky con was Republican the Democrats said l,. was a perfect gentleman, in case a Democrat the Republicans said the same .nlns' Inni 'oenfiemen?" With unbiushinx candor I told him that We were; that we fought our battles as we washed our liren. at home, but that outside. when trouble came. 1t was Kentucky nenlnst the universe. MT. Tilden said of a lad in the Bluegrass country who had fallen from second-story window and had run away to hTs play. that 1t furnished conclusive proof that he was destined for great career In Ken turkv politics. 20 Lot mo frankly con Fees that. peacemaker though I am, and ,t once the most amiable and plaeable of men. there have been times when I. even I. half wanted 70 go down to the croes roads '.tnd swcII al the court ]" Tbat was when things did not swing to sulf me. That was when the ma ior- it, appeared to think they knew more ,han did. We grow 30 used to bless mos that we heed them not and look beyond Yet, when trouble or danger '' Ar