The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-17

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Ian got on the Supreme bcnch ne vas
I.strAmenta n having the disabilities
of Simms removed by act Of Congress
for MS participation on the southern
side Of the war.
ana now came ~troublous times, and
moro %troublous in Kentucky tnan
elsewhere. unless in Missouri. As late
as midsummer 1861. men-honest
sincere. patriotic, noble, Wiling 70
fight and TO die for belief-changed
ia political opinion in the
Let no man say what he viii do IN
time Of revolution. John NJ Harlan
became a Union soldier. coloneI q
the zenith Kentucky infantry. Ihdt
same Roger Hanson went SOUTH. col
onel of tie Second kentucky Infantry
though he was a bitter and an elo-
quent Union man q very lttIe tille
earlier. Who shall say Harlan was
more patriotic than Hanson Inc
bigot and the fool.
Kcntuckv's heart was Southern; her
head was Union. 1t VAS father against
son. brother against brother. and these
opposed one another on manya Strlch-
en- field. At MurfreesOoro the twenty
first Kentucky Federal Regiment met
and grappled with the Sixth Ken
lucky Confederate regiment IN as
bloody a battle as the war afforded,
and kindred slew kindred.
IN 1875 l1dl u, dittI 6diAdib -
vice. resigned from the army to Id
minister his fathers estate. who haa
lust died, and was that year elected
attorney ~eneral Of the Common
wealth, a station that his father had
filed years earlier. In 1867 political
Kentucky was again in q state OF
chaos. The State had welcomed the
returned Confederates with opened
arms and killed the fatted calf. Now
the did more-the State nominated
them for office, and elected them, too.
Kentucky was the "Confederit Cross
roads" and as rcbellious as a condl-
ton short of war could be.
There were three parties-the De
mocracy. the Republicans, and a third
class, very select and very exclusive.
Gratis and too respectable to be Reoub-
licans. They nominated a icket
George D.. Prentice said they were the
calico" party. Old Frank Wolford
called them the "cow-colorei" party.
Harlan joined it, as did Bramlette, but
the next year, 1868. Harlan became a
Republican and Bramlette d Demo-
crGt.
Harlan went to Louisville and was
one of the first lawyers at the bar. IN
political campaign he went on the
stump and was pretty nearly unrlFaled
in that capacity. In 1871 he was nom
mated for governor,a and the things he
did to old man Leslie, the Democratic
candidate, were cruelty Inc torture.
Four years later he was the opposing
candidate to McCreary, who, by sheer
pluck, stood up to him, discomhting
him at Munfordyille
And yet | do believe the John NJ.
Harlan of thirty years ago was the
most powerful man l ever heard on
the STUMP II was suggested last sum
mer that he resign from the bench
and run for governor. 1t Would have
been suicide. john NJ. Harlan. play
ing golf, at Chevy Chase, is Yet young.
John N. Harlan riding on horseback,
forty miles q day. and speaking two
hours to norc TO select crowds, would
not have lasted til first frost.
Ii is said that Judge Harlan has
made more dissenting opinions than
any other man who ever sat on the
Supreme bench. He is q man Of pro
rouuced convictions, = he viii not
Surrender = ore OF them.
HIS grandfather went With Harrod
to kentucky and helped Daniel Boone,
T&r@c1, Logan. kentOn, and the 9TH
crs lay deep and lasting the fouIida-
tio-s OF tae Old Commonwealth.
long rlay he be spared to the err
m:rs!
copyright. 1897, by F. w. Newman.)