Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-22
THE GLORY OF THE STATES.

have never found time TO look at Nj
agara Falls go to Kentucky to see the
Cave, passing on their way
many Kentuckians who haven't in
spected the cave yet, but feel their
education can never be complete I'M
til they have gazed upon the beauties
of Niagara. This is double tribute
to the compelling eloquence of rail-
road passenger agents.
The western counties ccucede to
the Blue Grass supremacy in stock
breeding, but direct attention TO their
large acreage of full-sized men, and
while on the subject mention, for ex-
ample, Abraham Lincoln and Jeffer-
son Davis, both born in thesame half
decade. in the same section. Of the
same sturdy stock, and each seeing
the light as it was given him to see il,
according to his subsequent environ
ment-
geographically, politically and So
cially. Kentucky is very much like
Tennessee, its nearest and dearest
sister. A Tennesseean is merely a
KentuclSian who was born away from
home, and vice versa. It taka$an ex-
pert to distinguish the difference be-
tween them; but the Tennesseean has
two, ancestors who hailed from North
Carolina for every one whcs hailed
from Virginia, whereas the Keutuck-
ian has two from Virginia fm every
one from North Carolina. The Ken
tuckian maintains that Morgan was
the greatest cavalryman that ever
lived, the Tennesseean claims that
| honor for Forrest. AT one time the
controversy reached the point where
the disputants were getting ready te
take bot shots at one auother across
the boundary, but harmony was re
stored through the efforts of a sage
who recalled in the nick of time tha
great many Tennesseeansof odewitf
Morgan and a great many Kentuckf
ans with Forrest.
II has been alleged, and not withou
some color of FEASIBILITY, that Ken
tuckians are belligerent. BY nature
We do not deny it. The, crest OF ou
state shows two gentlemen in swal
llow-fork coats, holding each othe
firmly by the right hand. The inten
, lof the picture is plain. So long a
: they both hold hands,, neither ca
breach for his hardware The mott
: (which goes with this device is, Unite
1--WE Stand, Divided We Fall To.
: BY an oversight, the designers lie
off the word "To" frum the end {
:. the phrase. II has been deemed az
:, visahle to add it here
When the Civil War came alonl
Kentucky gave mora recruits to Il
: Union than Ohio, and more to Il
!. Confederacy than. Florida.
We point with pride to these fl
ures. Nor do we have to pro-
= them. We gain-say them.
= After Lee had surrendered, aft
" Richmond had fallen, after nine-tent
of the soldiers of the Confedera
u had furled their rent battle fla
re and laid dowu their arms, Kentucl
e, still declined to knock off and call i
"a day.
IL At length. having been convinc
sc by disinterested bystanders that I
IL war was really over, the Kentuc
49, Confederates and Kentucky Unioai
ne embraced across the Bloody Chas
nc and then resumed pleasant and c.
genial hostilities in the political arr
Is right where they had left off Il
ny years before. In order to be 81
there would always be enough I
ate men to furnish entertainment, a c.
he siderable number of the Confedera
III became Radical Republicans and
er, equal proportion of the Union n
out Joined the shattered Democratic pan
ties Again the situation became typi'
ctl- traditional and proper.
ing Politically Kentucky OF recently
ace has Gained down somewhat, althol
cry our campaigns are yet very far fr
Tho being the milk-and-watery affairs
- served elsewhere in the Union.
IN the true Kentuckian, politics is NJ
= recreation merely. With him it i
calling, a profession, and a lifet