. Historic towns of the Southern States. table triumphs for theRepublic on the hard-fought fields of Mexicoand elsewhere. It was here that GeorgeKeats, favorite brother of the poet, JohnKeats, came to live, bringing with him fromold England an atmosphere of classic cultureand refinement which influenced the develop- Louisville 505 ment of intellectual Louisville. It was here,also, that Henry Clay often came to conferwith his political colleagues, and to charm thepeople with his superb oratory. Here GeorgeD. Prentice, whose witty, trenchant paragraphson the edito-rial page ofThe Louisvilleyourn
. Historic towns of the Southern States. table triumphs for theRepublic on the hard-fought fields of Mexicoand elsewhere. It was here that GeorgeKeats, favorite brother of the poet, JohnKeats, came to live, bringing with him fromold England an atmosphere of classic cultureand refinement which influenced the develop- Louisville 505 ment of intellectual Louisville. It was here,also, that Henry Clay often came to conferwith his political colleagues, and to charm thepeople with his superb oratory. Here GeorgeD. Prentice, whose witty, trenchant paragraphson the edito-rial page ofThe Louisvilleyournal vi\^it the mostwidely quotedAmerican pa-per in foreignrealms, wield-ed his wonder-ful influenceas the cham-pion of theofreat Pacifi-cator of Ash-land. Nearthis city General Robert Anderson, the fearlesshero of Fort Sumter in 1861, was reared, andhither he returned after its surrender and re-ceived the welcome plaudits of all parties for hismemorable loyalty to the Stars and Stripes. Inthis city many of the ablest Federal command-. QEO. D. PRENTICE. FROM AN OLD PAINTING OWNED BY THE POLYTECHNICSOCIETY OF KENTUCKY. 5o6 Louisville ers first came into national notice duringr theCivil War ; and here resides now Henry Wat-terson, whose patriotic pen and eloquent lips inrecent years have dispelled the last feeling^ oiprejudice between the once estranged sectionsof the Union, and who, speaking for his fellow-citizens, cordially received the Grand Army ofthe Republic into the South on their first visitsince they left its soil as conquerors. In the evolution of nations struggle is un-avoidable, but higher results ensue : and it isthe peculiar pride of the State of Kentuckythat though Lincoln and Davis, the two leadersof the Federal and Confederate governmentswhile the fate of the Union was being decidedon the bloody field, were her sons, neverthe-less her conservatism, wise counsel and gentleforbearance — beginning in the speeches ofHenry Clay long previous to the late unpleas-a
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