. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. HON. ASHER GRAHAM CARUTH. When one pauses to think—unbiased by fancied wrongs or angry-passions—of the bonds of good-fellowship and the inalienable ties ofconsanguinity that hem in and knit together and bind the hearts andthe memories, the interests and ambitions, of the people of these UnitedStates, from the storm swept prairies and lofty mountain peaks of theNorth-west, to the lemon and orange groves of Florida and the mag-nolia bosques of Louisiana and Texas, vocal with the songs of themocking-birds, and f


. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. HON. ASHER GRAHAM CARUTH. When one pauses to think—unbiased by fancied wrongs or angry-passions—of the bonds of good-fellowship and the inalienable ties ofconsanguinity that hem in and knit together and bind the hearts andthe memories, the interests and ambitions, of the people of these UnitedStates, from the storm swept prairies and lofty mountain peaks of theNorth-west, to the lemon and orange groves of Florida and the mag-nolia bosques of Louisiana and Texas, vocal with the songs of themocking-birds, and from the Eastern shores, where the waves of theAtlantic lap the creeping sands, to the Golden Gates of California,where the mellow music of the Pacific tide fills all the slumberous air,one realizes how impossible it must ever be—States rights, parly])rinciples, or what not veering opinion and desire—to maintain dividedinterests and separate national politics in this great, free, and enlight-ened land! When we talk of the Slate of Tennessee we are compelled to revertto the


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