. Ben Hardin: his times and contemporaries, with selections from his speeches. opinions. He was ardent in debate,had decided views on all questions, but influenced no one on any-thing. Ignatius A. Spalding, of Union (kinsman of the distinguishedlawyer and politician of Morganfield, who bears his name), was atypical Kentucky farmer—vigorous, hearty, frank, intelligent, andhonest. When Garrett Davis precipitated the Native American issueupon the convention, Mr. Spalding led the opposition. John W. Stevenson, of Kenton, had not at that time attained hisfull intellectual maturity, but proved a use
. Ben Hardin: his times and contemporaries, with selections from his speeches. opinions. He was ardent in debate,had decided views on all questions, but influenced no one on any-thing. Ignatius A. Spalding, of Union (kinsman of the distinguishedlawyer and politician of Morganfield, who bears his name), was atypical Kentucky farmer—vigorous, hearty, frank, intelligent, andhonest. When Garrett Davis precipitated the Native American issueupon the convention, Mr. Spalding led the opposition. John W. Stevenson, of Kenton, had not at that time attained hisfull intellectual maturity, but proved a useful, hard-working was conceded a leading place in the convention, not only for hislegal acquirements, but for his well-poised temper and sound andintelligent statesmanship. As a Democrat, he had some difficulty inrestraining the impetuosity of his co-partisans within his own con-servative views of propriety. When the Green river Democracy,and that of the Purchase, were inclined to stampede under theincitation of Hardin or Gholson, Stevenson would encounter them. 532 BEN HARDIN. with some scrap of a letter from Washington, Jefferson, Madison, orMonroe with such urbanity that if he did not control them, he gaveno offense. It was charged that he could aptly quote from the writ-ings of Mr. Madison, no matter what the question—whether the com-position of a custard or the construction of a constitution. Philip Triplett, of Daviess, was a useful member of the conven-tion, and in harmony with its more conservative aims. Squire Turner, from Madison—on the line between the bluegrassand the mountains—was very potential, on account of locality, aswell as of his marked talents and consummate lawyership. Silas Woodson, of Knox, was a bright man, and has since abund-antly redeemed, by a brilliant career in a sister State, the promise ofhis early manhood. Twenty-four members (so far as the report shows) took no partwhatever in the debates, and possibly in so doing, acted more
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