. Recollections of pioneer and army life . wars both its chieftains, Abra-ham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, and to each of the contend-ing armies a quota of fighting men larger than was contrib-uted by any other State singly to either Army; of that Ken-tucky whose Clay,[antedating Lincoln in the arts of concilia-tion and eloquence, tried to effect and did for a time effect bycompromise what Lincoln could only compass by the sword,and whose Crittenden was last seriously to invoke the spiritof fraternity and peace; of our own Kentucky, dark and bloodyground of the savage, beloved home of all that
. Recollections of pioneer and army life . wars both its chieftains, Abra-ham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, and to each of the contend-ing armies a quota of fighting men larger than was contrib-uted by any other State singly to either Army; of that Ken-tucky whose Clay,[antedating Lincoln in the arts of concilia-tion and eloquence, tried to effect and did for a time effect bycompromise what Lincoln could only compass by the sword,and whose Crittenden was last seriously to invoke the spiritof fraternity and peace; of our own Kentucky, dark and bloodyground of the savage, beloved home of all that we hold gener-ous and valiant in man, graceful and lovely in woman, wherein Recollections of Pioneer and Army Life 363 when the battle was ended the war was over, and, once aKentuckian always a Kentuckian, the Federal and the Con-federate were brothers again—let us, here, whether we callourselves Democrats or Republicans, renew our allegiance tothe Constitution of the RepubUc and the perpetuity of theUnion. :si*-- .^•^ -^^ • 5>..
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