. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. Monumental fame alone would be but a meager compliment, eventhough established in every county-seat throughout the Commonwealth IAnd yet it assuredly would be an incentive, an inspiration, to the presentand coming generations to noble deeds in emulation of the past. Sucha hallowed and holy past! It ought to fill all hearts with hope andambition where sleep to-day but the idle vagaries of a goalless youth,overshadowed by eternal mental indolence—indolence which will ascertainly destroy their power in the natio
. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. Monumental fame alone would be but a meager compliment, eventhough established in every county-seat throughout the Commonwealth IAnd yet it assuredly would be an incentive, an inspiration, to the presentand coming generations to noble deeds in emulation of the past. Sucha hallowed and holy past! It ought to fill all hearts with hope andambition where sleep to-day but the idle vagaries of a goalless youth,overshadowed by eternal mental indolence—indolence which will ascertainly destroy their power in the nationality of States, some day, asthat terrible and deadly fire that fell upon the cities of the jjlain grav-ing the record of Gods undying curse forever in the wastes of thedesert! Whatever may be the feelings of the progressionists in regard to thepast, I would point the youth of Kentucky to it, and bid them let theirfuture copy fair that past until One by one they cross the portalOf the gate that open stands ;One by one they join the spiritsIn those far, immortal lands ! REMARKS. Upon the Death of Hon. James A. McCampbell in the House of Representatives, at Frankfort, Ky., January 15, 1873. _ ]\Ir. Speaker : I ^^^^^ can not resist giving jj^-* expression to the feeling that fills my heart on this occasion of the reassembling of the Legislature. I look about me and see everywhere the brave, intelligent faces of my colleagues, but there is one familiar countenance that is missing from our midst. The Hon. James A. McCampbell, from the county of Jessamine, has been gathered to his fatheis. It was my pleasure and honor to have knownthe deceased intimately. We were schoolboys together, and the pro-gression of time and the uncertamty of events never altered the fact ofour friendship in after years, for, while we fought in different armiesand were divided in politics, our social relations were never higher tribute can be paid to his memory to-day than to say hewas a gentlema
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