. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. TheRepublican party had grown arrogant and aggressive, and it was emi-nently necessary that they should be met in national councils with suchvalor and logic as Blackburn—and Blackburn alone—possessed. Tosay that he has covered himself with glory and nobly served his con-stituents is to do him a simple justice. In physique he is very attractive, being a man of mark among amultitude. He is five feet eleven inches in height. His movementsare quick, but full of a subtle grace and elasticity. His hair is a richbro
. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. TheRepublican party had grown arrogant and aggressive, and it was emi-nently necessary that they should be met in national councils with suchvalor and logic as Blackburn—and Blackburn alone—possessed. Tosay that he has covered himself with glory and nobly served his con-stituents is to do him a simple justice. In physique he is very attractive, being a man of mark among amultitude. He is five feet eleven inches in height. His movementsare quick, but full of a subtle grace and elasticity. His hair is a richbrown, his eyes are of a glinting blue m color, and wearing usuallyan expression which indicates great firmness of opinion and steadfast-ness of purpose in whatever cause he espouses. Honest principle,incorruptible and imperishable, is the groundwork of his friends love him and bestow upon him a steadfast devotion that isadmirable, and Kentuckians generally hold him in high esteem, andexpect much of him in his new field of service to the nation. •S,g>?) ( HON. WILLIAM OCONNELL BRADLEY. Madison was a county of Virginia, one of nine established by thtGeneral Assembly of that State out of Kentucky county, afterwardcalled Kentucky district, before the separation of Kentucky, and heradmission into the Union June r, 1792. It was formed (the seventhin order) out of a part of Lincoln county, and it was named in honorof James Madison, afterward President of the United States. Mr. ALidison was born March 5, 1751, in a town on the south sideof the Rai)pahannock, in Virginia, called Port Royal. 1 he h(;me ofhis parents, however, was in Orange county, where he always Madison received the very best education the country afforded,having graduated at Princeton College during the presidency of thecelebrated Dr. Witherspoon. When he left college he studied law ;not, however, with the view of adopting it as a profession. In 1776he was elected to the Legislatur
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