CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.



   In the meantime John Breckinridge had become Senator,
 as had John Adair and Buckner Thurston, the old clerk of
 the Senate, and Christopher Greenup Governor, and to both
 sets of resolutions had the honored name of James Garrard
 been affixed.
   This is indeed a galaxy of stars to be placed in the crown
of our State's glory.  Garrard, Bullitt, Edmund Bullock,
Adair, Slaughter, Caldwell, Hickman, Greenup, McClung;
Russell, who followed Campbell and Shelby up the steep
acclivity where Ferguson died; Desha, whose grandfather
fell by the Indians in Tennessee, and whose childhood was
spent amidst all perils, and who lived to share in the triumph
of the Thames; Robert Johnson, the noble root from which
has sprung a noble stock; Green Clay, surveyor, legislator,
soldier, whose descendants have deserved well of their coun-
try. From the members of those Legislatures the State
chose four Governors, four Lieutenant Governors. at least
two Senators, and many Congressmen, judges, legislators.
  The godfathers, my countrymen, of your venerated county,
-deserve your veneration and gratitude; no royal infant was
ever surrounded at its birth with a more imposing circle;
around nor cradle ever gathered a nobler group, who loved
liberty, bowed in obedience to order, loved their race, and
feared God.
  During the fierce discussions of these obnoxious laws,
andI the heated Presidential election, Kentucky never for
one moment lost sight of the purpose to own the Missis-
sippi. By every possible means this was kept before Con-
gress, and made the chief object of her servants in the
Federal Congress. It was because Jefferson was known to
share in these views that made him so beloved in Kentucky,
and filled all her borders with joy when the news of his
election came; and in 1803 she saw the consummation of
these labors. Not until the garrets of our old families are
searched, and the old moth-eaten papers examined and
weighed, will the true share of Kentucky statesmen in the



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