"SIC TRANSIT GLGRIAJ ,;
parative calm of legal practice in Louisville. ’
Before the war he had served, first as prose- ti _
cuting attorney in Clinton County, next as V
judge in Adair County. With the outbreak of
war he advocated preservation of the Union and
served briefly as a colonel of Kentucky infan-
try before controversy over which unit he
should command impelled him to resign his com-
mission. President Lincoln then appointed him `
U. S. district attorney, and he embarked with
vigor upon prosecution of Southern sympathizers
for violation of war-time laws.
In l8b3, with the Union army supervising the
election, Bramlette was elected governor of
Kentucky by an overwhelming majority. His ad- ,
ministration began with emphatic support of the V
war; but in less than a year he was criticizing
Lincoln bitterly, especially when the President
ordered the enlistment of Negro troops. Also,
the governor quarreled with Gen. Stephen G.
Burbridge and obtained his removal as Federal
commander in Kentucky. But when the President
was assassinated, Bramlette recanted all his
’ criticisms, appointed an official day of prayer t
and mourning, and, in a gesture designed to 1
promote healing of the wounds of war, welcomed
home returning Confederate soldiers and urged
repeal of the laws against them. After leaving
the governor’s chair he was a candidate for the z
United States Senate, butfailed of election.(8) 5
Walter N. Haldeman, co—proprietor of the x
COURlER—JOURNAL, was an intense and ardent ·`
"Southern Rights" man, who had openly declared
his sentiments both orally and in his paper in {
terms which could not be misunderstood nor for- ‘
_ given. Accordingly, when Louisville fell into
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