Jack, as an infant, had been fondled by Webster, by Clay, and, one never-to-be-forgotten day, Jackson, the Scipio of the republic, had placed his brawny hand upon the infant's head and declared that he would be "worthy of Jack Sprague, who was man enough to make two Kentuckians."

The Kentuckians were on their wayat that moment they might be riding full speed toward the mouth of Pigeon, where floated the flag.

One yell rang from the army's throat: "The Kentuckians!

The Kentuckians!

The wild, long-haired, terrible Kentuckians!" Captain Wells sprang into the air.

He had just come to the Gapa cleft in the Cumberland Mountainsto prepare two young Blue Grass Kentuckians for Harvard.

He cautiously broached his project to two young Kentuckians, then at Detroit, who had been taken with Boone at the Blue Licks, and had been purchased by the British.

To this day nothing pleases aged Kentuckians better than to tell stories which they heard their fathers tell of Clay's happy repartees to opposing counsel, his ingenious cross-questioning of witnesses, his sweeping torrents of invective, his captivating courtesy, his melting pathos.

But the Kentuckians were slave owners, were identified with Southern and Western interests, and cared little for the commercial interests of the East, and as this influence could be strongly felt in the Senate, where each state had two votes, it was decided to offset those of Kentucky by admitting the Eastern state of Vermont.

The Kentuckians of that day were accustomed to hear Breckenridge, Clay, Talbot, Allen, and Grundy, all men of singular oratorical fame,but never, we have heard it affirmed, was a more moving appeal poured into the ears of a Kentucky jury.

The instinct of safety, the love of kindred, and the longing for society in the perilous loneliness of the wilderness held these first Kentuckians very close together.

No one ever asked why or when they were first begun; it was never the way of the Kentuckians to ask any questions about anything that they had always been used to.

That was the first article in the code of chivalry toward women which ruled these first Kentuckians, as it rules most brave, strong men living simple, strenuous lives in the open.

There was a branch near by, and the smell of mint in the air, so that had they been young Kentuckians one might have had a clew to the situation.

It is greatly to be feared that we Kentuckians in this part of the State are profoundly ignorant as to the people in other parts.

Then tell me this: why do Kentuckians in this part of Kentucky think so much of themselves compared with the rest of the world?" "Perhaps it's because they are Virginians.

Lincoln, in an Ohio speech made in the following year, addressing himself to Kentuckians, thus summarized the political forces that contributed to his defeat: "Douglas had three or four very distinguished men of the most extreme anti-slavery views of any men in the Republican party expressing their desire for his reëlection to the Senate last year.

The employing class of Kentuckians, many of them descendants of slave owners, are prone to be reactionary in their attitude towards those who toil, this is reflected in low wages and inferior working conditions, a condition which affects both white and black labor alike, in many sections of the state.

Had it not been for the conquest of the Illinois towns in 1779 we would probably never have had any Northwest to settle; and the huge tract between the upper Mississippi and the Columbia, then called Upper Louisiana, fell into our hands, only because the Kentuckians and Tennesseeans were resolutely bent on taking possession of New Orleans, either by bargain or battle.

As was fit and proper, it fell to the lot of the greatest of backwoods hunters to propose a scheme for game protection, which the Legislature immediately adopted; and his was likewise the "act for preserving the breed of horses,"for, from the very outset, the Kentuckians showed the love for fine horses and for horse-racing which has ever since distinguished them.

The wrath of the Kentuckians against all Indians is easily understood.

After the outbreak of the Revolution, the Kentuckians, in common with other backwoodsmen, grew to thoroughly dislike one religious body which they already distrusted; this was the Church of England, the Episcopal Church.

The Kentuckians were greatly enraged because our forces landed at Hickman and tore down a Rebel flag which the citizens had hoisted.

He also has the prejudice against being taken for an Indianian which seems inherent in all native-born Kentuckians.

At a recent Confederate reunion in Charleston, S.C., two Kentuckians were viewing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.