Show tHE A DENCE YELlED OR FiVE 1IiS < Willie Enthusiastically Received At Lexington THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE GREET HIM t A Look That Is Defiant aud Fists Defint That Are Clenched He Reviews His Boyhood His Services Ser-vices in the Confederate Army and His Work in Congress Xow That the Exposure Has Come There is an Element of Gladness in It IAV111 AVear AVith Me the Sears But I Will Jfo Longer Carry the Dread An Eloquent Appeal The Press Roasted Lexington Ky May 5 Colonel W C P Breckinridge was greeted here today to-day by an audience of 3000 people representing rep-resenting the voters of the Seventh congressional district and many people from the surrounding country The speaking was in the opera house and a half hour before Colonel Breckin ridge arrived the auditorium was full of people When he advanced toward the stage from the rear entrance the audience stood up and yelled wildly for five minutes min-utes The colonel was filled with emotion which hook him from head to foot He made the most powerful address ever delivered to a Kentucky audience When he spoke of the action of the ministers union fn this city which took action against him he assumed the most defiant look and strained every nerve in his body his fists were clenched and his expression was that of a brave man thoroughly enraged He gave the public press some very hard flings and when he said that he had no criticism for the judge who satin sat-in the trial fifty voices shouted at once I have I have The reception was certainly enthusiastic enthusi-astic and while every man in the house will not cast his vote for Breck inridge it was plainy to be seen that I he had many friends who intended to stand by him Reviews His Boyhood After reviewing hid boyhood life at Lexington public services in the Confederate Con-federate army and in Congress Colonel Breckinridge said I do not wish this district t conceive that I have any de fense to make for what I have done and of which I have been guilty Entangled En-tangled by weakness by passion by sin in coils which it was almost impossible im-possible to break J djd evgryihlng that was within my power to prevent a pub le scandal except theone thing which for no moment entered my mind Your reelection of me can neither take from nor add to the punishment I have suffered I has not been through hypocrisy that my life has not been consistently wrong I knew the secret sin I tried to atone for it in ways that It is not becoming in me to more than allude to How many kind words did this atonement produce to others how much of selfcontrol and how much of selfsacrifice how much of earnestness and labor in aid of good things and to good causes When I came to make a public utterance under any circum stances toany audience how cautious was I that no word of mine might guilty tempt others to be guilty as I was Breathes Freely Now Now that exposure has come there is an element of gladness in it I care not now what letters come in my mail I care not now for the closet door to be openedthere is no skeleton there and I can g into the clear sunlight out of mystery and look up through the blue skies into the upper world with the feeling there is no cloud wih am not afraid that from the hprizon will suddenly come a clap of thunder and a flash of lightning that will des troy me and mine This is of the past I will wear with me the scars but I will no longer carry the dread I will come out of that storm however long a it may last in some respects conqueror Sweet domestic relations relatons which I absolutely need and out of which I have no life are mine I The extent of my guilt was truth I fully confessed by me to its uttermost boundaries without justification or palliation To that extent I vas guilty beyondthat I was innocent Whatever charge of any kind made against me by any person s not confessed in that solemn testimony for the truth of I which I appealed to God is false 1 desire this acknowledgment and denial 1 to be fully understood that there may be no more misunderstanding hereafter In your presence today and in the presence of the district I repeat that for that sin of which I was guilty 1 have no justification justfcton no palliation and I ask for no condonation Devoted to Ton I some in your midst can better do the work you want done than I your representative choose him choose one whose life has been stainless whose morals your young men can imitate with profit whose days have been pure and whose night have been sinless whose ability is ample whose experience ex-perience is wide When some one comes to write this history whatever blame may attach to me he may waite of me that even with that blame he loved the poor he toiled for his fellowmen fellow-men he labored for good causes lo alto devoted al-to principles to you and faithful to truth |