Show seducer in lexington cheered by an enthusiastic audience the old sinner hakea a speech that Is fetching and plays the penitent act lexington ky may 5 col W 0 P breckinridge was greeted here today by an audience of people representing the voters of the seventh congressional district and many people from the surrounding country the speaking was in the opera house and before col breckinridge armed the auditorium was full of people when he advanced toward the stage they stood up and yelled wildly for five minutes the colonel wag filled with emotion which shook him from head to acot lie made the most powerful address tie ever delivered to a kentucky audience when be spoke of the action of the ministers of the union in this city which took action against him be assumed a most defiant look and strained every nerve in his body his bista were clinched and his expression was that of a man thoroughly enraged he pave the public press some very hard flings and when he said that be had no criticism for the judge who eat in lus trial fifty voices shouted at once 1 I have I 1 have his reception was certainly enthusiastic and while every man in the house will not cast a vote for breckinridge it was plainly to be seen that he hed many friends who intend to stand by him after reviewing ins boyhood life at lexington his public services in the confederate army and in congress breckinridge said 1 do not wish this district to conceive that I 1 have any de fenee to make for what I 1 have done and of which I 1 have been guilty entangled by weakness by passion by sin in coils in which it was almost impossible to break I 1 did everything that was within my power to avoid public ec andal except one thing that for moment entered my mind your re me can neither take nor add to the punishment I 1 have suffered it has not been hypocrisy that my life lias not been consistently wrong I 1 knew the secret tin I 1 tried to atone for it in wave that is not becoming in me to more alian allude to flow many kind words did tins atonement produce to others how much of self control and how much of sell sacrifice how much of earnestness earn etness and labor in aid of good things and to good causes when I 1 came to make public utterance under any circumstances to any audience how cautious was I 1 anat no word of mine might tempt others to bo guilty as I 1 wa guilty now that exposure has come there ia an element of gladness in it I 1 care not what kettere come in my mail I 1 care not now for the cloret door to be opened there is no skeleton there and I 1 can go into the clear sun lieh tout of the mystery and look up through the blue skies into the upper world with a feeling that there is no cloud there I 1 am not afraid that from the horizon will suddenly come clap of thunder and flash of lighting that will destroy me and mine this is n the past I 1 will wear with me scare but I 1 will no longer carry the dread I 1 will come out of that storm however long as it may last in some respects conquered the sweet domestic relations I 1 absolutely need and out of which I 1 have new life are mine the extent of my guilt w as truthfully confessed by me to its uttermost boundaries without justification or palliation to that extent was I 1 cuilty beyond that I 1 was innocent whatever charge of any kind wag made against me by any person not confessed in that solemn testimony for the truth 0 which I 1 appealed to bod is false I 1 de der r sire this acknowledgment and denial to be fully understood that there may he no more misunderstanding hereafter in your presence today and in the presence of this dettrict ct I 1 repeat that lor that sin of which I 1 was cuilty I 1 have no justification no palliation and I 1 aeb for no condonation U in your bidet can better do the work yoi want done than I 1 as your representative choose him choose one whose life haa been stainless whose morals your young men can imitate with profit whose days have been pure and whose nights have been sinless whose ability is ample whose experience ia wide when some one comes to write thia history whatever blame may attach to me he may write of me that even with that blame he loved alie poor be toiled tor lila fellow men ho labored for good causes loyal to principles and faithful to truth devoted to you BACK I old this evening at a meeting at mount hope church of which colonel breckinridge ia a member and over which hie father once presided he was summoned to appear breckinridge confessed hia guilt in about the same way as he 1 fled in fhe suit al washington and prayed for baying he repented and would live a new life in the future after a consultation he waa forgiven and taken into the church again women Fro lexington may the women of lexington have issued an address to the voters in Breckinrid gee district in which they oppose hie election reelection re and denounce hie dele iders the address among other things baya would you vote for the destruction of your boys no sooner vote for the destruction of your party than sink a moral senti ment it ie your duty to leai your boys to a higher moral pune but would such a representative inspire your eons and daughters with th sublime daty 0 morality NO hie name ie a or corruption were ho magnanimous be would have you cload your door to vie he who had go often with beautiful words and brilliant oratory sung enchant ingi ot 1 t 58 the noble dutiful eons of our grand commonwealth would have you prove recreant to your trusts let no extenuating plea of charity cause you even to listen to bis silvery tongue they can no loncer avail lie has sacrificed him belt his voice is silent his influence is lost we deeply deplore this but he baa sealed bis own fate to re turn him to congress by doing you will best promote the interests of society and of your own state |