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his last message to the children of what he called fairest of this fair land. Speaking as though it were the house, yeomen honest, peace-loving, Scotch-Irish yeo- for the great unknown country, Henry Watterson sword of truth, and nerved by the fire of righteous in- have to look into the eyes of the beautiful women who irrad- for this priceless heritage. They were, upon the one side of warned them against vagaries which "would blot Ken- Henry Watterson's Plea. gia: oration : Behold, on the wings of eloquence, armed with the meda, gives battle to the foul monster that would de- dignation, a modern Perseus to the rescue of Andro- I am conscious that this is the last opportunity I shall men and on the other side, gentlemen and cavaliers and soul-stirring address with the following beautiful per- famous Kentucky editor and statesman concluded a My fathers, no less than your fathers, gave of their blood stroy the state, deemed by its sons and daughters the 106 Kentucky's Acropolis, his parting word before leaving iate this Heavenly spot and to speak for my neighbors and myself, man to man, before a central Kentucky audience. dread image of Maine and Kansas/'' At the opening tucky out of the galaxy of stars and recreate her in the of the Blue Grass Fair at Lexington, August I2th, the

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