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pii!. licit), though considerable gains were made 

 l.y tlu- other party. The -ession of 1868 opened 

 <>n tin- 14th of January. 



KK\I>AI.I,, (ii:"i:i.i: \\ II.KINS, an American 

 journalist and author, liorn in Amhcrst in.-w 

 Mount Yern,.m. N. II.. in 1S<7 ; died at I'ost Oak 

 Spriiiir, ni-ai l!o\\ir, Tc\a-, of congestive chills, 



T -Jl. isii?. A part of his boyhood was 



i in Murlington, Vermont, where ho ac- 

 quired the printer's trade, and travelled exten- 

 Mvely through tho Middle, Southern, and West- 

 ern States, working as a journeyman printer. 

 Ho spent a year or two in New York City, and 

 t'nin thence wont to Washington, where he was 

 employed for some time on the Intelligencer. In 



lie visited New Orleans, and taking a 

 fancy to the city, he made a longer stay there 

 than at any of his pivvious resting-places, and 

 on tho 27th of January, 1837, in partnership 

 with Mr. F. A. Lumsden, established the New 

 Orf: a i, x I'i'-'i >/n in; the first cheap daily paper in 

 that city. At first, he and his partner had to 

 encounter the difficulties usually attending the 

 establishment of such an enterprise ; but their 

 energy and perseverance, in combination with 

 talent of no ordinary kind, soon gave the new 

 journal an intluoiitial position, attracting to its 

 columns an immense amount of advertising 

 patronage, and bringing fame and profit to its 

 proprietors and conductors. In the spring of 

 1841, partly from love of adventure and 

 partly for the benefit of his health, Mr. Kendall 

 set out from Austin, Texas, with the Santa Fe 

 Trading Expedition, and on his return gave a 

 history of tho expedition, embracing an account 

 of his own captivity and sufferings in Mexico, 

 under the title of " Narrative of the Texas San- 

 ta F6 Expedition" (2 vols. 12mo., N. Y., 1844). 

 The Mexican War afforded Mr. Kendall a fine 

 opportunity, of which he was not slow in tak- 

 ing advantage, to improve the position of the 

 Picayune. Striking out for himself a path 

 never previously trodden by any journalist, he 

 left New Orleans for Mexico, and by means of 

 pony expresses and steamers supplied his news- 

 paper regularly with, the earliest and fullest in- 

 telligence of the movements and battles of the 

 contending armies, thus beating all the. other 

 journals in the United States in news of the 

 war, and even supplying Government with ad- 

 vices, in anticipation of its. official dispatches, 

 of the progress of events in Mexico. On one 

 of these occasions, he did not hesitate, at an ex- 



of five thousand dollars for the charter 

 of a steamer, to convey to the Picayune ex- 

 clusively the news he had to send. At the 

 conclusion of hostilities he spent two years in 

 Europe, superintending the publication of a 



illustrated work on the war, which ap- 

 -1 in 1851, under the title of " The War 

 I K-t ween the United States and Mexico, embra- 

 cing twelve colored plates of the principal con- 

 flicts, by Carl Uebel" (I vol., folio). In 1852 

 Mr. Kendall purchased a largo grazing farm in 

 Comal County, Central Texas, where he resided 

 most of the remainder of his life, having 



vast herds of sheep, cattle, and hone*. He 



had an immen.so fortune, the re.-ult of hits .|j- 

 ergy, activity, and foresight. Hi wool-dip 

 alone more than once amounted to over $50,- 

 000 per year. His estate, was, however, oc- 

 caMonally subject, to Indian raid* and depreda- 

 tion-, and he had many ~.-verc lights with the 

 predatory trihc- of ( 'aniaiiclie-, NavajoeH, and 

 Apaches. He had retired from the editorial 

 management of the Picayune, though still re- 

 taining a proprietary interest in it, and writing 

 two or three editorials a month for it. In pri- 

 vate life Mr. Kendall was genial, companionable, 

 overflowing with wit, and remarkably warm 

 and enduring in his friendships His career as 

 a journalist is one to which the history of news- 

 paper enterprise furnishes few parallels. 



KENTUCKY. The opening of the year 1867 

 found the Legislature of Kentucky in gesMo:.. 

 A Senator to the Congress of the United States 

 was to be chosen, and a protracted and some- 

 what excited contest between the three parties 

 represented in tho legislative body, known as 

 the Democratic, Conservative and Union parties, 

 resulted in the choice of Garrett Davis, the can- 

 didate of the Conservatives, for the term of six 

 years, ending in 1873. The amendment to the 

 Federal Constitution, known as the fourteenth 

 article, was rejected. On the 31st of January, 

 an act was passed granting universal amnesty 

 for all acts committed under military authority 

 prior to October 1, 1865, applying alike to 

 Federal soldiers and those in the service of the 

 Confederacy. The sentiments of this body on 

 the prominent questions of national interest are 

 indicated by the resolutions reported by their 

 Committee on Federal Relations. After ex- 

 pressing their approval of the policy and the. 

 conduct of President Johnson, and their regret 

 tor the' "unhappy difference existing between 

 the executive and legislative branches of the 

 Government," the majority of this committee 

 report : 



8. The Government, within the limits of its pow- 

 ers, as defined by the Constitution, is supreme, and 

 should bo sustained in the exercise thereof. The 

 rights and powers reserved by the States, in forming 

 the Constitution, are as sacred and inviolable as those 

 conferred on the General Government ; and in the 

 exercise of these rights tho States cannot be consti- 

 tutionally disturbed or hindered. The scrupulous 

 observance of these delegated and reserved rights is 

 necessary to 'preserve the compromises of the Con- 

 stitution and advance the peace, prosperity, and wel- 

 fare of the nation. Among the reserved nghts is the 

 right of each State to determine the qualifications of 

 voters, and to control and regulate its domestic 

 affairs. Congressional legislation that interferes with 

 these sacred rights is unconstitutional intrusive, 

 meddlesome, ana, if carried into execution, will be 

 tyrannical, and may ultimately prove disastrous to 

 tue Union. 



4. The States of the Union are sovereign in their 

 reserved rights, and indestructible by virtue thereof; 

 therefore Congress has no authority to annihilate any 

 of the several States, and their tcrritorialization is 

 unwarranted by the Constitution and destructive of 

 the very framework of our Government. 



Reasons are then stated at some length for 

 the admission to Congress of Representatives 



