Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-03-01

PARLIAMENTARY ELooUENcE.-The fol-
lowing is an extract from the speech of Mr..
Chance, in the Legislature of Wisconsin,
on the bill for locating the seat of govern.
ment -
"Mr. Chairman:-I have waited patient
ly till the lawyers and doctors got through,
TO make speech nthe location of the seat
of government. | was raised in the wies
of Illinois, and us't to wear a leather hun
ting-shirt and sleep under a buffalo rug. /
was edicated in the woods. The yearly
part of my life was spent trackin Ingens !;
but it is harder trackin these gentlemen. /
have been watchin to git the hang of
the question, as the Irishman says, and
now think | have it. 1t is slang and ridi-
cule; and now go it with perfect loose.
ness; We have envited the gentlemen to
come up to the troh and argy the question
on its merits, but as the yankee said, they
squerm and won't come up to the rack.
Mr.. Chairman, when left home, my in
tention was to locate the seat of govern.
ment on the east of the Mississippi, and
divide the Territory with the river. Ifthey
didn't wish to divide, meant to sustain the
place selected by the observation-disclosures.
We said to the delegation on the east fix
your place and we 60 for it. In the mean
time, behold, beast appeared from the east,
having six heads and twelve horns.* Then
/ looked to the west, and behold, another
beast, exercisen all the power of the first
beast, with six heads and eight horns. t
Then said to the boys, look out for snakes.
The delegation of Des Moincs refusing to
bow down to the beast, its friends cry out
boons, bargainin and sellin.' They cry
out perjury and conscients,' and the day
of judgment would advise the gentle.
men, when they appeal to their conscients
to slip the more weightier parts over their
left shoulder.
Mr.. Chairman, we are honest men from
Des Moines; we are not to be bought ant
sold. | have no town property in the Ter.
ritory of Wisconsin, only some marked ou
in the town of Wappell, and want to sci
them, but they said we had no title, and
told them that the Ingens are gone, and tina
, sufficient. If we would bow down to tn,
monument of Dubuque, we would be, a
, uic lIiSiiidii says, Soou o"uoco Siccioii.
We are willin to meet the opposers of thi
bill on this floor, on its merits, and at tn
bar of the great day. The gentlemen wit
their amendments, put me in mind Of tn
(; lrishman's frogs--'it went with a hop and
0 skip and a Jump They jump from tn
/ city of Madison to Burlington, and theme
' to Mineral Point; perhaps they will nea
= skip to Chicago or Galena.
Mr.. Chairman, in all Legislative bodies
there is majority and a minority the mi
s nority, unfortunate critters, arc sure to kic
v up and below. II puts me in mind of tn
!, little boys swearin.. The cattle came u
J; one evenin bellerin the little boy ran I
a his mother and said, mother, let me sweo
4 at the CATTLE Be gone, you little rascal
was the reply. He came the second time
and the mother becoming DESTROYS to hes
4, what he would say, give him liberty. II
o, ran out, got up on TO the rail fence, and sal
'r Boiler on you Devils
.Six voters for Pom du Lac, and IL 900 dollar
fisk voters for Du Buque, and 5000 dollars.