The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-03-02
A VALIANT CAPTAIN.

~ OAAC AhS - IN
speech in the House at Iiarrisburgh by
Mr.. Fox of Dauphin on the resolutions
relative to the tariff, and in answer TO Mr..
Hassan of Cambria who had disturbed
the propriety Of the House by the broad
est kind of abuse on some of the most
distinguished Americans in some Of the
broadest kind Of brogue.
ga word more Mr.. Speaker, in regard
to my roIey-boley friend from Cambria,
and | have done. The valiant and re-
doubtable second edition of Col. Pluck,
has INDUCED himself in %denouncing the
Wings and their principles, thus:
"From the earliest period of the Amir
can REVOLUTION, DOM TO the prisint time,
the Wings have always been Tories
There principles are idencitied wild the
black cochade Federalists, and they have
never failed to cxult in the victories Of
our inimies. In the County of Cambria
a volunteer company composing l04 men,
started for Mixeco, and thar were only
sexteen whegs in it."
| ask, sir, why is not the representa-
tive of the frosty sons Of thunder" him
self, now marching towards the battle
field? / can easily imagine from the GIN
ger-pop patriotism Of the gentleman, that
he could not enter a company as a pri-
vate soldier, but | would have supposed
from his enlarged proportions, and COM
prehensive love Of country, that he would
tender himself to the Governor of the
Commonwealth, as a whole company, Of
fcers, privates and all, of which he was
Captain Nc. l. Of Company No. g.!
/ fancy | can now see the gentleman
standing on the summit of some mighty
mountain in Cambria, robed cap apie in
the soldiers garb, swelling with patriotic
Indignation at the boldness of Mexican
braggadocio, his face, rosy as summers
pepper, and sufused with a compound of
tears and other mucilagious liquids, bid
ding a rapid adieu to the cliffs and quag-
mires, the toads, frogs and snakes, of his
own, his darling Cambria. Behold him
tearing himself from the scenes of his
childhood, and marching with hurried
steps to the field of slaughter. Company
No. 2, commanded by Captain No. l., is
now on the PLAINS of Mexico ''his heart
is in the fray and eager for the fight
The music of the fife and drum are lost
i'll the hoarse thunder of the lannon's
roar-the beams of Heaven are partially
obscured by the dust and smoke of bat
tie, when the gallant Captain No. |. of
company No. 2. is seen emerging from
the shantee or chapparal. Around his
head he wears a wreath of shamrock,
over his back is spanned a coat Of scar
let, significant of his murderous inten-
lions, his breeches woven TO the leg as
though the flesh had been melted and run
into Il EN-, on either shoulder floats a
mackerel, in his left hand he carries a
brick-bat, and in his right fourishes the
mighty shillelah.
Thus armed and equipped, stradiled
upon a mule, gorgeously caparisoned, he
enters the arena and looks fercely forth
for the mighty Santa Anna himself
"Heeds up, Captain No. |, atlintion COM
pany No. 2, count off in sections of four,
and march at whaling distances for sex
teen. Behould that lubberly spalpeen
Santa Anna, and follow your Gineral,"
and darling for his rival, like a true knight
of the olden time. he strikes the shield
Of the mighty chief. The astonished
followers of the Mexican General recoil
at the fearless courage Of the stranger
soldier. "Git out Of my rood, Misther
Santa Anna, or I'll be the dlth of ye,"
shouts Captain No. l, Of Company No.
2. "Sir, I'm the decindint of Teddy o.
] was born in the town of Limme-
rick, in the county of Tipperary, am
the ripresinta.cv' from Cambria county,
and the right arm of the Dimocretic par
ty in Pennsylvania. I've travelled Il
thousand miles to see you, and by the I'M
decayed shens Of St. Patrick and tile
strawberry lips of Kate Killarney, but
I'll be the dith of ye," and suiting the ac-
ton to the word, he rushed headlong at
gainst his antagonist. 1t was a most
and mighty attack. II combined
the enthusiastic energy Of Fallstaf, the
serene Judgment of Quixotte and the skill
and strategy Of an animated, living, blood
and bones JACK OF CLUBS. Sir, it was
irresistible, it staggered the plumed war
rior of the South, and both riders fell 10
the earth. II was a dreadful and most
intensely interesting moment. The pal
frey of the gentleman was seen darling
across the plain, his darling shillelah was
flying through the air like the stick Of a
rocket, and last, though not least, the I'M
m~entionables Of the gallant, though un-
fortunate Captain No. l, of company No.
3, were rent asunder, and like Cardinal
Woolsey, he was left NAKED to his enc
mics" Sir, misfortune commands our
pity and respect, and VIC here drop The
curtain, mentioning, however, that the la
test accounts from the war. represent the