Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-03-17
REMARKS
o. Mr.. BURT, an the House Of Represent
atices. March 3, on bill No. IS. bill TO re


atices. March 3. on bill No. IS. a bill to re
strain strine from running at large.
The bill to restrain swine from running at
large having been amended SO as to require
the payment of bounty on wolf scalps,
Mr.. BURT obtained the floor and address
ed the House as follows:
Mr.. Speaker: understand the wolf bill
is now under consideration that is the bill,
sir, for me, for my constituents, aud for the
people of the whole Territory. This bill have
/ looked TO with pervading cast, an eye of
anxious interest in its earliest infancy; have
watched over it with paternal care while on
its tempestuous passage through the commit
tee of the whole, and | rise now, sir, in the
midst of that excitement which its produc-
tions are alone capable OF creating, to defend
it from the assaults by which it is at present
surrounded. Sir, time and again have I risen
TO my feet to occupy stand ia defence of
this bill.
Time and again have | been driven from
my rights, beaten back, torn down, trampled
under foot by the combined influence of am
bilious lawyers, aspiring demagogues, and po
iitical capital making men upon this floor.
But now, Mr.. Speaker, y0u haze the chair,
and Ihaye the floor; y0u shall have my speech,
and have my rights. Sir, in defence OF this
BILL in defence of my rights, in defence of the
inaenable rights of life, liberty and the pur-
suits of happiness, the protection of pigs,
lambs and other swine; the destruction of
wolves, the rights of my constituents, and the
mover of this bill, all being secured by the
Constitution of the United States and ell le-
climate SUI jects of legislation, stand here,
sir, in defiance of these young lawyer-Iike
members, who have the audacity to oppose
this old pioneer of the west. Why should
not be heard ! Wasn't the first man, Mr.
Speaker, that ever traverSed the SwampS of
Northern Wisconsin, through mud and nnire
belly deep! Wasn't | the first man that ever
braved the opposing current of the mighty
Missouri, with cargo for the red Sims. A nd
every time put my foot on shore, my soul
case was pierced with many an arrow
Wasn't the man that first settled in Wis
consln when the Indians were so thick it was
dangerous to 60 out fifty rods in the brush
without having your body shot full of bullets /;
didn't | wade the Mississippi with a keg Of
tobacco in each pocket, and a hogshead Ct
rum on my back! Haven't | rights, sir, and
am | not most emphatcally and tctotally a
pioneer! Then, sir, should not be heard
on this floor in defence of the rights of NV
constituents!
Mr.. Speaker, the wolf is a very obnoxious,
pernicious and destructive animal to the ris-
ing generation of young pigs and lambs. He,
SIR makes his secret excursions in the dark
recesses of the night, when all animals are
reposing in silent torgettuness, resusitating
and terminating nature by natures laws
Mr.. Speaker, | never yet had the pleasing
qualification of seeing one of these ar animals
called wolf, unless it was last Monday morn
ing when | and Governor Hubbard were rid
ing over Bum Paw Prairie. Says he TO me,
Mr.. Burt, yonder goes wolff Says |
:" Says he :. IHarr' Says Uhar!"
Says he - Thar" and Just then, Mr.. Speak
err, thought | seed his tail. Yes, Mr. 5,
IL - III iilC iloui VI tii1d h'hI"'' N''oNo -
storer, sleep, when all mankind are locked IN
the arms of connubial and conjugal happiness,
while vet the blue ETHEREAL vault is studded
with the countless starry hosts, and ere the
mild and svery rays of the queen of night
have Welded to the retugence OF that glorious
luninary, the bright king of day, which sheds
his golden beams athwart the horizon, when
all nature is sunk in silent oblivion. the prowl-
ing wolf seeks the sheeftold and destroys
whole ltters of pigs.
Mr.. Speaker, this bill must pass. The good
sense of this House must and Will pass it.
The bill then passed by an almost unani-
NOUS vote.
CLAY MEETING IN Newly oRK.-rhe
friends of HENRY CLAY, varouslv eStl-
mated at from six 10 twelve Thousand,
met at Castle Garden on the evening of
the 18th, Henry Grlnnell in the chair.
Philip Hone, Esq, called the meeting
to order, and briefly addressed 1t. The
object of the meeting was to express their
choice of Henry Clay for The Presidency.
There was no opposition 10 HIM In the