Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-12-17
SPEECH OF LOT DooLlTTLE

On the Bill for the Protection Of Hen-Koos1S.
Mistur Speaker, are it possible that men can
be infatuated as 10 vote against this bill MIS-,
tur Speaker allow me to picture to your eH S
and denuded imagination some OF 'ile neal'
rending evils which arise from want Oh P"f'eG,
ton to hen roosts. MIstur SPeahei, w WI
+. suppose if to be thu awful and melancholy nour
of midniubt-all nature am hushed IN repose;
The solemn wind softly means through the way
inc branches of the trees, and nought Is heard to
hreal, The melancholy stiffness, save an occa-
sonal grunt from the hog pen! will now car
nv YOU in imagination to that devoted hen
house Behold its peaceful and happy inmates
gently declining in balmy slumber on their ele-
waited and ma jestic roosts! Look at the aged;
and venerable, and highly respectable rooster
AS he keeps his silent vigils with patience ana
unmitigated watchfulness over those innocent
helpless and yirtuous hens and pullets ! Just let
vour ewes plarce around and behold that dlgnl-
fled and maternal hen who watched with ten
der solicitude and paternal congratulatlon those
little juvenile chickens who crowd around thelf
respectful progenitor, and nestle under her clr-
cumamblent wings.
Now ask, Mistur Speaker. am there to be
found wretch so lost and abandoned as VIII
enter that peaceful and happy abode, and tear
those little interesting bddias from their agonl-
zed and heart. broken parents Mlstur Speaker,
answer in thunder tones there am Are there
anything 50 mean and sneaklng as such ROBBERY!
No, there are not You may search the wide
universe, from the natives who repose IN sollta-
ry grandeur and superlatvc majesty under the
shade of the tall cedars that grow upon the tops
of the Hirnmole mountains in the valley OF Je-
hosophat down to the degraded and barbarous
savages who repose in obscurity III their mlsera-
Bile wowams, ON the rock OF Gibraltar IN the
Gulf of Mexico and then you will be as much
puzzled to find anything so mean without Inc
aid of a telescope.
Nlistur Speaker | feel that have said enough!
Where's my hat :?
The eloquent gentleman, according to the
Bostons Posts report, here donned his seal-cap,
and sat down apparently much exhausted
Haynau, the Austrian Butcher, is between six
ty and seventy years of age. According to a
correspondent of the New York Commercial, he
is a natural son of an eector of Hesse Cassel,
whose name is held in infamous recollection
throughout Germany, not only Tor his sensual
vices, but for the fact of his having shipped off
his subjects in consideration OF subsidies from
England TO serve in our American war He was
afterwards obliged TO fly from his territory, du-
ring the French invasion, and the circumstances
of his depostino his ill-gotten treasury with the
grand father of the great Rothschds. was the
foundation of the fortune of that family
A COMPLIMENT TO THE LApIEs.--A minister,
short time ago, hell forth to his female audi
tors in manner following:
"Be not proud that our blessed Lord paid your
sex the distinguished honor of appearing first to
a female after the resurrection, for it was only
done that the glad tidings might spread the
sooner.
~ Modesty to the female character is like
satpetre to beet, imparting a blnsh while it
preserves its purity.
The above is only equalled by Ollapod, who
says:
"Female lips are but the glowing gateway of
80 much beef and cabbage"
Did you ever!