Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-03-02
To the Editors OF the Boston Pos.

the city in great haste to attend the obseon;e
great aunt, who had suddenly died the day prevou"
in paroxysm of delight at being mistaken for MNt'
Darlington, handed me his short hand notes of rs
following speech with request that would rea Tue
them to form for the Post dare say Mr.. T. VIE
have added many brilliant touches from recoec,;au
which. second hand translator. | can baraInO
supposed to know anything about. give the sp,. Ie
therefore, textua1y trusting rather 10 lis irtr;ns,
merits for approval than to the manner of its era~
uon' AC.
fremont House, Boston, Feb II. 1s5k
Speech Of the Hon. augustus Cesar Bum. m ),
bill introduced by Mr.. Spooney 10 arrest the fnr,h
increase of New Foundland dogs, and dogs genp,a,H
of foreign extraction - delivered in the sena,at
Massachusetts, Feb 18th, 1856 Phonogranh;canHul
seized by Alpheus Thistle, special reporter for ,t
Boston press, great occasions only. ~
M President We live in stirring times Ev0,.
thing is done in the quckness of lightning, and WIZ
the energy of steam. Boys are men at sixteen .na
men are old foges at forty. Our young misses ara
marriagable at eleven, and as women, are grand
mothers at twenty FIVE. With such facts before =.
who shall say not entitled to the appella,;on,
|" Young America g. More than all this, Mr. D.:
dent great events are hourly Transporting direc,lr
under our honorable noses. The great A,osr;rnyy
party" of which we, in this chamber are q w.
important part, was conceived, born and attained !,
manhood in less than twelve months 1t is a voun.
giant whose size cannot be measured by the Ameics
continent, since of its feet rests on Japan and
the calf of The other leg covers the Sandwich Islands
This party has already done some tremendous grea,
things In Massachusetts it has demonstrated thai.
negro is some, in the election of Wilson, and it will
show before this session is that an lrshman e
pecially if he be Cathoc) is less than nobody and
mighty small at that. Now MIR President, to carrr
on and complete the great circle of our duties, and -
transmit our names and deeds to posterity clean a.
new shaved shlngle our constituents expect at our
hands stringent law for preventing the further in
crease of dogs Of 'forelgn ertraction" particularly
OF Newfoundland dogs. No man, Mr. President viii
charge me with being hostile to caninitg in the ab
stract. l. sir it is we'll known, have dealt in docs
from my youth to the hour of my unexpected election
to the official dignity with which that election clothes
me- Dog dealing in all its muifarious forms and
phases has been the vocation of the Buns for nearly
two centuries. My grandfather was kennel keeper
tor more than one OF colonial governors and nv
father. it should be well known TO some honorable
members present. was pup raiser on a large scale
down IN Essex county, where the breed Of dogs in.
troduced by him still exists in all the purity of genu
inc Americanasna. My anecedents, therefore render
It certain that am no enemy 10 the dog either as
genus or species OF the great family of animated
nature. (Here great appreciation was manifested
which MIR Thistle indicated by the following pho.
netic characters and signs O. trax Sc
tro-ixa-s-s-e s. But, Mr.. President nv affection
for the dog does not extend one single know nothing
sign or password beyond the indigenous stock l.
slr, am Tor the dog OF the SOIL the dog whose lineage
can be traced back, without foreign cross, to the
wolf OF our primitive forests. have no objection 10
the presence OF foreign dogs always providing such
Will set up no claim to equality with the humhlest
cur of the SOIL and be gratefully content to act as
street scavengeFs in cities and towns. But
hold, sir, and ready 10 make the claim good that
every beef OR turkey bone having tendon hanging
to it belongs of right 10 the native born dog. Aye
sir, to dog whose ancestry is lost in the night Of A.
merican antiquity know not how other gentlemen
Tor IN tha
Musket, if need be. in defence of indigenous dogdum
and here let say, in this great, and holy patriotic
cause, am not ashamed 10 avow that have already
sworn upon the skull of prairie wolf to support no
man for office who SO much as pats foreign dog on
the head, or emis an approving whistle in presence
OF an immigrant of the canine have no objec.
ton 10 their bark when danger approaches, or to
their bite when our foes upon US but have no
confidence in their fidelity never knew one which.
does not owe alleg iance,-hs whine or bark to me
contrary notwithstandng,-to some great foreign
mastit at home somewhere else beyond the Allan
tic hope therefore, the bill before the egs.
ature. upon which these hasty remark are based,
will meet the approval of all good know nothngs and
become the law ofthe land The " Ordern exnec,sit
and what the "Order' expects it is our duty 10 res.
pond to in the language of the Gar Russia kakne
boud ~
At the conclusion Of the this splendid effort certain
passes and sgns were made by each member all ter.
mlnating by each one thusting the point of the in.
der finger of the right hand into the nasal aperture
and at the same time scratching the chin with the
little finger