Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-03-27
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURES.

sundry operatives and legal voters of Holyoke,
and $50 operatives of Lawrence, for Ten
Hour Law.
The bill in the orders relating to the regis
tration and return of births, marriages, deaths,
&C., was discussed and rejected.
The bill authorizing the Fitchburg Railroad
Co. to widen and make solid bridge, was
laid on the table.
Passed tn be Eagrossed,-Bills to ineorpor-
ate the Neptune Submarine Co.; tie Home
Fire and Marine Insurance Co.; to authorize
the Fall River Institution for Savings to hold
real estate; concerning the assessment of dam.
ages for mortgaged land taken for railroads.
A bill was reported to incorporate the Amer
lean Inventors Association. Adjourned.
HoUsE.-The Committee on the Judiciary
was directed TO consider the expea4Rncy of Re.
/ pealing the law requiring auc;ioneers TO give
I bonds and make returns to the treasures Of
/ fee.
The Committee on Probate and Chancery
reported that the Senate bill relative 10 filing
executors bonds, ought to pass. The bill,
under suspension of the rules, was ordered
to a third reading.
The Committee on Agriculture reported ad-
versely on the subject of granting State bounty
to agricultural districts whose population shall
| number $4,000 or more; aud on the petition of
| BENJAMIN French ard others, in relation TO
| fencing woodlands. Accepted.
The liquor bill was discharged from the or
| ders of :he day, and amended so as to make
| it part of the duty of watchmen. as well as
| constables and other officers, to enforce the
/ law.
Mr.. Slack of Boston moved that the pro
vision of the 4th section of the l39th chapter
of the Revised Statutes shall not be deemed to
| apply to cases arising under this act" Adopt
ed.
Tuesday at l o'clock, was fixed upon as
the hour for taking the question on the en-
grossment of the bill.
Mr.. Munroe. of Boston, moved to strike out
the words 'or the sole use of the fruit of the
vine for the comnemoration of the Lords
Supper
Mr.. Stone of Boston, opposed the amend
ment, because TImeo D1naos d7a4 fersntes.-
Shouts of laughter.
Mr.. Jenkins of Andover. 81 really hope,
Mr. Speaker. that the gentleman will give it
to us in English. Renewed laughter
Mr.. Stone-'i viii, Mr.. Speaker. Laugh
ter. The language means, fear The Greeks
bearing presents. Great merriment.
KNOW NorHINGs.-We find IN The South
CaroliRian an able article on the Know Moth
ing movement, from which we extract the
following instructive statements of fact =
I" Has any mind shed greater luetre on il
lustrious Athens than Aristotle: Aristotle
was a foreigner, and came to Att;ea when on
ly seventeen years old Has there been any
Spaniard more Spanish than Columbus: Co
lumbus was Genoese. Has there hem any
Frenchman more Faench than Napoleon, and
Cuvier aid Constant: Napoleon was an
Italian; Cuyier, by birth and education, a
German; Constant Swiss. Who carr ed
thn Moth ds tbror,ub tl,a J;rost ,r,r ,f
dependence on record. and who founded the
great Republic of the Netherlands: William
of Orange, German. Has England ever had
a more English King than William the Third,
the Netherlander: Has Germany ever had
more German leader than Eugene of Savoy
Who was Catherine, OF Russia. that made
her the great power: She was a German
woman. Has Oxford ever had a greater pro-
lessor than Erasmus, of Rotterdam: The
very country in which the Know Nothing
now reviles the foreign was discovered by
Cabot, Genoese, in the service of England.
The proto-mar of the American Revolution
was Montgomery, an Irishman; so was Bar
ry, called the father of the American navy
and Paul Jones, the bold and early captain,
was Scot Were De Kab, Lafayette, Ham
ilton, Gallatin, no Americans: Mark the
list of signers of the Declaration of In
pdndence and see how many were for
eigners." The hue and cry against 'foreign.
ers,' belongs to pagan antiquity, when one
word served for foreigner and enemy but not
to Christianity, one of whose earliest writers
gloriously said nostra ciritas to Gus m0,dus
The very word Christianity rebukes Know
Nothing;sm.- The term Free trade has far
wider meaning than merely economical one:
1t applies to all merit, truth, intellect Let
every one stand and fall by his own individu-
atty, and take the best of everything where
you find it best. So did your forefathers so
your Gospel demands it. When Sir Harry
Saxville founded. in 1919, his Savilian Pro.
fessorship at Oxford, he prescribed tfat the
best man that could be gotten, no matter
whence, should always be taken, so that he
was man of good fame and honest repute,
er quacunque nationis orbis ctristiaaae ct Gu
jacuasQue Ordinis sire professionals" And
this ought to be the rule in ali spheres, but
most especially so in our own land