The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-07-24

Our republican friends don't like to lave
this name" the Living Dog Spo,'-ap-
Piled to their candidate for I. s. Senator
bat they should reco!lcct that it ia name
of his own choosing. In his speech to the
Springfield republican convention, where lie
was formally nominated for the scnate-a
spscCh lie conlesscs lac had prepared long
beforehand With great carc--he calls himself
living dog"-dislinctIy, enthusiastically y.
Speaking Of the democrats and Judge
Douglas in the speech, ne said:
They remind US that lie is a very great
nan, and that tho largest Of vs are very
small ones. Let this he granted. But q
Icing dog is better than a Gcad ijoa' Judge
Douglas, If not dead lion jar this 7Soyk is at
least q cagel and to0thl,ss one. How can he
oppose the advances Of slavery He don't
care anything about it. His avov-cd mission
IS i1sp|sssiag tie public heart to care no
thing about It,"
Thus he became living dog Bat
dog must have meme, and Lincoln, more
lucky than most dogs, had name even be-
fore he made himself a dog. That name is
Spot" and the way he got il was this
lincoln was some years ago : member Of
Congrs ss, and on referring to the Journal Of
the House. We find that on the al D,c.,
1877, Mr. Lincoln, rising in his place, said:
"Ir. Speaker, I have some resolutions to
offer, whicl, for the iH1orapti0a Of the
House, | wish read" Iae preamble and
resolutions were red - follows:
Whereas. the President Of tic United
States in his message of May Il. 1876, has
declared that the Mexican government not
only refused 10 receive hjm CHE envoy OF
the /. : J, or listen to his propositions, bat
after long continued series of menaCes.
have a last invaded our ter5ii0ry, ana shed
the blood Of our fellow citizens on ear O1rn
soil &, &c.
And whereas this House desires 70 obtain
a lu'l know ledge of al! the facts VIII Oh 90 to
establish whether the particular SPOT Of
soil on which the blood of our citizens was
so shed was, Or was not, our own sol, at
tat time: therefore.
EeS.irei by the House OF Representatives,
that the President Of the United States be
respectfully requested to inform tins House,
first, II neither the SPOT u! soil on which
the blood Of our citizens was shed, as in his
messages declared, was, or was not within
the territories Of Spain, at least from the
treaty of 1919 until the Mexican revolution.
Second, " neither that SPOT is, or is not
within the territory which was wrested
from Spain by the Mexican revolution.
IhTd, " neither that SPOT is, or Is not
within settlement Of people, which settle
ment had existed ever since long before the
Texas revolution, until It's inhabitants fed
from the approach Of The United States ar
my"
The editor Of The Chicago Times, who, We
believe was present when this preamble and
resolutions were read, says During the
reading each repetition of the word 1" SPOT
was greeted with shouts Of laughter, and by
the time the clerk had got through rssding
re eighth resolution, the great living Cog
Of Illinois was greeted iy The unanimous
voice Of tie House with the name Of Spot
3ian who h. i never heard of aim before left
their seats ana came to look upon SFoT'--
who, In ten mont. <. had become more re-
lowned than ever living cog had been re-
uowncd before. The resolutions went to
the table, and laid there during the session,
and are laying there still; but the SPoT'
became the appellation applied 10 the Hi
nOisan, and he never walked across the hall,
or made 4 motion, but by an involuntary
impulse the members would say, there goes
Spot It is said that Campbell, The clerk.
often in calling the yeas and nays. used to
call o.. Spot in tcad Of Lincoln Aud
thus Lncoii. gained the soubriquet CT the
Living Deg Spot" Nlo will not say it is
Justly bestowede But th< people will say
to him next November, as they would say
10 any other Living dog" WHO attempt ted
TO force himself into position where they
dyE't want him." Out, u Spot!'