Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-09
MR.. BOONE OF KENTUCKY STANDS
CPA AND SHOWS HIS BREASTPIN.


Il was the gallant Andrew L. Boone
of the dark and bloody ground, sab, who
On the 25th Of January last past. did
while standing upon his broad and man
ly feet in the place assigned TO him as {
Representative from that Deestrick IL
Kentucky known as Jackson's Purchase
and formerly represented by the late
Linn Boyd, utter small speech upon
the subject of the Centennial appropri-
alton bill. It seems that this gifted son
of kentucky made his little speech for
the purpose of having his eloqUence
spread abroad where It would do the
most good; and SO We ind it, revised
and corrected in the Congressional Rec
ord of February 1. We ind Mr.. Boone
easing his mind thuswise, as follows:
Mr.. Chairman. wish i, distinctly IN
.lerstood that ! have no objection TO this
celebration" Indeed, Sir. ! wish it
the most unbounded success. The proud
old Commonwealth which I have the
honor in part To represent here will be
represented there by her gallant sons
and fair daughters. and perhaps she will
also be represented by her splendid herds
and blooded horses, by specimens of her
mineral wealth and the various produe-
tions of her fertile soil, but in her SOW
be there She could not so there. with
out humiliation. so long as the CALLING
letters of political prescription are fast
-ned upon the arms of any of her noble
sons. and too sadly does she remember
that the noblest, the graudest specimen
of her manhood went down TO his grave
Al alien in the land that gave him birth.
But pass FROM this. | said | was in
favor of this centennial celebration, and
am: but when it is proposed 10 invest
IN this enterprise 81 500, 40 Of money
which must be raised by imposing adj
ditional burdens upon people already
oppressed by taxation, and who are
staggering beneath the weight Of all
enormous public debt / mus, be per-
1nitte1 to enter nv very humble but most
solemn protest. In the name Of the toll
ing and suffering people Of this country
l DO most earnestly protest. In the
name and by the majesty Of the Consti-
tuition of my country, protest.
1t is to be regretted that photography
does not reflect certain pronunciations,
without which much that is character
istic is lost. Mr.. Boone did Hot say. in
speaking Of his gallant State in her SOW
ereign capacity ''she will not he there
He said she will not be thar That's
what Mr.. Boone said. The - srandest
specimen Of her manhood who went
down to his grave az alien, was John c.
BreckinridSe and when the Yankee
mind comes to reflect that he stepped
right out of the office OF Vice President
of the United States To- take a commits
sion as Major General in the rebel army:
and that when the sham Confederacy
was choked to death he eziled himself
from the soil and jurisdiction of this
Republic, and became fugitive from
justice, it strikes US that the sentimental
illusions Of the gifted Boone had better
been saved for some Democratic Conven-
ton in Kentucky and not poured forth
in the unsympathetic ears of Radical
Congressman. Blu. he knows what sort
If political pabulum they want down in
he Hoop-pole Country. and knowing,
chooses To emf. his little Rabrousliug
speech.
IN HONOR OF IISCOIS.-tIreenbur