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Excerpt from Speech of Charles Naylor, of Pennsylvania, on the Bill Imposing Additional Duties as Depositaries, in Certain Cases on Public Officers: Delivered in the House of Representatives, United States, October 13, 1837
Who, sir, were Roger Sherman, and-but it is idle to enumerate. To name the northern labourers who have distinguished themselves and illustrated the history of their country, would require days of the time of this house. Nor is it necessary. Pomerity will 'do them justice. Their deeds have been recorded in characters of fire!
And such are the working-men Of' the North at this time. They have not degenerated; they are in all respects worthy of their intel ligent and sturdy sires. Whose blood was so profiisely shed, during the last war, on the Canada lines - but that of the Northern labour ers? Who achieved the glorious victories of Perry and mcdonough on the Lakes - but the Northern labourers? Yes, they met the ene my' and made them theirs. Who, sir, have made our ships the models for all Europe, and sent forth in the late war those gallant vessels that gave our little navy the first place in the marine annals of the world, and covered our arms on the ocean in a blaze ofglory - but the skill and intellect and patriotism Of Northern lahom ers? And who, sir, manned these vessels and went forth and for the first time humbled the British Lion on the ocean - but the North ern labourers? 'and who sir, was he, that noble Tar, who wounded and bleeding and mangled and to all appearance lifeless on the deck of one Of our ships, on hearing that the ?ag of the enemy had struck and that victory had perched on the pround banner of his country, - raised up his feeble, mangled form, opened his languid eyes once more to the light of heaven, waived his palsied hand round his head in token of his joy and fell back and died. W'ho sir, was he? Why, a Northern labourer, a Northern labourer! And yet these men are the slaves of the North, to whom the honorable gentleman is about to preach insurrection!
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