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such is the fact, they regret that they had not an opportunity of 

 viewing them. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 

 J. B. NOTT, Albany, 

 JNO. SAVAGE, Washington Co., 

 THOS. L. DAVIES, Dutchess Co. 

 JOHN MILLER, Cortland, 

 WM. RANDALL, Cortland, 



Committee. 



SWINE. 



Mr. President — Why as humble an individual as myself, was 

 selected as chairman of the committee on hogs (yes, sir, hogs is the 

 word) is past my comprehension ; custom has sanctioned the practice 

 of bringing into this report all the wit and joyous philosophy of 

 Heraclites, and the jests and merriment of the laughter moving 

 Momus — Shakspeares and Colmans the younger, and Hoods, have 

 gone before hogology — the whole ground is occupied' — the subject is 

 exhausted, and after the renowned reports of the wits and geniuses 

 of the Bay State, I can expect to come but haltingly off, and perhaps 

 finish a great bore. Ad malum Jorum suarium meos porculos contuli. 

 Would that the mantle of the lamented Lincoln had fallen on my 

 shoulders. 



Although I confess to the vulgarity of being a lover of pork, yet 

 as to my delight in the " living beauties,^'' sir, " there is no specula- 

 tion in the eyes they glare at me." 



According to the theory of the celebrated work of Sir Richard 

 Vyvian, the hog is one of the types of humanity, and man but the 

 development of that type; which may account why some of our 

 species are so hoggishly inclined, and are not inaptly sometimes 

 called by disappointed office seekers, the " swinish multitude.'^ 



If his inwards are, as it is said, a counterpart of man's, his outward 

 acts exhibit some striking analogies in — propensities — temper and 

 conduct. 



He is even a politician on an enlarged scale, but whether whig or 

 loco this deponent saith not, for he is equally partial to Clay for his 

 amusement, as to Poke root for his subsistence. 



He goes for annexation — distribution, not only of the land, but of 

 its productions — for sub-treasuries and for enlargement — but is opposed 

 to banks and all monopolies — he is a great stickler for the largest 

 liberty. 



He has never been known to pull down printing presses, but he 

 upsets every thing else that interferes with his interest or his ambi- 

 tion. 



He does not make stump speeches, nor lay pipe, nor tell Roorbacks 

 at election, but he will go in at a hole that he can't find his way out 

 of again, which is a most striking feature of modern politicians. 



