. A history of the emblem of the codfish in the hall of the House of representatives . 3s, 4s and 4s Qd; in 1778, 4d, Is 6d, 2s, 3s, 4sand 4s 6d. Thus it appears that the use of the codfish as asymbol of the progress and pre-eminence of Massachu-setts was no novel or unaccustomed departure. Thehomely emblem is closely identified with the greatnessof the State. It might almost be said that its crescentoutlines are graven on every page of its history. Tradition invests our codfish with the grandeur gath-ered from the days when there were giants inMassachusetts. It speaks to us of all the old Bay
. A history of the emblem of the codfish in the hall of the House of representatives . 3s, 4s and 4s Qd; in 1778, 4d, Is 6d, 2s, 3s, 4sand 4s 6d. Thus it appears that the use of the codfish as asymbol of the progress and pre-eminence of Massachu-setts was no novel or unaccustomed departure. Thehomely emblem is closely identified with the greatnessof the State. It might almost be said that its crescentoutlines are graven on every page of its history. Tradition invests our codfish with the grandeur gath-ered from the days when there were giants inMassachusetts. It speaks to us of all the old BayState was and is. Patriotism protects it from the cavilof the cynic and the gibe of the unthinking. It typi-fies the world-old simplicity of those who go down tothe sea in ships; the goodly, Godly race, whom thestately scriptural story has immortalized; whose sturdyvirtues the Saviour himself distinguished in the choiceof Peter, the apostolic fisherman; and whose singularachievements on sea and land, in the arts alike ofpeace and war, have glorified the annals of the EMBLEM OF THE CODFISH. 37 ADDRESS OP REPRESENTATIVE IRWIN. The foregoing report being under considera-tion, Representative Richard W. Irwin of North-ampton addressed the House as follows: — Mr. Speaker : — I rise to ask you to place in thenew House of Representatives, as it was in the old,the emblem of the codfish. I do not purpose to tellyou of its long history, or of the patriotic hands whichwon for us our liberty and gave a continent to free-dom, which placed it there. I pray that we, who putit in its new position, may be as fervent in ourpatriotism and love of liberty and right, as brave toact and as willing to suffer, as those who, over acentury ago, hung it high in yonder hall. But I rise to call to your attention, their successorsin unbroken line and heirs of their great gift, somethings this emblem means and teaches: what it tellsof those sufferings which a nation must endure ere ithave
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