A Historical Tribute to Man's Best Friend | Kentucky Life | KET
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Kentucky native George Graham Vest made many speeches in his long public career—as a state legislator, Confederate congressman, and then U.S. Senator—but it's this heartfelt tribute to the dog from his early law days that lives on in history:
"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is the dog."
Vest, born in Frankfort and educated at Centre College and Transylvania University, co-founded a newspaper in Owensboro. He later moved to Missouri to practice law. It was there in 1855 that he used his oratorical gifts to persuade a jury to award damages to a farmer whose dog, Old Drum, was killed by an angry neighbor.
"And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace...there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death."
This line is from perhaps the most famous tribute to man's best friend ever penned.
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