curses, like chickens, come home to roost

— 1850, speech of Thomas W. Gibson, in H. Fowler, Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, Indianapolis, page 448. I did not expect, Mr. President, to hear such a doctrine as this from the gentleman who, this morning, so eloquently denounced alt attempts at disunion. That gentleman should remember the old Spanish proverb—“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”