Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-05-25

time. IS cine, ia justification OF which
there is moi a tenable circumstance :: and
those who are guilty of it, gentlemen"
though they be, and tacitly countenanced
thoug Oh they may b. by human laws. are
mol a whit more deserving OF favor or re-
spect than The poaching depredator, upon
whom !" Snipen ponrs out q vial OF his
wrath. s.
WHO are these "sportsmen and others,
Mr. Editor-,hese delicate :" gentlemen"
whose health is so seriously affected by a
summers residence in town, that they
need bird. slaug htering excursion in the
| fail 10 recruit il2 plltell you, sir, who
they are. A large portion of them are
those who have spent the summer in the
tinqlorious occupation of genteel loaJer-
ism ;-geatlemen $ fats gentlemen tops.
lfsynonymous.l gentlemen drones. gentle.
men ralses, and gentlemen blacklegs,
fall honorable gentlemem-in their own
! opinion. Whose tile 10 respectfully"
| is conferred by the Ingenuity of the tailor
and whose hearts are as destitute Ct be-
nevoenl susceptibiltles as their heads are
of brains. Such poor specimens of hui
/ manity, of which our city furnishes a host,
form no inconsiderabie portion OF that very
useful class in The community gen.eelly
dubbed "sportsmen' those gentlemen.
/ inyalids, who resort to the refined and
| manly diversion Of bird-kifling TO" recruit
their health. = which, by the way. is i'm
raired not go often, as 'tSnipe" says, by a
summers aoork in town, as it is by sum
mer spent in no acork and much dissip
ton. A truly noble pretext this for the
| qualification of their inhuman. Draco-like
dispositions. l confess. Mr. Editor, fee
indignant at the bare idea of sacrificing
the lives of birds for this ignoble purpose
Recruit their health" forsooth Why
I MIR Snipe," | can suggest to these ailing
"sportesmen" more Iaudable and judic
Gus method of recruiting their health, than
by making pastime of 6ird-killing. LIE
them lease themselves oat on any terms to
some hard working farmer, rs aoood chap
pers, and ply that honest business for q
few weeks in the fall. This would be
emphatically an innocent species Of reerea
tion-and lhongh it may seem TOO neal
akin 10 aoork 10 suit their ideas of /" gentiI
| i,y," there can be no question as TO its
efficacy as a heallh-resto:er. 49,.
/ am somewhat surprised, Mr. Editor
tha, this worse than brutal practice of kill
Ing birds for spoH,or under the trivial and
unworthy plea of improving health
should, in this age of benevolent move,
ments, be tolerated by fashion; but much
more am | astonlshed that it should fad
an advocate or apologist in any one who
wears the form and has the heart of MAN
and whose breast may be supposed to be
warmed by spark of that humanity
which goes so far to ennoble the human
character, and which is enjoined by The
benevolent precepts of holy writ;-and
rejoice ia the thought, sir, that the time
is not very distant, when neither the "gen
tleman" sportsman nor the lawIes:
" poather,' as such, will meet with any
favor from public opinion or any pro,ec
ton from law. Both, if not equally unde
! serving the respect and sympathy of men
are, in my opinion, equally criminal in th'
sight of Him, ~ ~
"Who sees with equal eye as God of all,
A hero perish or sparrow fall
Mars 1910