The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-07-22

benefit Of the slight doubt by which the &C.
currencc was surrounded, brought in, after
lengthy consultation, verdict of not guilty.
Tie prisoner left the court house amid deep
and thrilling silence, and was never more
seen in Iapicr county.-Deroh Inquirer.
THE HUMANITY OF BRUTES.
| The Hon. Edward Everett on taking tn.
chair, in Boston, at an agricultural meeting of
| the members otthc Massachusetts Legislature
made some very happy remarks on the hui
manly, so to speak, Of the brute creation.
| Rising from the wonders Of life in vcgitation
! he thus introduced the subject Of the eve
ming. the care of the Domestic Animals -
| IL suppose there VAS time in the uflncy
%! our race, when the horse, the OK, the swine,
the sheep, the ass. the goat, the dog, were as
wild as the deer and buffalo, the VOLTA and the
tiger, at the present day; as wild, though not
aI savage. What could have conducted man
| to ths selection Of those animals Will, which
| he has surrounded himself, to share his hbors
ard minister to his wants, but the unseen pow
&! Of Pr, Whence guiding him to those whom
Zine and patience would enable Inn to domcs
| ticata. to the exclusion Of others destined to
| preserve their native frrccity! 1t is evident
! to my mind that mln WAS lead into Ties. as
| sociat!ons by u wisdom beyond Lis ""n; that
those higher principles which led him to or
ganizc families, communities, and nations,
have led him also into those humber, but
| scarcely less important associations with do
nestle animals. Tha, there is mysterious
! community between us and them is str!iingiy
Shown in the wonderful phenomena Of yacci-
nation, mild and gentle disease which we
have borrowed from the COW, and which fur
nishcs us all but an iutallihc protection
gAinst one of the most trgh.iul mlladics that
lay waste mankind Perhaps il was Will! rai
trcncc to this community Of nature between
men and the lower animals, that the Roman
jurists were led to define the Law Of Nature
rs that law which is common to all animated
beings
After he had thus nobly propitiatcd the at
tcntion Of his audience, Mr.. Everett went on
with an appeal for kind treatment, urging the
| similarity vi INC laws VI Hclltu III man Hlt
brute. This was his ftlicitous conclusion:
.'Thc other remark which l would make
springs from the same principle, and is ola
| kindred nature. These domestic animals not
only have activ" powers like our own, subject
to the same laws of health, but they have
nervous system closely resembling ours. They
arc sensible to all the degrees and varieties
of pain; and, as if to mark a sacred commu-
nifty of suffering between us and them, they
express it in the same way that we do. Though
Providence has given to Man what he has de-
MED to the lover animals, the power Of de-
scribing his suf!crings in words, yet in the cX-
| tremitv of pain. he abandons language and
takes refuge in groans and cries. The suffer
ing beast and the suffering man speak the
| same inarticulatc language. And he is cni-
| tied to the same exemption from grauitous
pain. The person who subjects his brute
beast TO unnecessary suffering may walk on
| two legs and counterfeit humanity, but he is
| brute. But the domestic animals have
higher claim to kind treatment. They are
capable Of attachments they are grateful for
S'ou arc lHnucUCtu ~ thc lIiuC-
| scribablc magic of the human voice, when ii
speaks in tones of love. | remember reading
in the newspaper letter from an cmigrant to
Oregon, who had crossed the Western desert
He said that when the hard journey was about
two-thirds over, and the whole party, man
| and beast, were almost broken down by the
snilcrings and privations of the weary march,
there was in the large melancholy eye Of the
patient OK a look Of accomplishing endurance,
which was enough to move u man to tears.
We have all read of the dog who watched the
dead body OF his master, starting at every
huttcr Of his garments, till he died himself of
starvation. And will you beat and kick, and
goad and starve creatures like these? For
myself, | want no better test of a considerate
prudent farmer, than his treatment of his an
finals. Prudent, did l say? it is matter
which rises far above prudence. 1t belongs
to duty and morals. If l was obliged to
choose between them, l had rather, so help
me heaven, go before my great and final
Judge with the unenlightcncd faith of the
''Poor Indian,"
"Who thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company"
than with the religion of the processing Chris
tian who goes to church on Sunday, and on
week days beats his oxen over the face with
a walnut whip-handle, or lashes the legs and
tanks of his overloaded horse, till the strain
cd tcndons arc ready to snap from their at
tachmcnts.''
BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITs.-Count
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mington, N. c.. are in circulation, marked A,
No 1886, payable to G. Davis, and dated 18th
Drcnf,lh al l252 with tho finnro % o., 1nnh