Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-04-07
From the Country Gentleman.
JNnIMANITY TO ANIMALS PUNISHED Bi PkO''
lDENCE,

Some poet has truthfully said that
"Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn"
OF mans inhumanity and downright cruelty &c L,
dumb animals, something equally true anu SUI
more severe might be said, and easily sustaiheu =.
For, though there seem to be good reason ,i; i.
thinking that humane sentiments and dlsH; S;no
tions towards the dumb creation are bee[aa;ns
deeper and stronger in those who possessfo
naliy the germs thereof by inheritance so
tuition, and are being imbibed from hp ptssa ssar,
inp current of feeling, even by ths ot ss, s,;l
to have been born with very hard H.. tbera '
the conduct of large majority sTas s;Jarai, ' vida
is abundant foundation for ,am ~ CO..; ;n5rn,on maT.
and sweeping charges agair , conJuct I M ernress
ity committed to his care:,:t rsnroLons;on If the
those guilty of it, to a~oaIant nrss Of
more merciful and the heennyirv @ of no little inter-
the earth; and it is ,ob uoysons w NJ ara ~ roaanled
est to determine hofT and and ] mcrc;fnl Proviicncc
and treated by r prov;danco o @ % dc,, win thosc
How, then, J;nb%uman;tv % and M indtterence o to
who are guilty, % animals w" which have been N
the comloI.o their care and charge? Those
cInl'na..eSyut this inquiry as far as their own
VINO ealthh b, aided by those of others, will ad-
ocseleaa' i, led to the discovery Of considera-
mi'' Shic' very few seem to have attended to
uoaSd uoasS;d to cart. They will discover, for exam
Mo. that is species of wrong doing and guilt
| does notscape any more than any other, the
inst audcvere retributions Of . bcnefcent and
wntchfudovernorship which is really kind, even
when furnishes with apparent severity. They
will Fl, to condescend to a few details, that
those 20 are so inhuman and Indifferent to the
s1d comfort of their brute animals, as to
let tbl pick up in the latter portion of the fall
or ca, part Of winter, an insufficient amount of
Nutrient from the scanty and frost injured
grass of their meadows and pastures, and in
ad6asn, let them be out in the cold and chilly
ScsaaQf that season, have their stock become
dp.hill york OF ImpuSs1Dre to get them through
the pfnter, while at the same time they obtain
much less milk or wool, or meat, or work from
animals so mistreated, than those who deal with
their stock more justly and humanely. Under
such treatment, with continuance of insufficient
food and shelter through the winter, sheep die,
calves become little stunted runts, COWS give lit.
tie or no milk, lambs come stillborn or die in
few days, cattle become so week that they cannot
do the work that should be done in spring, and
damage and losses accrue in other forms beside.
Want of sufficient food and shelter in fall winter,
and early spring, produces such results. Teams
so mal.treated cannot draw plow put down to
D proper depth, and thus the scanty crops, from
Ields plowed only three or four inches deep, con.
tinue the providential punishment throughout
the whole year.
Such are some of the ways in which wrong
doing is rebuked and punished, evil.doers warned
and called to repentance and reformation, and
;he experimenting watchtulncss and regard for
tights, justice and mercy, Of the Supreme Gov.
srnor and Disposer Of all things vindicatcd and
made manifest before the eyes of His intelligent
md responsible creatures. Alas that so many
shut their eyes that they see not these retributve
,rovidences, nor heed the lessons they were
wisely and mercifully intended to teach and III
,ulcate! A.