The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1859-09-08
Esn n a ma nifty 10 Animals Punish
ed by Providence.
Some Poet has truthfully said that
''Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countIa-c +bonSon1s ,,,o,,r,,

Makes countless thousands mourn"
Of mans inhumanity and downright
cruelty to dumb animals, something
equally true and still more severe might
be said, and easily sustained For, tho
there seems to be good reasons for think
ing that human sentiments and disposi-
tions towards the dumb creation are
becoming deeper and stronger in those
who possessed originally the germs thereof
by inheritance or constitution, and are
being imbibed from the prevailing cur
rent OF feeling, even by those who seem
to have been born with very hard hearts,
yet still the conduct of very large ma
jority, shows that there is abundant foun-
dation 70. considerably wide and sweeping
charges against man, for inhumanty to
animals committed to his care. Thus
conduct exposes those guilty of it., to the
just apprehension Of the more merciful
and the more excellent ones of the earth
and it is an inquiry of no little interest
to determine how such persons are re-
garded and treated by just and merciful
Providence.
How, then, does Providence deal with
those who are guilty Of inhumanity and
indifference to the comfort Of those ami
mails which have been committed to their
care and charge? Those who carry out
this inquiry as far as their own observa-
tlons' aided by those of others, will admit,
will be lead to the discovery of considera-
tions which very few seem to have attend
ed to or laid to heart They will dis
cover, for example, that this species of
wrong-doinS and guilt does not escape
any more than any other, the just and
severe retributions of benefcient and
watchful Governorship, which is really
KIND, even when it Furnishes with appa-
rent severity.
They will find, to condescend to a few
details. that those who are so inhuman
and Indifferent to the needs and comfort
OF their brute animals, as to let them
pick up In the fail or early part of winter,
an insufficient amount of nutriment from
the scanty and trOst-injured grasses of
their meadows and pastures, and in ad
dltlon, let them be out in the cold and
chilly nights Of that season, have their
STOCK become so poOr-so reduced in con-
uition-as to make 1t uphill work or
impossible to get them through the win
ter, while at the same time they obtain
much less milk, or wool, or meat, or work
from ANIMALS SO mistreated. and 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 little or no milk, lambs come still
born or die in a few days, cattle become
so weak that they cannot do the work that
should be done in spring, and damage and
losses accrue in other forms besides
Want of sufficient food and shelter in fall,
winter, and early spring, produces such
results Teams so maltreated cannot draw
a Piow put down to proper depth, and
thus the scanty crops, from fields plowed
only three or four inches deep, contine the
providential punishment throughout the
whole year
Such are some of the ways in which
wronS-doing is rebuked and punished. evil
doers warned and called to repentance and
reformation, and the experimenting
watchtulness and regard for rights, Justice,
and mercy otaH he supreme Governor and
Dlsposer otaT things vindicated and made
manifest before the eyes of His intelligent
and responsible creatures. Alas that so
many shut their eyes that they see not
these retributive providences, nor heed
the lessons they were wisely and merci-
fully intended to teach and inculcate