New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1866-05-18
EDITORIAL CORRESPOND ENCE.
Cruelty to Animals. -
BusTr n. Y. May 7th 1856

Busrr N. Y. May 7th 1866.
Mr.. Henry De Berg with some thir-
ty associates, has organized a society
in New York, whose object is the pre-
vention of cruelty to au,male. This
movement is, perhaps, opportune.
For about forty years the American
people have been bothering themselves
about cruelty to the negro, hence it is
high tine the programme was chang
ed, that horses, mules, oxen, COWS,
calves. sheep, swine, dogs politicians
AID other animals might receive
small share Of attention. Especially
is this the case, since the society for
the prevention of cruelty to the negro
has proved failure. Enforcing it's
theories cost the country, North and
South, quite q million Of killed and
wounded soldiers, involved the people
in debt Of four thousand millions Of
dollars, and bequeathed them an inher-
itance of bereavement and woe.
Its managers involved the country
in war which ragged with terrible
fieroeness for foar years, and which
they are yet unwilling to terminate.
Their efforts to place the negro beyond
the reach oe cruelty, though 1t has
ina,cted untold cruelucs and misery
upon the white race, has been eminent
ly successful in putting nearly one
million of negroes beyond the reach of
cruelty in this world, by sending them
to the next. Nevertheless, the ne
groes that survive have their civil
rights including the right to a0ork or
starve and the right to provide for
themselves or not, az seemeth good to
their inclination and ability.
The Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to the Negro having accom-
plished all this, ought 10 adjourn sine
die, but instead ats representatives at
Washington persist IN practicing cruel
ty to the American people by keeping
the Southern States out Of the Union
solely for political purposes, and that
the negroes which their crueltics have
not murdered may have the right to
vote. ......
This Is fragrant case Of cruelty to
the Ameri can people, to prevent which,
an immense society has been formed Of
which A. johnson Esq. Of Washing
ton late of Tennessee, has been chosen
chairman, with the right of succession
In 1868. It is improbable that the
society over which Mr.. De Berg pre-
sides, can ever be led into such extrav-
agances as those that have rem
dered the society organized and officer
ed by Wendell Phillips, Sumner,
Wade, Thad Stevens, Zach. Chandler
and Horace Greedy so unpopular.
Horses, oxen, dogs, &C., having no
right to vote, can be dealt with on
very simple principles, thereby saving
civil rights for un-civilizsd negroes
with ballots for starving freedmen.
Tho Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals has been icorpor-
ated by the benevolent Legislature of
the Empire State and the articles Of
incorporation approved by its philan-
thropic Governor. Mr.. De Berg hav-
ing been elected president Of the soci-
ETY. may be looked upon ss it's Moses.
What that patriarch was to the Isrcal-
ties he may be to the mlserale frogs
and lice that Moses Of old left to be
tortured by the cruelties Of man.
The members Of the society while
numbering many very estimable gen.
tlemen will also comprise the chief
members of Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet the
leaders Of the Republican organization,
and it's provost Marshals, draft COM
missioners and the vast horde Of
thieves and government contractors
that 20 remorselessly sucked the life
blood from the people, while sapping
the foundations Of the Temple Of Lib
erty. within which they dwelt. Imag-
inc Horace Greeley, pursuing the
southern people with the bloodthirsti'