The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-02-23
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelt,
10 Animals.
Monkton, Vt. Jan, 9th, 1863.

was in Middlebury some months since.
begged the favor of little space in the
Register, on the subject of peace.
AMI | now ask your attention to our
dumb animals, monthly paper published
by the Massachusetts Society for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals.
have lately received letter from
George L. Angel, Esq, the president Of
that society, expressing his convictions
that similar society might be profitabIy
sustained in Vermont. And offers his
assistance to that purpose provided we
are willing to accept it.
Allow me to say l fully agree with Mr..
Angel, that such a society might do
much good even in Vermont, where per-
haps dumb animals are as we'll if not bet-
ter cared for, than in some other states !;
but in an agricultural district, like the
county of Addison, it might be a pecuni-
airy as well as a neral advantage.
Every the least acquainted with hor-
seq. Especially with fast ones and who IN
Middlcbury is ignorant on that head p I
know that well trained, healthy ones will
command better price, than i'll trained
and unhealthy ones. They also know
that proper feeding and kind treatment.
have much to do in rendering horses heal
thy and manageable. Thus we see that in
this item both humanity, and thrift point
In the same direction.
And the same rule will apply as well
to the care of neat cattle and sheen :;
healthy oxen will do more work healthy
cows will give more milk and healthy
sheep will yield more valuable heeci.
And we may observe that in many cases.
disease and premature death OF those aui
mails may be traced to n want Of kind and
generous treatment toward them.
The people of Addison county need no.
be told that New York Boston, and other
cities that absorb 50 much of our beef arc
governed IN the price they pay for that
article, by the con liton the animal was IN
when slaughtered. But | need not dwell
longer on that feature of the case.
Let me call the attention of the readers
of the Register to the influence of habit in
producing virtuous Or vicious men. If
we were to trace the history of our Con
victs, back to their boyhood, we might
safely calculate on finding large per
cent of them who INDUCED their crn 4
dispositions on the brute, long before they
could nerve the murderer's arm to etrih
the deadly blow on fellow man. HOY
many aching hearts might have BEEN
spared their suffering had those criminal,
been accustomed in their youthful days : ,
habits of mercy, instead of being indu!t !
in those Of crueltyl Who can tell
SO it seems there is way opened ~
the establishment Of societies for the pr =
ventlon Of cruelty to dumb animal. t,
foster the cause of peace, without enl -.
ing the rms of any religions sect, or c,n.
gregail)n, il by using all lawful mear-
within reach to cultivate in the minds ul
our youth habits Of kindness and bcnoy,.
lence.
No thinking man can fail of observin :
long step taken within the last h Il
century, towards the establishment Of
peace between nations, on secure basis.
Every observing man is well conyinco |
that had not the people of England arI
the United States gained nightly in iay,r
Of peace principles, the Alabama ca,
would have involved Them in destrur-
trivc war. lndstead of that negoiali al
has been able to accomplish without
bloodshed, what bloodshed never coul |
have done-an amicable adjustment.
Now we must attribute this import Mt
change in the public sentiment of the ,Ho
people TO the labors of peace men ~
both sides of the Atlantic. The peace
societies both Of the United States and of
England, they have labored it is true IN
der great disadvantages at first ridi-
lculcd, then tolerated, and now bcginninr
to be approved, and although not Openly
but virtually and silently peace doctrines
are reasserijng their claim Of public pa.
ronage.
Hand in hand, tho societies for III,
promotion of peace, and those for prevent.
ing cruelty to dumb animals have worked
in harmony tho>e of the latter elias, have
been in operation in England and Seat
land. for more than forty years, one ia
Calcutta, established in 1862, those in
America, more recently. The President
of the New York society, (Ienry Bcrsh
Esq,O spoke before the Agricultural 80, i
ETY. of Putnam County, Course IA
abstract of his address il published in tn.
first humber Of "Our Dumb Animals
which mail for your service. Ther. in
Is the constitution of the Massachusett,
societies, which went into operation in
March, 1865. The act of incorporate.
also one against cruelty to animals. pass Il
by the Legislature of Massachusetts, al,
the by laws Of the society, will be faur
in the same paper.
Sour Dumb animals is an eight paa
quarto, published monthly, at 46 was'
ington Street, Boston. Price Sl.00, lih-
eral allowances TO canvassers. woil
advise any one who desires further info =.
motion in regard to this matter, or who j.
already prepared to cooperate in forming
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