National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-10-14
The Bull Fight i'm Kansas City.

For the past two weeks the city has
been posted with bills announcing
Spanish bull fight, which was first an
nounced to take place last Saturday, but
owing t. the rainy weather was postpon-
ed until to-day The animals mean
while were kept in half-starved con
dition, until the time next appointed for
the brutal exhibition, which was yester-
day.
In company with representatives of
other morning papers, we visited the
Driving Park, where we found a strong
bull pen had been erected, in size about
thirty feet square, and about eight feet
in height. About this pen tiers of seats
had been built, SO as to enable the spec
tators. to view the expected gouging and
tearing of the ferocious animals
If we had had any expectation of wit
Messing "A fight they were dispelled by
the first sight of the bulls. Poor, lean,
dispirted victims to a brutal mob,
neither of them was larger than a two
year-old heifer, and too weak even to
walk, much less to fight if they ever
had any disposition to fight it was all
worked out of them in their trip over the
plains from Texas.
One of the poor brutes was tied to Il
corner, the other IN little pen. A party
of butchers arrived on the ground bring
ng quantity Of blood, which was thrown
upon the ground.
A party of whippers then stood around
the arena and proceeded to whip the
little Texan, goading it to desperation
by sticking a number of spikes into it,
which sunk into the hide of the terrified
brute, and hung to it, the blood oozing
out from its skeleton-looking frame.
After the outside animal had been
tortured about one hour, amid the cheers
and laughter of the brutalized assem-
blage, the second bull was driven out of
his pen, and the animals met but from
the manner of their meeting, it was
evident they had met before, and under
the yoke, for neither exhibited the least
inclination to fight.
Now followed a scene which for cruelty,
torture, and regular brutality has
never been excelled either i'll this or any
other age (; piece of cruelty to animals
that should be denounced with the execra-
tons of a civilized community. Finding
the poor half-starved brutes would not
tear and rend each other with their sharI
horns, a number of men and boys, armed
with whips, stood over the smallest
animal, and from the platform above it
whipped the bull until it fell to the earth
where for fully half an hour, the pros
trate animal was whipped by detail unit
its eyes We're whipped out.
The other brute having been lassoec
was dl'vn to the platform by a party o
human beasts, more beastly than the
beast itself, and held, while two of thei
number gouged its eyes from thei
sockets, the poor brute believing pitt
ully in its anguish. Fully tifteeG
minutes were consumed in this horribl,
sport The brutal torturers finally de
sisted from pure exhaustion, and tn
bleeding and blinded animals staggere,
around moaning with anguish.
How long the horrid scene woulC
have continued we know not, but for the
divine dispensation OF Providence.
part of the spectators gallery gave way
precipitating the occupants to the eartf
in one promiscuous heep of humanity
brutality and pine lumber.-knssaS Cit,
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