The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1870-11-05

heavy eye, and fevered limb. 1t is driven to
the shambles, beaten and goaded by the way,
fed little, and killed, after passing one knows
not what agony of apprehension and suffering
at the hands of slow, or bungling or brutal
slaughter. Not long since butcher in New
York chopped off the hind legs OF IL pair of
steers and left them in that way for hours
before they were killed, saying that he always
did it if the animals were troublesome Some
times you will hear shouting, mil gled with
the lowing of cows, and the cries Of calves.
There come great stalwart men driving poor
little toddling creatures befon them, beating
and hurrying them along, an6 what becomes
of them you may see in the SILK looking veal
hanging in your market houses and your own
still sicker emotions should you chance to buy
any of H. Not unfrequently calves are brought
to market, with their legs tied together, and
piled prpmiscuously on each other in rude
jolting wagon, with scarcely the means to
breathe. This tying of the legs often causes so
foul sore that the flesh has to be eat out lest
it should poison the whole body. Who knows
how often it does We are often at racted by
the beauty and gambols of calf that is being
petted and raised, but don't believe one short
life contains more misery than thai of calf
doomed to the slaughter from the loment it
is prematurdy torn from its mother i'll it falls
under the knife of its assassin.
The facts tlat have been brought 20 light of
tAO tiOIO 1udh uuuSeeSSdTy "
destined to be the food of man--from the turtle
kept without water, upon his back, tie poultry
tied by the legs in the market plucked
alive, the calf bled to make white meat, the
slow dying of pig or sheep,-show ma at what
cost to others his table is spread, his palate
tickled and his wants supplied. 1t is no mat
ter of weak sentiment, but grave question of
moral and domestic economy. We who are
strong, should have compassion on them that
are weak we who are great and wise, and are
reputed merciful should see to it th At the life
that must be sacrificed for u.s. shall be taken
not by o mere oldfashioned brutality, but with
as little delay and suffering as poss bile. We
owe it to them-and to the God who made us
both.
There is a demand here as elsewhere for a
vigilant society to prevent cruelty to animals,
not name but an activity. There are too
many half starved, CALLED, lame, broken down
horses in overloaded brick carts, subjected to
the tender mercieS of negro and Irish drivers
too many battered mules and over-loa ded drays
in this city of heavy grades and abominable
pavements there is too much goading the
speed of willing horses, who may win the race
or make the time or get a certain repute for
their owners, but who will graduate in those
same brick carts, under the ignominy of those
same blows. There is too much worrying of
dog, and hog and sheep-too much brutality
in the common intercourse of men with ami
mails, from the gentleman or the groom who
kicks the horse, the trainer who cuts the ears
and tails of dog as if God has forgotten his
duties, the butcher who half kills his victim,
to the stolid urchin who worries a cat, or the
schoolboy who pins fly or stones bird, or
tortures a snake or fish, Before an enlgh-
tened common sense some of the barbarisms of
the stake and the shambles have been exploded.
The cutting off and nicking of tails is thing
of the past, but there things as bad retain ed
which shame our civilization and our manhood
Too little thought has been turned this way,
while no man, rightly teeling,can deny that he
is the keeper of these lower animals that the
God who made him the Lord of Creation did it
for the mutual good of each, that we may not
prey upon the less, but should make the life
necessarily subservient to us as free from use
less pain as it is possible. Science already
stoops to throw over animal suffering the same
boon she has discovered for man, and blesses it
in its distresses with that freedom from pain
that man enjoys. Science must go further, and
forbid the horrid piece meal butcheries which
disgrace the records of medical colleges, the
details of which would sicken the bravest
stomach. 1t cannot be that any real good shall
ensue, though much curious experiment may
be tried. Men become too easily callous while
pursuing what they call "interestipg investi
Cations but know nothing that cali warrant
much more pardon, series of sirt1 Jour acts
OF cutting and burning upon horse held
upon bis feet, till so far exhausted that he is
allowed to fall, only to be new victim of tor
lures so diabolical as to put the ingenuity of
the Inquisition in the shade. The only differ
ence is that it is horse. Mr.. Agaseiz, who
knows, testifes to the suffering Of the turtle,
and a turtle much more horse, who next to
man, upon the whole, possesses the finest or
ganization.
There are words to be pondered which
find in Realmah: 81 shall never be happy or
comfortable in this world while the lower ami
mails are treated as they are and | believe
that mine is not an exceptional case, but that
there are tens of thousands of human beings
who feel exactly as l do. 1t is an immense re-
sponsibility that Providence has thrown upon
us in subecting these sensitive creatures to our
complete sway; and I tremble at the thought
of how poor an answer we shall have to give
when asked the question how we have made
use of the power entrusted to us over the brute
creation"
have called your attention to the matter Of
cruelty because there is much yet needed before
life is purged of its oughtless-sellishness
because on all hands too often we inilict blows
the cruelty of which we never realize. We
want keener scrutiny into the rights OF others,
and more tender recognition of these not
confining it to our own age, rank Or even spe-
cies. As Gods favored ones we want to do the
amplest justice to all his creatures from high
est to lowest. With that aim we must succeed
in establishing a more perfect mercy-the
mercy which is compassionate to man while
it is merciful to beasts, and folds within the
ample bosom of its sympathy every want and
sorrow and distress.