The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-04

AL logs running ut large without muzzlc>.
or unattended by masters or protectors.
would be shotl Ample time was gircn in
which I'LL who intended to obey the law.
or who had u feeling of love for their cd
nine tavoritcs. could impr0visc safeguard
at very little cost. That many were either
Indifferent. or ignorant because they
were so short sighted Il to not take their
home paper, is evident from the fact that
we have seen the ground already crimson
Ell with the lifr-blood of several dogs. be-
longing to a variety Of species. AMI if we
did not know the world is full of dogS-if
We had never Travelled and found out Il
thing or twO-vcrily we should believe
there was an extinction of the whole re
nus But we are glad to know that the
most rigid enforcement of the Ordinance
in question will not produce sucl. II result
rs this. There are too many of the genus
homO who love their dogs. whether they
be Poodle. New Foundland. Terrier. Poin-
ter. Setter, Hound. or even our noble old
Cur species. And they will either 20
along with their dogs and protect them.
or. they will muzzle them. But we fear
their dogs may yet go astray, and then.
alas to be among strangers. Have you
never seen Il human being among stran-
gers? How We all watch him! Go to
your Parties, Soirets, Surprises, Invita-
tiOns-it matters not. ftiIcre should be Il
strange dog there, how we do become excr-
ci-ed. Every one asks: Who is that ?
And, poor fellow. he is in the hands ofhu-
manity. Could he be in wyrse hands? You
who know anything of this world will an
Swer: Poor fellow! If he should be
social, you will say he is imrndent. file
should be modest, you say he il a fool.
This is the impression made on our
mind by associating with ilumah dogs.
Don't get mad because we class human
beings with dogs. If Darwin he right we
all in the germ were once on an equality
with dogs. Certes, We are not 50 good as
dogs nowadays in some things. Dogs
do not lie, or bite, or don asurplirc. or
pick Il lock, or preside is cliairncn Owe
public companies, as Ouida says; and We
will add that they do not deal in SANDER.
they do not hunt up sonc innocent mis-
fortune in the abstract and repeat tia if
it were a crime in general they do not
think themselves beings superior to their
kind; they do not make mountains of
mole-hills;" they do not 90 to church
With II sanctim,nious air and then Swindle
during the "wcck-days;' they do not talk
of Christ and swindlc you like the devil
they do not put up long prayers in public
like the Pliarisecs and puritanI. and starvc
their tami'ic at home; they are only dogs
rs God made them. and II they run of
with a hone. or steal Il little support Of life
as the Disciples did once-upou-a-time.
they get whipped for it. and this is much
scvercr justice than is administered now
a-days to human rulpritS. Nowadays if
you have money enough. yon AN murder
and prove yourself INSANE. though you be
is wise as solomon or Socrates. If you
choose to steal. do so and fear n" evil. for
the barristcrs. attorneys. ccunsrllorS. adj
viSers. et i'll on,Re genus, will prove that you
were affected with Hcptomania--a synoI i'm
for thicving. DC. If you have plenty of
moi.cy. or rich kinio!k who will not go
back ol you "a great risk this last is
then you are safe. no matter what you do
contra bonos moreS. b. thankful YOU are
not a dog. II you were, and lived in VIM
chester. you would be in peril. IL You
were a dog You would naturally be no
malic. and in the exercise OF y olIr nomad-
ir propcr.Sities you would lose your life.
Many Il man has lost his life in this way.
fine had remained 1T home ami rhccrcd up
the wife he vowed to protect and CHERISH
had made his love of liquor and brawling
secondar. to his love for that poor crcl-
ture who nurses the result of his Scliisl,
~passion-ah, God! what Il better world we
should have! The dogs must have mIiz-
zles! Oh that men and women could have
muzzles put upon their mouths. What Il
deal OI StilIlutl-N tNl d uVlVN HE w hio
cry would he prevented! If by so ne OPP
Grafton o! mctcmpsychosis our souls should
go into the bodies of brutes we wot of a
! score whose future will be dcridcd 10y the
purchase and sale of llor es, hogs and dogs.
and very small prices will he given. Selah.
But the dogs are doomed! The law has
been enacted and published. and it Is
right that all obey it. be it good or bad.
To frame a law to please all is, we sup
pose, a very hard task. The best law we
have ever come across is laid down in the
Holy Bible:
.Tbou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart. and with all thy soul. and
with ;ll thy mind.
This Is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it: Thou
shalt love thy neigilbor rs thys'lf; -
On these two commandments nahT u"
the lac and tie prophets
The italics are ours. and we want to
know: Who shall be saved? You "lio be-
long 10 or ,uild up clurrhcs-you Metho-
dists. Baptists. Preshyterians. Episcopal
lians. CatIOlirs-all of YOU? You 90 10
law as publicans do. and strive to set Il
yerdirt in your behalf. and it you nave
money enough your wish will surely M
gratifed. You pretend to believe that no
one can he saved outside you peculiar
church. but yOn cannot seq any farther m
to the charnel-liOuse than the 'erirst sin
ner. and you are us lit. I acquainted with
| Claron as the poor devil who writes these
lines. or as the dogs against whom Mr..
WIN. Vaughan is dire ted to use his "vil-
lainous lenl." Again we say Setdh
And we urge universal arguicscence in
the law about dogs and hogs. We know
It is. as we have said very hard to frame II
law to please all. Individual prejudice