The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-03
OPEN LETTER TO OUR BERGH.

A PLEA FOR THE MOLLUSCS AND CRUSTACEA.
We submit the following open letter to
the humane young gentleman who thirsts
for the honors which crown the brow Of the
immortal Bergh as a sample Of most exquis-
lite sarcasm. Poor Bernau! thy path to fame
will be thorny one indeed.
August Bernau Esq, President Of the Louisar State
Association for the Prevention and Suppression Il
Cruelty to Animals:
Benevolent Sir Every sensitive and refined AZURE
will heartily approve your recent action in tehalt of
the poor, oppressed testud,nes. condemned by the
p ysical torture Of the pene forte dure but to the
more appalling moral agony OF bearing bazoned on
their ppturned bel les the sentence of their own
doom.
II it b. humanely forbid len "seethe the I'D in its
mothers milk" how must the Christa / conscience
revolt at tn more at ocious nfamy of advertising
the ba ed and palpitatng heart of the tender
turtle-sacred to song and sentiment Soup this
day at IL O'Clock " The genius of a consu mate
master of fct on has portrayed for the last day Of
Q condemn d MAI but what pen-unless dipped in
Bergh's own ink-could fifty body forth the slow
erawn tortures of these. the awful hour of noon
creepS lingering y
Nor these alone. Has your educated sensibity
sir, suffered it's II to dwell the supreme AMI
far protracted suerngs of oyster, torn from
the bosom of its family-beneath the plying light OF
the moon, it may by tho cru | graphing iron
thrown into the darx and and nosome hold of a
wre'ched lupger, shoveled thence by rid, hands
into a cart, ratified the rough sto in
the blaze of a MONDAY sun, dumped on tn unfeeling
pavement, like much sea-coal, frozen in turn
ocks Of thickrbbed ice, st ipped from it's pea ly
cradle by the thrust of ragged knife and tn pepper
poured into its still qnivering wounds sent
down tu slow dissolution in the acrid juices of
fermcnting stomach all alive Oh -- and perhaps
with the added malignity Of brandy punch
Has your generous soul been haunted,
with hideous nightmare by the visions OF soft
shell crabs, bas ed new ,rn babes, broed alive
the grdiron. Unc nonzed Saint Lawrences, scmed
to the martyrs cross without the crown
Are you aware, Sir! that at this passing moment,
tens of thousands of crayfsh holding up treni-
bling hands in the boiling pot, crying out inaudby
it may be, to the super spiriIualized like
yours how long, Lord how long their
agony, mean not your
Gracious Heavens! In the face of such suf.rings
these. coldly and malic ously inflicted, and
dured with such accomplishing meekn IS, there
fends in human shape who can ate Of the berries
Of State overthrown of people grooming under the
oppression OF reckless and debauched task masters,
of houseless and women stand ng amid the Desc
lation OF their ruined homes and hea ing their chill
dren cry for bread with none to give hem?
II such there be- we at least thank God that
among that number for whom some awful vengeance
surely slumbers, will not be found in the day of
reck onlng the President of the louisa State Asso-
citation for the Prevention and Suppression of Cruelty
to Animals and his fearful a1mirer and devoted
humble servant SWEET SENSIBILIIY