The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07
THE HOG LAW AGAIN.

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you will not listen to "Dum Viyi,
mus Vivamus' who has been so IN.
gallant as to reply to the poor
Farmers Wife" with his legal lore
and classical nom de plume. He
has almost annihilated US country
crackers :" but we are like the tail
or's wife, who was always throwing
up scissors" to her "lord and mas
ter" who told her II Uill drown you
# on ever repeat that hateful word
agsin'-so one unfortunate day it
slipped out again scissors" Sure
, enough her head went uuder the tide,
and when she could no longer artic
ulate scissors" she stretched her
hand above the surface, and worked
her fingers in imitation of Scissors. "
Ladies are very persistent you know
aud do not love to be beaten when
they think their cause is just one
Take this hog law in all its bear.
ing and it seems very unjust indeed
to US who 1--we near enough to town
for our stock to stray into the lin
its of the corporation.
We do not question your "right"
TO impound them and make us pay
the penalty, or lose our stock. 1t
would be folly to do so. We know
you have the right, and jurisdiction
of making such corporation laws as
suit your taste and inclination and
interest. But let us olive aud let
live" as we'll as olive while we do
live" Now, my friends, is it just
and right and equal that you of the
city, should take up and impound
aLy of our stock that happens to
straggle into city limits, while you
turn your own (cows especially
loose and let them come out and
break into our fields and spoil our
crops 7 Do not say "have better
fences then-we might retort on
you when you are mourning over
your "spoiled garden Is the
townsman's garden more to him than
the farmers field, where he expects
to reap the staff of life, for himself,
and little ones, is to him All no,
it is a far more important object
than few summer vegetables-an
a place of recreation after the days
confinement in store, or office. 1t is
the toll. and sweat, and labor, and
hope of long summer, day in and
day out has he worked and watched
and worked. Like Cincinnatus Of
old, he looks after the plow, the hoe
and harrow, and the "reIiable" coli
ored gentleman if he has been so for
tunate as to get one or more Of them
to assist him, in his agricultural la
bors, but, alas he gets up some
fine morning to see herd of cattle
in his feld-some unruly COW has
pushed down panel of fence, and
led in a troup Of the bovine tribe
and we know how voracious and de
structive they are.
Now, we submit to you gentle~
men, city fathers, which is the most
deserving of commiseralion, and
ameli pration too, your hearts will
admit of 1.-THE man who has had
his potatoes rooted up" or the
man. who day after day has his
fields invaded by town cowsf
This is no fancy sketch-we
speak that we know and have expe>
rienced. And it proves this, if it
proves any thing or If it is worth
talking about at all We all, town
and cauntry folks, rich and poor,
black and white. gentle and simple,
have trouble enough of our own that
is only known to ourselves, wherein
we expect no sympathy or assistance
but such as comes from the GAN
Father" without our joining in a
crusade. man against man, interest
against interest, town against coun>
try, and country against town. We
cannot expect to make our hogs and
cows behave just as we would like
to have them d., but we will Try not
to lose patience with our neighbor
when we know he is doing the best
he can to educate" and keep them
in proper bounds.
Pardon my persistency gentlemen
and please consider my petition, and
in the words of another "l-et US
have peace"
FARMERS WIFE.