The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-13

the humble VAIN. he patient OK
submits his neck to the yoke and
has no dream of a liberty long ago
lost and forever forgotten.
The simple sheep yields up It's
coat without a murmur, and the
prrinting porker squeals no dissent
10 the annual sacrifice. For "a
for pleasure. for food and for raj
mont. man LAYS the animal creation
under tribute, and exactS it to the
uttermost farthing without appa-
rent sense of his responsibility.
Now, we take it, that there Is a
certain responsibility incurred both
BIZ humanity and BY interest. The
last may be most forcibly appealed
t.. The other is at least as imper-
atiye. Man has taken his domes-
ticated family from their native
Wild in which the congeners Of most
of them still range or roam IN
primitive freedom: and he has ia
ken them. to the dulling of their
instincts. to the changing Of their
habits and to the injury Of their
health. He has made them de-
pendent upon him for their food,
BY compelling them to his use and
bv restraining them of their liberty.
He has. bv changing their habits.
made them subjects Of disease from
which a state Of nature exempted
them. He has destroyed their
hardness, by the creation OF new
habits, and by destruction OF
that self dependence, the accom-
paniment of self-protectlng IN
stinct. In a word, man by his sub
iucation of the brute creation has
usurped a guardianship which ma
ture undertook, and which she al
ways faithfully exercises when not
interfered with. When lnterferred
with, she expects that duty to be
well performed by the hand that
assumes the charge.
There is therefore, a responsible
tv Of humanity for which man is
chargeable towards the creatures he
has made dependent; weak, diseas-
ed, and helpless because Of the blunt
mo of instinct. And how do
we meet that responsibility, espec-
tally we of the South? And the
blush of conscious guilt might man
tie every cheek, as could the unhap-
py brutes utter their complaining
voice, the spontaneous answer would
come forth. Habits, begotten with
the first settlement of the country,
when the settler had much ado to
provide himself a shelter, and was
forced to leave his animals to seek
their food and their protection IN
the surrounding forest or in the
luXuriant brakes, are perpetuated
when the forests are gone or dimin-
lshed and when the brakes have
ceased to yield their succulent pas
turage. We proclaim to the world
as II of the inducements to I'M
migration, that our climate is 50
mild, that our cattle need no shell
ter and require no reserve supplies
Of food during the Winter months.
10 u shame, be it said, we dc
!, submit them to that ordeal. and
test their vitality with all the tor
lures that cold and starvation can
unite. We to turn them out tC
broWze If they can upon fields brown
and bare and culled Of the last blade
OF nutrition. We do compel then
to seek their shelter under the lie,
OF barn or fence from the p~itiles.
| ram Or the binding sleet OF The
drifting snow, their s~hivering side,
mantled with icicles and their per
lshlng frames trembling with cold
They may go through the Winter
, but many sink under the trial
and like the Irishman's horse die
just when they seemed to havt
learned to live without food o.
shelter, and doubtless much to til,
dismay Of their confiding owners
! Now it seems that we have liveC
long enough in this climate to hav,
parted with all poetic fancies 0
'balmy airs AID a Southern skv.
Our winters are not lOnU. II = trua