The newspapers for the last few weeks have been a source of grievous
affliction to humane minds. The brutalities which they have recorded have
shown a diabolical refinement of cruelty which makes us blush to belong to the
race of man. When we read of a wretch driving a poor horse for miles with its
feet broken, bleeding at every step it took upon its poor stumps, we shudder
and our blood runs cold;
