32 Journal — February^ [Part I. 



26. Returned to Philadelphia. Roads very dirty 

 and heavy. 



27. Complete thaiv ; but it will be long before 'the 

 frost be out of the ground. 



28. Same weather. Very warm. I hate this wea- 

 ther. Hot upon my back, and melting ice under my 

 feet. The people (those who have been lazy) are 

 chopping aAvay with axes the ice, which has gro\vn out 

 of the snows and rains, before their doors, during the 

 winter. The hogs (best of scavengers) are very busy 

 in the streets seeking out the bones and bits of meat, 

 which have been flung out and frozen down amidst 

 water and snoAv, during the two foregoing months. I 

 raean including the present month. At New York (and, 

 I think, at Philadelphia also) they have corporation 

 laws to prevent hogs from being in the streets. For 

 what reaso7i, I know not, except putrid meat be plea- 

 sant to the smell of the inhabitants. But, Corporations 

 are seldom the wisest of laM^makers. It is argued, that, 

 if there were no hogs in the streets, people would not 

 throw out their orts of flesh and vegetables. Indeed ! 

 What would they do with those orts, then? Make their 

 hired servants eat them 1 The very proposition Avould 

 leave them to cook and wash for themselves. Where, 

 then, are they to fling these effects of superabundance ? 

 Just before I left Noav York for Philadelphia, I saw a 

 sow very comfortably dining upon a full quarter part of 

 what appeared to have been a. fine leg of mutton. Hoav 

 many a family in England woidd, if within reach, have 

 seized this meat from the sow ! And, are the tyrants, 

 who have brought my industrious countrymen to that 

 horrid state of misery, never to be called to account J 

 Are they alicays to carry it as they now do 1 Every 

 object almost, that strikes ray view, sends my mind 

 and heart back to England. In vie^ving the ease and 

 happiness of this people, the contrast fills my soul with 

 indignatioii, and makes it more and more tlie object of 

 my life to assist in the destruction of the diabolical 

 usurpation, which has trampled on king as well a« , 

 people. 



