ON SWIXE. 53 



Cojiimonwealtli to ruriiish a Champion for all living pork. 

 It would be a singular instance of ingratitude on the 

 part of the swinish race, if his valuable services in their 

 behalf, should not be commemorated by some token of 

 public approbation. The swine of Essex Co. would cor- 

 dially join their brethren in other parts of the world, in 

 some testimonial of gratitude to their distinguished bene- 

 factor. We would respectfully suggest to the sovereign 

 porkers within our own jurisdiction that a meeting be 

 held either at Byfield or that part of Ipswich called Hog- 

 town, to choose delegates to a World's Convention. In 

 that great constellation of swinish statesmen and wor- 

 thies, we doubt not the luminaries of Essex would vie 

 with the Bacon lights of Worcester, in doing honor to 

 their own great patron. 



It has not escaped the attention of the Committee, in 

 their reflections on the dignity of the swinish race, that a 

 new era in their history has just commenced. They are 

 henceforth to be the lights of the world ! It is to be 

 from their liquid substance, after having "shuffled off* 

 this mortal coil," that the human race is to derive that 

 light for which adventurous seamen have sought the 

 huge Leviathan in the remote parts of the globe. Chem- 

 ists have discovered that a substance may be derived 

 from pork, having all the economical properties of oil. 

 Thus the student at his midnight lamp, will be indebted 

 to the light furnished from the swine, for the varied lore 

 that will in its turn, enlighten the world ! We submit 

 then, whether the hog ought not to have a part at least, 

 of the credit of the quirks and the quibbles, the doubts 

 and decisions, the pleadings and replies and rejoinders 

 of the limbs of the law? and whether we are not also in- 

 debted to him for a portion of the hair-splitting argu- 

 ments, the nice distinctions, the disputes and the dust 

 and the fog and the casuistical smoke of the polemic 

 Divine? 



The Hog has much reason to complain of his treat- 

 ment from the hands of man. Not only is he deprived 

 of his liberty, but he is exposed to violence and assassi- 

 nation, and seldom lives to old age, or dies a natural 



