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but by this humane device the knowing ones of the 

 present age, are in no wise deceived; and beneath it 

 recognize the tender regard, and sympathetic appreci- 

 ation by which he was animated. 



At the present day, indeed, the Hog is found too indis- 

 pensible to the comfort and happiness of mankind to 

 be suffered to remain in that entire immunity from all 

 the duties and responsibilities of life, that he enjoyed 

 under the Jewish dispensation; but he is selecled pecu- 

 liarly from all other animals to be the recepient of the 

 favor, and domestic intimacy of man. The object of 

 the tenderest solicitude from his earliest age he is care- 

 fully fied, housed, and cared for ; and no other return 

 sought, but that he shall thrive and wax fat. None of 

 the ills of life molest him ; he fares sumptuously every 

 day at no expense to him ; no curtain lectures invade 

 his repose — no duns harass him — no pertinacious sub- 

 scription papers assail his purse and peace of mind; 

 he pays no taxes — he never heard of lawyers — he 

 knows no doctor's bills — he does no work — he is never 

 anxious about his rising family — in short, nothing dis- 

 turbs the placid and equable tenor of his existence. By 

 the laws of the land he is peculiarly set apart and 

 guarded ; and it was one of the earliest statutory 

 achievements of our forefathers to enact that his person 

 should be inviolate from attatchment ; or, in other words, 

 that he should be privileged from arrest for debt — a 

 favor extended only to Hogs and members of Congress. 



The only return that is asked for all these favors is 

 that when he has attained the amplest mnjesty of his 

 fat — when all the elements of swine-hood have met and 

 done their perfect work — when he has expanded and 



