504 
JEROME BUCK. 
If the language in Shakespeare extorted from one of his 
characters by the terror of menaced death is not by that terror 
exaggerated and the 
“Poor beetle that we tread upon, 
In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great 
As when a giant dies,” 
What a list of grievances endured by an abused ancestry could 
be presented by every horse who shall patiently toil upon the 
stones of West street or give his owner an airing in the park to- 
morrow. 
Well may this thought soften our feelings towards the noble 
animal. That it does so, as we regard his unrevengeful nature of 
itself entitles him to the gratitude of man, to keep in sympathy 
witli his generous qualities, to pity his wrongs, to be touched at 
beholding his superiority to malice and rancor, will help a man, 
will help a people towards godlike majesty, and the exaltation 
which charity confers. Keen susceptibility of that kind, combined 
with a brain and hand efficient to execute his impulses, can make 
of a man such a deserver of the praises of his fellows as Henry 
Bergh. Giving tongue to the sufferings of the mute as he does, 
warring as he does against the cruel and arrogant of his own kind 
in behalf of an inferior kind which would not seem arrogant, even 
could we understand their gambols and gestures, there is promise 
in that people who own and can with pride point to Henry Bergh 
as a representative man. Those who will listen to him are sure 
not to go backwards in their appreciation of speed and song. In¬ 
directly even in these, though speechless and songless, our faithful 
friend may be a minister to man. We discover great poetic beauty 
in the biblical recital of the ills of human life. Along the action 
of Mr. Bergh and his society, so far as the same are exponent of 
the suffeiings of our dumb friends, runs there not poetry of even 
tenderer cadence visible and audible to Him without whom “ was 
not anything made ?” 
It is not by virtue of being a biped merely that man can be 
entitled to dominion “ over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of 
the air, and over the cattle,” and by showing himself qualified for 
that masterhood one will be sure to take thereby the esteem of 
