What claim had the Dog to the supremacy of the brutes? Had he not notoriously taken the side of their oppressors from time immemorial? He would go so far in his respect for man as to admit that he had given them a hint of which they should profit. He (man) had given to one animal the name of the King of Beasts. He was entitled to it. he was a King. He anticipated their applause when he nominated for President the noblest denizen of the forest, the Lion.
The Animal Declaration of Independence Harper’s January 1857 [edited extract being part seven in a series of 19]
