It was a disgrace to the age that the wrongs of the Turtle should be allowed to continue without even a single effort to relieve them. At the present time especially, when they were all engaged in a holy movement for the redress of grievances and the assertion of the natural liberty of brutekind, it was disgusting to see the indifference with which many honourable brutes viewed the condition of the Turtle. Was he not a beast and a brother?
The Animal Declaration of Independence Harper’s January 1857 [edited extract being part 16 in a series of 19]
