Resolved, That as we may not succeed in exterminating the human race for some time to come, a prize of $500 be offered to the human creatures for the best poem descriptive of our declaration of independence, the same to be handed in to the office of the Evening Post, whose editors are hereby authorized to pay over the prize-money; also a prize for the best life of King Penguin, with a full account of his genealogy and early youth, in the style of Mayor Wood’s; also a prize for the best essay on the Rights of Brutes […]
These resolutions being put by the Penguin from the throne, were carried unanimously.
The Animal Declaration of Independence Harper’s January 1857 [edited extract being part 11 in a series of 19]
