on condition of finding them potatoes (which, of course, is
indispensable), permits them to work.--Among speculative persons,
a question has sometimes risen: In the progress of Emancipation,
are we to look for a time when all the Horses also are to be
emancipated, and brought to the supply-and-demand principle?
Horses too have "motives;" are acted on by hunger, fear, hope,
love of oats, terror of platted leather; nay they have vanity,
ambition, emulation, thankfulness, vindictiveness; some rude
outline of all our human spiritualities,--a rude resemblance to
us in mind and intelligence, even as they have in bodily frame.
The Horse, poor dumb four-footed fellow, he too has his private
feelings, his affections, gratitudes; and deserves good usage; no
human master, without crime, shall treat him unjustly either, or
recklessly lay on the whip where it is not needed:--I am sure if
I could make him "happy," I should be willing to grant a small
vote (in addition to the late twenty millions) for that
object!

Him too you occasionally tyrannize over; and with bad result to
yourselves, among others; using the leather in a tyrannous
unnecessary manner; withholding, or scantily furnishing, the oats
and ventilated stabling that are due. Rugged horse-subduers, one
fears they are a little tyrannous at times. "Am I not a horse,
and half-brother?"--To remedy which, so far as remediable,
fancy--the horses all "emancipated;" restored to their primeval
right of property in the grass of this Globe: turned out to
graze in an independent supply-and-demand manner! So long as
grass lasts, I dare say they are very happy, or think themselves
so. And Farmer Hodge sallying forth, on a dry spring morning,
with a sieve of oats in his hand, and agony of eager expectation