rest. The hungry beasts stop a few moments to fight over their prey. But
soon they are in hot pursuit again, fiercer because they have tasted
blood. A second child is thrown to them, and after a while a third and a
fourth.

Human society, gentlemen, in this matter of sacrificing fœtal life is as
insatiable as a pack of hungry wolves. Woe to any one of you if he
begins to yield to its cravings; there is no telling where he will stop.
In proof of my statement, let me read to you an extract from a lecture
on Obstetrics, delivered by Doctor Hodge, of Philadelphia, to the
medical students of the University of Pennsylvania: "We blush while we
record the fact, that, in this country, in our cities and towns, in this
city where literature, science, morality, and Christianity are supposed
to have so much influence; where all the domestic and social virtues are
reported as being in full and delightful exercise; even here
individuals, male and female, exist who are continually imbruing their
hands and consciences in the blood of unborn infants; yea, even medical
men are to be found who, for some trifling pecuniary recompense, will
poison the fountains of life, or forcibly induce labor, to the certain
destruction of the fœtus and not infrequently of the parent.

"So low, gentlemen, is the moral sense of the community on this subject,
so ignorant are the greater number of individuals, that even mothers, in
many instances, shrink not from the commission of this crime, but will
voluntarily destroy their own progeny, in violation of every natural
sentiment and in opposition to the laws of God and man. Perhaps there
are few individuals in extensive practice who have not had frequent
applications made to them by the fathers and mothers of unborn infants
(respectable and polite in their general appearance and manners) to
destroy the fruit of illicit pleasure, under the vain hope of preserving