Animal Rights
March 20, 1861
Writing to the author of a book about animal rights: “My heart actually leaped within me as I read the expressive title, “The Rights of Animals”! In appreciation, he writes specifically about some of the ideas of the author, John S. Rarey, and signs his letter, “Yours, for the recognition of ‘the rights of man’ and ‘the rights of animals'”. 1