The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-03-16
Tho Ass is the Siuusr,
Even The Massachusetts, rcprcs

| lISSH iie NldSSiInu ufSttS representa-
tives OF the South IN Congress, stan,
no earthly chance Of mnintsinin.
their power aud position as Hcprescn
tativrs. The genuine blood hound
there, with Norllcrn constituencies
at their backs, and turn and r>nd sucl
creatures as would pack Of genuin,
fox hounds tho mauey cur that ven
tured to intrude into their midot.
Mr.. Wbittemorc. so-callcd repre-
sentative from Sonth Carolina, ha
been expelled from his seat in Con
gress for having disposed of .his Pa
tronagc in tho matter Of West Point
aud Annapolis appointmonts--expcll
ed on such a charge from body il
which BENZ. Il. Butler, NJ assachusotts
is shining light!
We compared his case Il that Of q
cur venturiug among pack OF
thorough bred hounds. There is still
better illustration Of it in ono of the
fables of La Fontaine.
Once upon time, says that writer,
in effect, tho beasts Of the forests
were visited by great plague: and,
to take measures for appeasiug the
gods, the lion, king of tho boasts,
convokcd States General, or Con-
gress, all Of his subjects.
After the meeting had boon organ
lied, the motion was made and calried
that every beast should make q full
confession of his sins, and that tho
one that proved to have committed
the most grcvious sin, should bo offer
cd up as sacrifice to conciliate the
favor of the scourging gods.
The bear confessed that he had hug
ged to death many wayfarer in his
day, and had broken up many hive
of innocent and industrious bccs.-
When he had flushed, the assembled
wisdom of the forest obscrTcd his
claws, and voted unanimously that his
lordship the bear had only done what
he had a right to do, and was not con-
sequcntly a suitable victim for the
sacrifice.
The wolf was the next to confess.
lie had been u very wicked wolf il
his time; ho had destroyed entire
focks Of sheep, and even q few shop
herds. The Congress heard his co.,
fession, looked at his teeth, and vote;,,;;
his sius to be venial ones
At length it came the ASS turn to
confess. "I have never committed IL
murder in my life," he said. "The
greatest sin Of which | nm guilty was
to reach my neck over neighbours
fence ono day, when l was worry hun.
CRY, and take 1t monthful of grass that
didn't belong to me-" "Down with
him y was the cry from every side.--
"It was the sin of the ass that brought
upon us the visitation from the gods |"
And the ass was saoriGed.
So it is with Whittemorc, and so it
will be with any man pretending to
represent, in the Congress of tho Uni
ted States, even the Radical negro
element of tho South. Bears and
wolves like Rutlor and Schcnck can,
with impunity, squandcr the wealth
and barter away tho liberties of tho
people they pretend to represent
but only let a helpless ass like Whit
tcmorc stcnl single blado of grass
in the shape of disposing of q cadet.
ship or two, and the CRY is "sacri6ce
him"
Nevertheless, in the late congress.
sional campaign in This district, tho
question before us votcless "rebels"
was said to be embodied in these
words: "Reform the Congress Re-
form the Congrcss!"
Only think of it A prominent fea.
ture in the Tammany plan of redemp-
tion is tho reformation Of Beast But
Ter through tho agency of "rebcls /"
Wonders will never oease.-lfoJtke
Tribune.