The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-11-15
Mornings Of the Rachels.
IN. y. HERALD

The next Congress will present an IN
| familiar spectacle to the frequenter OF the
galleries Of the House, and the lady cores J.
| pondents-as become the modern hacheis
will be kept busy noting the new faces
| which have just appeared upon the scene
and bewailing the absent heroes whom an
untoward fate has left at home. The dig
nified bearing and white mustache OF Fer
nando Wood the eccentric comedy of
Sunset Cox; the modest, quiet face of
Michael Kerr; tue weazen form of Alexan-
der H. Stephens, will employ as many pens
as before. General Banks will be hailed
upon his return to the floor as democrat
once more, and one or two other Republl-
can leaders in times past will be noted for
their activity on the other side. Speaker
Blaine, hurled from his Olympian throne to
the common lot of common congressman.
will cause many Sapphic tears to flow, and
General Garfield, long the hayseed god OF
bombazine quilldrivers, will be described as
q picture of utter loneliness and despair
But Dawes, for 80 many years the heavy
father of the House, owing to the tidal
wave which swept over Massachusetts, will
be found not there; neither in the Senate,
where democrat will sit in the chair of
Charles Sumner. Horace Maynard, dark
and swarthy as an Indian, a favorite sub
ject for the female pen, has also disap-
peared. The rich ambrosial locks of Gen
eral Negiey, match for Logan's raven hair
and Farnsworth's flowing beard in the days
of au}d lang syne, will 40 longer float
through the corridors and in and out of the
Speakers room. General Sypher's military
bearing will be missed at the head of the
army of strikers. But, saddest picture of a
saddening scene, General Butler will range
no more with leonine ferocity through the
national menagerie. In his loss the
dramatic element of the House is lost in
deed. What should we think of play
where all the characters were cut upon the
model of G oldsmith's village parson What
shall we think of a Congress where every
thing is stupid that is not respectable and
every thing respectable that is not stupid :
General Butler detested stupidity and stood
not with the order of responsibility. If he
never did a thoroughly good thing neither
was he ever guilty of thoroughly stupid
thing. In him Cakes Ames found friend
though his hand had not touched Credit
Mobilier. he defended moieties, even
though the doing of it shook the Young
Mems Christian Association to it's very
foundations. He was always protane wher
the House was disposed to say the litany
| and he shocked the moral sense of people
not so much in that he was not saint az
in refusing to be hypocrite. Such mar
cannot fail to be missed, especially at 6
time of political revolution when many new
| men sit in the seats of old foes and ole
favorites and q new band holds the wan6
which moulds legislation. The next Con
gress will be not unlike village after 6
| plague-the Sunday school patriots and the
| tavern topers having disappeared together
and youth and freshness taking their places
| We may not bewail the loss of these excep
as bit of sentiment to employ the pens o
women but we fear these modern Rachel
will mourn in vain, for tue decade which
sent volunteer generals into the House il
ended. The Buffers and Negleys ant
Syphers are already lost, and most of thos,
who remain, by whatever party utilization
they appeal to their CONSTITUENCIES, ma,
also and as we'll be spared. 1t will no
hurt the country if the MORNINGS of thu
Rachels are revived occasionally, shout,
their wailings only signify that thereby TIN
back pay and like heroes are being dropped
from the roll.