New-York tribune., 1874-03-20

priest They went out iOaued 10 "o
borps with Credit Mobilier. And the
Acbans In the camp who had great wedges
of Credit Moblier concealed in their tents
CLAIMED their hands as the procession de-
parted saying: "Behold how Israel purihes
itself.n The goats with the scarlet cloth on
their heads. over which the high priests had
confessed the sins of the whole Israel, went
into the desert places Of Massachusetts,, ln-
diana. and New Hampshire and new account
WAS opened. The Franking Privilege was re-
pealed in the day of the partys remorse and
the Salary Grab enacted in the reaction OF
complacent and self-satisied virtue which fol-
lowed.
The tenth of the month Tisri has again
come round, and the Levites have led up
their goat "for Azazel." He has broad sloul-
ders and lofty brow, quantity divergent
vision and such friskiness of temperament as
pnts the contrito Israel to blush. The wise
in goats pronounce him "smart :" the Pharisees
admire the breadth of beam which gives MN
such capacity for burden bearing; The goat
himself takes on the load, and never so much
as casts on the high priest reproachiui
glance.
To the carnal eye the goat seems already
loaded He carries the Franking Privilege, the
Salary Grab, the Initiation heresy. the SanDorn
oon.roo.o. .ho J"ynv 5windie, the defeat OF
Civil Service Reform, Senator Boutwell,, Secre-
tary Richardson, and Collector Simmons
Besides these he has a great weight of per-
sonal and political "pure cussedness," and
still under the hands of the high priest put
ting of all the transgressIons of the Re
publican Israel upon his head, he
seems comfortable and complacent, and at
intervals visibly winks. His capacity
is so great and his cheerfulness so
constant and unfaiing that it would surprise
no one if the Massachusetts Levtes, who have
so far done most of the loading, should put
the Great Silent Man himself on the top be-
fore the scapegoat il led out into the desert
place. There wa never a goat so loaded !;
still be ruminated and was patient when Presi-
dent Grant appointed Mr.. Simmons Collector
of the Port of Boston and the Senate con-
lirmed him. Mr. John NJ. Forbes and other
respectable Boston persons came and hoisted
Simmons with derrick on to the back OF this
overloaded scapegoat, and the goat only said
IL Poor Boy and took it. He's "A philosophic
scapegoat. He never murmurs He stands
there now loaded down with all the trans
grcssions of the party, with much lying, some
theft, considerable corruption and bribery
general incOmpetoncy, and failure to respond
TO tle wants of the people.
The only trouble now is he doesn' 60. He
is loaded, but he evinces no disposition 10
seek the desert. He looks wOndcrlDgly into
the face and eyes of the high priest The
Boston Adrsrtiser says to him, with great
JUNCTION and i'm a double-cadcd way, Shoe I"
The Worcester Spy throws up its hands aud
remarks also Shoo!" As one with lifted foot
to the strange dog in the entry should say.
"S-s-t!r so Beacon street says, with great
sbilation, "S-s-t! S-s-immons-s Get ont -
The Brothers lIoar point him to the desert,
but he goes not; the Republican party of
Massachusetts waits to see him start; he only
looks in contemplativc way over his shoulder
at the load, then mt the high priest, and
then at the Great Silent Man n; and though he
stirs not, there is that in his mien and manner
which seems TO say plainly and distinctly that
he is not that kind of "A goat And still
there are more people waiting to see him start
than there were to witness the launch of the
City of Pcking.
Possibly he will start some time. If he does,
we venture the prediction that about next
September he will come again, not, perhaps,
like Mazeppa, with truce for thousand horsc,'
but with Il little bill for services rendered.
For this scapegoat does not carry the sins OF
the people in n ceremonial way. He is in the
express business. Aud then, if we may ven
ture another prediction. Mr.. Henry l.. Dawes,
should he be in the United States Senate at
that time, will say to the Republican State
Convention, "Oh, he good sort of goat /;
"let him have it'