Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1874-04-16

Our Representative in Congress, Hon,
II. X. Butler in a letter to the Echo,
attempts u reply to a communication
which appeared in this paper a few weeks
since signed Grant Republican, The
Judge states it is contrary to his custom
to reply to newspaper articles and after
a perdsal of this somewhat lengthy effu.
sion we are fully prepared to believe him.
1t reads very much like a first attempt
and if experience and practice fails to
improve his style it will be we'll for him
if it Is his last one. There is an element
Of s~hrewdnoss however in the the get up
of this article which may among people at
u distance tend to justify what Mr.. B..
said about the youth of this district some
.Jears ago as an excuse for selling his ca
deisbip to ono outside of his Immediate
constituents. Mr.. Butler claimed then
that he could not find a boy in the LIST
Congressional District qualified to pass
the West Point examination, and out
slders who read the miserable drivel of
which he has delivered himself liz the
columns of the Echo will readily believe
lin when they reflect that he is the
only grown up individual In this District
whom the people have thought qualified
to represent us in Congress. Taking
him as a representative of matured hui
manity in the first Congressional District
OF Tennessee, what could we expect of
our boys, who have not had the benefit of
good schools, to say nothing of the advan>
toges to be derived from experience and
contact with the best minds of the coun
try, which Mr.. Butler has enjoyed for the
past eight years. But it would seem that
the pon5orous intellect of the Butler fami>
ly must be constantly brought into re.
QUESTION otherwise, our District would
remain unrepresented both in the Halls
of Congress and in the Military Academy
of the United States. We learn that a
younger son of the Hon. II. r. L. is soon
to fill a vacancy in the Military academy
at West Point. Of course this is all right.
The District was doubtless ransached
from one end to the other to find a youth
upon whom nature and opportunities had
showered their favors to such a degree as
to enable him to successfully pass the or.
deal of an examination at West Point in
vain, and fearing we should be again com,
PEELED to sal out our educational pliyi,
legeS to the more gifted sons of Regular
Army Officers, Mr.. b. generously brings
one of his own family to the front and
c%onfers the position upon him.
Possibly the people may in tho limo.
cence of their hearts believe that the Nil,
itary Academy was created for the ben,
eft of Members of Congress alone. That
Mr.. Butler is perfectly justified in selling
out the first appointment and putting the
money in his own pocket and giving the
second to his W son, but Congress, took
4 different view of the former transaction
in ccnsuring him by a unanimous vote
and now what will the people say upon
the latter disposition of the situation ?
We shall see.
We should Fave more carefully ex
amined and criticised Mr.. Buffers article
in the Echo, had it not been SO ably an
swered in the reply of the GRANT RE
PUBLICAN published in another portion
of this Issue Ia which We refer our readers