The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-23
THE HOG or RIppou,

While the masses of the people all over the
country are manifesting the broadcast and
sineerest charity for those sections of the
South which are being swept and made DESC
late by the pestilence, here and there a
creature with misshapen, crawling and hide
GUS moral nature, wrapped in the likeness of
q man, rises up to shame humanity and dis
gust every decent community.
The editors Of the New York Times and the
Chicago Times, with the appetites of the re-
pulsive beast which invades the grave to
feast upon the corpse, have been busy of late
in Wanting the charity Of the North and
reviling the restitution and @meanness" Of the
Southern people. We have not thought it
necessary to reply to the revolving billings
gate OF these two supercilious sheets. The
tidal wave Of charity, sweeping over the
North grandly, as If impelled by the hand
of Divinity, shows SO clearly that the New
York paper and its Chicago namesake do not
represent the sentiments of any considerable
number of the Northern people, that, to dig
nifty their abuse by an elaborate reply would
be an insult to the country.
But there is drtier ditch of meanness
than the editors of the two papers referred to
have yet walowed In. There Is, however, a
little sheet published In Rippon, Wis, which
has rooted around in filth until it has found
that ditch, and at the bottom of it made its
congenial and natural resting-place, where it
rolls, and wallows, and grunts and fills its
little town with it's stencil.
On the borders of Green Lake. about ten
miles from Rippon, there are two beautiful
summer resorts. At one of them, Sherwood
Forest, owned by liberal, cultivated and
genial gentleman, who spares no pains or ex-
pense In making his Southern guests COM
Portable and happy-Mr. J. @. Sherwood
there are, spending the summer and fall
seasons, a number Of ladies and gentlemen
from New Orleans. All Of these have con-
tributed directly to the full extent of their
means for the relief of their suffering fellow
citizens here, and all Of them have friends and
relations amongst us engaged actively in the
work of relief.
Now, a short time ago the generous people
of the little city of Rippon organized an enter
tainment for the relief Of the yellow fever
sufferers. We understand that the citizens
far and wide literally patronized it; the wave
of sympathy, charity and love rolled up in q
strong flood even to the northern part Of far
off Wisconsin At Sherwood Forest tickets
we're sold, and all the New Orleans people
were among the purchaser. But they did not
buy enough tickets to suit the little hog of
Rippon; hence he printed in his paper the
following
The liberality of the average moneyed
Southerner would drive charitably inclined
individual mad with envy. The lockwood
folks took two tickets in the entertainment
Forest" guests would have bought one If
times were not SO close as to keep them
humping in order to allow payments Of S25
a week for expenses at a summer resort.
The poor little creature! Some gentleman
should turn him over his knee and paddle
him with lady's slipper. Even il the South
erners did not buy all the tickets he wanted
them to buy, If he had been in any sense of the
word q gentleman, he would not have tainted
and insulted them while they were guests in
his own community. But why waste more
words on such fellow.
We are certain that his indecency has
borhood as much as it has Disguised us.
There are no kinder or more liberal people
In the North than those we have met in the.
country where this creature lives; and no one
from the South ever visits our old friend
Sherwood and his charming and accomplished
family at their romantic Forest, on the bor-
ders Of one Of the loveliest Of lakes, without
bearing away with them multitude Of pleas
ant memories.