Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: Congress and the People
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
Congress and the People
SUCCESSIVE Congresses having greatly impoverished the People, they were discouraged and wept copiously.
"Why do you weep?" inquired an Angel who had perched upon a fence near by.
"They have taken all we have," replied the People - "excepting," they added, noting the suggestive visitant - "excepting our hope in heaven. Thank God, they cannot deprive us of that!"
But at last came the Congress of 1889.
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