Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1877 — Whereas. [ARTICLE]

Whereas.

A minister having preached against social abnomuties to his congregation, was a few days after waited upon by a committee, presenting him a set of resolutions not very complimentary, to say the least. Looking over the string of abuses, each beginning with “whereas,” and the names of the committee signed at the end, he remarked, “ Where asses like these draw up resolutions, whereases like these must be expected.”