New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-05
|HE CARPET-BAG.

terminated with the election of
thought they did a wise and witty
They were greatly mistaken.
carpet-bagger, so-called, is, as a
xoficer of the Union army, who
south during the war, has resided
b from three to six years, has en-
n business or profession, and tried
"a duty as a good citizen.
called csrpet-bagger because he
republican. Perry Fuller, General
AN and Mr.. Smallwood are never
carpet-baggers, because they are
rats.
cry Of carpet-bagger, therefore, is
political persecution, jeer Of par
erision.
has been the result? The North
est have heard the cry. The people
know the carpet-baggers. They re-
Or how, with tears, they bade them
bye in 1872. The thousands of ex-
rs who fought under the command
bee carpet-baggers, remember them
kindness. Letters pass to and
etween the old home and the
visits are exchanged, and when,
ure it was known that the
Asggers were denounced, and viii
ND now and then driven away or
red the friends of the carpet baggers,
laine to Missouri, turned out to vote
liant.
senseless, inhospitable, discourteOus
Of csrpet-baggers was worth fifty
aud votes for the President elect.
9 is are the Southern Democracy led
by blind guides.
cry of "bloated bondholders' was
er error on the part of the forlorn
,cracy. They meant to appeal by it
poor mans envy of the rich, and to
supposed dishonest desire Of the
Ter class of taxpayers to repudiate
ublic debt,
they shouted, "The plowholder
= st the bondholder.'
other mistake.
the first place, the plowholders are
selves the bondholders. There is
ya Northern or Western farmer who
at his little bond put away.
be second place the savings banks
their thousands of poor depositors
eayy holders of bonds. Take the fol
ng statistics of the present condition o.
Nilliamsburgh City Savings Bank, ar
tuition which, from its location, deaE
By with the humber and more poorly
of all our citizens who live by theil
toll The bank has now on deposi
9O9,9O7, which is divided up among
N open accounts; an average of $34.
each account. OF these deposits
6l79 800 is invested in bonds of th
tied States, so that each depositor is
irectly, a bondholder to the amount o
~ cents on every dollar of his deposits
lon an average, to the amount of $l37.
f these 1924 depositors, again, 372
married women, 922 single women an,
2 widows; in all, 5725 women, who OIL
average hold $lS7 each of Government
Dds.
Now, when demagogues talk about "th
1ated bondholders," we just want thei
lrers to think of this little army of II,
hard working people, of whom 572
women, who have S137 each investe
the securities thus recklessly assailed
ese are the figures taken from the book
|One single institution, and no more.
The returns of all the savings banks i
State show that, of the Sal, 100000
ID by them, $40, 000,0 900, or nearly one
I'D Of the whole amount is invested j
lited States bonds. The total number {
positors is 4S7 500, of whom 307 90
ne their accounts in savings banks lC
ped in the city of New York.
10 the third place, the people at laig
lere schools and churches prevail, ar
LINED to honesty in the abstract, an
like .repudiation, however sugared owe
III sophistry.
And SO they go for Grant.
The following is the last gossip on tn
ward engagement:
Miss Olive Risley, the daughter Of a
icer of the Treasurysa large and hand
me lady of dark hair and stately carriag,
3 been amused and fiattered by the gol
current that Mr.. Seward is in love wit
II. The lady is under thirty, the Score
~ sixty-seven, having been born in tn
ar 1901. The whole story rests upon th
Ct that Mr.. Seward sent favorite phys
an to her mother, recently deceased
ID now comforts the lady by civ
g her sirings in his carriage. Amen
q diplematists Of the Old World thes
AsslaSeS OF power on the one side an
anty on the other, are quite common
'lnt Bodisco, white as Russian snow
arried tripping schoolgirl in George
wn. Mr.. Seward is hale and lively as
" At his receptions he will stand thre
urs at the foot of the room, never show
fatigue. To make. eonQnest of
ndsome woman woula prownin
At Of his diplomas he coul
iAst that while he co1 me kni
q gigantic assassin, up h
art to her.
M. Seward has beep speed
bis home at Sweet The or
N is rather more tho plomat
d obscure, but We blown
tract, when translal ewardei
70 plain English, me- old gel
man went home to ! nt.
The magistrates who ide, the
the work of Ieco hereaft'
|ght TO be men dra nd repr
nling that class Of 10 mai
med the Government DseeutiC