The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-08-14
Calling .S,a,,ses.

Some of the Republican papers complain
bitterly, that the office-seekers from the
North, who have gone down South for the
purpose Of getting there what they could not
obtain at home, are termed carpet baggers,"
and attempt to rctaliate, by making similar
charge against d. w. Voorhees, and others,
who permanently changed their residences
years ago. The term "carpet-baggers" GER
tainly, was never intended to apply to this
class of men, whether Democrats or Repub-
licans, but only to those who appear to have
removed for the purpose of securing an cleo
ton to some important position of trust and
profit. Certain it is, that almost all the
Republican candidates of the South are men
who are hardly warm in their new homes
and it is to this class of people that the appel
lation is applied. '7f t.' .iio
We are no friend to these slang phrases,
and very seldom use them. We think it a
great pity that it cannot be done without, or
rather that it is not avoided, as it might prof
itably be. The use of nicknames, or vulgar
personal abuse, never helped any party by
whom they were used, nor was ever a can
didate injured by their use, unless it was the
candidate of the party abusing. 1t always
seemed to us,to. be presenting ON the igno-
rance ofthe people rather than appealing to
their intelligence and good But when
party organ applies such terms. as carpet
baggers" to members Of its own party, and
gives the reason why the application is
proper one, We can see no, reason why the
press of the opposite party may not adopt
the epithet, without being charged with tray
cling out Of the range Of newspaper proprie-
ty, - -; usor.es,,.tn ~ Z, -
The New York Herald Of the sixth of the
present month, contains, an article headed
Current of Political Sentiment and the Pres
idential election in the South" which we
give below. In this article Mr. Bennett, after
arguing that the course, and greed, and de-
ceptive practices of the, Republicans have
lost to the party the South, goes on to show
that they are "carpet-baggers,n in truth and
in fact, and that they have been properly 80
styled He asserts most, broadly that the
object Of the. passage Of the reconstruction
acts was for the purpose only of keeping that
party in power, and that the quarrel between
Congress and the President grew out of this
fact alone; that the negroes have found out
That these carpet baggers care nothing for
them, and that their only true, and reliable
friends are their former masters, who know
how.to treat them, and have for them a kind
ly feeling. Hiilt ani-siXa ssty "a se0ig
Tie Herald is by no means select in its
language, as applied to these people. 1T
says: 'ssrhe Northern carpet baggers and
orators have cheated and deceived them, UNI.
der the pretence Of sympathizing with them
and being their friends, and as natural con-
sequence they turn 70 the people Who employ
them and with whom theft destiny Is cast" =
Now ia newspaper ID the Interest of the.
Republican party can afford to talk this Ways
one would naturally think that it would be
no want Of decorum for an opposition jour
nal to use thesane languages. But Mr.. Benz
nett, who Is nov so earnestly the friend Of
the Republican candidates., and who il, Just
now thought by Republicans, to berso very
accurate in Mi his ::s:.ei
more than we have quoted9tsWe therefore
append The whole article Read ~ for your
selves. He says: Hoqn hoI o'eHo9 ON
CURRENT OF PoLITIcAL SENTIMENT AND, THE
.iPREsIDENTrAL EI,EcrIeSf IN THE SOUTH 4
An extraordinary and quite unexpected
revelation is taking place in the political
prospects ofparties In tbs Southsi The radi-i
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