The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-08
H,,n,;cntt and the Carpet-Baggers.

the scabby tribe OF carpet-oaggers, wac
about to be driven from his paper, the Neao
Nation, in order that : stream OF revenue
il afforded-and winch, under carpet-hag
manipulation, might be vastly increased
might fall into the reservoir of some nun
CRY interloper. The Ne,o Nation OF yeS'e'-
dav shows that we were right. HUSN1CrTT
exnoses the maneuvre by which it is at
tempted to dislodge him. large amount of
Government advertising-we have heard
&c 900 worth-has been withdrawn from
him and sent to the carpet bag organ called
the Journal, at Alerandriat In this way
HUxNICUTT's resources were to be dried up,
and he forced to surrender. The ingenious
strategist in this initiated CYRUS IN turning
away the river to take the city. And we
fear from the signs in yesterdays Nea' Ma
ton that the artifce is telling-the susten-
tatious rivulet of the Ne,o Nation s grown
small and inefficient, and the patriotic con-
ductor of that paper is so straitened tor the
irrigating supply essential to his domestic
economy that he cries out against his OPP
preggors and direfully threatens them with
wrathful revenge unless they cease their
war upon him and put ligament at once
around the big artery which is conveying
sll his official pap to his enemy IN Alex
andria
lie tells them it is mean and base to fitch
from him his just rights and bringing IKE
SAycHo, proverb to his aid, he exclalms :
"He who is unjust in that which is least is
unjust also in that which is much" very
true and he deliberately informs these
"uniust " ones that though they may WIND
him up financially" he twill see to 1t
that they shall be aco,snd up politically"
He further informs them in this wise
ave believe the determined object of these
"parties is to force US to sell out for want
"of that patronage which they have, ana
care wickedly and unjustly withholding
" from us, and start a new paper, and keep
cup their paper in Alexandria, and thus
secure to themselves the entire public
"printing of the State and that OF the
" Federal Government. If this game be
attempted, VIC give all the parties lnte-
crested in it timely notice that what they
"make they must make soon. Let justice
abe done though the heavens fall"
These are brave words of the old I" Hero"
but there is q desperation in them which
tells too plainly the sad havoc the carpet
bag game has made upon his "where-
withal." He was king Of the negro vote,
and gave it to whom he pleased. He gave
it to UNDERWOOD, we suspect, for some OF
this very patronage that's gone to Alexan-
dria-all carpet-baggers and scalawags
courted him-he was in high feather with
them, and when the Convention met he was
rs proud and as confident Of his power as
the King of Dahomey. But the bureau
worked against him-a plot was carried out
in due time which cheated him out Of all
the high Offices he thought he had the pick
and choice of-and now the little stream OF
nan upon which he has subsisted himself
and his is coveted by q greedy carpet
Dagger, and is absolutely diverted from
him. Like old LEAR, he may we'll prefer
the biting winds and frosts to " mans IN
gratitude" and worse than all, the ingratl-
tude of carpet-baggers and scalawags!
Poor HUNNICUTT he has the sin of south
ern birth. That settles his hash. The
combined army of immigrants are here,
like leeches, to suck themselves full. They
don't intend to give up any southern blood
to any one else. They have their "whis-
key ring" and their /" office rings" and
the smaller "rings" within those rings"
all designed to fill their pockets out of the
taxes paid by those oppressed southern
people over whom they are placed in vio-
lation of law, right, justice, and honor 1t
is desired to add printing ring :" to their
other rings, and HUNNIcUTT is in the way,
and must be removed, No channel that
opens the way to the public fsc of this I'M
poyerished and insulted State must be
open to anybody but those carpet-baggers'
and nil the chances for fraud and corrup-
ton, and the thrift flowing therefrom, must
alike be confined to them.
HuNS1cuTr may well tell them that
"what they make they must make soon,"
for the day is not remote when they Will
fly back to their caverns like wolves from
their prowling depredations at the approach
of day.
But let HUNNIcUTT "howl they don't
mind him. He has parted with all his
black jewels, and they don't fear him. He
may cry out in his helpless and despoiled
condition, ooh, fool oh, dolt! !"