Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-10-09
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Gen. sickles ON Carpet-Barccrs.

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thus disposed Of the carpet-bag question:
cARPET-BAGGERs, NORTHERN AND
| SOUTHERN.
We see, my friends, throughout the
South determination to wage war of
determination against what are called
the carpet-baggers. Who are these car
pet-baggers? They are Northern people
who, in exercise of an undoubted consti-
tutional right, have settled in the South
ern States since the war. They are dis
charged soldiers, mechanics, merchants,
schoolmasters, railroad employes-thou.
sonds and tens of thousands of people
who, to better their condition, exercised
the right of emigration to those States.
And what do We seef Mr.. Howell Cobb,
a rebel General, declares war of exter-
mination against them, and not only
against them, but against any of the
Southern people who presume to espouse
the doctrines and principles of the re-
publican party. And this war of exter-
mination is echoed by Frank Blair, the
democratic candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency. Kisses at the mention of Blair's
name.l 1t is taken up by Forrest and
Toombs, and the cry goes along from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande. NY
friends, there are several kinds of car
pet-baggers we have seen in this country
within the past few years. The rebels
sent few of their sort of carpet-baggers
here to New York during the war
[Laughter.] They came mysteriously,
with their black bags, containing small
amount of clean linen, and very large
quantity of combustible material, and
with this latter they undertook to fire
our hotels and burn our city.
Well, there are some very distinguish
ed carpet-baggers sojourning abroad
John Slidell is one, in Paris, Benjamin
is another, and he carries, believe,
green carpet-bag now. Laughter Brick
Pomeroy is carpet-bagger. Applause
and laughter,l The chairman of the ma
tional democratic Committee, Mr.. Bel
mont, is earpet-bagger from the Rhine.
Laughter and applause.] Corporation
Counsel O'Gorman is very fair speci-
men of the carpet-baggers from Old Ire
land, vino have takea possession of the
City Government, [laughter] and if o.
Gorman's carpet-bag is not full yet, it
must be very big one, or else he has
failed to profit by his opportunities,
which no one suspects. Renewed laugh
ter ard applause,] And then there is
George Sanders, thecarpet-b -bagger of the
rebellion, who wanders over Europe with
or without carpet-bag, according to cir
cumstances. [Great laughter.] But our
Northern arpet-baggers belong to a
somewhat different race. The whole
West was peopled by race of carpet
baggers. VIM. Penn was carpet-bag
ger of the right sort, Daniel Boone of
Kentucky, Lewis Cass of Michigan Ste
phen A. Douglas, [applause] of Illinois,
they were all carpet-baggers. And you
find that our country, North, East and
West, has been peopled by an emigration
Of carpet-baggers. Applause ] The May
flower brought colony of carpet-bag
gers [applause,] and landed them on the
shores of New England. VIM. the Con-
queror took some carpet-baggers over to
England, and captured it, [applause,]
and founded nation that has sent its
carpet-haggers forth all over the world,
most of which they own or propose to
own. [Laughter.l
Our carpet-baggers carry intelligence
and civilization and enterprise wherever
they go, and they are not to be barred
out or excluded from the South at rebel
dictation. [Applause.] Has it come to
this, in three years after the war it is
question to be decided at the ballot box,
and perhaps to be enforced by the bayo-
net, whether or not Northern man has
a right to live in Southern state2 If
this be a seriousquestion, as recent events
has shown us it is, it is high time that
Grant should not only be Commander-in-
Chief of the army, but that he should be
President of the United States. Zap
plause. H vE
AN EQUIvocAL ANswER.--A certain
literary gentleman, wishing to be undis-