New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-03

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IN stay their vacant stomaehs, and yet they go
on railing at every energetic and industrious
man who makes his appearance among them,
when they have MT even respectable aims
house TO crawl to for relief! aCarpet1bags, IN
deed Why, they haven't so much as carpet
bags. let alone something to put into them
/ They have only an agricultural theory, Dor
rowed from Gov. ohWise, that making long
speeches and cursing the Yankees will secure
fine craps. Some of them are sensible enough,
we admit, to know better; but when you en-
counter a really intelli gent Yirginian you do MT
hear him cursing and swearing about carpet
! bags. 7piG2 30 trom7T ,Imo) stg5L 9,.i-,,l
There Is great deal of loose talk about al
lowing members of Congress to represent States
| in which they were not born, but the truth is
that it has always been so, and in this shifting,
uneasy, enterprisng, and half-settled country,
| it is likely to be so for some time to come.
We have been q carpet baggiDg people from
tile beginning, and the great West owes It's
! very. existence to corners who had bags, 1T Is
true but were forced to travel in search OF
something to put into them. Them pray tell
| us how many distinguished men have been
sent to Congress from the States in which they
were bornq The great Fernando Wood, of
whom as Representative this city is so justly
proud, opened his infant eyes in Philadelphia.
Brother Benjamin saw fit to be born in Ken
lucky. The late Stephen A. Douglas hailed,
as an infant, from Vermont. Daniel Webster,
the pride of Massachusetts, was a son of New
! HAMPSHIRE Frogtown, Ky, produced Senator
/ David r. AtchisOn. The Chief-Justice, always
recognized as a regular Ohio man. was a New
Il 4. Nl.a IN NJ
! tains presented Lewis Cas- to Michigan. Even
the extraordinary Andy Johnson was planted
and watered $50 to speak, i'll North Carolina,
hut it was Tennessee that gave him his point
/ zeal increase. New-York may justly claim on
\ She sees 6t) the Hon. Jas. r. Doolittle as her
I own child Did MT the illustrious Andrew
! Jackson go with or without carpet bag from
! South Carolina to Tennesseel Felix Grundy from
! Virginia to the same Stateq James X. Polk
! from North Carolina still to the same State
! G en-. Harrison was certainly an Ohio man, but
4 for all that he was born in Virginia So was
i Henderson of Missouri. Our friend and brother,
Mr.. James Brooks, came, carpet-bagl in hand,
/ from Maine to this city, i'll which he Is SO be-
loved and cherished, thus resembling IN one
respect Napoleon Bonaparte, who shifted from
Corsica to Paris, and proved himself the most
extraordinary carpet-bagger of the age. Even
the excellent and amable William Pitt Fessen-
den, albeit he is the Senator of Maine, burst
upon the world in New Hampshire while the
! Illinois man, Lyman Trumbull, is by birth
Connecticut sprout of the true nutmeg genus.
! New Hampshire, too, that excellent nurse
of mighty men, presented to Iowa MI.
! James w. Grimes. The eminent Marcy
came to New-Y0rk from Massachusetts.
Kentucky nourished McCernand upon her ann
tple bosom, but Illinois gets the particular ben
eft of her successful lactatiOn. Mr. Edward
Bates in Mr.. LincOln's cabinet, was Virginia
IMAM Mailing from Missouri. Pennsylvania pro-
duced Bingham of Ohio, Kentucky yielded
! Baker Of Illinois. Virginia brought forth Blow
Of Missouri, Ohio may claim Hendricks of In
diana and this list OF men born in one place
aud reaching greatness In another might be
considerably prolonged. Even Yancey OF Ala
bama was a caTpet-bag transfer from Georgia,
| while John Sldcll of Louisiana was the valu-
4 able gift of New-YOrk. OF the two men who
4 at a great historic period were the most prom
inent in the Republic, it may be noted tIat
Abraham Lincoln Of Illinois was born in Ken
n lucky, and Jefferson Davis Of Mississippi in
!, Kentucky. .t.. .... ... .t ..',.., ',---
The cry against Northern mon who settle in
the Southern States, is the last dying gasp of
the Rebellion; tue final ebulhtion OF a hatred
which we believe is destined to pass away with
those who ehildshly entertain it the sign of 4
prejudice Of which the next generation will
know nothing, or at least feel nothing. II was
4 by no means the smallest evil of Slavery that
il engendefed and nourshed that petty jeal-
Oh ~ Ia -
by men of failing fortunes. We do not sup
pose that the Union will ever be free from
local riyalries, but we do confidently anticipate
the time when, "a between the North and
South, even these will be free from that small
and suspicious passion with which the Slave
States have been accustomed to regard North
ern prosperity; and this desirable consumna-
ton emigration from the Free States wall un-
doubleday hasten. n ......l .i..Il .. l,.. ...,.,
VHY TIE BONDS CANNOT. BE TAXED.
A correspondent at Clinton. Iowa., asks us
TO answer the question Why Government
bonds should not and cannot be righUiIiy
tared. We answer: BY three successive decis-
ions of the United States Supreme Court
it has been decided that for State, city, or
other local authority TO tax National bonds Is
inconsistent with those clauses of the Consti-
tuition which make the National Government,
within the scope of its delegated powers,
supreme oyer all State or local laws. The
power to borrow money is a national power,
vested by the Constitution in the National
Government The power to tax, being in its
nature unlimited save by the will of the State
levying the tax, would enable the State TO tax
Federal bonds 100 per cent as easily as I per
cent-in short, il would place the power of the