Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-10-02
PLANS DISCLOSED.

As the campaign wakes warm, thediabol-
ical plans Of the rebel Democracy Are re.
vealed in all their bideousness. While the
Democratic leaders Of the North are endeav.
oring to blind the eyes Of the people to the
real issues Of the campaign, by their noisy
outcry concerning the bonds and taxation,
the Democracy Of the South are revealing
plainly, boldly and tauntingly, what j. meant
~ the contest. We commend the following
manifesto, which appeared in the Iadepsn>
dent Monitor, Tuscsloosa, Alabama, of the
LIST ult., to those Democrats Who affect to
ridicule the idea that the Southern members
Of their party mediate miseAixc.
Under the head Of" A Prospective Scene
in the City Of Oaks, 4sh March, 1852 il
gives . wood.cut Of two men, carpetbag in
hand, hanging from tree, with donkey,
branded K. K. z. in front of them. Be.
meath is the motto:
"Hang, ours, hang. Thsi,
complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast
good fste, to their hanging!
If they be not born to be hanged, our eass
is miserable"
Then comes the following premature dis.
closure of what the South intends to do 10
the event Of the election of Seymour and
Blair:
"Tbe above cut represents the fate il
store for those great pests of Southern socie
ty-ths carpet bagger and scallawag-i
found in Dixie's land sfter the break Of dny
on the 4sb of March next.
The gesxs carpetbagger is . man With q
lank head of dry hair, lank stomach and
long legs, club knees and splay feet. dried
legs and lank jaws, with eyes like fish and
mouth like shark. Add to this habit Of
sneaking and lodging about in unknown
piaces-hibiting with negroes in dark dens
and back streets-a look like hound, and
the SMELL Of polecst.
Words are wanting TO do full justice 70 the
oenss scs ilawag. He is cur with . con.
iracted head, : downward look, sinking and
uneasy gait sleel..ss in The woods like old
Grassland, at the bare idea Of hu>hin1
raid.
Our scalawag Is the local lep.sr Of the conf
munity. Unlike the cArpet-bagser, re -
native, which is 80 much the worse. pncs
he was respected in his circle his head Va
level, and be would look his neighbor in the
face. Nov, possessed OF the itch of Office
and the salt-rheum of radicalism, he is q
NANCY dog, sinking through alleys, hunt
Ing the Governors Office. defiling with to-
bacco-juice the steps Of the Capitol, stretch
ing his lazy carcass in the sun on the square
Or the benches ofihe Mayors Court.
He waiteth for the troubling of the poliii-
cal waters, to the end that be may step in
and be healed Of the itch by the ointment of
office. For Office, be .bums,' as the topper
buns for the satisfying dram. For Office,
YET 10 prospective, lie hath bartered respect
ability, hath abandoned business and ceas>
ed 10 labor with his hands. but employs his
feet kicking out boot against lamps
post and corner-curb, while discussing the
question Of Office
1t requires no seer to foretell the ineyita>
bic events that are to result from the CONS
ing fall election throughout the Southern
States.
The unprecsnted reaction is moving on
ward With the swiftness ofa velocipede, with
The violence Of a tornado. and with the crash
81 an avalanche, sweeping negroism from
The face Of the earth.
Woe, woe, woe to the inbabitants Of Ala.
bama who have recently become squatter
carpet bags In hand, and they
filled with dirty e1ectioneering documents!
And twenty times woe to those so~called
Southrons who have turned their marrow
heads, infnitesimal hearts and filthy hands
against the land Of tEeir nativity
Hereafter when future generations shall
the fatethat those whsc>skinned
wretches had Ia store ferus, they will wons