Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-07-21
From the National Intelligeneer.
 Cnrpet-Eag Legislators.

According to the so~called "recon- struction" of Congress, twenty Sena- tors and fifty Representatives will be added to the dominant faction, which had been previously strengthened by the admission of States like Nebraska and Nevada, without ordinary popula- ton. and only for the purpose of secur- ing the necessary two-thirds vote to overcome the veto of the President. These two States were literally manu- factured to order, and rushed in with out decency or right, as is now pro- posed to be done with Colorado, and without even allowing the people to pass upon the constitution. What cares .Radicslisms for State constitu- Ltions, when it ftramples under foot the supreme law of the land, aand admits that all it's legislation is "outsideD that instrument aJ8ff t*fffsh hat
 The majority of the fabricated Sena- tors and members from the ''reconstruc- ted" States represent no part Of the population. They arc adventurers at tached to the army and Freedman s Bureau, who went to the South to prey upon the misfortunes of that afflicted people, and to profit by the disorder which their presence helped to create
 They do not represent the poor ne-
 groes, who were driven to the polls like herds of cattle, and with abou. as much appreciation of the elective fran
 chisc as the beasts of the forest. They
 do not even claim to speak for the
 white people, amongst whom nine out
 of ten of them will never dare to show
 their faces again as soon as the military
 despotism and corrupt Freedmen
 Bureau are withdrawn, which are the only props of their infamous political existence. sFfaa 4ssfs iii This is the sort of representation which has been made up for the South.
 To compare it with the old rotton bor-
 ough system of England is to compare
 a satyr with Hyperion. With all the
 faults of the latter, it had one merit. which is not pretended to exist in this
 case. The representatives were at
 least respectable. They were English
 men ito the manor born," and not
 needy and seedy office-seekcrs, without
 character or condition, as these carpet
 baggers arc, who followed the army
 like vulturcs and who have done noth-
 ing. but yictimize and fleece the com munities where they squatted for sub bSistence.
 There is serious phase about this
 matter, which may well claim the most earnest attention. These twenty Sena- tors and fifty Representatives, who
 have thus been brought into Congress
 by fraud .and force, and in defiance
 of the declarations of the very men
 who have now "reconstructed" them,
 will hold the balance of powerin legis-
 lation. Without any stake themselves, and with no form of responsibility to constituents, they come here with the
 power, not only to legislate for great
 national interests, but, in fact, with the
 control of legislation in their hands. Twenty Senators, chosen by the Freed
 mems Bureau and few satraps, may
 negative the votes of New York, Penn
 sylyania, Ohio Indiana, Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan, Minnesota, Califor- nia and Maine. They have no interest to protect but their own. They respect nothing but themselves. They arc mere dregs thrown to the surface by a violent fermentation, who, by a natur- al law, will settle to the bottom as soon as the disturbing cause disappears. The perearious tenure of their appoint
 ments, and the certainty that they will DC IeNOASu NHtISNtt ehc PSoPio SaH
 speak for themselves, render them
 necessarily indifferent to obligations which would bind representative men, 1 if they have the other qualities which even their assurance has not yet ven tured 10 claim. A practical idea of the moral worth 1 of this class of men may be formed l from the experience of the carpet-bag delegates who attended the Chicago Convention from the South. They
 offered themselves openly for sale to | the highest bidder, and it is said the delegation from Louisiana was pur-
 chased for three different candidates. 1 1t is notorious that many of them were 1 finally sold for their hotel bills and travelling expenses. These facts arc | indisputable, and are derived from he most reliable Radical sources, and
 most of them have been published in ! leading Radical journals.
 These delegates were worthy com panions of the Senators and members who are to figure here, and it is not difficult to estimate the commercial value of the same article by the prices which recently ruled at Chicago. It is a saddening spectacle to see our repre-
 sentative system distigured in the
 worlds estimation and disgraced in
 our own by such perversion as this
 for a partisan purpose. Well may men doubt about the permanence of free institutions, when the worst appliances of despotism and the most degraded
 instruments of barbarian are employed
 to carry out the ends ofa party profess ing to be republican"
 The Radicals were exclusively re- sponsible for legislation heretofore, in consequence of their overwhelming maiorities, obtained by the most iniqui-
 tous means. Now they have assumed an additional responsibility, and will
 be held to strict account for the twenty two Senators and fifty Representatives
 who they have introduced into Con- gress,, to increase the burthens of the Northern taxpayer, to vote for rcpudia- ton in every form that may be prescn- ted, and to control legislation in the interest of corrupt corporations and interruptions monopolies. We under take to say that this is the dearest acquisition yet made, and that the peo
 pie before long will cry out for the ex
 pulsion of every carpet-bag adventurer who has been brought here to aug ment tho power of Radicalism at the cost of every material interest, and to put peril the stability ofthis Govern ment. Should the precedent be ac- knowledge. what security would there be left for institutions like ours It is bad imitation of the constitutional monarchies of Europe, where the sover- eign increases the number of peers in the Senate at will, in order to strengthen a falling ministry against the popular will. Radicalism orders representation made for Congress, and military satraps