Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-27

within this land, from North 10 DOutn, II
these principles were now observed.
Our civil war left the South in state
of terrible restitution. There was, how
ever, an attractive force to men and CAPT
tai in the very devastation of the South.
MANY went thither to remain in good |
faith as citizens. They gave their wealth,
their households, their labor, their enter
prise, to their new home. They went
thither, amino R1GneHdt. They did not
20 for spoliation or honors. They did not
ask for confscation. They were OF the
welI-to-dop kind at home, but wished
to do better in the South. They were a
desirable population. They deserved
and received encouragement. They did
not seek to play jackals to the lions Oh
war, or to be hyenas among the graves OF
the dead. They sought not to exercise
their right Of locomotion to raVaGe; but
to aid the South and themselves. we
should discriminate between these and
another class. No man in Georgia OBJ
iects to an artisan coming there to help
manufacture cotton. No one in Louisi-
| ana Complains if a stranger rids the
wasted sugar plantations of that State OF
the alligator. No one in Texas complains
of the German who goes there to raise
cereals, cotton, or fine cattle for the
Northern market.
The complaint begins when the myr
midons of political power, the mercena
ries and hangers-on Of the army, the
| Bureaucrats and Adventures, who have
mo local habitation or name," seek to
spoil the land and people. Such are the
men who, having dislocated, by their de-
vices. the industries of the South, and
having enfranchised the inferior, and dis
franchised the superior race, steal the
honors and offices that belong to sell
governments, and run riot in the means
which belong to the people who live IN
! the States. These men are the cuckoos
who sit upon the eggs Of other birds,
They are the dead beats" of politics,
the scum which rises TO the top OF the
political boiler. cloud applause.) The
''carpet- bagger' is not to be described
exactly as a man with carpet-bag
but the fact the first legislators and spoil
ers in the South moved around in mys
FERROUS way, with black carpet-bags
having little to 60 on and much to get
: gave the name generic application. Ill
, has now a fixed status. He is seldom
} found among white people, but rather
. cultivating the negroes, inspiring then
D | with false ideas and bad motives. Ill
= has no means Of support, except nc earn
, it by his management OF negroes. Ill
/ makes out of negro credullty prey AM
@ 4 living. He was at first sharper the'
. on the reconstruction schemes looming u
e he became a statesman daughter
D Kisses, and applause.) He had bayonet
a He gave out rations. He registered votes
] He became an organic law maker,
= member of the Legislature. The less h
e had, the more he levied of taxes In
: county and State officers at first file
4 the goblet of his pleasure. Then he as
}, PRED to be Congressman and Senator
n Now he hath plethora of funds He ha
n waxed fat and kicked-kicked the negro
$ and the negro is kicking back (! His pre-
: sent occupation is to attend to the cleo
# ton, coin lies for Northern Circulation
8 and make all who despise him appear
c unrepentant Rebels (Applause.)
: do not think nation can stand !
[ reconstructed with such material. n
S nation ever did long stand the rule
alien people. Read the Declaration
Independence The greatest grievance
of your fatheIs-that which reddene
Jersey with blood-was the creation
multitude of new Offices" and
). Swarm of officers from abroad to harras
S the people and eat out their substance.
: The establishment of foreign jurlsdli
. ton, the quartering Of large bodies
armed troops and the transporting
large armies of foreign mercenaries
G complete the works of death, desolatio
. and tyranny, were the causes Of ourrevC
luton. (Applause.) Are not thes
u causes potent to-day ? l"YeS, yes
d Did not Mr.. Lincoln, when he was fir
10 inaugurated, promise to send no officer
4 South except those tracy to the soil
He said, anticipating this carpet-bag bus
. ness, "There will be no attempt
D, force obnoxious strangers among III
: people" for office holding. This va
q wise; but has this wisdom been pra'
ticed? ("No") We have now as
) consequence what the Declaration says
s. Cruelty and perfdy scarcely parallel
n in the most barbarous ages, and total
e unworthy Of a civilized nation Tn
cannot continue. These consequence
are seen in the ordinations, outrage
lie and murders which are illustrating Rad
Y cal rule-the rule of strangers in
,r strange land. There can be no satet.
- prosperity or order under the continl
a oDca Of cuch n rule