The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-08-26
Scallawags.


lion of freemen. Their little idea eESsate
sovereignty has been swallowed An Ma
tional supremacy, and they are ming at
last, that so long as small ideas arff fherisbed,
small men and small States will the pro-
ducts. Natures law dSpmpsnsation is
ever at work. Penalty sooJer or later Wis
its every violation of jul Zee. 1t waits
not for another world and anotherg eSist-
ence; it strik in this The Gsue for the poor
white has arrived. He is no longer a serf
and beneath the social standing Of the negro.
He, too, is emancipated. He is about to
change places with the men who passed him
by on the other side. They denied him free
schools and now in every township in the
South the prattle of children at their books
can be heard. They denied him labor and
sought the wilds of Africa rather than en-
ploy him, and now their plantations are pas.
sing into his hands, His wife and children
are to enter their old halls and where the
slave lords were wont to sit in pride will
dwell in honored independence they who
would have been her subjects in the great
kingdom whose corner stone was Slavery.
Despotism in the end always outwits it.
self.
"It clomb the steep of pride SO high
That it was half way down the slope to hell"
It kept one half the people in the South
in poverty and ignorance until the honest
Indignation of the enlightened world was
aroused to the gross injustice, and deman-
ded that knowledge and culture be as free
assthe air of heaven. h''''s'ss- '..-f
ScALLAwAes! Having no other means of
revenge these old slave lords, sit in their
rotting old mansions and roll out curses and
hard names from morning till night and
"Scallawags" is one of them. -Four years
gao it was the "damned Yankee" who sat
heavy on their stomachs- two years ago it
was the damned carpet baggefs" and
now in addition 10 the fearful load. they
have the /" damned .Scallawags." With
such an internal crew in their bellies it is
not surprising that these old slave lords
in addition to the gout-an aristot:ratic
disease which they are proud to have
have been seized with the New England
dyspepsia, a terribly pinched up and plebian
complaint, which makes him who suffers
from it look more like Yankee clock ped
lar ont at selbows than anything Ie,ss ,..elsr
the sun. = Well i these old slave lords have
got this Yankee dyspepsia fastened upon
their systems, and after having swallowed
down all the patent medicines Boston and
Lowell have made for four years past with
out relief, as a last resort, and with de-
spring, dying hope, have gone to those two
notorious old female quacks, Seymour and
Blair, to put them on their feet again. But
dear Southern aristocracy, you are too late.
No one ever heard of genuine Yankee dys-
pepsia being cured after four years. 1t is
own chronic. You have got to die The
damned Yankee is in your cypress swamps
saving the boards for your coffin; the
damned carpet bagger" has just arrived
| from Boston with your shroud the damned
scailawag" is digging your grave in the
most out of the way place he can find on
your old plantations. On the Sd of next
November you are to be laid out stiff and
cold. The old Ham and Canaan clergymen
are to say prayers over yo% body, and to
prove for the last time ON eaFth that negro
has no rights white man e bound to re-
speet. You are to go to heaven or the other
place. Your work is done on earth. Fare
well =.
Scallawags a word with you before we
close. You have new nam{, but You are
as old as human society. Home had her
scallawags who redeemed her bnd made her
a history that will be studied throughout
| time. Rome fell when her Sallawags re-
laxed their vigilance, and ari&ocracy grew
pleasant to >look upon. Greace had her
scallawags, and all that is gldious and in.
spring in the history of that great people
was the work of her scallavhgs France
had her scallawags, and tile SourbGns are
exiles from their native land. England had
her scallawags, and. they hung Charles the
First, and laid the foundatieafttle British
| Constitution. And the United States has
her scallawags, and they hate made this ma
tion nation of: freemen. t5callawags be
not ashamed of your associates. The Round
laada Uayp ooallo NO ,,o III - Al, .
| knee to them. The Puritns were seal
lawags, and George the Fdarth could not
wrest his colonies from Their grasp. The
Huguenots were ,scallawags, and to-day the
best blood Al the Gulf States traces its
source to tls'a flying vagabonls.n The Jews
for eighteen hupdred years haze been scala
wage. and now they control the finances Of
every capital in Europe, and atany moment
1 can a ~ .sff7.--
SA SNAKE 'pe ~orio s foundations with nod"
Scallawags! your dayis fast a pproachine.
The future OF the South is in your hands
Carpet.baggers will come here to helm Won
but you aye to take the lead. Your sons are
to enter our institutions of learning are to
plead at-the bar, discourse from the sacred
desk, aTtasideroyer colleges; are to be the
merchants, the lawyers, the politicians and
the statesman of the whole South. In the
future there are to bc no poor whtes.r He
who can read and write, and think in this
county scannot, for he will not be made