The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-03
CHAR TOT
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1868.
Carpet Bags at a Discount.

An intelligent and conservative gentle
man recently from the North assures us
that the rule of these rowing orators is as
offensive to most people on the other side
of the line as it is to US. They are indig-
nant at the political aspirations of the
teachers and preachers who were sent mere
upon phiianthropical missions, and who
have used their official influence for per-
soual advancement rather than for the pub
| lie good 1t is case of moral delinquency
which fair minded men ore constrained to
rcprobate. The policy Of the Conservative
Republicans is based upon the fallacious
idea that there are enough consistent and
upright Union men at the South, natives Of
these States, to occupy the various local
and Federal Offices without being debarred
by the test oath. They did not intend to
make provision for the light armed foragers
who are now securing the country.
The contempt entertained by our inform
ant for this class, now infesting every bal
lot box ard skirmishing around every pub
lie Office, seems 10 be shared fully by the
editor of the New York Commercial Intel
ligencer. In squib entitled Somebody's
Luggage" he remarks that the man in the
claret. colored coat was not more notable,
politically, N his day, as an individual,
than the men with carpet bags, seeking
candidacy rs constitution makers in the
South are in our period. Hesuggests that,
if the people to whom these cormorants ap-
peal are sensible, they will adopt the old
fashioned practice, long prevalent in the
North, in the relation Of unfaithful SER
wants, and will get rid of the men with the
carpet bags by 'giving them the sack"
The trouble here has arisen from the idea
entertained by ignorant electors, that these
candidates were the representative men of
their section, and that their elevation to
office would conciliate the favor of the rul-
ing party at the North. They have had the
influence arising from the possession of
money, the control of soldiery, the man
agement of missionary enterprises, Office in
church and State; and the beggars on
horseback rode SO dashingly th at they were
esteemed to be princes from the kingdom
of Cockayne.
The people of the North know these car
pet baggers. The colored people of the
South are beginning to find them out. They
will call on African Mr.. So-and-So; and
they will invite Mr.. So-and-So to hear
speech and to eat dinner; and they will
permit Mr.. So-and-So to take hundred or
two from the funds of o convention;-and
then they coolly tell Mr.. So-and-So that he
must expect no more. He must take q back
seat. AL! the places of honor and profit
belong to the carpet bags. He must turn
against the Southern gentlemen, whom he
has known and honored all his life, and
vote for the carpet bags. He must tax his
own State and tax himself to stuff
tue CuTpet UdSS. AAV h1oSs PoJ Ava
every time he was mistered, and every time
he was fed, and every time he voted in the
convention or at the ballot box. Our col
ored people are simple and trustful-but
they are not such fools as to let this farce
continue long.
The simple fact is, that neither the car
pet baggers, nor the Northern whites, nor
the Southern whites, intend to establish
African supremacy in these States. They
will not permit it. The present contest is
q contest between white men; and whatever
bribes the Radicals may, for the present,
give to the colored people in order to gain
their votes, the question which these last
have to consider is just this-whether
strangers and adventurers, or Southern
gentlemen, shall control the fortunes of the
State.