The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-09
Tho Friends of the Government TO be
Hanged on the Trees.
Frank nlniF's 7 otter Illustrated
"a Frank Exposition OF what the
Rebels mean.

The Independent Monitor. a strong
Democratic paper published at Tusca-
loosa, Alabama, in its edition of Sept.
l, illustrates in advance the result OF
the election of Seymour and Blair. II
prints a large wood cut representing
two "carpet-baggers" hanging by their
necks on limb of tree, one having
in his hand a carpet-bag lettered Ohio,
while a mule on which they were
mounted while the ropes were being ad-
justed around their necks is being led
away and is labeled "K. X. X" This
wood cut is followed by tho following
article which We print verbatim just as
it appears in the Monitor.
A PROSPECTIVE SCENE IN THE CITY OF
OAKS, 4TH OF MARCH, 1869.
"Hang, ours, haugl Their
complexion is perfect gallows. Stand
fast, good fate, to their hanginGl
II they be not born to be hanged, our
case is miserable"
The above cut represents the fate in
store for those great pests OF Southern
sooiety-the carpet-bagger and the seal
lawag-lf found in Dixie's land after
the break of day on the 4th OF March
next.
The genus carpet. Dagger is man
with n lank head of dry hair, lank
stomach and long legs, club knees and
splay feet, dried legs and lank jaws,
with eyes like a fish and mouth like IA
shark. Add to this the habit OF sneak
ing aud lodging about in unknown
places-hnbiting with negroes in dark
dens and back streets-a look like a
hound and the smell of polecat.
Words are wanting to do full justice
to the genus scalawag. he is cur with
contracted head, a downward look,
Sinking and uneasy gait; sleeps in the
woods like old Grassland, at the bare
idea ola Ku-klux raid.
Oufdcalawag is the local leper of the
community. Unlike the carpet-bagger,
he Is native, which Is SO much the
worse. Once he was respected in his
circle; his head was level, and he
would look his neighbor in the face.
Now, possessed OF the itch OF Office and
the salt rheum of lsadicalism, he is a
NANCY dog, Sinking through alleys,
hunting the Governors Office, dehling
with tobacco juice, the steps of the
Capitol, stretching his lazy CARCASS in
the sun on the square, or the benches
of the Mayors Court.
He waiteth for the troubling of the
political wators, to the end that he may
step in and be healed of the itch by the
ointment OF Office. For office he
"bums," as the topper "bums" for the
satisfying dram. For Office, yet in pros
pectiVe, he hath bartered responsibility;
hath abandoned business and ceased
| to labor with his hands, but employs
| his Ieet kicking out boot-heels against
lamp-post and corner-curb. while dis
cussinE the question of Office.
1t requires no seer to foretell the in
evitable events that are to result from
the coming election throughout the
Southern States.
The unprecedented reaction Is NOV
ing onward with the swiftucss of a ve-
locipede. with the violence OF a tornado,
and with the crash OF an avalanche,
sweeping negroism from the face of the
earth.
Woe, woe, woe. 10 the Inhabitants OF
Alabama who have recently become
squatter sovereigns, carpet bags in
hand, and they filled with dirty cleo
tioneering documentsi Aud twenty
times woe 10 those so-called Southrons
who have turned their narrow heads,
infinitesimal hearts and filthy hands
against the land of their nativity!
Hereafter, when future generations
shall contemplate the fate that these
white-skinned wretches had in store for
us, they will wonder at the extraordi-
nary degree of forbearance manifested
by us of the present dark day.
But the happy day OF reckoning with
these ite.cuticle scoundrels ap-
proacheth rapidly. Each and every
one who has SO unblushingly essayed
to lower the Caucasian to a degree even
beneath the African race, will be re-
garded as hosts sui gencris, and be
dealt with accordingly, If found here
about when the time Is ripe for action.
The carpet-bagger already begins TO
sniff the coming ill-wind, and Is sneak
ing ont of the country q Ia Harrington,
of Mobile. But we hope some bOrea1
strGgglers may be left far from their
'hums," to swing alongside of their
meridianal copjutors in infamy.
We candtdly believe that the picture,
given to our readers ut supra, correctly
represents the attitude and altitude of
ali foreign and domestic foes of our
land who shall have the folly to remain
down Southn after the tides OF March.
The contract for hanging will be given
to the negro, who, having mounted the
carpet Dagger and scalawag on the
mule that he didn't draw at the lection,
will tie them to a limb, and, leading
the said mule from under them, over
the forty acres of ground he also didn't
get, will leave the vagabonds high in
mid-air, feast for anthropophagous
vermin.
P. SIT will be seen that there is
room left on the limb for The suSpen-
sion of any bad Grant negro who may
be found ut the propitious moment.
GENERAL BLAIR repeated at Cincin-