Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-14
Carpet t-Baggers.

- THERE Is great uedl vi iOoS0 Gdih dpoue
allowing members of Congress torepresent
States in which they were not born, but
the truth is that it has always been so,
and in this shifting, uneasy, enterprislng
and halfsettled country, it is likely to be
so for some time to come. We have been
carpet-bagging people from the begin
ming, and the great West owes its very
existence to comers who had bags, it is
true, but were forced to travel in search of
something to put into them. Then, pray
tell us how many distinguished men have
been sent to Congress from the States In
which they were born? The great Fer
nando Wood, of whom as Representative
this city is so justly proud, opened his
infant eyes in Philadelphia. Brother Ben
jamin saw fit to be born in Kentucky. The
late Stephen A.. Douglas hailed, as an in
FAINT, from Vermont. Daniel Webster, the
pride of Massachusetts, was a son of New
Hampshire. Frogtown, Ky, produced
Senator David r. Atchison. The Chief
Justice, always recognized as a regular
Ohio man, was New Hampshire pro-
duction, and the White Mountains pre-
sented Lewis Cass to Michigan. Even
the extraordinary Andy Johnson was
planted and watered $50 to speak) in North
Carolina, but it was Tennessee that gave
him his political increase. New York
may Justly claim Gf she sees fit) the Hon.
j. r. Doolittle as her own child. Didn't
the illustrious Andrew Jackson go with
or without carpet-bag) from South Caro-
lima to Tennessee? Felix Grundy from
Virginia to the. same State? James K.
Polk from North Carolina still to the same
State? General Harrison was certainly
an Ohio man, but for all that he was born
in Virginia So was Henderson, of Mis-
souri,. Our friend and brother, Mr. James
Brooks, came, carpet-bag in hand, from
Maine to this city, in which he is so be-
loved and cherished, thus resembling in
one respect Napoleon Bonapar5e, who
shifting from Corsica to Paris, proved him
self the most extraordinary carpet-bagger
Of the age. Even the excellent and
amiable William Pitt Fessenden, albeit
he is the Senator of Maine burst upon
the world in New Hampshire; while
the Illinois man, Lyman Trumbull, is
by birth Connecticut sprout of the true
nutmeg genus New Hampshire, too, that
excellent nurse of mighty men, presented
to Iowa Mr.. James w. Grimes The emil
nent Marcy came to New York from
MASSACHUSETTS Kentucky nourished Nc
Clernand upon her ample bosom, but Iii
nois gets the particular benefit of her sue
cessful lactation. Mr.. Edward Bates, in
Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, was Virginia man
hailing from Missouri. Pennsylvania pro-
duced Bingham, of Ohio, Kentucky yielded
Baker, of Illinois, Virginia brought forth
Blow, of Missouri, Ohio may claim Hen
bricks, of Indiana, and this list of men
born in one place and reaching greatness
in another might be considerably pro-
longed. Even Yancey, of Alabama, was
carpet-bag transfer from Georgia, while
John Slidell, of Louisiana, was the valua-
BILE gift of New York. Of the two men
who, at great historic period, were the
most prominent in the Republic, it may be
noted that Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois,
was born in Kentucky, and Jefferson Da-
Wis, of Mississippi, in Kentucky.
The cry against Northern men who
settle in the Southern States is the last
dying gasp of the rebellion; the final
ebullition of hatred which we believe
is destined to pass away with those who
childishly entertain it the sign of a pre-
judice of which the next generation will
know nothing, or at least feel nothing. 1t
was by no means the smallest evil OF
slavery that it engendered and nOurished
that petty jealousy with Which prosperity
is usually regarded by men of failing for
tunes. We do not suppose that the Union
will ever be free from local rivalries, but
we do confidently anticipate the time
when, as between the North ard South,
even these will be free from tnat small
and suspicious passion with which the
slave States have been accustomed to re-
gard Northern prosperity; and this de-
sirable consummation emigration from the
free States will undoubtedly hasten
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