Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-10-06
CARPET

telling hits in General Sickles' speech
at Philadelphia recently. We give it
complete
The Southern wing Of the Confeder-
ate Democracy denounce all Republican
emigrants from the North, and here is
presented one Of the issues of the Pres
idential canvas Has q man who votes
for Grant a right to live in o rebel
Slater Prescription, violence, insults
are now his lot. Elect Seymour, and
the war of determination against the
Republicans of the South, alias the car
pet baggers, will be vigorously prose-
cuted by the Klux Khan. What means
this outcry against carpet baggers?
Tho rebels sent q detachment Of carpet
baggers to New York during the II
They came mysteriously, with queer
looking bags, containing q very small
allowance of linen, and q very abundant
supply of combustible material. They
fred our hotels and tried to burn the
city. Then there were a good many
nervous carpet baggers, who regarded
the war as extremely unconstitutional,
and went over to Canada to escape the
draft. John Slidell is a carpet Dagger
in Paris. The vagrant, John Saunders
the "Jem Bags" Of the rebellion
wanders over Europe with or without q
carpet bag, according to circumstances.
Benjamin carries q green carpet bag in
London. Mason and Beverly Tucker
are fugitive carpet baggers, like somo
of the early Virginia Colonists, who
left their country for their 'country's
good. Brick Pomeroy is q carpet bag
ger. Pollard, the historian of the
Lost Cause" and the hero OF q hun
dred brawls, is n carpet Dagger. The
! Chairman Of the National Democratic
Committee, Mr.. Belmont, is a carpet
Dagger from the Rhine, and supplies the
rhino for the treasury of the Confederate
Democracy. Counselor O'Gorman is a
lively specimen Of the Irish carpet bag
gers who have possession of the city
government Of New York. II his bag is
not full of plumber he must have neg
lectcd his opportunities. Thoy run up
our taxes from ten to twenty millions u
year, and send O'Gorman to Maine and
New Jersey to promise economy ard
honesty when they get to Albany and
Washington.
"The carpet baggers"' from the North
| who arouse so much Of the wrath OF
| Cobb and Toombs and Forrest and
Hampton, are discharged soldiers tho
mechanics, schoolmasters, the clergy,
| the farmers, the merchants, and the Ia
boring men who have settled in the
Southern States since the war. The
mischief is these emigrants of ours carry
their ideas, their loyalty and their prin-
ciples with them. Most Of them are for
Grant and Colfax. They are all devoted
to the Union, tho flag, the common
school, a free press, free speech and free
labor. Gen. Howell Cobb and Gen.
Robert Toombs, in the name of the De-
mocracy Of Georgia, declare q wal OF
exterminatiou against all carpet bag
gers. Andersonyille is in Georgia.
General Forrest, in the name of the De-
mocracy of Tennessee, echoes the ap-
peal to arms. General Forrest will give
no quarter to carpet baggers. General
| Forrest took Fort Pillow, and gave no
quarter to the garrison. General Frank
| Blair, in the name Of all the Confeder-
ate Democracy, proclaims that their
President, when they elect him, will dis
perse all the carpet baggers, assume
| the power of q dictator, declare the acts
| of Congress null and void, and compel
| Congress to submit to his DEGREES.
The Constitution of the United States
provides that no State shall abridge the
| privileges or immunitics Of citizens Of
the United States, nor deprive any per-
SON within its jurisdiction of the equal
protection of the laws. Our Constitu-
ton is the supreme law OF the land.
Our carpet baggcrs have therefore the
| right to emigrate to any part OF our
| country, and to take, not only their
| goods and chnttels with them, but also
their opinions, their sentiments and
their affections. And if they choose,
now and then, to wear the old blue
coat and the old corps badge they
won in battle, and to hand out the
old flag they followed in storms
Of shot and shell, no rebel
hand, no renegade sword shall modest
them. And if ever the time shall come
to make good this right, the old army
of the Boys in Blue are ready, when
summoned by proper authority, to rein
force the carpet baggers with knapsscEs
enough to establish forever the right Of
any loyal American citizen to make his
home anywhere on American soil.
These carpet baggers Of ours belong
TO the advance guard of civilization.
They are the pioneers Of Improvement,
education, enterprise and progress. The
great West is peopled by II race OF car
pet baggers. Boone, Cass and Douglas
were carpet baggers. Every year we
have from Europe half n million OF
hardy, industrious carpet baggers. La
fayette came over from France with his
CARPET bag and sword and was welcomed
by Washington. John Jacob Astor wal
q carpet Dagger. The illustrious Cen
eral Greene took his carpet bag from
Rhode Island to Georgia and settled
there when Georgia was loyal and Geor-
giaus had not forsakcn their chivalry.
Even China welcomes carpet baggers,
for is not Arson BurliDgame her hon
| orcd envoy to all nations? William the
| Conqucror led some Norman carpet bag
gers to England, and first conquered
and then united witffthe Saxons in es-
tablishing an empire which has sent n
race of carpet baggers all over the
world, most Of which they own or pro-
pose 10 own. Napoleon was n carpet
Dagger from Corsica. Tie Mayftower
landed a cargo of carpet baggers on
Plymouth Rock. The Huguenots OF
South Carolina were carpet baggers.
The missionaries Of the Christian faith
preaching the gospel of our Saviour NIL
over tho world are carpet baggers. All
hail, our carpet baggers +! And may
the blessings Of Heaven rest upon them T!
THERE were early signs Of Grants
greatness which Mr. Lincoln was not