Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-10-09
CARPET-BAGGER DEFINED.

cess upon the height OF people JOJ'
CARPET-BAGGER DEFINED.
He has an apathy for all morality kesr
relish for all indecency; dreams des1ruc
ton of all law and order He is cruel
tumultuous. loves hatred, and runs at you
like bristled hog. He is abhorred as
Differing, wakeful midnight foe. He is a
subtle dog, and snufs office and money
from afar. from his shanty home in the
North. He is the ca7iler of all decency,
the fellest of the fell, a speckled beast,
yelping cur, a catamount in wait for his
victim The meanest of the mean and
vilest of the vile. Misery slowly walks be-
hind him, for he steals everything before
him. He is contamination, base, and 1t
gives US fit of nausea to speak of him.
He is a trashy, cankered, skulking boor.
He will receive his need in Kisses. He is
mongrel 10y day, by night screech' owl
He has no shame He has no hope ; no
friends but those of Darkness. He stands
on the high platform Of scorn and con-
tempt. He loves nothing pure or sacred.
He is cunning and accurst. He is Aide
vouring, q leech, a tartar, malignant, as
the adder he distils his deadly venom. He
bellies, is dishonest, villain Stunned, OBJ
scure, malicious. He hides his revenge.
He takes it with a smile. He gives the
amen to all truth. Love and charity fly
from him. A coward, fame spurns him.
Money lends him insolence and puts him
in the Senate. He is a cheat, tittle-tat-
tie fellow. He is a serpent amid flowers.
Vicious, false, vain, degrading. His lust
ty, an outcast of all virtue. He came here
to suck the life-blood of the people ; to OPP
press them; to overturn society and plant
upon its ruins the NIoloch-fag of his party.
Memory finds no pleasure that he has not
clouded and rendered painful. An up
start in greatness an imp in vice. Tuned
with no conscience thrilled with no noble
impulse incapable of an honorable deed.
Audacious in ignorance, he puts himself
up for the first offices of State. An ugly
toad that hops out from it's dirty haunt to
bestrew the public walks of honest men. A
drain on the exchequer, for he steals every
dollar no lays his hand upon. A direful
phantom, for he is ubiquitous. He is des
perate, but he stings not He barks, but
he bites not. He hangs his head and
looks like o thief,
AFFECTS the fool and is what he Affects
when he passes the decent, honest and re-
fined. Dirty and greasy in shape. An
unwieldy foul pollution. A buzzard foul,
but no fowl. Churlisl- puppet hamheau
among the low; quick to revolution, slow
to peace. Desolation watches his beck.
Crime awaits his command. Murder sits
falcon-like upon his hand. His breath
gangrenes the check it touches. The dirt
of his shoes is a germ for the direst cpl
demic. Innocence flies from him. A man
shakes at him a clenched hand. scowls
upon him, and makes him take another
road. He sneaks in at the window to
dance with the Ethiop-cook. The rose
withers when he is near-virtue pales.
Born vulgar, he has como here, assisted by
Federal bayonets, to set himself up as our
master, to govern peers He was copper
head at home, q Democrat Republican !;
here Radical, base, debasing carpet
Dagger. Rocked in the cradle Of filth !;
schooled III the dogmas of the Enemy ex-
perienced in the bar-room, the brothel,
and the gambling den, he comes here to
insult the holy innocence of our women, to
make gentlemen feel, if he could, the
degradation set over them. He challenges
chase of fleeing Mercy-Mercy saw him
Mercy screamed and fled. He is a physic
the wretched feel, and feel when it is too
late. Trembling, and in agony, they
writhe beneath his weight. The poor man
is made poorer the sick sicker !; the lowly
lower. On the liberal bounty of charity
he pours the oil of vitriol. He is ginger
bread to the aCO0lu few who peck, and cat,
and die. He is the counterfeit of human
ity, fraud upon society. He is fox, and
it is hard to find him out. He kept low
gin-shop and stew-house in Ohio-in New
Jersey he was clerk for an embezzling
auction-gang-in New Hampshire travel
ing mendicant, extortioner and driveller-
in Massachusetts an impostor, mounte-
bank, and preacher of the iniquity of the
Father of Lies-in the West an itinerant
peddler of obscene books and papers of
the blacklist impudicity-in the East a
foot-pad- everywhere the scruff and the
scab of the lowest of the race of Adam.
Nature made one monster, and then broke
the mould-that monster is the CARPET
DAGGER.
| Grand Mass Meeting In Arson.
The citizens of Arson county will hold a
Grand Mass Meeting at Lilesville on We'd
nesday and Thursday, the 28th and Goth
instant. Pre- partitions have been and are