The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-04
A GENUINE AND A DOUBTFUL CARPET.
BAG6ER.

Such is the inherent and invincible ras-
cality of some mem that they will lie when
the truth would serve their purpose better,
and will steal when they could get whatever
they want more easily and speedily by honest
ACQUISITION. To this class undoubtedly belongs
the romantic individual who has been passing
himself off among the radicals at Washington
as member of Gov. Warmoths family, and
telling such tales of organized and wide
spread resistance to the existing State gov
eminent as he knew would be palatable to his
auditors. With him carpet-baggery is evil
IDENTIFY congenital. He was predestined to
this vocation while the germ of his being
yet foated in the nebulous wilds of unde-
veloped possibilities, tefore the sun and
the planets were, and ere chaos had retreated
from the flaming bounds of space. In due
time the stars proclaimed his destiny, and at
length the radical Congress at Washington,
blind minions of fate, created the precise
conditions of its fulfllment His name is not
given. But that is no matter. Carpet
baggery needs no individualizing appella-
TONS 1t will be known to history only as a
generic phenomenon. That he should simu-
late the character of member of Gov. War
moths staff is perfectly natural, and may be
regarded as one of the strongest proofs of his
commences. 1t shows how irrepressible,
under the stimulating effects of radical atmo-
sphere at Washington, was the impulse to
give vent to the instincts of his nature by
uttering wholesale SANDER against peaceful
community, in order to bring upon their
defenseless heads the whole power of the
central government in the most horrid forms
of vindictive visitation. Mr. Harris, a gen.
tleman from New York who amiably person
ates the part of United States Senator for
Louisiana, is indignant at the impotence of
this specimen of carpet-baggery in personal
ing the part of aid and agent for Gov.
Warmoth. Mr.. Harris calls him a swindler,
and contradicts his stories about the preva-
lence of "rebel" organization and violence
all over Louisiana. Well, we see nothing
in this but evidence that he is faithful
and true to carpet baggery,. and that Mr..
Harris is verging on ground which
no whole-souled and loyal carpet-bagger can
occupy. Even the radical orthodoxy of Mr..
Harris will be questioned if he continues to
speak as plainly and truthfully as when he
says, to quote the words of the telegraph, that
he "has no advices of any organized opposi-
ton to existing affairs in either Louisiana or
Mississippi, and disorders, except in two
parishes in Louisiana, are trivial and not I'M
usual in any community. In the two excep-
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are caused by reckless persons in opposition
to the wishes of good people of all parties.
This representation of affairs, it is needless
to say, is wholly at variance with one of the
orthodox theories of the radical Legislators
who elected him to the United States Senate,
and of the radical majority of the latter body.
What? No rebellious organization, no Incl
pient revolution on the part of the conserva-
tives in Louisiana, Mississippi and other
States! What? Lawlessness and chronic
disturbance of the peace not engendered and
stimulated in the South by all who do not
swear, with one hand on a carpet-bag and the
other pointing to an honest mans pocket, to
vote the radical ticket early, and often, apd
forever! WhatP The life of any "trooly
loil' person in the South worth an hours in
surance, unless those non-jurors are kept I'M
der constant duress of some sort Why, if
Mr.. Harris believes all this stuff, and is ready
to assert it, he might as well hang up his car
pet-bag, renounce radicalism and come over
to the side of political justice and decency at
at once. For the exact contrary of such be-
lief lies at the basis of radical policy respect
ing the South and of radical strategy in the
pending campaign. If Mr.. Harris does not
vindicate his radical loyalty soon in some way,
he may, with reason, be suspected by the ex-
Founders and champions of radical orthodoxy
of being furtively inclined to honor and fair
ness regarding the Southern people, and to
real solicitude for the interests of the State in
whose name he occupies a seat in the United
States Senate. Meanwhile, if the telegraph
reports Mr.. Harris truly, there can be no ques-
ton that the anonymous rascal whose false
hood he has exposed is a much more genuine
type of carpet-baggery and radicalism than
this senator elected by the carpet-baggers and
radicals of the Louisiana legislature.