The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-02-04
WORLD.
A CHAPTER on cARPET-BAGGERs

Mack the Washington correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, dis
courses thus of "Carpet-baggers II
Congress:
1t would be safe 10 bet a thousand
dollars that if he'll were dosed with
tartaremetic, the last dregs OF the last
resulting vomit would be ten or doz-
Ell Of the style Of men who have come
here under the Congressional policy Of
reconstruction TO represent the South
ern States. They have already mani
tested all the attributes Of interl0pers
and dead BEATS and have carried their
efrontery 10 such an extent as 70 dis
gust even the most loyal Of their Re
publican colleagues III the North. /
had not been il Washington six hours
when | heard curses, both loud ana
deep, heaped upon the head Of one Of
the gentlemen from louisiana" for al
impertinence, the exact naIure0 Of which
| could not understand | inferred,
however, that be had been giving some
sort Of practical Illustration 10 the po-
etc truism, that fools rush in where
angels fear 70 tread7-rha1 be had been
busying himself 70 DO OF say something
which modesty and good breeding
would have left 70 al Old and expert
enced member q the House. The com
plants Oh this score are multiplying,
and tie consequent disgust IS increas-
ing every day, and It viii lie strange
if. before the close Of the session, We
do not witness a few undisguiSed ebul-
litions Of wrath on the subject from
some Of the Oldest Radical members
the very men who may take 70 them
selves the doubtful honor of paternity
for the whole carpet bag race. Nor i
It al all strange that the carpet-baggerS
should act precisely as they Do, The
wonder IS that they have RETAINED s.
long from asserting their claims u p
litical leadership and Legislative p-ece-
dence. And when Mr.. Bingham. and
Nr. Butler, and Mr.. WashLurne, sheer
contemptuously al them, and affect d
state Of w0ndermenr al their iupu-
dence On the floor Of the House, they
seem 70 forget that greater impotence
which was necessary 70 enable them =
force themselves upon constituencies
who neither knew nor wanted them,
50 far from discouraging the Southern
delegations in their determination L
be seen and felt in the National Coun-
cils, feel ike patting them Oh their
backs, and telling them 70 proceed with
increased vigor And when the Radi-
Gals who legislated them into existence
object 10 their little freaks Of great
ness, l beg TO remind them Of al iHci-
dent in a body which this Congress
very strikingly resembles in many res
pects-the revolutionary Assembly Of
France It is related that, when the
Able Sieyes objected 70 the confsca-
ton Of church property which was pro-
posed in one Of the debates, Mirabeau
turned 10 him and said: :" Ny dear Alb
be, you have loosed the bull. Do YOU
think he will not use his horns!~ The
logic was unanswerable And 50 with
Congress and the carpet-baggers. Not
only have they loosed, but created.
set of the vilest wretches that God in
His wisdom tolerates TO live, or man in
his folly hesitates to hang-and when
they look for anything but what they
now complain Of, they only repeat the
mistake Of which Mirabeau reminded
his colleague