The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-04-28
carpet-B aggers' claims.

The CARPET bag cormoraufe, VINO na'o' "
tbe consequences Of the forcible expulsion
of the people Of the South from ONCE go'
nossession of the honors and emoluments
Of the State Government, are not at all salts
fed they desire to have all those Offices to
which o fair apportionment Of the patron
age of the Federal Government would enti-
tie the states which they represent. They
have set up strong demand on TINS
ground-claimipg, on behalf Of the people
whom they keep under the ban OF the
charge that they are still rebels, the right
to share in the official spoils, and affecting
decided indignation that their claim is not
allowed. 1t may be seen that while greed
stimulates their demands, the refusal to
comply with them inficts a sense Of per-
sonal outrage, since the offices they claimed
we're only for themselves and their little
clique of plunderers, and by NO means to
be distributed amongst their constituency
not even the blacks, to whom they are alto
pether indebted for the honors and emolu-
ments they enjoy.
The northern psrtisans too highly ap-
preciate office to admit the claims Of these
persons. 1t is not surprising that Mr..
SAWYER, of South Carolina, should COM
plain bitterly that Cabinet officer had in
formed him that :" he must remember that
"the white Republican vote of his State
"was very small; end he must not ask too
"much." No, not too much, SAWYER!
you are only few, and up in the North
there are many. So that, however much
the ultras in Washington may claim south
ern State offices for the "truly loil," when
ever it comes to the disposal of good things
on the Federal table "they must not ask
too much "-they "must remember that
the white Republican vote" in the South
"was very SMALL
Just here lies most important point in
northern craftsmanship. If there is o
chance for construction Of law, or consti-
tuition, or establishing rule, which d.
minishes the number Of southern repre-
sentatives or the number of Offices to be
given to southern men-why, that chance
will be seized upon. Beginning with cut
ting down the weight of southern repre-
sentation by ruling out portion Of the
black population ; since the war they have
taken measure to get the advantage of any
restricted suffrage in the South by appor-
tioning representation in Congress accord
ing to the number of yoters. In conso-
nance with this policy, of course the car
pet baggers could not hope to divide
amongst themselves the Offices which might
be due, upon fair division, to the States
they represent. All! no, indeed. That
would be too great waste Of precious
things. The economic strategy Of estima-
ting the claims of the southern States only
by the number of truly loil," and even
then not including the blacks in the esti-
mate, saved too much to northern partisans
not to DO employed.
1t is not matter tibet is likely to create
any sympathy North or South for those ad-
venturers now in office in the South. They
have only made themselves offensive, and
excited disgust amongst the congressman
and public officers at Washington. 1t is
there considered that it is quite enough that
the laws should put the white people of the
South under the ban and secure the State
Offices to these adventures and that it is
therefore very great impudence in them to
come to Washington and claim a share of
the loayes and fishes, which belong altogether
to the loyal States and the partisans thereof.