The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-02-03
MACK" on Carpet Baggers,

That renowned correspondent and
pungeEt writer, "Mack," of the Cir
cinnati Enquirer, is speaking of the
carpet -baggers. who, under the Radi-
cal Congressional policy, are mis- re-
presenting the Southern States in
Congress says of them in letter to
the Enquirer:
"AS TO CARPET -BAGGERS.
1t would be safe to wager a thou
sand dollars that if hell were dOseI
with tartar en- etic, the last dregs OF
the last resulting Vomit would be ten
or dozen of the style of men who
have come here under the Congress
iOnal policy of reconstruction to re-
present the Southern States. They
have already manifested all the at
tributes of interlOpers and "uead
beats, =" and have cnrTied their effront-
cry 60 such an extent as to disgust
even the most loyal of their Northern
Republican colleagues. 1 had not
been in Washington six hours when
/ heard curses, both loud aud deep,
heaVed upon the head of one of the
gentlemen from Louisiana" for
some impertinence, the exact nature
of which could not understand. i
inferred, however, that he had been
giving some sort of practical illustra-
ton to the poetic truism, that "fOols
rush IN where angels fear to tread"-
that he had been busying himself to
do or say something, which modesty
and good breeding would have left to
an old and experienced member of the
House. The complaints on this score
are multiplying, and the consequent
disgust is increasing every day, and
it will be strange if, before the close
of the session, we do not witness a few
undisguised ebullitions of wrath on
the subject from some of the Oldest
Radical members-the very men who
may take to themselves the doubtful
honor of paternity for the whole car
pet bag race. Nor is it at all strange
that the carpet-baggers should act
precisely as they do. The wonder is
that they have refrained so long from
leadership and legislative precedence
And when Mr.. Bingham and Mr..
Butler, and Mr.. Washburne, sneer
contemptuously at them, and effect
state of wonderment at their impud-
ence on the floor of the House, they
seem to forget that greater ifnpu1ence
which was Necessary to enable them
to force themselves upon cOnstituen-
cies who neither knew nor wanted
them. So far from discouraging the
Southern delegations in their de-
termination to be seen and felt in the
National Councils. feel like patting
them on the back, and telling them to
proceed with increased vigor And
when theRadicals who legislated them
into existence, object to their little
freaks of greatness, beg to remind
them Of an incidents in body
which this Congress very strongly
resembles in many respects-the rev.
oluiiOnary assembly ofFrance. 1t is
related that, when the Abbe Sieyes
objected TO the confscation of church
property which was proposed in one
of the debates, Mirabeau turned to
him and said: "My dear Able, you
have lOOsed the bull. Do yOu think
he will not use his horns ?" The logic
was uDanswerabie. And so with Con-
gress and the carpet-baggers. They
have not only loos ed, but created
set of the vilest wreIcnes that CIod in
his wisdom toierEtes to live, or man
in his folly hesitates to hang-and
when they LOOK for any thing but
what they now complain of, they only
repeat the mistake of which Mirabeau
reminded his colleague"