The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-11-18

IA nPresensntlve CarpsSsr.sser
Tlpublie well understand that the
lternssrpetbagger describes an adventur
rer, 40, lured BY scent Of plumber has
settll here in the South to make his Tor
tuney arraying the cOlored race into
disti-t political organization against the
whit for his exclusive use; and who
havR foisted himself. into Office by this
ignoe method begins the work OF plum
der aer the style of Corliss and mellow
an. ad other worthless of that stripe
Secimens of this race of hybrids, are
to bfound in every Southern State and
by class of our people are they more
corally despised than by the honorable
andieh-minded Northern men who have
com in good faith to share the fate of the
gre. body of the people and to lead lives
OF onest toll, and generous effort, IN
whoever profession or occupation they
ma be engaged.
he carpet-baggers as above described,
if OF so thick, are more disgusting Wis
itaon to our afflicted people than were
thdrogs and locusts that were inflicted
as punishment on the Egyptians. In
thi generation of pests, there is but lit
tie difference. They are animated by
tn. same principle; and even their ante
cetents are very much the same, so that
todescribe carpet-bagger in Texas is to
giye fair illustration of his class in Mis-
sisippi or Arkansas. They are all birds
of feather.
In late number of Pomepoy's n. Y.
Democrat, we find an account of the Rad
ical candidate for State Treasurer of Tex
as, which we viii copy below because this
singl. example describes the general char
acter of the leaders and aspirants of the
Radical party throughout the South:
The name of this man is
GEORGE w. HONEY.
He is, or was, a minister of the Methodist
gender. About 1923 a sergeant of the
Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry was sent home
from his command, then in Louisiana, on
recruiting service. The sergeant was one of
y.ur humorous fellows and when one of
tlose praying chaps talked about enlisting.
or young man would tell him that there
vas the best opening in the Fourth of any
egiment in the service for a cha plain, and
hat if the victim would enlist he promised
20 use his infiuence-which, he remarked
was very great-to. get the recruit appoint
ed chaplain of the regiment. Out of thir-
teen recruits which the sergeant got eIeuen
were billed as chaplains of the regiment.
This Honey was one of them.
He was given leave Of absence, and went
to Wisconsin to collect sanitary stores, of
which the men were in need, and succeeded
in getting together q large amount, with
Which he started for Louisiana. Very lit
tie OF it ever got below Cairo, and he was
charged with having sold the most valua-
BILE part Of it to the suffers. This was be-
lieved by all the regiment, and we don't
know as he ever denied it. A tin-pail full
OF sauer-kraut, and several bottles of black
berry cordial were found in his tent, and
that was about all.
In raid which the regiment made from
Baton Rouge to Clinton, the men "went
through'several buiIdings,and the Reverend
George w. Honey made himself Infamous
by stealing from Masonic Lodge the Holy
Bible. We believe that through the persua-
sions of certain persons he left the Bible at
Clinic n; not of his own tree will, however
On the march he would go into house
and talk about religion with the lady OF the
house, while his niger robbed the hem
house in the backyard. He was hypo-
critic of che deepest dye. He would send his
servant with the foragers, always saying
Now, George, don't you steal anything. IL
is wicked to steal, but George, you knOp 1
am fond Of chickensr' And the niger would
put on a sanctimonious look, roll out the
white of his eye, and always come back with
q young rooster.
Honey remained with the regiment until
1865, when it was ordered to Texas where
he was transferred to the Freedmen's Blu
reau.
At the time he entered the service lie was
as poor as church mouse, or the ordinary
run of Methodist ministers, and when the
regiment was mustered out he came home
with it, having made money enough in a
year to buy good house in Galveston worth
several thousand dollars, and he stated he
was going to Boston to buy furniture for It,
He had so good a thing that he went back
TO Galveston, and has employed his time
among the colored people to good advantage
as he is now quite wealthy. He induced a
number of young women to go down South
and teach the young gorillas, some of whom