The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-06-10
CARPET-BAG COVE aNkENT RRBUKED BY
ARADICAL COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS.

The Foreign Relations Com mittee OF tn
lower branch of Congress-if one branc
can longer be considered lower than thu
other-has recently, and no doubt uawit-
tingly, given the Republican system OF re
construction and the whole race OF carpet
bsgpers q most sesthing and deserved re-
buke. 1t is truesthst the rebuke is directed
at Spanish domination in Cuba, bat, as thu
acts complained of and charged against tn,
the nonresident or carpet-bag Spaniard
in Cuba, are but imperfect representation
OF the outrages upon the southern peopl,
which have been expressly authorized an,
systematically fostered and encouraged b,
Congress for the past four or five years, th
reproot OF our own system of foreign domi
nation BY vile race of carpet baggers, is u,
less pointed or deserved. Referring to the fac
that the most shocking barbarities are prac
ueed by the Spanish in Cuba, and the islane
is under the control of class of Spauisrds
known as the volunteers, who are not natives
or residents of the island but sojourners
there for purposes of ambition and private
fortune-getting, Gen. Banks. who rs chsr'
man of the committee, recounts some OF the
little usurpstions and outrages OF the Cuban
carpet bsggers as follows
"They com PEELED the resignation of Capt.
Gen. Dulce, because he was too lenient IL
the conduct of the war They boldly
threaten the removal of Gen. De Rodas if
he fails to satisfy their demands. They Sc
cured the promotion CT Nalmaseda at the
very moment when our government was re-
celvlng assurances from Spain that the
cruelties to which he owed his advancement
should be suppressed. They disregard all
laws aud all authority which is not in accord
with their sanguinsry principles and pur-
poses. Few or none are natives of Cuba.
They swarm from every psrt of Spain IN
search of wealth. None remain in the land
they plumber, to live among the people they
have wrouged. Small fortunes generally
satisfy their desires, but they often accumu-
late great wealth, according to their aspira-
tons and capacity. They are unaccompa
med bg families, and unrestraned by social
ties, and represent the most desperate classes
OF Spain. A former distinguished diploma
tic representative of this government lately
visiting Havana, in letter printed in the
poOilc JuuruSs Oh tuls country over MS own
signature, describes the volunteers as being,
with some honorable exceptions, adventur-
ers, of whom one half at least are Spanish
convicts and desparadoes, and the ruling
power IN the island and ne states further
that every intelligent man with whom
he conversed, - Spaniards, volunteers
Cnoans, foreigners, and Amer
cans,-with solitary exception,
frG a. laTs 4 rha j
TO be, upon other authority, generally with
out religious culture or education, aud of
low moral character. They attain wealth
without sorupie, by the worst means they
mouopolize the dignities, graces, and emol-
uments OF the church !; they control all com
mercIal employments and ali the advantages
OF trade they usurp the patronage of every
grocery, tavern, and hostelry in the interior
OF the island; they occupy, TO the last man,
every appointment and post of civil or
military administration they are the
protegeS and protectors of tyranny, moDopo-
- slavery, aud the slave trade, and iuplac-
able enemies OF Cubans, Americans, and
other foreigners, who are of necessity hostile
u tyranny, monopoly, slavery and the slave
trade. They have little taste for uechani
csI science aud less for nethodical Industry
Engineers and mechanics are generally
Cuoans or foreigners. The Spaniards are
advocates of hceRse and enemies OF law
the Cubens and those who sympsthise with
them are OF necessity advocates Ct law and
enemies OF license. They are owners of
land but they share no govern neut employ,
none OF the dIgnlties, Offices or emoluments
Of the church, none OF the advantages OF
trade and commerce, and none of the Inmu.
EIties which elsewhere attach to the cult
walton Of che soil. The culture OF wheat,
which grows Iuyuriautly. is proAi bited
bresdstuff5 from the United States aud other
products grown in Spain are excluded or
burdeued with heavy duties for the benefit
OF Spanish producers. The Spanish
volunteers support the selves III
Cuba, and Their families and friends
in Spain, and amass large fortunes besides.
Nothing attaches them to Cuba, nothing
weans them from their native land. The
most wealthy send back even the annual
increase OF their capital and at the close
81 their American ventures. they take every.
thing to Spain, leaving nothing to the Is
ind they abandon, but d numerous progeny
OF mixed blood, which is generally sold to
slavery. Aud this mas been the history of
Spanish colonization ID America for three
centuries, and IN Europe since colonies were
recognized as I'll element of civilization
Coming from among ths most desperate I
classes OF spa in, the Catalan volunteers re
turn to their native land laden with ili-goiten
wealth, improved By 81 in perfect education
picked up II an average residence of seven
or eight years, and emboidened by unre-
strained exercise Of political power they fight
against liberty aud equality, against all
J ust principles OF government, and for the
supremacy OF intolerance in religion, corrup-
ton in administration, monopoly in trade,
tyranny III the government, and the perpet-
ual servitude aud slavery of the Spanish
people, and into the hands of such the re-
sPonsibie power of government in Cuba has
fallen. Wanderers from Spain, commoraut
only in Cuba, Indifferent to the interest Of
the island, and regardless ofthe rights of the
people, no principle and no power imposes
upon them restraint.
The Cuban carpet baggers, whose families
and trunks are in Spain and who have taken |
to Cuba only their movable carcases, their .
carpet bags and professions of lsyoTty for the
purpose of governing the people Of that un-
ortunate island, Will read with some sur
Prise, We think, suoh fierce philippe
against foreign domination in Cuba from a
r'epuOhcan committee Of our Republican
congress, which has, Tor four or five years.
exhausted Its deviiish Ingenuity 10 schemes
or the government Of the Southern States by
race OF Northern veGabonds and nolitic.I
nounteoanks' When 'h's system of foreign
domination or territorial vassalsoe was
naugurated by Congress, aud that hungry
1sck of political wolves turned loose pro,
he South to usurp the Offices aud etno.u-
neu's of government aud devour its sub
lance, the Southern people, joined by
Nortbern Democrats, protested against it,
IS not only auti Republican, but as anti
h L. i I !