Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-10
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION,
EXIT cARpEr-BAaaERs AND ENTER DEM.
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EXIT CARPET-BAdGERs AND ENTER DEM
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The New York Journal of Commerce
has the following excellent article on tho
North Carolina election u ..ss.H
The returns that come 10 from the North
Carolina election are, we say, better, and
better" because the larger the majority
against carpetbag.isifi and Goyeruos, ,Hoi-
den's militia aud President Grants re9u-.
lars, the more certain it is that the sun Of
carpetbag misgovernment is setting at the
South, and that the day of military inter!
ference with elections is passing away.
The petbagger and the bayonet have
been, since the war, the twin opprcssofs Of
the beaten South. They have always been
found together. The carpet.bagger has
always invoked the aid Of the bayonet
against the peaceful opposition that would
have overthrow him at fair election,
and the bayonct has always stood by the
carpet-bagser. BY majestic but calm
uprising Of the people of North Carolina,
Eve Conservative Congressman against tho
Radicals have been elected; thirty-tyo
Conservative Senators against eighteen
Radicals, and seventy five Conservatives to
forty FIVE Radicals in the Lower House
This is one Of the greatest political revo.:
lutions Of the age-greater even than Of thc
whirligig of revenge that brought Cover
nor Walker of Virginia to the top. So.
complete is it, that the carpet.baggers Of
North Carolina aud all through the South
stand aghast at the result So fairly was
the victory won, that no Radical paper in
or out of the State hints at bogus votespar
disorderly conduct or intimidation or bH-
berry to explain the phenomenon. They
see and confess that they have been sound
" and squarcly whipped; and are now
packing their spare papercollars and man
uscript speeches into the huge cayernous,,
iron jawed receptacles from which they
take their name, and hieing them to the
fresh fields and pastures new of unrecoh-'
structed States. Their stny there, too,
we hope, will be short one. !. The sindik-
nation, if not blood. of the South is nov,
up, and the carpet-bagger hereafter viii
have to move with the almost ceaseless'
march Of the Wandering Je&. Tile man
must be thorough going partisan who 10
not glad to throw shsvelful of earth upon
the political coffin of the carpet -bagger.
He has been the curse Of the South dur
ing his brief locust-like existence there.
He took nothing there but his carpet bag
with its paper contents as aforesaid, his
hate of the South and his INSCRIPTIONS
ambition. He had no interest in south.
ern industry or southern development.
He was messenger Of war, and not Of
peace; or was it out Of the disturbance
which he spared no effort to foment, and
for which he always had at hand the
remedy of powder and cold steel, that he
expected to profit. 1t is the carpet bagger,'
operating with his allies in Congress;
which has so long kept peaceful Southern
States from representation at Washington;
He was ready to aid in their re-admission
only when he was elected Senator or Rep
resentative. At the Capital he is tie
same evil genius that he is among the peo.
pie whom he misrepresents. His vote al
the last session was generally to De found
on tho bad side of all political and financial
questions. For jobs he has the fondness'
Of mouse for cheese, and was usually de-
tectcd burrowing away in the centre Of
every rich contract or franchise. Such is
the species carpet-bagger-the worst Of all
the genius politician. We congratulate
the South and the country that the fat Of
plundered and indignant people is about,
to stamp the political life out Of the whole
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