The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-09-01
From the New York sun Rad. ,

The overwhelming defeat of Gen. Grants
administration in North Caroli.d foyeStd8-
AIRS rs 0o'rAJGH IN al he former sicrfhoidfHg
I States. For a lime after the war the rule OF
the carptt-baggers in the South was IA mat
ter Of necessity. The old dominant class
did not take kindly 10 the new order of
things which sprang from the success OF the
Union arms. The inrOad of i governing
clement from the North was the natural re-
suit: and that it should trinG in its train
body Of adventures was almost "A thing of
course. The folly Of the late Insurgents in
listening TO the advice Of Andrew Johnson,
and arraying themselves in political hostIl-
ity to the Republican party and its plan Of
reconstruction. gave these aUVeuturcrs the
vantage ground from tie very start, and
soon opened the door tor tte rnore unscru-
pulous among them to become Waaderers
, and 7otterS.
The fruits OF the carpet-bag reign of the
last five years are what might have been
expected. The world may be searched in
vain for governments 50 immoral 50 shane
leSsIY c5y3Ugt. 50 hopelSs{y r0t'p1l. those now
prevailing in the South. Politically they
may be changed: but this cannot cure one
ct the soresU of the evils already inflicted
. These scamps have run the states they rule
ruiHously into debt. The Legislatures con-
troled By them have pledged the States to
the discharge OF pecunfary obligations OF
crushing wei gilt. to the future REDEEM ption t
an enormous amount of bonds, and To the
imposition Of enormous taxes through Sc
Iit~ OIL wears iHlS nus DCC!l ubilt III IhItu
erance OF all sorts of schemes whereby the
authors reap present wealth and anticipate
larger gains III the immediate future. These
burdens have already seriously en- barrassed
all of these States, AID well nigh bankrupt
cd some of them: and to save ,iem from
ruin, the reign of the carpet-bfE robbers
must be speedily brought to an end.
There would seem to be no good reason
Why the honest men in those soreiy plumber
ed States should not band together, ire
i,-n or TnliFiral IffArguppS and
Wrcst them ont of the hands of the thieves
that dcspOi them. All the issues which
made their advent even possibility have
been settled. Let the better class OF old
citizens accept the situation III good faith
and assure the negroes that there is no dis
position to deprive them of their new born
privileges. and there Will be an uprising OF
tie ps6Ule that 1riH dTire ont these TGUeH0uS
aiitgiuS. and restore to the States what they
have not had since they plunged into rebel
lion nine years agO-stabie. thrifty, reSpec-
table governments.
And here is what another influential
Northern paper says;
From the New York journal of Commerce
tneutr2l)
The Indignation, ifnot the blood, of the
South is now up, and the carpet-bagTer
hereafter will have to move on the almost
ceaseleSS march of the Wandering Jew
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san who is now glad TO throw a shoyelful o
earth upon the political coffin of the carpet
Dagger. lie has been the curse ofthe South
during his brief lOcGSt-like existence there.
tie took nothing there but bis carpet-5ag.
with its paper contents as aforesaid. his hate
of the South and his unscrupulouS ambition.
lie had no interest in Southern industry or
Southern development. He was messen-
ger of war, and not of peace; or il was out
of the disturbance which he spared no eft
fort TO foment, and for which he always had
at hand the remedy of powder and cold
steel, that he expected 10 profit. His vote
at tile last session of Congress was general
Iv to be found on the bad side of all politi-
cal and financial questions. For jobs, he
has the fondneSs of a mouse tor cheese, and
was usually detected burrowiug away in
the centre Of every rich contract or fran
chise Such is the species OF a carpet-bag-
ger-the worst of all the genus Politician
Ne congratulate Tie South and tie country that
the first fat Of a PiaH6eTer aud Judgment people
IS about 70 stamp the poidfcH ttfe om q The
irbOie OdiJllS race.