Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-02-26
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THE UAmPER-maeoRna.
what Thsy are ana whnt They
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It is now quite well understood
that at least one carpet bag mem-
Der Of the Houss-a gentleman
from South CarOlina-is implica.
ted in the sale Of West Point &c,
detships. There Is promise Of.
full exposure, and the public will
soon know al about L. But the
most remarkable feature Of the
thing 70 my mind is, NOT that The
carpet baggers should cell their
Influence and their votes for such
sums as they can get, but that the
people should wonder when they
do SO. Congress hes deliberately
imposed this set Of vile creatures
upon ten States Of the Union. The
reconstruction laws have rendered
anything like respectable repre-
sentation impossible they have
excluded from Office every man In
the South who Is 1T TO hold It,
and made ten millions OF people
the victims Of unprincipled adyen-
turers. You cannot name today
among the carpet bag members
and Senators in Congress q single
imam who could be elected to any
Office in the county In the North
from which lie emigrated to faster
himself upon an unwilling people
through the fundamentally o
Congressional reconstruction.-
The Republicans In Congress ar,
beginning to see this, and to com
plain of 1t; but 1t is too late
, As Mirabau said in the Conven
! ton of France, when the Abb
Sesyes complained oftIe extreme
to which the reyolutionists wer
going, "My dear Able, you hav
loosed the bull do you think b
D twill not use his horns F'-COT
gress has "loosed the BULL an
F.. he is simply using his horn
b. There never was a more dastardl
crime committed against q bray
people than that which called I'll
:. carpet baggers into existence an
) filled the Halls Of Congress vii
these mean wretchcs who now re
!. resent the South. Nor is the injuI
confined to the South alone. II
II carpet .bagger's vote counts for
= much on a tariff or currency que
Il ton affecting the whole cOuntT
i as q member from New York
!. Cincinnati, and we have now TIVE
=, ~ such votes in the Senate 81
. eighty IN lhe IIouse-any one
70 them a merchahLable article
D. sale to the highest bidder, the q
le gregate forming an army of RI
cality sufficiently large to corfu
to and befoul the entire legislati
y Of Congress. Nor is there a
prospect of immediate relief. t
:, influence OF these mon is consta
y. ~ exerted to prevent the ext
ve sion OF amnesty to th0selikely
n. prove competitors for their O.
,r- cession. A general removal
no disabilities would soon purify
I'D political atmosphere Of the Sou
NC but Congress was never fart
from that fort Of magHanim
than il Is to-day. The South
delegations are solid against
and ale likely to remain 80 ant
defeat any measure of the kind.
SO, | repeat, the sale OF caC
ships, though a disgracef9l th
is but a drop in the great ocean
'c', corruption. II Is as nothing CT
.ne pared to the villainy and vena
which are inseperable from
system which makes Senator'S
to Representatives ont Of men
on come here for the sole purg0s,
making rs much rs possible on
their positions in Congr
Those fsets may as well he Il
ell squarely in the face, and
pcople may rs well make up
minds to accept the disgraC
., situation which party malice
,h"n forced upon them 1t will be
opv work Of twenty years TO "d
In feet thG'halls ofthe nation all
nun isture, and remove from then
Mt, Impurities OF Congressiona.
OIL construction.