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Horace GrecIy's Opinion Of Them.

THE CAICiiIA-i5A0 0SbAs
Horace Grecly's Opinion Of Them.
From bis Recent Speech \
There is another Influence equally
Injurious with theirs, and q great deal
more detrimental to the fame and
character or tho Republican patty.
allude to what are known as The
achieving carpet, baggers." Applause
Fellow citizens, do not mistake me.
All the Northern men in the South are
not thieves. The larger part OF them
are honest md good men, some 81
whom stay there at tile peril Of their
lives. because they believe y to betheir
duty
The public is often hecdlessly un-
just. slot a government have 10000
official subordinates in power, ofwhom
$500 are honest and true men, who do
their duty faithfully, while hardlJy'loo
are robbers and ~swindlcrs, the public
will hear a great deal more about the
100 robbers than about the $500 true
men. The 100 stand out in the public
~eye--they are always doing something
which exposes them to the %scornful
gaze of the multitude-wlile the hon.
cstand true men pass along silent and
unobserved, and nothing is said, very
little is MougM Of them. All attention
is concentrated upon the 100, who are
dcfaulting aud stealing, and forging
and running away.
Well, gentlemen, the tbieving car
pct baggcrs are a mournful fact; they
do exist there, and | have seen them
Applause. They are fellows who
crawled down South in the track OF our
armies, generally n very safe distance
in the rear; some OF them on suffers
wagons; some bearing cotton permits
some of them looking sharply to see
what may turn up; and they remain
there. They at once ingratiated them
selves with the blacks, simple, credu-
lous, ignorant men, very glad to wei
come and to follow any whites who
professed to be the champions OF their
rights. Some Of these got elected
| Senators, Others Representatives, some
| Sheritfs, some Judges, and so on. And
there they stand right in the public eye,
stealing and plundering,' many of them
with both arms around legroes, and
their hands in their rear pockets, see
Ing if they cannot pick q paltry dollar
out of them and the public looks at
them, does not regard. the honest
Northern men, but calls every "carpet-
Dagger q thief, which is not the truth
by a good deal. But these fellows
many of them long faced. and with
eyes rolled up, are greatly concerned
for the education Of the blacks, and for
the salvation of their souls. Great
laughter. ''Let us pray" they say.
But they spell pray with an &c. and
thus spelled, they obey the apostolic
injunction to spray without ceasing."
citizens, the time has been,
and still is, when it was 'pclllous to be
known as Il Republican or an Adolf
ZIONIST in the South, but it never called
the blush of shame to any mans cheek
to be so called, until these thieying
carpet. baggers went there-never
Applause. They got into the Legis-
%laturc; they went to issuing State
bonds they pretended to use them in
aid of railroads and other improve
ments. But the improvements were
not made, and the bonds stuck in the
~issuers' pockets. Laughter. That
is the pity OF it.
swell" some say, ''you have just
such thieves at the North" Yes, we
do many Of them! Applause,
But the South was already impover-
ished, was bankrupt, without money,
without thrift, almost without food
and these fellows went there robbing
and swindling when there was very lit
tie 10 steal, and taking the last ten-cent
shinplaster off Of the dead mems eyes.
They were recognized by the late arts
tocracy not merely as thieves. but as
enemies. Says Byron's Greek min
strcl:
"a tyrant.-hut our masters then
Were still at least oui co%untrymen.'
Thus we record the men who an
nually rob us at Albany, at Trenton,
and at Harrisburg, They do not carry
4hcir plumber out of the State when
they get any, These fellows do. The
South was not merely beaten in the
late contest; she was profoundly AS
tonished by the result. Her paoplc
have not fairly got over their amaze
ment at their defeat; and what they
sec Of us are these thieves, who repre-
sent the North to their jaundiced Wis
ion, and representing it, they disgrace
it. They are the greatest obstacles to
the triumph and permanent ascenden-
cy of Republican principles at the
South. and as such / denounce them.
Applause.
swell, then, do you justify the Ku
klux ?" | am asked. Justify them in
what? If they should choose to catch
q hundred or two Of these thieves,
place them tenderly across rails, and
bear them tenderly and peaceably acros
the Ohio, I should of course condemn
the act, as l condemn all violence
but the tears live in a veiy small onion
that would water all my sorrow for
them. Laughter and applause.
The Radicals are quarreling among