The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-17
OUR CARPET-BAGGERS.
THE RESULT OF HORACE GREE.
LEY,S DESCRIPTIONS.
The Thieving Carpet-Bngsers Worse
than Ku-KluL.

New 1Ork. upon MS retllru uOm 4cAoos O0-
serves the attention of all candid minds:
There is another influence equally injurious
with theirs. and a great deal more delrlmen-
ia! to the fame and character OF The Repuoll-
can party. I alIude to what are known as the
Sthievins ca~rpet-baggers." [Applause.] Fell
klow-citizens, do NOT mistake me. All the
Northern men in the South are not thieves.
The larger part OF them are honest and good
men, some Of whom stay there at the peril OF
their lives. because they believe it To be their
duty. Next to the noble and true women,
who nave gone down South to teach black
children how to read-nobler there are not on
The earth than these, whom a stupid, malig-
nant. dilapidateG aristocracy. often sees ne 10
crowd into negro novels to i've. not allowing
them to enter any white society, because they
are teaching negro c~bildren-neXt to these,
who rank as the noblest women IN the South,
are the honest and worthy Northern men,
who, In the face Of social prescription and
general obloquy and scorn, stand nrmiy. by
the Republican cause.
The bubble is often leedlessly unjust. Let O
government have 10000 official subordlnates
In power, of whom $500 are honest and true
men. who do their duty faithfully, while hardly
100 are robbers and swlndlers, The public Will
hear a great deal more about the l0O roooerS
than about the 5000 true men. The 100 stand
ont In the public eye; they are always doing
SOIuGlIluA nlINl ShHOSSs
full gaze Of the multitude; while The honest and
true men pass along silent ana unooserVed,
and nothing IL said, very little Is thought, oil
them. All attention Is concentrated upon Ing
100, who are defaulting and stealing, anu forg4
ing and running away:
Well, gentlemen. the thiering eaEpetoag'
pars are q mourniul fact; they do exist there,
and l have seen them. [Laugbter.] They are
fellows who c~rawleddown South 10 the track
Of our armies, generally q 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; anu
they remain there. They at once inSratiated
themselves with the b!acks-simpie, credu,
lous, ignorant men-very glad to welcome and
10 follow any whites who professed TO be tile
champions of their rights. Some of these got
elected senators, others representatives; some
sherIfS; some judges, and so on. And there
they stand, right IN the p.lyl:c eye, Stealing
and plunderlng, many Of them with botn arms
around negroes and their hand IN tlieir rear
pockets, seeing If they cannot pick o paliry
dollar OH. OF them; and the public looks a.
IheIn. does not regard the honest Northern
men, ont calls every carpet Dagger u th!e;,
which is not the truth by u good deal. But
these iellows-many OF them loCg.faced aud
with eyes rolled up-are greatly concerned
for the education Of the blacks and tor The sal
walton OF their souls. [GreaL laughter. "Let
ms pray, ," they say. But they spell pray With
>un t.e,n and, thus spelled, they obey the apes
Iollc Injunction TO "pray without ceasing."
Fellow.citizens, the time has been, and still
is. when It was perilous 10 be known as a Re-
publican or an Abolitionlst in the South, but 1t
never called the blush Of shame 10 any mans
cheek to be so called, uptl these lhieVlng cur
net Dagger went there--nerer lApp.auSe.l
They rot into the Legislature; they went to is
suing State bonds; they pretended to use
49, r., oi1 oc railroads and other imnr0Vp.
ments; but The improvements were not made,
and the bonds stuck In the issuers' pockets.
[Laughter.l That Ia the pity oft.
..Well," some soy, 'you have Just such
thieves at the North" Yes, we do-too many
OF them [%Applause.] But The South was al
ready impoverished.was oankrnht-wliho9t
money, without thrift, almost without food;
and these fellows went there robbing and
swindllng when there was Very little TO steal.
and taking lhe last ten cent shinplasier OF OF
the dead mems eyes They were recognized
by the late aristocrasy, not merely Us thieves,
but US enemies. Says Byron's Greek min
strel.
"a tyraut-but our masters than
Were still at ieaS; our c0untrymen."
Thus we record the men who annually rob
ms at Albany, at Trenton aud at Harrisburg.
They do not carry their plunder out of the
State when they yet any. These fellows 40 !
The South was not merely beaten In the late
contest, she was profoundly astonished by the
result. Her people have not fairly got over
their amazement at their defeat, and what
they see of us are these thieves, who repre-
sent the North to their jaundiced vision. and,
representing 1t, they disgrace it.. They are
the greatest obstacle to the triumph and per-
manent ascerdency Of Republican principles
at the South, and, as such, l denounce them.
[Appiause.l -,
well. then, do you Justify The ku-klux p
Z ain asked. Justify them In what? Ii they
should choose to catch q huadred or TWO OF
these thieves, place them tenderly across rails,
and bear them quietly and peaceably across
the Ohio. I should Of course condemn the act,
as I condemn all violence; but the tears live
in q very small onion that would water al! my
sorrow for Them. daughter aud applause. ]
But they do nothing like that; they don't 90
for The lhieving carpet-baSgers, but they sku!k
around wretched cabins, aud drag out inoffen-
slve negroes, to lash aAd torture them, merely
for standing up for their rights as men. For
this do execrate the Ku-kiuX. l say they
are O disgrace to Southern chivuiry, and they
would be drumlned out OF the South If there
were any true chivalry there.
-