Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-06-21

Gus with theirs, and great deal more detri
mental to the fame and character of the Re
publican party. | allude to what are know
: as the g thicviDg carpet-baggers. " An
plause. Fellow-citizens, do not mistak
me. All the Northern men in the South ar
not thieves The larger part of them ar
honest and good men, some of whom sta
1 there at the peril of their lives, because the
believe it to be their duty. Next to the no
bic and true women. who have gone dowr
D south TO teach Black children how TO read
} nobler there are notion the earth than these
whom stupid, malignant. diapidated aris
tocracy often sees ft to crowd into negro no
tells to live, not allowing them to enter an
White society because they are teaching ne
gro children-next to these. who rank as the
nohlest women in the South, are the honest
and worthy Northern men, who, in the face
Ut social prOscrintion and general oblOquy
and scorn, stand firmly by the Republican
cause.
The public is often heedlesslv unjust Let
| a Government have 10000 official subordi-
mates in power, OF whom $500 are honest
and true men who do their duty faithfully.
while hardly 100 are robbers aud swindlers.
/ the public will hear great deal more about
! the 100 robbers than about the 9 900 true
mon. The 100 stand out in the public eve
they are always doing something which
/ exposes them to the scornful gaze Of the mul-
/ titudc--while the honest and true men pass
along silent and unObserved and nothing is
said, very little is thought Of them All at
I tenti1n is Concentrated upon the 100, who
are dclaulting and stealing, and forging,
I and running away
( Well, gentlemen. the thieying clrpet-bag-
gers are mournful fact they do exist there.
and have seen them. Laughter They
are fellows who crawled down South in the
track of our armies, generally very safe
di5tInCc in the rear some of them on SUIT
lers' wagons some bearing cotton permits;
some Of them looking sharply to see what
may turn up and they remain there. They
at once ingratiatcd themselves with the
Blacks. simple, crciulous, ignorant men,
very glad ID welcome and to follow any
Whites who prJies-ed 70 be the champions
Of their rights. Some Of them got elected
Senators. others Representatives,, some Sher-
iff-, some JuI .cs. and 50 on And there
they stand, riyht in the public eye, stealing
and piunicriuE, many Of them with both
arms around negroes, and their hands in
their rcar po" lets, seeing If they cannot pick
Ialtry llar out OF them and the public
looks 40 them. does not regard the honest
Northern men. bat calls every 80 carpet bag
ger a thief, which Is MT she truth by
good deal. Bat these lellJws-many Of
them long faced. aud with eyes rolled up.
are greatly concerned for the education of
the Blacks, and for the salvation of their
souls. lGrcat Laughter N Let US pray,
they say. Bur they spell pray with an =" +
and, thus spelled, they obey the apostolic in
junction 70 So pray without ce3sing.
FeliJW-cItizcus. the time has been and still
Is, when iJ was perilous to be known as
Republican or ln Abolitionist in the South.
but iJ never called he blush of shame to any
mans check u he SD called, until these
thcgiug csrpat-baggers went there never
I Applause They got into the Legislature
JHcy went G, Issuing State bonds they pre-
tended 20 use them in all OF railroads and
other Improvements. But the improvements
were not made and the bonds stuck in the
issucrs pockets. Laughter. That is the
pity of IT,
- Well. 90 some say, .' you have just such
thieves at che North. " Yes, we do too
many q them Applause. But the South
was already Impoverished bankrupt
witI,lt money, without thrift, almost with
out JJJ ami these fellows went there rob
5ing and -SindlIns when there was very lit
tic To -tclt AMI taxing the last ten-cent shin
plaster off Jt th- dead men : eyes. They
we're recognized by the late ari-tocracy not
merely a- thieves Jut rs enemies. says b.
rou's Greek minstrel,
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l""s - '-.'l '''o '.'oN ~ -
~ a1 -Al''hJ' Il, l'cu' ''"' anu AZ ii''
ih'y 40 h'" carry tH'H pIuu''c' Du' u ~.
Sttte ""en they Sel any. Lhe7e Ie"D"9 U'
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lti' 4' 'e7' ii-l'- it' 'iSy ''lS 1''00 ~ my
are 1Ae S'etli7. g'71.'c.e % 'hs tliuhPH 'uu
.' 'H '''eiO "s.eil t'H ~ ne n i"o'-
pies 't me 9'uLH' ana a. 7ueh deH3ancc
tHem. Applause
" cl- IAeh' 10 ~" Iu7tHy Lho NJ
N,"A ." asAeI. 'Ue1"y 'No'I :"
.fH4. i- l'.t -h2u'' ch0oso - an |
ii"hli5 y '"' y l''e ','if'es' 'l''e0 .iei
shil'ly "sl'7. '"Li7' anu ~ II 'nIiI 4uiJNy
ana !e''l''l across lAe pI'D' ! 9uou,u y /
Ju's5 c'li1r'n'. 'H5 dILg '7 c'l''''ilu az ~
-. III - -, t-,r |
rbcw rlaa.,.,rer and apulluse. But tacv /
! ,.uetliiuo Ike that. they don't 20 for the /
t,ia,;,., ,.rr.ot r., ,,ars but tbev skuIk /
tr,linJ v,rc..f,eI c,5Ins. and dra, out inof- +
fers.ve n.,r.e-. Ii lash anI torture them. /
merely f3r standing mp for their rights as
men For ellis dJ exeerate the ku-kluz. I
! -ay they are a Iisgrace to Southern chival- (
~. ind tbc. would D. drummed out Of the .
south + there ,g.s any true Chivalry there. |
Butt li.s been reported very widely that |
1t |.ck-Iurr. aadre-sing mainly Southern |
audience tui tryln, r. awaken in them
something 1t the sentiment OF Nationality /
and Patriotism which burns ia a true Amer |
i.,., E,so,n said that trusted the time /