The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-27
Speech of an Ex.SIaVe Senator In
Texas ON the CarPet-Baggers.

The Houston (Texas) Age publishes the
speech of Matt. Gaines, the coloTed State
Senator from Washington, to his constitu-
ents, from which we make this entertaining
extract:
1.-The carpet-baggers seem to be in great
trouble. I'll just give them what they want
and let them 90 home. l leave the Southern
Pacific and the Emigration bills, and take
my text on the carpet Dagger.
+" What is called the Republican party, is
not the Republican party at ali. The black
men of Texas are the real Republican party.
1ou put the black men on one side and the
Democrats on the other, and the scattering
white men who call themselves Republican
in the middle, and they would not be strong
enough to lift flea into Office. / refer to
the statistics of my own county. The white
vote is LOB, and only % of them vote the
Republican ticket. The colored vote is
2,745, and they are all Republicans. 1t is
time to look at the great power we possess
1T is time for cOlored people to wake up.
Little fellows like Clark come down here
from Connecticut when everything wa, in
a state of distraction. We were unorganiZed,
and did not know what to do, and we took
them up. bobtailed coat, tight pants, little
gold-headed cane, and all. and we have fed
them long enough on our own chicken-pie
They are unthrifty stock. There is no come
out in them. / am better fitted for Congress
than Clark, and there would be more pro-
priety in my being there by the side of
Greeley and Sumner. These grand Repub-
leans, like Ruby from Maine come down
here and would make you believe that they
fought the whole War through by themselves
and that they tore Vicksburg down with
their own hands for your freedom, and they
will sleep in your beds with you, no matter
how lousy. No more pulling wool over our
eyes. There are some old black men here
who have danced to the music of the dinner
horn, and not much dinner at that, and who
chicken-pie, and are better worthy
of position than the imported little worms
that have crawied into so many Offices
Those little fellows are too weak to blow,
and too small to breed. Give your proven
der to better stock. They will wear out
our majorities. They never had decent
suit of clothes till they came down here from
or whereabouts, aud got Office
They used to lounge around my desk ut
Austin. and use my stationery and call me
Gaines. When they got office, it
WAS Mr.. Gaines, and after awhile it was
Matt. | am tired of such fellows living at
our expense. There is no use in having
strength unless you use it.
Gen. Clark has got proud in Congress, and
tell you he has worn his tight pants and
switched his gOld-hcaded cane long enough
at our expense. Where are the school
houses he promised us? Not here. The
United States has paid him for all he has
done, and we owe him nothing.
stephenson, like the rest, came down
here to speculate on the black man. and he
has been paid too. There are plenty of
them in the district. They hardly speak to
you now, and won't shake hands. But lust
before the election, they will knock at your
door before daylight to let you know they
are candidates, and will eat with you out OF
the dirty skillets. 1t almost makes me a
Democrat to think of such fellows.