Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-24
1910.


OoFpet-nt-SseEA.
Since Horace Greeley commenced
a war upon the carpet bsggers, every
body is joining in the crusade. We
attacked these plunderers in the hey
day of their power, and many con-
demned our course, and said we were
driving capital from Memphis and in
viting military rule. But now that
the carpet-baggers are pOwerless, we
notice a disposition to assal them by
many Of those who shirked when the
assault they are now making would
have been Of service. We published,
a few weeks since, Greeley's assault
upon the carpet -baggers, and we see
from the last Tribune, he has renewed
the attack. He says:
'And this kind Of et-baggers'
has been prominent and powerful in
the legislation and administration Of
several Southern States, as their bloat-
ed public expenditure, taxation and
indebtedness, abundsntly, deplorsbly
sttest. Such is the naked truth, ex-
sggerated, very naturally, by partisan
hostility and bitterness, but bad
enough when reduced to its real di-
mensions. This rapscity has embit-
tered the ex-Rebels, who were bitter
enough already, and too willing to
believe that every Republican was, Of
course, a canting knsve. 1t has alien
ated and repelled many who would
have been Republicans ere this, had
the new State governments been
thoroughly upright and frugal; and it
was imperative, on many accounts,
that they should have been."
The Tribune says these "thieving
carpst-baggers" have impeded re-
construction, and concludes with the
following warning to its Radical
brethren:
Republicans Of the South! you
have a desperate struggle just ahead,
and you cannot win unless you send
these villains to the rear. You can
not rely on their modesty or their
sense Of deceney; they will push
themselves forward into the most
conspicuous posts, no matter at what
peril AID mischief to your cause, un-
less you sternly say, go back,
thievesr YCu cannot afford to be
delicate with men who do not know
what deIicacy means. Unless you
show by your acts that you detest-l
peculators, and scOrn to be iSd by |
them, you viii be beaten, and VIII !
deserve to be. You can put these fel-
lows where they belong if you try;
aud YOU must try. Their effrontery /
will desert them whenever they see
that you not,only loath rascality, but |
do not hesitate TO show your Ioath-
ing"
1t viii be seen that the Tribune de-
dounces the csrPet-baggers as strong
Is ss the Democrats. Mr.. |
Greeley, during his trip through a
portion Of the South, had Opportuni-
ties OF learning the character of these
harpies, and he has the manliness to
blurt it out. His exposure Of the ''thiev-
ing csrpet-bsggers," ," has incurred the
indignation OF the whole gang. Each |
plunderer seems to think he is alluded
to specially, and becomes very angry
and abusive. Greeley calls the stten-
ton Of all such TO the following anec-
dote: "The eccentric Lorenzo Dow
Was once approaching place where
he hsd an appointment to preach,
when & stranger complained to him
that his watch had been stolen from
under his pillow the night before.
Dow assured the victim that his watch
would be returned, and, picking up
bowlder that weighed a pound or SO,
hid Il under his cloak and entered the
pulpit. After preaching zealOusly for
hall an hour or so, he suddenly
stopped and exclaimed: "A mans
watch WIS stolen in this neighbOrhoOd
asrnight, and the thiefis now in this
house. I shall hit him with this
stone" BE made feint Of throwing
it, and one Of the audience ducked
his head. He was instantly seized,
searched, and the stolen watch was
found in one of his pockets. Are
there not too many heads ducking In
Difference 20 our denunciatiOn of
'thieving carpet baggers?' "