New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-14
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The Charleston Republican is still grleyed that
TIE TRIBUNE has asserted that some carpet
baggers are thieves. 1t admits the iact, Dut
insists that we ought not to have stated 1t so
bluntly, because Rebel Democrats were certain
beforehand to garbe our structures and repre-
sent US as stigmatizing all carpet-baSSer5 as
thieves, in spite of our explicit. repeated
declarations that they were not. The RpuOA-
can concludes:
"Tlrre ia sometimes great power in q word word
rightly coined In, sent nations forward in right careers
and bad words have driven thom backward as sWity,
Tho word carpctbaycr has been one OF these words oil
terrible powo. II has ssen force for evil in the south
which no man measure. 1t has crowded away tens
and tens OF thousands of people and millions and millions
OF capital; it has Intensified the pr0riHciaiSh OF
mighty class il has placed premium upon the naive
ism even of biockhca AMI because OF thai premium IL
has damaged to some degree all here who We're born out
side our limits whether in the North or In Europe ana
II still powerful and still rearlng the growth Of these
Southern States No word was ever framed in America
50 full OF terrible and behtnG force AMI those OF the
south who love must wish for the time when that
word shall be declared Obsolete aud tor this consuina
ton d,youtlv TO be wished we the aid Of Horace
Greeley and THE TRIBUNE"
Comments by The Tribune.
Terms OF reDroach become titles OF honor,
and rice gersa, according to the behavior of
"I.ibertinc' was originally a champion Of true
| liberty; Democrat" was an epithet more aD-
horred than that of scamp or reprobate.
"Knayen formerly signifed a servant if SER
wants had been steinly upright, it would have
retained its harmless meaning. "Aboliti0nlSt'
used to he an awful stigma; but VINO fears 1t
now? No man need be ashamed that he is
called a carpet-bagger If carpct-biggers do
nothing 20 he ashamed Of. Ii j. The truth that
some CARPET -baggers, having worked thcm-
selves into office at the South, have there proved
hypocr;es, rascal> thieves That has made Che
| term ObnOxUls, and thus uisCloGitcd good and
worthy men.
THE TRIBUNE proposes the vindica,ion of
these through their complete separation from
the thieves. SO long as they remain blended
in the general conception, the honest must
continue to suffer Cor the sins OF the r0gues
Make the black sheep flock by themselves,
and the white VIII be seen in their true color.
The Republican has had lesson read it in
the recent election in its own city, whose ups
right and capable Republican Mayor, Pills
bury, has been run out by Confederate Gen
eral, simply because he was associated with
candidates very different from himself. Charles
ton is Republican city; Pllsbury has proved
good Mayor; had there been no other offices
to fill, he would doubtless have been reelected /;
but ne could nit carry the crowd piled upon his
back, while they could sink him, and they did
Shall the lesson pass unheeded9 With can
didates known to be uniformly honest and
worthy, the Republicans can carry the South,
though their adversaries yell carpet-bagger"
from this till doomsday. With thieves and
villains leading their hosts, they will be beaten
to death, and fifty TRIBUNEs could not save
them. We entreat them to comprehend in
season that they cannot be saved by cOncealing
or ud!lating the thefts, but only by exposing,
denouaciira and discarding the thieves.