New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-19

Or course, lie Democratic journals picked
ont 80 much Of our statement rs could be
made to serve their purpose. and were quito
willing to give the Impression that we de-
nounced all carpet-baggers as knavos and
robbers This was not fair but it was smart,
and excited no surprise But that Republican
journals should concur in thus garbling and
disappearing our utterances was amazing.
Yet several of them have done il, in the face
OF these explicit ayerIacnts staring them III The
face in the speech whercon they were COM
mentiDg:
"Thero is another influence equally pernlcious with
heirs, and great deal more detrimental to the fimo
ana character OF the RopIbcaA party Iailuc 30 what
are known as tho 'thcvmg carpct-baggcrs.' Fellow
citizens, do not mistake Al the Northern men In
the South not thieves The larger part Of them arc
honest and good men, Of whom stay there at the
peril Of their lives because they beevc their duty
Next to the noble and true who have gone down
South to teach Black children how to rcad-nober there
are not on the earts than these, whom stupid. maiS
nan dlapdated astOcracy often secs iii to crowd into
negro novels to live, not allowing them 10 enter any Whc
society because they teaching gro chidrenAox to
these who rank the nobest women i the SOUTH are
the honest aud worthy Northern who In the face or
social prescription and general obloquy and scorn stand
firmly by the Republican cause.
mcn have 5000 oHcia subordnatcs in power, OF whom
900 are honest and true men who do their duty faithfully
while barely 100 are robbers and swndlers, the public
will hear great deal about the $50 robbers thah
about the 1900 true The 100 stand out In the public
cye--they always doing something which exposes
them to the scOrnful gaze OF the mutltulc-whilo the
honest and true pass along silent and unobseryed.
and nothing is said, very little is hougM Of them. All
attention IS concentrated upon the 10o who are default
ing, and stealing, and forging and running away
"Wel, gentlemen. the thieving carpe;-baggers ara
mournul fact tAcy do exist there, and have seen
them. They fellows who cTawled down South In the
track OF armies generally at very safe distance In
the roar; OF them suffers wagons some bear
ing cotton permits some OF them booking sharply to
see what might turn up; and they remain there Thcy
ingratatod themselves with the Blacks, simple,
crcdul0us ignorant mep very glad to welcome ana TO
follow any Whites who professcd to be the champions OF
their rights Some of thom got elected Senator's Others
Representatives, shcrGs some Judges, and 30 on
And there they stand right in the public eye, stealing
and plundcring. many OF them with both arms around
negroes and their hands in their pocket, seeing
they cannot pick pary dollar ont Of them and the pub
lie looks at them. does not regard the honest Northern
men, but calls every carpetbagger thief which Is not
the truth. 10y good deal. But those fellows, many OF
them long faced and with eyes rolled up, greatly
ccrned for the education of the Blacks and for the sal
walton OF their souls let pray they say but they
spell pray with e. and, thus spelled, they obey the
apostolic injunction to pray without ceasng.'
FelOwcitizens the time has been, and still is when
perilOus TO he known Republican or an Adolf
litjonst in the South but it never called the blush OF
shame TO any mans check to be called until these
thieving carpctbaggers went thcre-neverl They got
into the Legislatures they issuing bonds
they pretended to them in aid Of railroads aud other
improvements. But the improvements were not made,
aud the bonds stuck in tho 5suer5 pockets That Is tho
pity oft.
well some say, youhaye just such thieves at the
North Yea, We have-tOo many Of theml But tho
South already impoycrishcd-was hankrupt-wtth-
out money, without thrift almost without food and
these fellows went there robbng and swindlhs when
there was very little TO steal and taking the last encent
shinplaster of OF dead mems eyes They were recog-
nzed by the late astocracy not merely as thieves but
as enemies. SAYS BsrOn's Greek minstrel.
\ t,Tani-but masters then
Were siil Il least our countr Arni
Thus we regard tho nen who annually rob at
Albany, al Trenton, and at Harrisburg. They do not
carry their plumber out Of the State when they get any
These fellows do The South was not merely beaten in
the late contest; she profoundly astonshed BY the
result Her people have not fairly got their amaze
ment at their defeat and what they Of us are these
thieves, who represent the North to their Jaundiced
vision and representing it, they disgrace it, They are
the greatest obstacle TO the triumph and permanent
asccndency OF Republican principles at the South and
such denOunCo them.
"'Well, them do you justify the KuKluX am asked.
Justify them ia phof3 II they should choose catch
hundred two Of these thieves place them teDderly
astde Of rails. and bear them quietly and peaceably
the Ohio, should Of condemn the act,
condemn all violence; but the tears live in very small
onion that would water all my for them. But
they do nothing like that they don't go for the hievng
carpet-baggers but they sulk around wreehed cabins
and drag out inOfcnsve negroes to lash and torture
them, merely for standing up for their rights
For this do cxecrate the Ku Klux. say they a
disgrace to Southern Cniyalry; and they would be
drummed out of the South there any true chyary
there.
Judge We "a to the motive which impelled
several Republican journals to suppress these
passages and tell their readers that we had
proclaimed every carpet-baggeI" a hypocrite
and thief! Can that motive have been
good OncY
Those journals have unanimously assumed
that we derived our impressions of the thiev-
ing carpet aggers from Democratic sources,
and explain them by the alleged fact that we
mainly associated with Democrats while in
the South. Now it is the simple truth that
our worst impressions of that sort of carpet
baggers' were made by the statements not of
Democrats at all, but of jealous Republicans.
One of them was himself q recent emigrant
from Illinois, who never voted any other than
a Republican ticket, but who went South to
plant cotton, and declared himself nearly
ruined by the heavy taxes imposed on his
plantation by the "cGTpet- baggers," who, by
managing the negroes, ruled and robbed his
County, continually putting up swindling
jobs of bodybuilding, &C., to fill
their own pockets. Another was our
Trend OF many years who last Fall headed the
Republican State ticket in Louisiana, and was
elected by an overwhelming majority. We
take the liberty of indicating him without ask