The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-06-28


to see much of the Southern people,
and to learn much of the actual con-
dition of political affairs here, and OF
the character Of our present rulers.
When he returned to his home in New
York, he was welcomed by n large |
number of his friends, under the aus
pices of the Union Republican General |
Committee. to whom he responded in
a characteristic address, from which we
make the following extracts:
Wen, gentlemen, have heard it
objected that, in my speech at New
Orleans, | asserted that if there had
been Universal Amnesty four years
ago, there would have been no ku,
Klux in 1871, | do not think | said
exactly that; but | did say that | re-
garded the policy Of excluding from
Office the leading men Of the South as
a very great mistake, and very great
injury to the national cause and to
the Republican party. said no more
than Gen. Sickles had said in sub.
stance four years earlier, when he was
Military Go;ernor Of South Carolina,
and declared that he was crippled and
enteebled in his efforts to govern that
State well by the fact that her best
men, her most intelligent men, her
most considorate and conservative
men, were not available to him as
magistrates, because Of an exclusion
whereof Andrew johnson was the 'au,
thor He said, 81 cannot govern
South Carolina as well rs | could if |
were able to choose the best men TO
help me, instead Of the second best"
| am entirely Of that conviction. /
believe it was mistake, when you al
lowed a million Coniedcrates to vote
for Members Of Congress, to deny them
the right to vote for just such. men as
they preferred. | believe, therefore,
most ufthese men would be safer and
more useful in Congress than their
soconi-rd,e men-bcttcf for us and
better for their country. Applause.
The publici is often hctdlessly unjust
Let a Government have 10000 official
subordinatcs in power, Of whom $500 |
are honest and true men who,uo loA6
duty faithfully, while hard. = "''
robbers and swindlcrs, the pu,
hear a great deal more al,or'
robbers than abog,t, .,ms' .,i w.. the 100 .
The 100 sigeIsr- $500 true men.
they i?4g93rls' ...4s out in the public eye
@as' 'qfrc always doing something which .
exposes them to the scorniul gaze Of
the multitude-while the honest and
true men pass along silent and unob>
served, and nothing is said, little is
houglt Of them. All attention is con-
centratcd upon the 100, who are de-
faulling and stealing, and forging, and
running away.
Wdl, gentlemen, thcthicving carpet
baggers are Il mourniul fact; they do
exist there, and / have seen them.
Laughter. They are fellows who
crawled down South in the track of
our armies, generally a very safe dis
tance in the rear; some Of them on
suffers wagons: some bearing cotton
permits; some Of them looking sharply
to see what may turn up; and they
remain there. They at once ingro-
tiated themselves with the blacks,
simple, crcdulous, ignorant men, very
glad to welcome and to follow any
whites who profcssod to be the cham
pions of their rights. Some Of these
gotclo Senators, others Representa-
tiycs, some Sheriff., some judges, and
so on. Aud there they stand, right
in the public eye, stealing and plnnder-
ing, many of them with both arms
around negroes, and their hands in
their rear pockets, seeing if they can>
not pick a paltry dollar out Of them ;
and the public looks at them does not
regarl the horcst Northern men, but
calls every "carpct bagger' a thief
which is not the truth by a good deal.