The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-04-27
What In q Scallawas.

"n0t - - OCohhO"oDs
This question was asked and answer
ed by that apostle Of Radicalism, the
chronic smiler, Colfax, at the serenade
to the Clearly Morton last Saturday
nightat Washington city. He said
What is "scallawag?' A SCALA
wag is a Southern born man, who
when the storm-cloud OF rebel
lion broke upon this country, and
when it ragged around him, and threat
ened him with exile or confscation, or
outrage, or murder, dared to stand up in
the midst OF the storm, and say, "As for
me and mine, We stand by the Union to
the last drop Of our blood and the last
beat Of our nearts" God bless the men
whom our opponents s.igmatize as
scallawags Cheers. They were faith
lul among the faithless; they were loyal
amid treason, and if the American peo-
pie do not protect them, not only against
their murderous enemies, but in the ex
ercise OF every right guaranteed to all
by the Constitution, We are not worthy
to be called a nation. Applaus,
That is nearly as good definition OF
scalawag as was that OF crab by the
French SavanS, whom the naturalist,
Cuvier, so completely put to shame.
Colfax don't know the breed as we do
down here, and his definition is not only
a piece OF spread eagle demagoguism
characteristic the man, but utterly at
war with facts For his information
and that OF those who really believe he
was speaking some part Of the truth, We
will tell him what Georgia scalawag
is.
He is man who, if particularly 10y
al now, was particularly violent in his
hate Of the Yankees, and his desire for
their determination, even before the
war commenced He believed in the
African slave trade, and wished it re-
opened. He wanted to secede before
breakfast, yea even before he had swal-
lowed his first matutinal cocktail, and
his favorite boast was that he could
whip five Yankees single-handed, and
not half try. He wanted to cruelty
every man that thought secession might
not prove a remedy for every evil, and
wore blue cockade, and had spasms Of
purest bliss when Joe Brown captured
Fort Pulaski and the Augusta Arsenal
He abused the Confederate Generals
for not marching on and capturing
Washington, Philadelphia, New York
and Boston in thirty days, and in every
other way, shape and form proved, to
his own satisfaction, that if there was
any such thing as a genuine Southern
patriot and true blue enemy to the Yam
KEGS he was the man.
All this up to Appomattox. Then he
had new light. He dreamed dreams,
and saw visions. He saw that South
ern patriotism was losing card, and
that the hated Yankees were going to
hold all the trumps. Then he fell
down and groveled at their feet. Then
he confessed his sins and walled for
pardon. lie had been led off-he had
been swept from his feet by the surglng
tide of popular passionate had been
forced by the pressure of public opinion
to conceal his real sentiments-he had
been coerced and had yielded TO save his
life and property. Oh how unctuously
he recounted all his past trials and
tribulations, and how pathetic the re-
cital of all his emotions when he saw
the "old flag" once more unfurled in
triumph over his head! When "re-
construction" was decreed he rushed to
embrace its infamies. He made haste
to Join himself in close alliance with all
the peripstetic rogues and adventures
from the North who followed in its
wake, and the ignorant, brutal semi
barbarians for whose benefit it was set
on foot. He eat and slept and talked
with, and cajoled and inhamed them by
day aud by night. He sneaked
around backwards and through alleys,
and about the plantation negro
quarters, telling the darkies OF their
rights and what a marvellous. proper
man he was to represent them. he
sat in the so-called Constitutional Con-
vention and had finger in all sorts OF
Jobs and when there was a socalled
Legislature and so-called State Gov
eminent, he was high up in one or the
other, and sold his vote and influence,
and filled his pockets from the peoples
strong box with most refreshing zeal.
He approves every outrage that Radical
villainy and hate has put upon his
neighbors and fellow-citlzens, and de-
clares thew they have Jared much bet
ter than their deserts. He calls them
"rebels." and thinks disfranchisement
and bayonets the only way to deal with
them. When out OF job at home he
rushes to Washington with the most
horrible accounts OF outrages on loyal
men, and insists on being sworn as a
witness before a committee at a COM
Portable per diem, or free lunch ana
liquor at the very least.
This is about the measure OF the av-
erage Southern scallawag, Coltax to the
contrary Notwithstanding. Fancy the
truthful Blodgett and the immaculate
Whitley, listening to such bosh as their
standing "by the Union to the iastdrop
of their blood and the last beat of their
hearts Capt. Blodgett, Of the Blodg'
EFT Artillery, c. s. A., and Major White:
", the gallant commander OF rebel
sharpshooters-red hot Secessionists
and still more fiery Contederates. II
Colfax hadn't told such a whopper in his
definition. it would have been the cham
MON Joke of the season.-Hacon GA.
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