The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-07-01
HORACE GREELEY'S CRUSHING IN.
EICTMENT OF CARPET-BAGGERS.
Choice Reading from one Who Has
Studied His Subject
Tic Trials Of the South Truthfi,lly Por-
traycd.

give the following is that it embraces
Horace Grceicy's views of the carpet
bagger rs the philosopher saw that
splendid animal, and that Horace has
said more, and worse things of his sub
ijcct than ever even this paper has:
Fellow -citizcns, the Ku-KluX are no
myth, although they shroud them
selves in darkness. 1hey are no fit
ting ghosts; they are :, baneful reality.
They have paralyZcu the rigIl Of suf-
fragc in many counties throughout the
South, and have carried States that
they ought not to have carried; but
they are not the only enemies to Re-
publican asCenItrnCy III the South:
THE TlllENlS(. CATiPET-HA,:GEHS
WORSE THAN KU-KI.uN.
There is another influence equally
injurious with theirs, and !, great deal
more detrimental to the fame and char
acter of the Republican party. l al
ludr to what are known as the 'thieV-
ing c:trp"tbuggers." IApplause. Eel
loW-citiHcns, do not mistake me. All
, the Northern men in the South are not
. thieves. The larger part of them are
honest and good men, some of whom
stay there nj the peril Of their lives, be-
cause they believe it to be their duty.
Next 10 the noble and true women,
who have gone down South to teach
black children how to rcad-nobler
there are not on the earth than these,
whom Il stupid malignant, uilapidated
aristOcracy often sees fit to crowd into
negro novels to live, not allowing them
to enter any white society because they
are teaching negro children-neXt to
| these, who rank as the noblest women
in the South, arc the honest and worthy
Northern men, who, in the face of
social prescription and general obloquy
and ScOrn, stand firmly by the Rcpub-
lican cause.
The public is often hcctlleSsly unjust
Let Il Government have ten thousand
official subortliiiates in power, of whom
nine thousand nine hundred are honest
and true men who do their duty faith
fully, while hardly one hundred are
robbers and swindlers, the public will
hear a good deal moro about the one
hundred robbers than about the nine
thousand nine hundred ttl!4c men. The
one hundred hundred stand out iii thc
public ryc-theN are always doing
something which exposes them to the
scornful gaze Of the multitudc-While
the honest and true men pass along
silent and unObservcu, and nothing is
said, very little is thought of them.
All attention is concentrated upon the
one hundred; who are dcfaulting and
stealing, and forging, and running
away.
Well, gentlemen, the thieving carpet
baggerS are Il mOurnful fact; they do
exist there, and ! have seen them.
[Laughter.1 They are fellows who
crawlcd down South in the track of
~ fn n
tance in the rear; SOME of them on SUIT
lcrs' wagons; some bearing cotton per-
lnitS; some Of them looking sharply to
sec what may turn up; and they remain
there. They at once ingratiated them
selves with the blacks, simple, crcdu-
lOus, ignorant men, very glad to well
come and TO follow any whites who
professed to be the chamionS of their
rights. Some of these got elected Sen
atorS, others Representatives, some
SheritlS, some Judges, and so on. And
there they stand, right in the public
eye; stealing and plundering, many of
them with both arms around negroes,
and their hands in their rear peck cts,
seeing il they cannot pick 4 paltry dol
lar out of them; and the public looks
at them, does not regard the honest
Northern men, but calls every ''carpet-
baggcr'' a thief, which is not the truth
by a good deal. BIT these fellows
many of them long-faccd, and with
eyes rolled up, are greatly concerned
for the education of the blacks, and for
the salvation of their souls. GGrcat
laughter .Iet us pray" they say.
But they spell pray with an 60" and,
thus spelled, they obey the apostolic
injunction to ''praN without cc:lsing.'
Fellow -titizcns, the time has been
and still l.. when it was pcriloIS to be
known ac Il Republican or an Aboli-
tioni-1~ in the South, but it never call
cd the blush of shame to any mans
check to be so called, until these thicv-
ing carpct-haggcns went there-ncVer !!
TApplause.l They got into the Legis-
laturc; they went to issuing State bonds;
they pretended to use them in aid OF
railroads and other improvements.
But the improvements were not made,
and the bonds stuck in the iSsurcr'S 5
pockets. Lauehter.1 That is the pity
of it.
= .Wcll," some say, '.you have just
such thieves at the North.'' Yes, VIC
do-too many Of them! [Applause. ]
But the South was already lmpovcr.
ishcd-was nkrupt-without money
without thrift, almost without food
and these fellows went there rObbinG
and swindling when there was very
little to steal, and taking the last ten
cent Shin-plaSter off of the dead mems
eyes. They We're recognized by the
late aristOcracy not merely as thieves
but as enemies. Says ByrOn'S Greek
ninStrel: