Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-07-27

y Greeley 70 the Tribune in May, 1s7i-L
lo GO RACK, THIEVES, --l
HRepublicans of the South you
have a desperate struggle just ahead,
and you cannot win unless ,you
send these Vilfiahs fcarpet-bzggefs
to the rear. You feannot rely on
their modesty or their sense ofrde-
ceney; they, will push themselves
forward Into the most conspicuous
posts. no matter at what peril and
mischief TO your eaasey unless you
sterhlyssy,fGO OBACH5THEEKES!'
You cannot afford 10 be delicate
with men who do not know what
deiieacy means. Unless you show
,byyour acts that you detest peciila-
tors, and ecorn to be led by them,
you viii be beaten, and will deserve
to be. You can. put these telows
where they belong If you tfy;; and
YOU MUST try. GITheir9 eifroateI.y
will desert them WheneEeD they see
that you, not only loathe rasGahty,
iHI, put 90 !. not IS hesitate est 70 AE sAoE Your
"a a In his speech on his return from
Texas, to a mass meeting in New
York, June 10th, 1871, he thus spoke
on the same subject: =. b,as',-- -
Well, gentlemen the thieying car
pet-baggers are a mournful fact;
they do exist there, and have seen
them. They are fellows who crawl
ed down South in the track of our
armies, generally at q vePya safe dis
tance in in the rear; some of them
on sutletasL wagons; some bearing
eoBtOn permits; some of them looks
ing sharply TO see what might, turn
up; and they remainl, there, They
at once ihgratiated themselves with
the blacks, simple, eredulous, igno-
rant men, very glad 10 welcome and
followIany whites who pr0fessed to
be- the champion of their rights,
Some of them got elected Senators,
others Representatives, some Sher-
ifs, some, Judges, and so on. . And.
there. they stand, right in the public,
eye, stealing and p1undering, many
Of them with both arms around ne
groes, and their hands In their rear
pool kets, seeing if they can pick a
paItry dollar Outaof them; and the
public looks at them, does not regard
the honest Northern man, but calls
every s'carpet-bagger" thief, which
Is net the truth by a good deal But
these follows-many of them long
faced, and with eyes rolled up, are
greatly concerned for the education
OF the blacks, and for the salvation
Of their souls. tGreat -laughter.1
ffIet us pray" they say; but they
spell pray with ante" and thus,
spelled, they obey the Apostolic in
junction to ''pray without ceasing,"
Fellow citizens, the time has been, /
and still is, when it was periio1s to.
be known as RepublicaRrora an Alb.
olitionist in the South; but it never
called the blush of shame to any
mans cheek to be so called until
these thieving carpet-baggers went
there-neverl Applause.l They got
into the Legislature they went to
issuing State Bonds; they pretend
ed to use them in aid of railroads
and other improvements. But the
improvements were not made, and
the bonds stuck in the issuer's pock-
cts. That is the pity of it.
stWell, - some say, "you have just
such thieves at the North" Yes,
we have-too many of them! lap
plause.i But the South was already
impoverished-was bankrupt-with-
out 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 dead mems eyes -'' =