Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-10-12
. CHARGES AND PROOFS,
WORDS FOR DEMOCRATS TO poSDrn

On Mr.. Greeley's return from his
Southern tour year ago. he made a
speech at the Lancoln Club Room in
tins city. in Which (as we find on refer
ring to the newspaper report, in the
next mornings jOulnals) he used the
following just, rough and characteristic
words: 1'toa a.'- '.ti ,.4trj
II allule," said he, "to what are
known as The Miering capet-Laggers.!". r.
lApplause. Ilc Ntieriny ca,pet-Jagge,'s
IRE a. mOurhIul fact Mey do eria Me,r,
and 1 hare seen them. they are fellows
who crawled down South in the track
OF our armies, generally at very safe
distance in the rear;, some OF, them on
suffers wagons; some bearing cotton
permits; some OF them looking sharply
to see what might turn up: and they
remain there. Theyat once ingratiated
themselves with the blacks, simple,
credulous, ignorant men, very glad to
welcome and to follow any whites who
professed to be the champions of their
rights. Some of them got elected SEN
ators, Others Representatives., some
ShcIitfs, some Judges, and 50 on. And
there they stand, right in the public eye,
stealing and plundering, many of them
with both arms around the negroes and
their hands in their rear pockets, seeing
if they cannot pick n paltry dollar out
of them; and the public looks at them,
does not regard the honest Northern
men, but calls every carpet bagger n
thief, which is not the truth by good
deal. But these fellows of them
lons-faced, and with eyes rolled up,
arc greatly concerned for the education
of the blacks, and for the savation of
their souls Great laughter. "Le,
as pay," f,ey say; bit they spell pray
with az ser and, thus spclird. they obey
The apostolic injunction Il" pray wittom
ce0sing." Il
- They got into the Legislatures;
they went to issuing State bonds; they
pretended to use them in aid of rail
roads and other improvements. But
the improvements were not made and
the bond stuck in the issuers pockets.
That is the pity of it. * s. What
the Southern people see of us are these
thieves, who represent the North to
their jaundiced vision, and representing
it, they disgrace it. They are The great
est Obstacle 10 The t'iamph nnd permanent
dsceadency of Republican ln't'.eiph.s at
the South, and as such / denounde them.
[Applause. t..........-....
Gntz Brown, himself a Southerner,
both by birth and lifelong residence,
onI M, ,,-o wit oe,, ,f tho ol>,,,oc xrl,; n
he dcnounces, corroborates Mr.. Gree
ley's testimony against the carpet-bag-
gers as follows: ........... -.
cat the South" says Mr.. Brown,
" the spirit of dominion has been the
synonym of Federal authoity in the
shaping of all local organizations, open
to control of large bodies of depend
officials and ruthless violations of the
rights o persons. There the Substance
of entire sections has been plundered,
dafs mor!sagi,,g. generations Of labor
90 aacte }, tares lerieds.fo tie point ofcon-
.fscation- done under agencies upheld
by he National Gore,nment. Could the
two hundred and fifty million pillage,
by the carpet-bagi government have
been permitted, except under disso-
lutte political morality that connived at
Tammany in a ten million steal? .aay
As the above assertions Of Horace
Greeley and Gratz Brown - though
made by them before they were candi-
dates for the Presidency and Vice Pres
idency--have been denied as false, we
propose to exhibit the facts and which
prove them Lrue.alh d lo rrau5~ah 9dI
. 10 g3. A1ABLE OF STATISTICS, ,,sei, ,rol
Showing the Debts of the Southern
States before the war, compared with
the increased Debts of those same
States under the present Carpet-Bag
Governments: a.4gp 90 .aE ilsunu@
.-.,ff.... BEroRE THE Wan. -. Ar PREseNr.l