New-York tribune., 1872-08-02
NORTH CAROLIYA BOGEYS.

Feeling doubt about North Carolina, for
which they would seem to have had small ocoa-
sion, the Administration people have provided
plentiful. means of escape. IL defeated,
they are ready with ample excuses !;
if successful, they would have been
ready to declare that it was IN
spite Of the bogeys which they had invented
What with the Ku-Klux, "the Baltimore
"neeroes prowling in the back settlements y
las Messrs. Saunders and MOwatt are styled)'
and the bogeys which the correspondent OF
the Grant organ in this city has set up, there
were scarecrows enough in North Carolina for
all practical purposes. The pet bogeys
of this exacerbated correspondent are
two single bogeys rolled into one ana
| called Wood and Blumenberg. The re-
| porter has become so accustomed to see the
neither side of things in New-York that he
was affrighted when Wood and Blumenberg-
whoever they may disappeared In the Old
| North State. The arrival of "t these fellows"
| it is said, created a great stampede from the
| Liberal to the Grant ranks. Yet the Renomi-
nationists were not grateful for this aid but
abused them like pickpockets. The mysterious
bogeys next turned up in Kinston, where 1t Is
| said "the Democrats were prompted by wood
"and Blumenberg to take advantage OF the
"provisiOn of the law to swi6dle the Repub-
"lioans out of the State.' Still, things went
on very well, and the colOred vote was
counted as surely solid for Grant
until Wood and Blumenberg came, after
which the colored men did not know for
whom they would vote. Says the organs faith
full but alarmed reporter: "The Vaccinations
| sgs hos in Of
" the instructions of Ethan Allen" etc. To be
sure, he adds, nobody knows what those in
structions were, but they must be something
very dreadful. These cOnspirators were like
| the ghost in Hamlet who burrowed under
ground so fast. Immediately after their being
| in Kinston they reappear widely separated. Blu
menberg, observes the correspondent, solemnly,
was separated from Wood; he was in
an excited and nervous condition. The
whereabouts of Wood are unknown" CThis
| in q ghOstly whisper.) Blumenberg may
"have been posting verdant Democrats
/" as to how the thing can be worked" Think
of that! How the thing can be worked !!
This beats Ku-Kluxism. Gradually, however,
the trepidation of the reporter leaves him !;
reassured somewhat, he says that it is posi-
| DIE JDaC tDe LlDerdlS may BcJ I'LL tnO Vuiuii
"of rascaGty without any of the benefits"
How good thing it is to get the benefits of
rascallty without any of the odium, the
| Adminstrationists best know.
| So our excited friends on the other side have
only to look in the columns of Grants Own
and find all the consolation in defeat or cheer in
victory that Wood and Blumenberg can give
them. Do they feel depressed at being routed I
"It's all along of Wood and Blumenberg" says
the organ. Do they want another cause for
hurrahf "Wood and Bumenberg frightened
hosts of doubtful men into the Grant camp"
| If it hadn't been for Wood and Blumenberg,
says John Thomas, wringing his napkin, all
would have been well. Good for Wood and Blu
menberg, says the sleek John, slapping his
plush-covered thighs, they have carried the
| State for us Never were such convenient
bogeys before invented; comfort in defeat and
! champagne in victory Wood and Blumen-
berg are more than all things to all men ;
they are all men. So, if we have carried
North Carolina, we have the credit of bogey.
If we have not, what is the use of inventing
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