The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-11-19
Truthful Description Of tle Carpet-Bagger.

Truthful Description Of the Carpet. t.Bagger.
:, Senator Norwood, of Georgia, in mastery
speech recently delivered at Savannah, drew
graphic and truthful description of that modern
snonstrosity, the .carpet-bagger, which will en-
,tertain our readers none the less because the
species will become extinct within the next
|. two years: -, y. -, -, - ,.,.
80 Tie. reconstruction acts have wrought i'm
measurable evils, but perhaps the greatest OF
ALL is the production. Of the carpet-bagger., l
have great admiration for the genius who first
used the word carpet-baggerl !. What can be
more expressive ? His Like the world has never
seen, from the days Of. CAIN. or OF the Forty
Thieves in the tabled time of ali Baba. Like
the wind, be blows, and we hear the sound
thereof, but no man knoweth whence he cometh
or whittier he goeth. ~: .,.i,r.,. A.,
class him. Ornithologists will claim him, be-
cause in many respects he is a bird Of prey.
He lives only on, corruption, and takes his
flight as soon as the carcass is picked. Ia
other particulars he resembles the migratory
crane: for when driven by the frigidity of
social ostracism from the North; he flies, with
marvellous instinct, to the torrid and unctious
embrace of his African mates and peers
among the swamps of our Southern shore, AS
the crane fills his craw, SO this creature fills
his bag for the flight. And as the crane, when
the DAYS grow hot, flaps his wings and, scream
ing through the air, returns to the North so
this i'll omened biped, when times become
warm in the South, gathers up. his legs, and,
flying with screams and ,shrieks away, perches
on. the wooden head of the figure of justice,
commonly known as the. Attorney General, and
browns the air with croakings about Southern
outrage and wrong. In the other respects ne
is Ike the marsupial family Of quadrupeds, for
as. they are named from the pouch or bag in
which they carry their young, so ne derives
are stored all his earthly possessions. The
opossum is of the marsupial family, and the
carpet-bagger, like that animal, does all bis
travelling by night.
Solomon was q wise man, but he did not
know everything. He was wrong in saying,
"There is nothing new under the sum-" The
world has swung on for thousands of years
through wars and pestilence, through famine
and pleagues, has been visited by tempests and
earthquakes, frogs and flies, murrian and lice,
and grasshoppers but never until the year OF
our Lord 1867 was any portion of the globe
afflicted by carpet-bagger. Solomon did not
know him, nor did David or Jeremiah conceive
of such a calamity. If they had, the songs of
David and the book of jeremiah would have
been lost to mankind, for they would have fed
the face Of man at the bare conception of such
awoe. :
Though he sprung into existence soon, after
the war, the carpet-bagger is no offspring OF
that martial COTTON. The time was not grauis
Marte when he was hatched or Uttered. There
is no book of Mars, but there is infinite specu-
lation, in his eyes, A reward as large as that
offered by the Roman emperor for new and
savory dish could not tempt the most aban-
donned. periured negro to swear that he has
ever known carpet.bagger to stand the fire
which he has 30 often drawn by his lncendiary
work. His courage oozes out at bis departing
heels. During any "little unpleasantness" this
phraisee becomes, as by magic, publican, for
he takes his stand "afar off," Heis no product
of the war. He is ."the canker Of q calm
world" and of peace which is despotism en-
forced BY bayonets. His, valor is discretion |;
his Industry perpetual strife, and his eloquence
""the parcel of reckoning" Of chances as he
smells out path which may lead from the
white house to q custom house, postofice, the
Internal Revenue bureaus, or, perchance, to
either wing of the federal capitol. His shib-
boleth is "the republican party" From that
party he sprung as naturally as maggots from
putrefaction. His relation.to that party is that
of pimp to bawd, for, his :meretricious service
is rewarded in proportion to the number of
innocent negro victims he inveigles to crafty
its lust for power Like Wanda, and Gerth,
he never travels without wearing his masters
collar; and he is equally content whether
turned loose to chase like sleuth-hound the
monarch of southern soil, or called by snap
of the fingers to eat the garbage of his party.
His collar is his passport 10 roam at large, and
it matters not with what persistence he may
break into a southern gentleman's closet, his
raster will not permit him to be muzzled, for
be is sthe ok that treadeth out the corn" as
we'll as "the ass that knoweth his masters
crib"
" Wherever two or three or more negroes are
gathered together in the name of Grant, he,
like q leprous spot, is seen, and his cry, like
the daughter of the horse leech, is always
"give-give''-me office. Without Office he is
a pest and public nuisance. Out of Office he
is a beggar; in office he grows rich till his eyes
stick out with fatness. Out of Office he is, hat
in hand the outside ornament of every negro
cabin, plantation loafer and the nations laz-
arene: in office he is an adept in addition,
division and silence" Out of Office he is the
orphan ward of the administration and the
general sign post of penury; in office he is the
complaining suppliant for social equality with
Southern gentlemen.
ADVICE TO DEMocRATs.-The interest we
take in the welfare Of the Democracy prompts
nc to rive them word of advice in this very