Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-01-26

| nv ci "Bummers' bcte TO tis AMY o. usLi,n-
msn. They had sinpie eye To tbs p3,ls OF o!.ic-
precisely 90 5heTElsu's "Runuet.' t4d to poultry
yArds aud tp'nly pate, They qls4frd at tie 9
to OF every Southern STATE. ready to scizA amy o.
ice that ~Is open iIo,a, constable Ia United Sen =
ntor; and with less interest in The State they settled
| upon tlan houseless freedman. aud with no mote
| available property than they could stamp into "a
catpet-bag, they were made Governors, kepresen-
tltives, or Senators perfectly acceptable to the
powers at ashlug,on, and altogether unacccpt-
able 10 whom they falsely tlaimed to represent. "A
| the Reconstruction acts ol Congress expired by
| Limitation, or as the South got hack through the
psrdons extended to its people. the right OF suf-
rage the carpet hoggcts or llnchbacks were Gust
I'd aud honest men put III their places.
While those pnchbscks oycrTau the Southern
capitals the South was more reconstructed than
1t was in 1865. The Rebels were guile as dt.
termined Rebels under the -bagSers as under
jefferson Davis, and naturally So Tor they v's',.
still subject to The rule OF Federal bayonets. Tue
real reconstrnciion las been OF slow growth, on
ing chiefly 10 the iuie Of the pinchbdcke. NOw
however, thi7 c!as1 of hungry, unscrupulous cor
iborants, who were repudated lon" ago by their
neiChbcrs is the North aud who, in most instances
l6't the North for the good OF the NORTH are being
or have already been lepudlated by The south
The consequence is thero lioW scores OF men
in the National ilouse OF Repre- srutatyes and Sen
ate who daring The war were Rebels, and they are
he;,-r senator, and Eepresentatye; than thcii pre-
deccs sois were, because they are better aen, bet
ter in vrinc. pie and better III Intelligence. The
different State COY eminent toO, ara chiefly con
,rOiled bv Sout bern men, lately uureConsirucled
Rebels who havs taken he places Of The Northern
political p:nChhock3. Mssssippte public afaira
however, are still muddied owing 10 the interfsr
ence with them by the pinchl X, and in Louisi
only less than anarchy ana open rebellion pre-
val in consequence OF the pluchbaci,s That Stlta
has n Pinchhack Governor, piuehb1rs lePaia.
ture, pnchback L ntej States Senator standing
al the door Of the Senate trying 10 force hmsel! III
upon fraudulent election returns. and several Re-
prescr rtatres who havu forced themselves into .!.r
House en- fraudulent election returns. In fact, the
whole government Of louisiana Is today gigaB-
tic outrage upon decency, honesty, and the rights
OF the people. Senator Pluchback, with his Gel
tihcatc N his pocket i. not lse!y to ge, into the
Senate, President Grant having declared that lie
was sick o! the nIonstTositics, and refused TO
Pinchback when he called al the Executive Man.
SION and more than all, the President desires that
q new election may lc had Ia louisiana, IN order
that the people Of that State may cast ont the
pet-bnggerS, as Texas has done. aud select THEN
own ru!crS without the interference vt Federal
bayonets. Carpet baggerq have "cverwcighted'
The Republican party, the President says, and he
like " isc rider, is going ret rio OF them. Sen
alor Morton has ALREADY gone to work 10 carry out
the White House programme III tins particular
md he Is in such dead earnest about it that the
kelloggs eni - pliers improperly spelled with an
tlon and made sore afraid.
80 let them be- Tor the sooner the country aud
the Eepubhcsn party ale relieved OF their bad ,r-
huence the better ii will be tor everybody. They
have every reason to keep open the bloody chasm
between North and South, and regarded in any
way they are simply nuisaucos that shouli be
abated at the earliest moment possible.