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

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/ Truthful Description Of. the Carpet. .Bagge1r.
Senator Norwood, of Georgia, in mastery
speech recently delivered at Savannah, drew
graphic and truthful description of that modern
monstrosity, the carpet-bagger, which will en-
,tertain our readers none the less because the
species will become extinct within the next
! two years: ..g -. ...,
Tie. reconstruction acts have wrought I'M
measurable evils, but perhaps the greatest OF
ak is the production of the carpet -bagger. |
have great admiration for the genius who first
used the word carpet-baggerI !. What can be
more expressive 2 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, he blows, and we hear the sound
| thereof, but no man knoweth whence he cometh
or whittier he goeth. ..!....c -.
Natural historians will be in doubt how to
class him. Ornithologists will claim him, be-
cause in many respects he is bird Of prey.
He lives only on corruption, and takes his
flight as soon as the carcass is picked. In
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. perohes
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commonly known as the. Attorney General, and
drowvn,s the air with croakings about Southern
outrage and wrong. In the other respects he
7 is ike the narsupial family of quadrupeds, for
MS they are named from the pouch or bag in
which they carry their young, so ne derives
his name from the bag he carries, and in which
are stored all his earthly possessions. The
opossum is of the marsupial family, and the
carpet-bagger, like. that animal, does all his
travelling by night.
Solomon was a wise man, but he did not
know everything. He was wrong in saying,
..eThere 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 calamity. If. they had, the songs of
David and the book of jeremiah would haze
been lost to mankind, for they would have fled
the face Of man at the bare conception OF such
| woe - it;
Though he sprung into existence soon. after
the war, the carpet-bagger is no offspring OF
that martial COTTON. The time was not grauas
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
savcry dish could not tempt the most aban-
doned, perjured negro to swear that he has
ever known a carpet.bagger to stand the fire
which he has so often drawn by his incendiary
work. His courage oozes out. at his departing
heels During any "little unpleasantness" this
| 'phraisee becomes, as by magic, publican, for
he takes his stand 'afar off," He is no product
of the war. He is "the canker of calm
world" and of q peace which is despotism en-
| forced by bayonets His valor is discretion |;
his industry perpetual strife and his eoquence
1"the parcel of reckoning of chances rs he
smells out path which may lead from the
white house to q custom house, postotiice, 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 reation,t 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 inyeigles 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
! re, kbarp nil col hyQ q n
| of the fingers to eat the garbage of his party.
it matters not with what persistence he may
break into a southern gentlcman's closet, his
master will not permit him to be muzzled, for
he is "the 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
"piye-eive"-me office. Without office he is
a pest and public nuisance. Out of office he
is 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 ne IS the
complaining suppliant for social equality with
Southern gentlemen.
ADVICE TO DEMocRATs.-Th interest we
take in the welfare Of the Democracy prompts
us to give them word of advice in this very
irving hour. The hour is critical because it is
an hour of vctory-no mere fragment Of victo-
ry, but delugng, sweeping triumph The
Democracy have proved that they can bear
defeat with oaken fortitude; it is success that
tries them most severely. Success in the past