Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-11-25
THE cARPETBAGGER.

THE CARPET-BAGGER aa
AS DESCRIBED BY SENATOR NORWOOD
In recent speech delivered by SEN
ator Norwood, of Georgia, he gave the
following admirable and humorous
description of Carpet bagger; !"
The reconstruction acts have wro't
immeasurablo evils, but, perhaps, the
greatest of all, Is the production of
the carpet-bagger What can be more
expressive2 His like the we;.!d 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.
Natural historians will be in doubt
how to class him. Ornithologists will
/ claim him, because in many respects
he is bird Of prey. lie lives only
on corruption and takes his flight as
soon as the carcass il picked. In 9th
er particulars he resembles the migra-
tory crane For when driven by the
frigidity of social ostracism from the
North, he flies with marvellous instinct
20 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 fight.
And as the crane, when the days grow
hot, flaps his wing and, screaming
through the air, returns TO the North;
so this illomon biped, when times be
come warm in the South, gathers up
his legs and hying away, with screams
! and shriolls pcrches on the wooden
head of the figure commonly known
as the Attorney General, and browns
the air with croalSings about Southern
outrage and wrong. In the other re-
spect he is like the marsupial family
of quadrupods, for as they are named
from the pouch or bag in which they
carry their young, so he 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-bag-
sl;na a. n;aht w
selomon ,ros = y;se man I'm, he did
no, know cvervtbing lie was wrong
in saying, "thcre is nothing new under
the sun The world has swung on
eor thousands of veors throuoh wars
and nesiilencc tbrougb faminc md
nIaauas has neon visited bv temncsts
and eortboualros fyocs and flies mpr.
rain md lIce and grasshonners but
never until The wear of our Lord 1867
was anv nortion of tho olobe afflicted
bv a cornot. .bagger SoIomon did not
know him nor did David or Jeremiah
conceive of such n calamity If thew
had The songs of David and tho book
Of Jeremiah wonld have been lost 10
mankind for tbey would have acd the
faco of man at tLe bare concention of
sncb a WOE
Thouch he sprlng into existence
soon after tho wor tbe carnet.baoocr
;s no ofIsnring of tbat coition Tho
time was moi ororis Narte when he
was botcbcd or Uttered Tbere i no
look Of Mars bnt there is infinite spoe.
ulation IN bis ewes A reward Ms
Iorao os ,Lat of,crcd hv tho Roman
Emncror for n new and sayo,y dish
conId moi tomnt the most abandoned
no,;rrod noora IN swear tbot bc has
avcr known7 a net,b,ggcr 10 stand
tho ere ,yh;ch Lo 6os so of,en drawn
H. lie ;noond;ar,, worl, II;s oo,rooo
oozos ~ m out M his aenar,ino heels Dnr
;nr anv .1;ttlo upnlcasantnossr this
phor;sco hecomos os bv a magic a
pnbl;can far he takes his stand aahr
og1 III i No nroduci of tho war
Uc "a atbe canlsar Of n calm world''and
81 noaoo uh;ch il dosnot;sm onforced
b,, hdrono,s lJ;s voldr i discretion
H. ;ndns,ry ne,notnaI str;fs and liz
oloononco TX narcel or n rccloningr
~ dhanoo. as 10 smolls ont a no5b
yh;oh ma,, Load from tbn White IIousc
,n a Cns,om Uouse a postoi,ice tbe
fn,ornal pevonue Rureans or NOR.
ahanao 20 o;,her winr of the Federal
onni,o u;s sh;bboleth i n,he Re.
nnbi;can nar,v = From that Marty he
lnr,,n,, a5 nof,rollv as mogodts from
,lpp,roisc,;on pr NJ liz relat;on to that
pa,tv l. ,bat of nimn 10 n bawd for
bis ,,erctr;cions scryicc IL rewarded in
nronortion 10 tbe number of innocent
pegro victims he inveivles 10 gratif,
its Inst for mower like Wanda and 4
Gertb he never travels without wear.
inc bis masters collar and he is eoual. |
lv content whether turned loose TO
chase like n sleutb.bound the monarch
of Southern soil or called bv a snap
of tbe fingers 10 eat garbage of his
Marty lis collar il his passpo,t 10 |
roam ot larcc and II matters not with
what nersistencc he nav broal, into n
Sontharr oen,leman's closo h;s mos
,or ,r;il no7 normit Hin, tn he n,v1lcd |
Car he Il aha OK tbot treadc,b onl ,he
w. ~ Iii Iii dr. a. oss I'LL ,la, asu. va. s,'
Iii nos,orss c,ihr
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o,haraS i'e ,a,,o,hor IN ,ha vr, na,no ~" 90
Gsnn, ho i;Iso lonro,s sno, i sooo
and T H. ~" "r,, IN M" ,Le dau,ih,o, yp ., 'VI H.
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