Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-16
MISSISSIPPI CARPET BADGERS IN
WASHINGTON.

A sweet.scented crowd is that in
Washington to represent Ames x Co.
It consists of United States Senator
Bruce, a colored buck William q. Blu
chanan, ex.Sherif Of Marshall county;
A. R. Howe, an ex-member of Congress-
James R. Hill, the beautiful Secretary
of State; A. Warner, Chairman of tie
Republican Executive Committee; and
John B. Raymond, editor Of the Jack.
son Pilot. 1t is evident from the
dispatches received that they underwent
an uncomfortable cross-examination
in the Attorney Generals office, and
received only cold comfort. They we're
compelled to admit that no disturbances
exist at present, but asserted that the
negroes are not organized, and cannot
cope with the white people, when it is
we'll known that the negroes are and
have been compactly organized in Loyal
Leagues and other societies for the last
ten years. The sickly confession is
made that the State government can
not be carried on without the aid
Of the United States government. A
beautiful comment this on carpet-bag
rule. They have had full sway ever
since the war, have held tie purse and
sword of the State and often had the
boys in blue at their command. The
Republican party, constituted Of negroes
and a few carpet-baggers, has always
developed a large majority. The whites
have been practically d%isfranchised and
at the same time paid all the taxes.
And now these scalawSgs go to Washing
ton and inform the government they can
not sustain themselves without Federal
interference. This, too, in the face Of
sill the offers made by white citizens to
help sustain She civil officers and tc
uphold the State government against all
insurrections, obstacles and opposition.
They evidently think hat Williams is
still in power, and that the national
government has need Of carpst-bag
State governments. In this they
are greatly mistaken. They failed to
read the handwriting on the wall in the
fate of their brethren in Georgia, Ala
bama, Arkansas and Texas. The coun'
try has long since repudiatei all such
and Attorney General Pierrepont is moi
of the material to be welded by unscrn'
pulous partisans for any such base pur-
pose. The people Of Mississippi have
only to keep cool, act %discreetly, and
there will be no interference. They will
in all probability, be permitted to take
care of themselves and manage their
own domestic affairs. The whining pc
titiou OF these ofice-holders and carpet
baggers may be considered soon in a
cabinet meeting. and we hope that the
contradictory dispatches of Sheriff
Harvey of Kinds county will be
laid before the Cabinet also. Mississippi
is as peaceful a State as Pennsylvania
and public sentiment and justice will
not Justify any outside interference I'M
less the people conduct themselves very
differently in future from the past. The
Southern carpet-baggers no longer repre-
sent the loyalty of the South at Wash
ington. They are looked upon there
as a sort Of necessary evil, which
is becoming more and more unnecessary
every 'year. Their lease of power is
.short and will soon run ont. Those who
love them least and have cause to des
pise the breed most q contributs
largely to their displacement by a firm
prudent course for the next few weeks