The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-19
WHERE WILL THEY co?

Perhaps the seediest crowd Of adventures
ever gazed upon is q congregation of the car
pet baggers still left here. All but few have
gone-the Lord knows where-and how the
few still left to recall the days of shameless
license, when they and their allies made q
constitution for virginians, manage to live is
Zone Of those things that no fellow can un-
derstand." At my front window few hours
since saw seedy group, prominent among
| them an ex-Congressman, one OF the vilest of
thegang that reconstructed (?) Virginia, and 1t
was hard to avoid something very much like
pity for q crowd really SO little entitled to
anything but unutterable contempt From
my back window gaze into the ample apart
ments of the Custom House, and it is not an
| unpleasant reflection that there, too, within
ten years. there will be "such gittin' down
stairs" of Federal officials as has not glad
dened the sight of hungry and expectant Vir-
ginians since the days when Democratic Prssi-
dents rewarded willing patriots.
So writes from Richmond correspondent
Of the Louisville Journal It suggests the
question, "Where will the carpet-baggers go
when their vocation in the Southern States is
ended, and their occupation gomez" What
six cities of refuge are to be provided for
them. or what one city shall harbor or shelter |
them? The usurpers vagabonds, swindlers |
falsifiers of records, plunderers of the pub.
lie money, debasers of public bonds, de.
stroyers Of credit, violaters Of peace, peddlers
of falsehoods retailers Of SANDER and whole
sale dealers in fraud, will all soon want a |
way of escape, for it is very certain that they
will not be permitted to abide amongst us
after the grasp of the tyrant is loosened and |
we are all again free to vote and to act as we |
please.
A few of the neutral kind. who had no |
principles before the war, who had no |
scruples during the war, and who have been
everything by turns since the war, will be
permitted to remain to bear the contempt of
heir countrymen as well as they may. But
70 the leading vagabonds, the ringleaders in
;heft, the planners of frauds, the pioneers in
assaults upon the treasury of State, city and
parishes, the inventors of rings, the auc-
ioneers Of legislative powers, the trafickers
n valuable franchises, the organizers and
lrill-masters of gangs of pilferers the har-
,ies of legislation who devour our people and
heir substance and pollute the board from
which they stole-to these and all their many
lued cousins in turpitude, what future is
here in store, what refuge, what genial and
afe retreat? They must scatter away from
he capitals of the Southern States, but
viii they fly to the country? Their names
nd regulations will follow them if they do,
nd they will find no harbor or sympathy
here Even the negroes, having learned how
hey have been plundered in the name of party,
ill refuse to give them their shelter and pro-
sction.
They will be obliged to shave their heads,
hange their garments. and in disguise return
} their ancient lght-fngered calling like
,ieves as they are. After the great CONT t
entail reaction and the new upheaval of /
democracy, the carpetbaggers still found !
float in the South will be few and far be- :
veen, rari nantes in gaugte vasto. s