The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-02

Il names, or OF willing leIbcte W ehO Nhi~o6O
Inter Ocean. He does not dream that tax
payers may have a natural repugnance to
an official who is stealing their money. He
only remembers that he is ostracizsd and
turns out the whites of his eyes and ele-
Yates the palms OF his hands in horror as he
tells the dismal tale. Among the colored
people whose cause be is supposed 10 repre-
sent and for whose elevation he processes 10
be striving, he is, of course, a hero and yet,
curiously CROUCH that does not satisfy hun.
To them he is leader in politics and a
model in social refinement, and why should
not that content him? Why should he ask
for the approval of mere rebels, or hunger
for their compsniouship, or sigh for the
clasp of their hands? o wondrous incon-
sistency of human naturel The Southern
ers are villains and banditti, whose morals
and customs the carpet Dagger has
been brought up to despise and de-
nounce, and yet he whines in misery be-
cause he does not find favor in their eyes.
If the stories which he tells of them are true
no honest man should associate with
them, break bread at their tables, CT
touch their blood stained fingers, and
yet this immaculate patriot complains
because these fiends do not take
him into their families and make
! much of him. He presents the strange
anomaly of man desiring to appear as the
! champion Of one race while he Is ashamed
of It's fellowship and seeks the courtesy
of the other. He dsspises his friends, and
1 finds fault with his foes for despising
him. The term ostracism arose
in Athens, where 1t was used
| in regard to a method of Punishment by
which majority of the citizens sent some
distinguished public man into exile. The
very nature of the punishment made its
sentence a distinction, and once when
the vote was taken for the Punishment
of Aristides, hsrd-handed Athep-
ian threw in a shell marked for Punishment
simply because he was ''tired of hearing
Aristides called the Just" To be ostracized
was therefore no disgrace. If the carpet
Dagger In the South be what he pretends he
is, the apostle of freedom, honesty and
peace, Why should be care about the
frowns or smiles OF those who are
the enemies of all theseS Why does
he not to go on in his consciousness of rec
tltu6e, careless whether he is asked out to
tea by the first families or not? If he is
working for social popularity he knows how
to get it. If he is working for eternal prin-
ciules why is he not content with the re-
formers usual rewsrds
This novel political problem of ostracism,
as presented by the carpet Dagger. is GER
tsinly difficult one to get at by legislation.
The more southern state governments that
are bankrupt, the more lawfully elected
governors that are turned out, the more
force bills that are passed, the worse
the ostrscism appears to get. Nothing short
OF direct legislation on the subject will have
any effect. Special sumptuary laws will
have to be enacted, giving all well known
carpet-bagers the entree to the leading
houses in each city and town, making few
decent restrictions in regard to the political
martyrs boots and linen. 1t would be well
also to enact, that no marriage ceremony
shall be legal unless a carpet Dagger give
away the bride. This would bring the
ostracized class into the closest contact with
the -Southerners in their most genial
moments, and would put them on
lub1nlHtS lOOtlnB III every mouse.
1t might also be ordained that
in case OF any funeral having taken place in
respectable family without a carpet
begger officiating among the pail bearers, the
corpse should be dug up and given to the
doctors for dissection. Any decent man
drinking in the presence of a carpet
Dagger without treating him, should
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and should be made subject to fine and inn
prisonment. To sheer at scalawsg might
be made an offense affOrding fair ground for
the suspension of the privilege of the writ OF
hsbeas corpus, while fora pretty girl to refuse
to dance with truly loyal man on any OF
the ordinary pretexts of the ball room,
should be set down as felony without benefit
of clergy, and to refuse to marry one
should DO esteemed -" fiat burglary as
ever was committed" The old law
of the street which Yale college
students maintained so long in New
Haven should be established in all the SOUTH
ern towns and villages. granting to all car
pet-bsggers of every age, state of inebriety,
and previous condition of rsscality the right
to salute and walk with any lady whom he
might meet upon the street. Fell
low citizens, as the civil rights
bill has passed and the negro has
secured his place in the railway car, the
theater and the graveyard. it Is imperative
that something should be done for the great
Dsirscized. The cold shoulder. has been
turned on the Aght-6ngered anG genialscar-
Pet-bagger long enough.