The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-05-04
EXIT THE CARPET.BAGQER.

Tho sun has gone down at last upon
carpet-baggery and the carpet-bagger,
and honest men everywhere rejoice.
Small pity for either. 1t was not that
he was a stranger, nor yet that he was
a NOrtherner. It was not that he was
a product Of the Republican party and
policy. 1t was that the system was ono
Of pillage that its representatives were
plundering adventures. Always with
out character, they rarely possessed abil-
ity, and, where they did, they used it
to invent new schemes to rob and new
devices to harass the people. Nearly
four hundred millions Of debt, for
which there is nothing to show, attest
their success during ten years. A re-
cord OF public and prive corruptiou,
uncxamplcd even in British Indian an
mails, is committed to American history,
a frightful legacy surviving the ravases
Of war. But all is over now, and the
flag of the Republic floats over free, If
not over prosperous States.
There is Il certain grim fitness in the
circumstance that tho carpet-baeger
ends where he began, and received his
most conspicuous humiliation on the
field of his original, and most brilliant,
exploits. He first lived, moved and
had his opportunity in New Orleans.
There, with Butler for q god father.
that is to say 4 Gotl-fOnsalSen father. he
opened his magazine of mock loyalty {;
spread the stars and stripes before him
for a drol-curtain fired Off his red :,
white and blue lights; traded with the
Confetlerates; bamboozled the negroes;
betrayed tho cause Of the Union in a
word, took whatever he could Law his
hand on from a plantation to an Office.
An offensive varlet, tool Not an hon.
est newcomer seeking business through
merit and good will through courtesy.
\ brawler, shouting death to rebels.
Your homo-bred demagoguc Is bad
enough. But this, tho hero OF the pot
house, was n brute as we'll as Il bully :;
assuming the manners of n ruffian to
conceal the lineaments Of a thief.
1t is impossible to calculate the amount
North, to tho public spirit Of the South,
to national feeling-to say nothing OF
the material losses Substantially this
ravenous animal. AS a Missionary he
was q dismal failure. He carried with
him neither the circumspectlon nor the
thrift of Yankee methods. His OK
cesses We're open and shameless. He
saved nothing out OF his spoilations.
His companions We're ever Of the low
est. If he had any friends they were
among that class OF the native popula-
ton having least respect In the commun-
itics where they lived. Thus he
brought reproach upon his Gov
eminent and his country; set
back the tide of genuine and health
full immigration; discredited the princl-
pies that better men profess unhappily
In common with himself; interrupted
the natural stream of geniality which
necessity and homogeneity
Of feeling began to pour from one Sec
ton into the other. Where he did not
happen to be rogue, he was a marplot.
He was useful only to the impractica-
Die as al eye-sore. His business was
% make trouble, for he could only profit
off disturbance.
But his career has come to an end. |
We shalt see no more Of him. In his !
room we shalt see the enterprising |
Northener coming among US for work,