The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-04-29
EXIT THE CARPET-BAGGER.
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The sun has gone down at last upon carpet
baggery and the carpet-bsgger, and honest
men everyw here rejoice. Small pity for either
It. was not that he was stranger, nor yet that
!. product of the Republican party and policy.
! IL was that the system was one Of pillage that
it's representa- ives were plundering adventur-
ers. ALWAYS without character, they rarely
possessed ability, and where they did they used
1t to invent new schemes to rob and new de-
vices to harass the people. Nearly four hum
dred millions of debt, for which there is moth
| ing to show, attest their success during ten
years. A record Of public and private oorrup-
mails, is committed to American history, o
| feigbtful legacy surviving the ravages Of war.
| Bnt all is over now, and the Gag of the repub-
lilo floats over free, if not over prosperous,
| Statee.
| There ia certain grim fitness in the circum-
stance that the carpet Dagger ends where he
initiation 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 a god-fatber-that is to say, q
Collaboration father-he opened bis magazine
| of mock loyalty; spread his stars and stripes
before him for drop curtain fired OF his red,
white and blue lights traded with the Con-
tederates; bamboo ed the negroes betrayed
the cause Of the Union in q word, took what
ever he could lay his hand on, from O planta-
ton to an ofRce. An Offensive vArlet, too Not
an honest new. conner. seeking business through
merit and good will through courtesy. A |
brswler, shouting death to rebels !! Your home |
uroQ ueui&goRu9 iS phu SnouRb. bQE This, This |
hero Of the pot-house, IVES q brute as we'll as |
bully assuming the manners of Q AN to |
conceal the lineaments of thief.
1t 10 impossible to calculate the amount of |
damage done to the people of the North, to the
public spirit of the South, to national feeling
Ito say nothing of material losses sustained
by this ravenous enimal. As 0 missionary he
was o dismal failure. He carried with him
neither the oiroumspeotion the thrift of
YANKEES methods. His eXcesses were open and
shameless. He saved nothing ont Of his spoil
atoms. His companions we're ever of the low
est. II he made any friends they were among
that class of the native population having
lived. Thus he brought reproach upon bis
Government and his country set back the
tide of gennine and healChful immi grafton
discredited the principles that better men pro-
fessed unhappily in common with himself; in
terrupted the natural stream of genielity which
In intercourse, necessity end homog enety of feel
ing began to pour from one section into the ,
he was marpiot He was useful only to the =
npTacticables as an eye-sore. His business =
was To make trouble, for he could only profit !
Jf disturbance. :
Bat his career has come to sn end. We shall ;
zee no more OF him. In his IoOm we shall see \
The eDterprisiDg Northerner coming among us a
or work, not for Office. We shall see him open d
lis shop, see up his mill, or start his pillow, =
Without any side-glapces toward Washington. !
Ne shall see him citizen, q neighbour, not q :
ietectve. AS such we invite him. shall well .
ome him. We have good soil, fine climate i
ND many avenues to useful endeavOr Though J.
CT ude the South il not "A new country, and, !
4 course, does not Cffer the same adVRnt8ges y
3 reg ion where the race in life is q .aizsd !,
n the starting poiat. But, nevertheless, the :,
cid is rich and untitled, and the time has !,
ONE hen safe Investments may DO made. Al