The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-26
A CARPET.BAG EXODUS.
"Thc Most Unkindest Cut Of ALL"

A CAkPET.BAG EAODUS.
"Thc Most Unkindest Cut Of All.''
tits reported that certain Senators aud
thirteen Representatives, of the variety
called carpet-baggers, have signed an
agreement to withdraw from the Repub-
lican party. They promise to give the
Democratic party control of both houses
of Congress, but, if even that advantage
could be gained, it would be purchased
too dearly by afiliation with these per-
sons. The Republican party has been
carrying them long enough to know what
they cost. If they, and their respective
leader, Mr.. Butler, wish to do that party
the greatest service in their power, we
trust they will "stand not upon the order
of their going, but 60 at once" That
they do not mean to do the Republican
party this favor, and will not go at all
if they can help it, we are fully con-
vinced.
The fact is that the Republican party
has been running a political poorhouse
too long. The one fatal defect of its poll
cy since the war has been that it gave
opportunity for adventures, who were
| utterly without standing or consideration
in any Northern community, and who, if
not propped up by United States bayo-
nets, could not have been elected to any
Office by colored men of the South, to
fasteu themselves upon the party and the
country as the representative Republi.
cans of reconstructed States. Good men
as we'll as bad men have gone from the
North to take part in Southern politics.
But it is an unhappy consequence of the
peculiar influence which worthless men
attained under Grants Administration
that the most WORTHLESS of all the genera
tion of carpet-baggers seemed to have, in
| the fullest degree, the sympathy and sup
port of that Administration, were enabled
| to elect officials who would serve them,
were thus recommended to the Republi-
can voters of the South as the men of all
others who were trusted at Washington
BY official leaders of the party at home
by means of this influence. We all know
how decent men have been repelled by
| this prominence of unscrupulous persons.
All other blunders put together have not
| cost the Republican party as many votes
as the single fact that it was represented
and controlled in reconstructed States by
unworthy men.
To get rid of this incubus has been the
one thing needful. Unhappily, it has
| also been of all things the most difficult.
For these schemers have been cunning to
represent that their cause was the cause
of the colored people; they have made
many Northern men believe that all op.
position to them was hostility to Repub.
iican principles and to colored suffrage ;
they have flched for themselves whatever
sympathy the loyal people had for "the
| wards of the nation;;" and they have not
been restrained by gratitude, conscience,
| decency or humanity from fomenting
bloody strife between whites and blacks
at the South whenever it suited them to
revive Northern memories of the war.
These men have made the Southern prob:
lem hard one. Months ago we said
| that the Republican party could solve
that problem only by dropping the car;
| pet-bag politicians who have disgraced
that party by managing it at the South.
But to this day they have stuck tighter
than leeches. 1t has been impossible to
drop them, or to shake them of, or to get
| rid of them on any terms. =.
If this set of corrupt politicians will
transfer themselves to the Democratic
party, they will render the country 9
| great service. Next to the advantage of
gaining men who strengthen party is
the advantage of losing men who weaken
| it. As their unwholesome influence has
| made more powerful every bad element
| in the Republican party, so they are Ger
| tain, if they 60 to the Democrats at all,
! to contribute all their own INSCRIPTIONS
recklessness to its most dangerous ele-
| ments. Thereby the more decent and
patriotic Democrats will be repelled, even
| as they will be drawn to the Republican
party by the expulsion of its most odious
men. A real reconstruction of parties, a
bringing together the best and worthiest
men ofboth political organizations, would
be the natural result if the remnant of
carpet-bag plunderers would be good
enough to transfer themselves to the
Democratic camp.
But the news is too good to be true.
The scamps know that the Democracy
would only use them for day, and then
drop them forever. They know that
they have made themselves offensive in
the last degree to the property owning
and substantial citizens of the South.
They do not like the liberal policy OF
President Hayes, but it is not possible
for them to be ostracised more complete
ly than they would be within q year after
| alliance with Democrats. They thirst
for revenge, but they hunger for the
feshpots. Reform is bitter word to
them. But they can turn reformers, and
pretend to be Jealous adherents of the
new policy, and hope even yet to get
some place and retain some influence
| The danger is not that they will 60, but
that they will stay. The Administration
would gain many supporters, not from
substantial citizens at the South, but
| from the independent class at the North,
for every vote it may lose by departure
of political paupers. But the danger is
that the paupers viii not secede from
the poorhouse as long as there is the
faintest possibility of. victuals.-Ne'o
York Tribune.
suLpHo-CARBoLATE OF SODA IN
SCARLET FEVER, D1PHTHER1A, ETC.
DR. G. D. Reeba. of Chicago, in com.