The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-11
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE WAKE OF THE CARPET
BAGGERS.
Nenator Patterson Calls on the
President, but Finds Him
Not Mt Home.
The Death Knell or the Republican Party
In the South.
Patterson Wants to Give the Democrats
the Senate.
Chamberlain Fiunks, after All His Ere
tensions.
The Last Caucus Of the Carpet-Baggers
The Death -Knell OF the Republican Party
In the South.
Patterson Wants to Give The Democrats
the Senate.
Chamberlain Fiunks. after All His Pre-
tensions.
The Last Caucus Of the Carpet. .Baggers.
All Their Hopes Gone.
Especial to the N. o. Democrat.l


the White House, this morning, to ask
Hayes to subscribe to Elliot's fund TO
helm Chamberlain on in his fight with
HAMPTON. the President, having been
apprised of the rpet.bagger's mis-
sion in advance, declined to see him.
John otherwise Patterson) waited pa
tiently In the ante.room until noon,
and. as the clock struck II. John struck
q tragic attitude and exclaimed in
nournful tones:
"You hear that bell striking twelve
o'clock. It sounds the death-knell OF
the Republican party In the South"
He continued: Chamberlain has
weakened, and will abdicate, leave the
State House and give up the archives OF
the State to Hampton without u strug-
gle. Chamberlain left here last week
with plenty Of nerve and backbone. and
meant undoubtedly to have hung on,
but when Chamberlain Ceached home
he found that the action OF the Presi-
dent, In deciding to withdraw the troops,
had thrown the Republican party into
a panic, and he had nothing to rally
upon.
s.You see," continued Patterson, ''our
party down there isn't like the party
you fellows have been used to at the
North. We, that IL the Republican
party in the South, were created by act
of Congress. The negroes associate
government and troops with the party.
Now, II you take the troops away the
party goes up, for the negroes there
think the government has deserted
them. II Hayes had gone into office
with a good round majority, aud hadn't
needed the vote OF South Carolina and
Louisiana to elect him, why, he could
have pursued his present Southern
policy with better grace. The Republi-
cans OF the South have shed blood for
the party, and hence the ingratitude is
all the more cutting. And yet, what do
YOU think2 Why, by --, because l
tell these fellows that l am going to
vote to let Butler into the Senate, they
saw I am Democrat; yet this very
Hayes. who recognizes Hampton, a
Democrat, and thus destroys all my po
litical chances, wants me to keep But
ler out Of the Senate. Well, amt go
ing to do 1t, with my vote. 1 will just
tell the friends OF Hayes that will see
them in hell first.
"Why," continued Patterson, this
fellow Hampton would put me in the
penitentiary if he could. They hav'
been making their boasts in Columblt
that they will have to build one or tw'
more penitentiaries to accommodate thu
carpet baggers. You see that Cainho.
massacre was q God send to us. L tel
YOU il it hadn't been for that mas
sacre we should have lost Charleston
county and Hayes couldn't have carried
the State. We lost one hundred AM
sixty Republicans killed during tn
campaign and over seven hundred al
rests were made; but understand tina
ARRANGEMENTS have been made wit
Hampton to nolle pros. all the cases.
tell YOU what we carpet baggers ough
to do. Why, da- it. we ought, all
us, to resign and let the Democrats ge
the control of the Senate"
Another carpet-bagger here suggeste
that Senator Spencer had said that b
would be d If he was going
resign.
Patterson replied, "Well, we ought
ali resign. I can't understand VIII;
Hayes is driving at
To this the other carpet Dagger r.
piled, "Why he is selling out his part
Talk about dividing the Democrat
party South, it's all moonshine. Hay
knows that. He is deliberately sellir
out his party; only, it is given out. ths
he will divide the Southern Democrats
that the real infamy OF the apostae
4 will be surrounded with this CLAM
and the people won't see the real obje
in all this foulness. He has sold us out
Hereupon an amused by-stander
marked that John had preached b
own funeral sermon.
eyes," rejoined John. "but. by Go
there will be other corpses besides m
Moreover, I'm not dead yet, and l
pect to live long enough to dance at Il
funeral Of that id scoundrel who hi
sold us out"
With this statesmanlike utterarce
senatorial opinion concerning the Pre-