National Republican., 1877-10-17

Pennsylvania volunteers.
From Tennessee nearly all the members
were old settlers or natives of the State, W.
+, PRossER being the only exception, and
he rose from private to the command of q
hrigadc. Several of the native Tennessee
members were gallant soldiers in the Union
'rmy, among them J. NJ. THoRNBuRG, the
present member from the Second district,
who in one year rose from the ranks to the
command of a regiment
From the other States, with few excep-
iions and from those named nearly all the
other representatives were natives. These
men have been the leaders of their party in
the States from whence they came, and n
careful examination and inquiry shows that
the men who held the State offices were of
the same class. In fact, number of those
mentioned have held prominent positions in
their Statcs-for instance, POWELL CLAY
TON and W. =. KELLOGG, both of whom
have been Governors. OF course, we can
not give the full list of the Northern men
who have held office in the Southern States
S!ncc reconstruction, but we venture the as
crtion that nearly every man who did so
held some honorable position in the army,
and will give few instances. Gov. WAR
MOTH, of Louisiana, was colonel of an ILL
nois regiment; Gov PACKARD was colonel
of the I'd Maine; Gov. STEARNs, of Florida,
was colonel of Maine regiment; Gov.
CHAMBERLAIN, Of South Carolina, held the
rank of major and Gov. SCOTr, Of the same
State, that OF brigadicr general, while ID. Y.
| ORBIN, the Senator elect, was also q ma
ior; c. W. DUSTIN, of Alabama, was colonel
of New York regigcnt. But we could
continue the list indefinitely. A friend
rom Arkansas gives us the names Of scvc-
al Of the Republican leaders who held
state offices there. Among them are JonN
NCCLvRE, major 57th Ohio, and Judge Adj
Ucatc General a. the Army of the TrnnCs-
>rc; W. s. OLIVER, colonel Missouri volun-
rers; H. G. CALDWELL, colonel LIST Iowa
cavalry; A. W. BiSTIOr. colonel I'd Arkan-
Sls: W. j. PATTON. colonel - Arkansas: NJ.
l.. STEPHENSON, colonel ID Arkansas. A. =.
| CURRY, colonel Illinois volunteers, and s.
y. BEAi MONT, colonel I'd Tennessee.
Gentlemen from Mississippi say that there
was not one State or Federal official in that
State who had not an honorable discharge
from the Federal army, and there are sew
rrll now in this city who have been driven
rom Mississippi, where they had settled.
with the intention of making their homes.
some OF them inform us that in their own
knowledge they can count up NOR than II
million dollars carried by their friends into
| h" STATE, invested there and lost. Anon!
those in the city We can name Hon. J. TAR
BELL, II brigadicr general Captain FISHER,
Naior PRICE and Major SuAvuHSESsT who
were prominent in the politics Of NIisSis-
sipp
The men we have named, and others like
them have been denounced for years by the
| Democrats and by the man millinerS"
among the Republicans as "theving carpet
hacgcrs;" yet most Of them are poorer to-
day than WHEN they went South. II was
reserved for a paper here to stigmmtizc them
us suffers and camp-iollowCrs." Docs the
record show them to be so? Is not the as
sertion as false as its deductions! The same
sentence says these men deceived the
freedmen 1t is undoubtedly true that
they taught the freedmen to believe in X, :
publican principles and 10 vote for RSpub-
lcnns-to uphold the banner of that party
on all occasions, and stand by it all times.
Was this "dcceiving" them? As the same
men. both in ls6s and lS72, helped to hold
US GRANT in power, perhaps he is one OF
those designated as "sutlcr or cainp-i0l-
lower" The sycophancy displayed in the
article is sickening, and we quit the subject
with the hope that there is no other man in
the North outside of the man -millincrs'
who would be guilty of such an eif'usion
An examination of the army rolls docs not
reveal to us the name OF the writer of the
article
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