The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-09-13
"mY VISIT WAS AN ADvEN.U"A
AND MY DEPARTURES AN
ERCAPE."

~ Tho accommodation formerly OF onio'
,oto 90 North Carolina, in view OF the
.nnroaobina election in the former STATE
,,roOured himself to be interviewed by re-
rorter of the New York Tribune IN 'nA'
o,tv, and made a stunning disclosure sup
nosed TO be worth many thousand votes 70
The Republican party The disclosure Is,
that it is impossible for Northern man oi
independence of mind to live there I'm inc
South with any comfort"
The antecedents of the Hon. Albion are
stated as follows: He was an orlglnai
Abolitionist, Of the Ohio school, an ofhcef
in the Union army Of untold EXPLOITS IN
the civil war, and at its close went with ni'
family to reside in North Carolina Tor the
benefit of his health; was made Judge
of the Superior Court of that State unaer
Radical rule we infer from his story, ana
after having the discomfort OF being super
ceded in his office on the defeat OF that
party, he encountered the inconvenience
of having to make living. He entered
upon the practice of law IN the Guy
of Raleigh, and employed the leisure
which his limited practice afforded IN con
Irritating widely known volumes to the law
literature of the State" He was classed by
the people as ''carpet Dagger" and 10
show how his business was affected by his
circumstances, he states that juror was
heard to declare on one occasion, that he
vonld not return a verdict for any man
who had a carpet-bagger for his lawyer
This eminent person IS said to have spoken
"freely, :" and his enticing conversation ls
given at large on page eleven OF the New
York Tribune of the 9TH of September inst
There having been many hundreds OF
such cases familiar to everybody, the facts
being given, the "panning OUT OF the adj
venture may be easily predicted. We have
had lust snch cases here. The discomfort
of being turned out Of Office, and OF COM
netting with one of the ablest bodies OF law
yers in the United States for practice was
| extreme; no doubt OF IL.
The carpet-bag ofice-holder thrust upor
an unwilling people, bankrupt in fortune
and Inundated by defeat, was not popula
anywhere we admit. The amusing feature
of the disclosure, however, is, that in thu
free and high discourse of Judge Tourgee
he unwittingly lets out the plain fact, that
bioh MS he was in official rank, and as
writer of "widely known Volumes an
notwithstanding the breadth and reach c
his philosophio mind as displayed in hi
Stree talk" Judge Albion W. Tourge
made of very common clay after all, an
falls to the vulgar level of poor huma
nature There is not to be found, we vel
ture to say, single exSofficial carpet-bat
ger who does not put up his case as Tourgt
has put up his. His discomfort is not du'
quoth he, to his having intruded himse
into one of the highest offices of the Stat
uninyited, and to his belonging to olai
of men made widely infamous by IL
New York Tribune, but wholely and slmp
because he is Northern man. 1t 10 in
pogsible, thinks this philosopher, that the
could object nue. as an individual. am abs
lutely faultless. This Judge, lawyer, write
shaving much of the condolences OF
"co-workers" (oo-workers at what, and II
what?) how could any body dislike Tourge
n No. no. I'll tell you the secret. 'Ti
Southern man. says the philosophic lou
gee, sis by habit and training intoleran
Excluded by slavery from the rest OF t
world, he learned to regard all who differ
with him on any topic (the ttattc being oui
as necessarily inimical. Evidences OF go
> will, sympathy, identity of interest, are
disregarded as soon as the outsider express
d difference of opinion. He (the outside
becomes at once the object of the hostili
which was once visited on the abolitionit
land which is now transferred to all W
l. represent to the idea of the North The
now! You forced me to it, and NJ
you've got 1t. What an extraordinary pc
,r people There were Of the eight milllo
l. of white people in the slave-holding Stat
e. only five hundred thousand slave-holde
,, The mechanics, the great majority of
4 farmers, the professional men generally
:, the great bulk of people in fact, did I
own slaves. 1t is fact well known hel
that the shareholders were in the minorit
az class, and were uniformly voted do'
at the elections. They were generally WIFI
Atall events the seven and a half millio
!. were excluded from the world on accOu
g of the half million, and given over to 81
neck and hardness of heart. Strange Il
, these people, from Washington dow
never found this out. So it is, however, Il
= being ourselves outsiders az to the wor
r. we looked upon men of the world with 8
- len suspicion says Toulgee. Itmatters n
y thinks that penetrating observer, whetl
it be on religion, science, finance, Gro
= politics. or what not, if the outsider diff
with the Southern man, on any topic, III
90 regarded as necessarily inimical !" Vel
Albion w. Tourgee spoke freely-witl
oo freedom rarely INDUCED in by any man
- think, unless it be one who has freed hi
from the restraints of truth and comm
sense, under the dominion of a malevolC
spirit
SS They" says Albion, with his head CT
lS' ningly inclined over the left shoulder, 1
10 magpie looking into marrow>bone,
no longer wish to dissOLOe, but to rule. I
ve whole is better than the part, and th
NY mean to have the whole, and will eitl
70. drive the North into rebellion, or TO
"u violent measures to prevent their ascel
M ancy." Proceeding grandly, Albion say
nc ''The way in which they have neutralil