The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-02-03

sbip.railfoad across the 1slhmua Of Tehuan.
lopoc, aad docs moi think tlls government
ought TO give any sort Of Aid In this direc-
lion. Lot US SEQ now Capt. Eadg hs
southern man, his ship-railroad DO would Of
vast benefit to southern commerce. Does
that account for the milk in this oocoanutY
'If Captain Ead's ship-railway scheme is,
as no claims, the very best and cheapest and
easiest method for conveying ships across the
ls!hmus, aud II, as no asserts, IT Is to be
helped by bonntes from the Mexican gov
eminent, certainly II ought to be able TO pull
through without any guarantee OF It's bonds
| frorn the government Of the United States.
| IL its merits are so great, then II ought 10
succeed upon its merits. If it will pay such
handsome dividends, Captain Eads can
easily obtain all the money no wants BY
proving the fact TO private citizens who
have idle money in their hands; and he will
find that task easier than lobbying in con-
eress, provided be can make out strong
case. Captain Eadss opinion respecting
ouch matter s worth much, for he IS very
able engineer; but sometimes even very able
engineers permit their enthusiasm to over
ride their Judgment
The New York Evening Mail in common
with many other papers published in the
north and with many thousands of the north
ern peop'e, shows an entire ignorance Of the
term "carpet Hegger," in the following:
"Although b, no means 80 often as few
years ago, we still too frequently come across
The epiihet '.carpet-ba ggers" in the news
papers, particularly in the journals OF tht
southern states snd of democratic proclvi-
ties If there Is any Argument in so sense
less q cry it is that no msn has right to ge
up in the world anywhere except in the place
whore ne was born. II is the lowest sed
ment of the state right idea an idea severely
knocked in the head by the war ofthe rebel
lion, and yet not hard enough to entirely
knock its brains out"
1t is true that the race Of "carpet' baggers'
is well nigh extinct in the south now, but
the Mail had been in any one OF the south
ern states five or six years ago, it would hav'
seen the animal in all his glory. The Mai
then would have learned what q carpet
Dagger is or was. To make il plain t.
the Mail, carpet-bsgger was simply
bird of passage, political vulture seeking
to fatten on the helpless and overpowered
The south, like Prometheus was chained tc
rock ard all about her the filthy birds O.
creation, their talons reeking with corruption
and their foul beaks being driven into hel
fostering body as she lay defeneeless. These
were Che carpet-bAggers Home rule has rio
the southern states of them now almost hap
PLY. To show that the south did not cart
where msn was born so he was worthy snc
honest aud honorable, We have only to in
stance Texas. We sent Hon Horace Bough
ton, brigadier-general in the union army
and Hon. John Q. Conner, an officer in tht
union army - both NATIVES CT northern
states-to congress, and to day Texas has
member OF oagress, Hon. Columbus Upson
a native Of northern state--New York. 81
have numerous other southern states senators
and representatives in congress who are no
natives Of the south, and who are the choice
| of the naonle too