The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1883-09-08
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tive retrospect is here for
thoughtful man! The carpet-bag- |
ger made his advent into the State |
of the magnolia and mocking bird 1
after the termination of martial
struggle gigantic in its proper.
tions and in its results disastrous |
to the people of Mississippi.
But we had yet left some of the
real elements Of wealth, and our
spirits were unsubdued. We had
energy, honor, and world wide
fame, and the finest agricultural
country that seer the sun shone
on.n The returned Confederate
veterans, the conquerors of Ma
nassas and Chickamauga and many
another field Of glory, bent their
energies to building up our mate
rial resources. and soon there was
money in the State treasury and
in the county treasures of the
State. The emblements Of indus.
try were everywhere seen, the
workshop, the farm, the loom and
the anvil were everywhere at
work. When 10! from the shades
of Pandemonium, OF what was
probably worse, Grants and Sher-
mans slow trains-from the refuse
population of the over-crowded
cities of the North, and the rejec.
ted redundant population Of the
capitals of Europe, came and ap-
pcared; the ignoblc, degraded, de-
spisod and shameless Carpet-Bag.
ger, the Pariah of all nations and
tongues, the rejected scums OF
humanity, the castaway from all
circles, the human upon whose
dirty, vulgar brow the word LOST,
LOST, was indclibly impressed by
natures fashioning hand. What
the early August worm is to the
top crop; what the locust was Q
few years since to the Northwest
n what the simeon Of the desert IL
r. to the traveller; what the poison
IS of the bohon upas tree is to those
Y who inhalc IL; what the sever
y plaques Of Egypt were to the an
e cient Egyptian and worse, this mis-
n. erable brood was to the homes
,s people of the State. They stat
70 for years upon us and around u
N, and among rs, incubi upon virtue
n. intelligence, honest capacity an
III frugal thrift and morality. II
id multiplying the offices of the Stat
It, and Increasing the salaries an
ed perquisites attached to them, an
al by bodily robbing the county trc
an suries, they impoverished the ia
N. payers; by appointing idiots al
'ul thieves and low, ignorant paupt
re. immigrants to high judicial static
sr. they brought the law into disre
he ute aud contempt, aud paved II
~ way for mobs, violence and chao
20 They degraded our colorcd pop
cr lation. and spread rapinc, robber
murder, and lying aud theft raj
pant through the State.
They spread financial ruin al
Il. universal bankruptcy through u
-, country they laughed at ever
=, thing holy, good, manly and 81
80 =, cere, and laid the bealning for
=, head of Mississippi PROSTATE
:. r the dust Of poverty and humili
tion.
Wv Nv, Yet this unholy invasion, wor
'" than that of any army with ba
ners, has been crushed out al
eu obliterated-a few dark spots on
''o remaining around Vicksbnrg al
'e' a few other localities. The gre
no mass of the white people of Nj
Nv, sissippi, reared in the schools
no piety and honesty, spurned ass
''' citation with them; the ladies
'iS the South turned from them al
''s' their hungry relatives as if fro
'' something horrific, and at last {
'sc better class of well.meaning co
rc red men aud women, refused I
litical or social association wi
oc' them. Cast adrift from hum
y" recognition in the South, the &C
pei demned thieves and paria
"' thrown to the surface in a gre
" war, now seek distant climes
10 which to luxuriate with the weal
NY stolen from the Southern peop
But there IS no place so obscu
so unknown as to shield aud hi
sr,. Mississippi Carpet-bagg
, Wherever his person is recog
. zed the finger of human scorn '
,d;. be pointed at him, and he '
=, move among his fellows an abb
.,,a object of private and public ay
ons sion and contempt. "The
ugh hath drops too few to wash !
eek cloan aud salt too little TO seaf