baggers

Updated: June 22, 2025

"When, therefore, the Negroes were approached by two sets of men, the one set, composed of the former ruling class of the South, equipped morally and intellectually for good government, but wrong at heart upon the great question of human rights, the other composed largely of carpet baggers, scalawags and bad administrators, but true to the principle of equality before the law, it ought not to be surprising that a race fresh from the galling yoke of slavery should choose the set that would look after their liberties.

Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs - The Hindered Hand: or, The Reign of the Repressionist

Can't they see that these carpet baggers are only trying to rob us? Make them see that. The hounds! Sometimes it seems to me that the Lord is letting these iniquities go on so that the nation may perish in its sins all the sooner!" He sneered at John W. Young who had gone to Washington for the Church. He's down there, taking things easy, while the rest of us are driven from pillar to post."

Frank J. Cannon - Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft