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I mustered one regiment afterwards, when my services for the State were about closed. Brigadier-General John Pope was stationed at Springfield, as United States mustering officer, all the time I was in the State service. He was a native of Illinois and well acquainted with most of the prominent men in the State. I was a carpet-bagger and knew but few of them.
Captain Gillis, as might be assumed, was not a native of the province of Quebec, but merely a carpet-bagger, who moved north in the summer and returned in early autumn about the time the wild geese went south, and all for reasons known only to himself. He hailed from down East, and voted in a small town not many miles from the historic shell-heaps and the ancient city of Pemaquid.
"Do you suppose the people will listen to you preaching peace and contentment? They'll whip you out of the town." "It's the carpet-bagger that will have to go first!" Dale declared vigorously. "There's no two ways about that." Maraton sighed. "Sometimes," he said, looking around at them, "I feel that it must be my fault that there has never been any sympathy between us.
At this we in the audience looked at each other in amazement; for, standing close beside Mr. Greeley, at that very moment, most obsequiously, was perhaps the worst ``carpet-bagger'' ever sent into the South; a man who had literally been sloughed off by both parties; who, having been become an unbearable nuisance in New York politics, had been ``unloaded'' by Mr.
"My prophetic soul was right," he said deliberately; "I knew you would be sorry for Burrows." "Well, it is hard on him, isn't it? You can't deny you're a carpet-bagger, can you?" "Why should I? I'm proud of it." Then he looked round him. The rest of the party not without whispers and smothered laughter had withdrawn from them. Some of the ladies had already gone up to dress.
Not to follow further the labyrinth of figures, it is interesting to note, as to the favorite term "carpet-bagger," that of the six Republican candidates for Congress in Mississippi, in 1876, only one was of Northern birth, and he had married and lived in the South since the war; one had been an old Southern Democrat and a circuit judge; two had been Confederate officers; and one, John R. Lynch, was a colored man of high intelligence and excellent character.
Luckily, there are things against him. He's a carpet-bagger like yourself, and he's been more than once separated from his wife. His fault, too once it was an opera dancer. I've got up the facts. He only joined his wife again a few months ago probably for the purpose of this election. Mr.
It did not seem so strange that this silent General with the baggy trousers was the man who had risen by leaps and bounds in four years to be general-in-chief of our armies. His face looks older and more sunken than it did on that day in the street near the Arsenal, in St. Louis, when he was just a military carpet-bagger out of a job. He is not changed otherwise.
In waiting for something better, has he become an humble teacher? has he attempted a new matrimonial enterprise? has he become a reporter of the New York Herald, or a politician in one of the Northern States, or a carpet-bagger in South Carolina? does he dream of being some day President of the glorious republic with the starry banner?
But for Lincoln's assassination, some such policy of reconstruction as Johnson advocated would probably have been carried out, instead of the policy of fanatics like Thaddeus Stevens, which left the South a prey to the carpet-bagger and the ignorant negro for over a decade.
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