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"'Carpet-baggers' and 'scalawags' mismanaged affairs in the South, and some of your good people, you state, resorted to lawless methods to displace them. The radicals took charge of this lawless organization, you claim, prostituted it, and made a record of crime and villainy in the South so great that eleven large volumes in the records of Congress are required to merely hint at the atrocities.
Well I found the little pie-eater in Denver O K but so gaunt he wont hardly throw a shadow and what can you expect of scalawags like Miller and Doble who don't know how to treat a horse. Well I run Chiquito off right under their noses and we had a little gun play and made my getaway and I reckon I will stay a spell and work here.
The country is flat; the soil is fine sifted loam running to dust, as the air of England runs to fog; the woods are dense and beautiful and full of trees unknown to the parallel of New York; the roads are miserable cart-paths; the cattle are scalawags; so are the horses, not run away; so are the people, black and white, not run away; the crops are tolerable, where the invaders have not trampled them.
Hal and Chester each felt himself seized by the shoulder by a strong hand, and a voice exclaimed: "So! I have found you young scalawags at last!" At the sound of this voice Hal and Chester stood stockstill, and from the crowd came the cry of: "The police!" Hal glanced quickly into the face of the man who held him and his chum firmly by the arm.
So he and a good many others gave themselves to raising cotton, and for a while left the choice of State officers and legislators to "niggers," "carpet-baggers," and "scalawags." A "scalawag" was any Southern white who allied himself politically with the negroes, and a "carpet-bagger" was a Northern adventurer, for whose worldly goods a gripsack sufficed, or, in general, any Northerner whatever.
"Gone back on yore father and taken up with Webb's scalawags, have you?" "No, I haven't," she called back. "But I'm going to see they get fair play." "You git out of there, girl, and on this side of the river!" Snaith roared angrily. "Pronto! Do you hear?" "There's no use shouting yourself hoarse, dad. I can hear you easily, and I'm not coming."
Gosh! but ain't she the old scorpion!" he exclaimed with feeling, "Say, if her an' me was the only folks left in the world, I'd kill her an' live alone. See here, you scalawags, clear out an' leave that poor brute alone, an' I'll take your trash." It was a surrender.
"Massa," said he, scratching his head, and looking quite sober, "Massa, hadn't I better hide the mules? Oh I's 'fraid the Linkum sojers will come take 'em, cause dey gobbles up ebery ting dey lays dere hans on, jis like geese. I yerd dey was coming; mus' I hide de mules?" "No, Sam, the scalawags are more than a hundred miles away; they are near Natchez."
"Well, I'll be d d if that son of a cannibal hasn't sneaked away into some hole, and kept his footing," exclaimed the captain, as he saw the boy appear above deck; "I was in hopes he had found safe quarters in Davy Jones's locker! But there's no getting rid of such scalawags!" "Captain Jostler," cried Mr.
"Envoy to former Captain Blythe from the crew," I heard him say. Crisp and clear sang the answer of our captain. "My man, I don't know you. If my crew have anything to say let them send one of their own number. I don't deal with stowaways scalawags." "You'll deal with me if you deal with them. I've been elected captain in place of Mr. Blythe, deposed." "The devil you have! Bite on this, my man.
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