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"If a redskin got you here," said Tom, when she had slipped back, "he'd fetch you to Nick-a-jack Cave." "What's that?" she demanded. "Where all the red and white and yellow scalawags over the mountains is gathered," he answered.
He's tellin' 'em what scalawags they are, an' how their fathers an' mothers an' grandfathers an' grandmothers afore 'em wuz ez bad or wuss. He's tellin' 'em they're squaws painted up to look like men, an' ez he talks Shawnee an' Miami they're hoppin' mad." Henry even could not refrain from laughing.
The radical or Republican group included the negroes, a few southern whites, commonly called "scalawags," and various northerners known as "carpet-baggers." These last were in some cases mere adventurers and in others men of ability who were attracted to the South for one reason or another, and took a prominent part in political affairs. The old-time whites held both kinds in equal detestation.
She's got the bitterest tongue and the kindest heart in Four Winds. Wherever there's any trouble, that woman is there, doing everything to help in the tenderest way. She never says a harsh word about another woman, and if she likes to card us poor scalawags of men down I reckon our tough old hides can stand it." "She always speaks well of you, Captain Jim," said Mrs. Doctor. "Yes, I'm afraid so.
"When he's a no-'count varmint," said the woman, "without any especial warmth, a-traipsin' along of scalawags and moonshiners and a-layin' on his back pizen 'ith co'n whiskey, and a-pesterin' folks with a pack o' hungry, triflin' houn's to feed!"
Later, after the scalawags had for the most part left the radicals, there were contests among the carpetbaggers themselves for the control of the Negro vote and the distribution of spoils. The defeated faction usually joined the Democrats. In Arkansas a split started in 1869 which by 1872 resulted in two state governments. Alabama in 1872 and Louisiana in 1874-75 each had two rival governments.
Keep away from castles. They're like everything else sold by curio dealers all humbug. Look nice, yes. But get 'em over to America and they either fall to pieces or the paint comes off. Whether it's a chair or a castle same old story. The sly scalawags that sell you the goods won't live up to their contracts." "Hasn't Gauntmoor all the ancient inconveniences a Robber Baron could wish?" I asked.
The Austrian officer turned a suspicious gaze upon the three friends. "Do you know this man?" he asked. Hal shook his head. "He evidently has mistaken us for some one else," he said. "Do you understand what he says? It sounds like it was English he spoke." "So it is," replied the Austrian. "He called you Hal and Chester and also scalawags, whatever that means." Chester shrugged his shoulders.
Few even made exorbitant demands. They wanted "something" schools and freedom and "something else," they knew not what. Deprived of the leadership of the best whites, they could not possibly act with the scalawags their traditional enemies. Nothing was left for them but to follow the carpetbagger.
I could 'a' rented the house twice over if there'd been any barn room; but them confounded young scalawags ripped out the horse and cow stalls, cleared away the pig pen, and laid a floor they could dance on. The barn chamber 's full o' their stuff, so 't no hay can go in; altogether there ain't any nameable kind of a fool-trick them young varmints didn't play on these premises.
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