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For four years Virginia was not a co-equal State in the Union but "Military District No. 1," governed by a Federal general, who appointed the local officers in the several counties. The affairs of the State were managed by carpetbaggers in close agreement with despicable scalawags and ignorant negroes.
Wickersham of the old servant, much amused at his disdain. "What gent'mens?" "Why, our guests." He used the possessive that the General used. "Does you call dem 'gent'mens?" demanded the old servant, fixing his eyes on him. "Well, no; I don't think I do all of them." "Nor, suh; dee ain't gent'mens; dee's scalawags!" said Richard, with contempt.
"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.
So it is in the world of books. François Villon cannot be called an edifying specimen of the human family, yet he unmistakably belongs there, and it was to that prince of scalawags that we owe not merely that loveliest sigh in literature "Where are the snows of yester-year?" but so striking a picture of the underworld of medieval Paris that without it we should hardly be able to know the times as they were.
Young, most of them, too, boisterous when upon occasion their hands were idle, devil-may-care scalawags who had earned in many a little cattle town up and down the country their title as "that wild gang of Packard's," prone to headlong ways and yet dependable. There are such men; Packard knew it and sought them out and held them to him.
Settled by scalawags that we'uns run outen Tennessee bekase they'uns wuz too onery to live heah." "Citizen!" echoed the woman. "They'uns heap sight wuss'n the soldjers. Teamsters, gamblers, camp-followers, thieves, that'll steal the coppers off en a dead man's eyes. I had a sister that married a man that beat her, and then run off to Injianny, leavin' her with six children to support.
We are determined to tolerate no scalawags, nor carpetbaggers among us. Beware, the sacred serpent has hissed." But Louis, brave and resolute, kept on the even tenor of his way, although he never left his home without some forebodings that he tried in vain to cast off.
"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.
Every state, except perhaps Virginia, was under the control of a few able leaders from the North generally called carpetbaggers and of a few native white radicals contemptuously designated scalawags. These were kept in power by Negro voters, to some seven hundred thousand of whom the ballot had been given by the reconstruction acts.
Plenty of wistful men and women would have thanked God nightly on their knees for the gift of such a son; and here he was, sitting on a tin can, bowed down with family cares, while thousands of graceless little scalawags were slapping the faces of their French nurse-maids and bullying their parents, in that very city. Ah me!
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