Show Tilt CABPKTBAOGKR That was a very pretty occasion wbich adorned the Walker house parlors the other evening when JESsicBnowxPo was presented with a little golden carpetbag carpet-bag diamondstudded and burnished in the highest style of the jewelers art It was also a very fitting emblem as significant as it was beautiful The hero of tho hour and the oceasion must have felt excellently well when he received re-ceived such a token of his partys esteem and when balmy sleep closed his orbs that night he must have had before his mental vision that precious little keepsake It was allinalt a worthy token worthily bestowed upon a worthy gentleman And yet the carpetbag is not without its infelicitous remembrances in connection with the roughandtumble affairs of mankind man-kind as useful and beneficial as it sometimes some-times is It is like other emblems brought into use in our dayproper enough in its own way sometimes but calling up recollections recol-lections which were better buried in the deep vaults of oblivion When wo come to consider the subject closely the carpetbag step by step leads us down to the cane fields tho cotton farms and the magnolia groves of tho Sunny South Time was and not so long ago when those scenes were a reflex of good cheer prosperity and kindly feeling when tho people were almost like a family and the wayfarer in their midst was not only entitled to but receied the best that any on the premises received Undoubtedly they had their heresy which tho rude shocks of war rent into shreds and cast unto the four winds of heaven also their prejudices which increasing association with their conquerors and others dispersed by de CTOCS But they ever maintained and still maintain a preference for those who were I of them in the dark days and were with them when came the dawn and the times following it Those whose interests were identical with their own who rejoiced in their joy and sorrowed atthcir misfortunes no matter whether to the manner born or I coming from abroad were first in their hearts and foremost in their recollection There was another class with whom they had to deala host of hungry carrion crows whose hope it was to bo gorged with plunder and drunk on blood They expected to remain just so long as they could gather up spoils and domineer over a prostrate and helpless people They sought not a residence in tho South nor would they identify themselves to any extent with the interests and welfare wel-fare of the residents Cheap rooms at the hotels and an acquaintance with the newly enfranchised blackamoors was the rule of conduct The better classes of people those who had mado tho country what it was and en whom alone the burden of the state could safely rest were ignored and unrecognized unrec-ognized having no longer through the action ac-tion of the conquerors a vote or voice in public affairs This invading gentry knowing know-ing that such a state of affairs could not en I duro very long proposed to hit folly as it i flew and get in a hurry what they never I could have got at home where they were I knownoffices And as they could I not reasonably hope to retain these long tho best sentiment of tho nation being be-ing sure to assert Itself sooner or later they brought nothing with them which they could not gather up in fear and hurry if need be and return to tho places from whence they respectively came A carpetbag held their earthly possessions I and their presence represented their only interest in the soil on which their feet V rested They didnt want homes they I didnt want vested rights they wanted I offices uiid most of them got them Inriew of the fact that they wore in no I sense representatives of the class they were foisted upon it would be supposed that ttcj would at l fwt ItQt join the open and avowed enemies of such people but would through the promptings of mere decency if nothing else seek to ameliorate nod gain their gratitude Far from it I They not only consented to but assisted in the enactment of the most iniquitous oppressive measures they outHerode < HEHOD in their clamors for special and proscriptive legislation and thus and otherwise earned a new name in the history of the republic carpetbaggers In the Southern states now happily as free as any other section of the union the occupation and the man still go hand in hand together in the recollection of the people and the carpetbagger is a synonym for all that is skulking in war dastardly in peace and infamous in politics Still it was a very pretty emblem which Judge Powcns received I |