Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in
Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in
United States Congress Joint Select Committee On
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Yes, sir; we have less coutidence in them than in carpet-baggers. Question. If a nutn should come from Georgia and act badly, would'you call him ;i scalawag o» carpet-bagger ? Ansircr. Scalawag; southern men we call scalawags. The name originated in a fel- low being kicked by a sheep so that he died. He said he didn't mind being killed, but he hated the idea of being kicked to death by the meanest wetlier in the whole flock — the seal}" sheep. We mean by scalawag a meaner man than a carpet-bagg...er. We may as well say just here, to avoid repetition, that the testimony shows, in one unbroken chain, that gentlemen, regardless of i)olitics^ who go South from the Northern or Western States, and in good faith settle among that people, are as kindly treated and as likely to be pro- moted to oftieial positions after they are known as they would be if they moved from one northern State to another. Judge Pettus, of Alabama, (see page 390, ) states these facts fairly. He says: . Insicrr. Individuals come to Alabama — some of them honest men and well esteemed \vher
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