No master. no slave. no legalized aristocracy or subservient democracy. no class distinctions. but all subject to a common law. In the wake of the Federal Army came the Freedmens Burean. a grand philanthropie conception of the paternal Government. well designed to protect the enianipated slave and educate him in his new responsibilities. but in tIm hands of unprineiplediilitary adventurers perverted to personal. political. and mercnary purposes. and thus made a curse rather than a blessing. and finally through fraud and corruption demoralizing the freedmen and debauching them to the vilest ends of persoal gratification and aggrandizement. So the "carpetbagger" became a synonym of disgrace for the Northern immigrant as significant and odious as thatof "abolitionist had been in the days of slavery. Free negres from the North. educated in deception and adepts in the less reputable characteristics of low demagogues. came in to assist the white " carlietbaggers" and take charge of the churches. schools. and moral and political interests of the colored race. These black saints traded upon the ignorainci. superstition. and credulity of the freedmen. and bartered their souls for gain.
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Northern immigrants are carpetbaggers who are disgraceful and corrupt.