To the most depraved of the negroes the carpet-baggers were constantly appealing with arguments that stirred their blood.
They went even to lower depths, and by the election and registration laws basely surrendered into the hands of the carpet-baggers all power.
The English people had no just conception of the oppressions want only inflicted upon the South; of the insolence and rapacity of the carpet-baggers and freedmen who were made our masters.
The carpet-baggers preached to the negroes an anti-slavery God, from the gospel of hate, of revenge.
Ned, who was now in his seventy-third year, was drinking to intoxication from the cup the carpet-baggers had lifted to his lips.
The government of the South by carpet-baggers was essentially oppressive and inquisitorial.
But our coloured people soon became orderly and well-behaved after the carpet-baggers left us," says Sheriff Jones.
With Governor Nicholls established in Louisiana and Governor Hampton in South Carolina, the battle between the carpet-baggers and the native Southerners for their State Houses was over.
Ef you cyarpet-baggers does go back on us, woes be unto you!
This reign of mongrelism, ignorance and depravity was formally ushered in by a motley assemblage known as "the black and tan convention," so called from the negroes and carpet-baggers composing it.
He is a Kentuckian, and he's not fond of these carpet-baggers and scalawags at all.
But when the carpet-baggers made their appearance, and Mahlon Butts began to fraternise with them, he was ostracised along with the rest.
Even colored men, carpet-baggers and scalawags were either heartily or formally Republicans, and could be trusted by the Washington authorities in acting loyally and faithfully in the discharge of their duties at least.
Then for a time, at least, followed a pause in the obstructing work of the reconstruction of the late rebellious States, and the governments by colored legislators, scalawags and carpet-baggers went on as before.
He accepted it in the belief that it was his duty to take any occasion for public service that otherwise would be held in the hands of alien carpet-baggers and haters of the Southern people.
Pains were taken to keep the plans from both the native whites and the so-called carpet baggers from the North.
That Republican material was scarce, and if they punished this man it would discourage other white carpet-baggers from coming down and help lead the party in this State.
He hoped that the colored members would assert their self-respect and hurl back the charge with scorn, and show to the world that they had some sense of honor, and will not be duped by unprincipled carpet-baggers any longer.
The Ku Klux were after the carpet baggers and the Negroes who followed them.
Mis' Allen can't say no, case Mammy mought go ter de carpet baggers so she lets me go fer de week-en'.
The Freedmen's Bureau and carpet baggers caused us to envy our masters and the white folks.
It began in the hazing of negroes and carpet-baggers who were insolent or offensive to their neighbors.
Many of the carpet-baggers had undertaken to develop farms there.
The white carpet-baggers and scalawags never formed a large section of the Radical party and constantly decreased in numbers,--the natives returning to the white party, the aliens returning to the North.
The continued rule of the military was preferred by the whites to the rule of the carpet-baggers and the negro.
It is said that there were stormy times in the councils when there were more carpet-baggers than offices to be filled.
The hostility of Smith to carpet-baggers weakened the party.
Other Bureau officials who afterward became well-known carpet-baggers were: Major C.
There was a general exodus of the less influential carpet-baggers from the state, such a marked movement that the negroes afterwards complained of it.
Claus and Wilson were two carpet-baggers of Tuscaloosa.
They were less prejudiced against the negroes than were the "scalawags" and were willing to associate with them more intimately and to give them small offices when there were not enough carpet-baggers to take them.
The scalawags did not foresee that to the carpet-baggers would fall the lion's share of the plunder, owing to their control over the negro vote.
The hope was held out of overthrowing the irregular revolutionary state government and driving out the carpet-baggers in case Seymour became President.
The carpet-baggers intended that the convention should be purged of "improper" persons, and one of them proposed that the test oath be taken.
Trials by Military Commissions When the ghostly night riders of the Ku Klux Klan began to frighten the carpet-baggers and the negroes, Meade directed all officials, civil and military, to organize patrols to break up the secret organizations.
We have for years been dominated by semi-civilized barbarians, flattered into the belief that they are as good as white people by unprincipalled Yankee carpet-baggers who have profited by their ignorance.
The victory of Union guns at Fort Fisher brought many carpet-baggers to Wilmington, many of them thrifty men of enterprise, who willingly assisted their brethren to restore life to that devastated town.
Them carpet-baggers come round larnin' niggers to sass the white folks what done fed them.
Them carpet-baggers starts all the trouble at 'lections in Reconstruction.
The carpet-baggers ruint the niggers and the white men couldn't do a thing with them, so they got up the Ku Klux and stirs up the world.
These niggers must be put down where they belong, and the carpet-baggers driven back where they came from.
But den dey is ’publicans an’ teaches niggers, too, I wonder is dey any carpet-baggers up North or anywhere?
But they don’t know how to kill nobody but radicals—niggers and carpet-baggers and scalawags.
The white carpet baggers seemed not to have noticed this little side show.
The garrisons were gradually withdrawn; the carpet baggers remained and ruled; negroes formed themselves into clubs and organizations under their leadership, when as an avalanche all over the Southern states appeared the K.
By this time the carpet-baggers had swarmed into the sorely harried region like so many locusts.
The carpet-baggers debauched the negroes, sending some of the most ignorant of them to the Legislature, where their personal conduct was a disgrace and they voted away vast sums of money for adventurers who bribed them with a pittance.
The colored men were told 'that if they would be Democrats they could stay; but Republicans and carpet-baggers could not live there.
The Northern carpet-baggers planned and got the plunder, and have it; the Negro got the credit and the odium, and have them yet.
For, were not these same Northern carpet-baggers the direct representatives of the Government and the Army which crushed the slave power and broke the shackles of the slave?
They were called Scalawags, Carpet-baggers and Radicals, of which terms we shall adopt the last.
I don't know who de carpet-baggers wuz but dey wuz powful mean, so de white folks say.
You know sum way er udder de Yankees er de carpet-baggers er sum ob de crowd, dey put de niggers in de office at de cote house, en er makein de laws at de statehouse in Jackson.
You ain’t so much against niggers and carpet-baggers as you make out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baggers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
