Figments of the Scalawag Imagination--Many of its Acts were Lawless, etc.
The scalawag like other unclassified vermin was without respectable antecedents; with an acute sense of smell like the "lap-heavy" scout of the Andes, he sought his prey when there was no fear of the approach of man.
The result of this mongrel combination of carpet-bagger, scalawag and negro; this composition of vice and ignorance and rapacity, was plainly seen everywhere.
When our hopes were feeblest, and our horizon darkest, the scalawag fled like a hound to the sheltering woods whence he sallied forth like an outlaw.
Jake was also jealous of the attentions the scalawag was from time to time showing his young wife; these visits occurred most frequently in the absence of the regulator, and these intrusions as he felt they were, gave him alarm.
Perhaps so; I cant say" replied thescalawag furtively.
The papers will give us half a column at least to-morrow, what with the fire on that barge and the presentation of Scalawag to this little girlie here," and he shook hands again with Dot.
Immediately Scalawag would try to go through his old tricks to the delight of the neighborhood children.
Then at a touch under his belly Scalawag stood up on his hind legs and pawed the air to keep his balance.
Even the circus trimmings had never fitted Scalawag better than this new harness, and he tossed his head and pawed, as he had been trained to do, arching his neck and looking just as though he were anxious to work.
Sammy, feeling his superiority as a boy in most instances, even at the circus, dropped every appearance of calm when Neale pointed out Scalawag as the calico pony promised Tess and Dot by Uncle Bill Sorber.
Scalawag has always been a trial; but we have borne with him.
Each day of this ominous peace among his enemies increased the terror which had gripped the little Scalawag from the morning he had read his first obituary.
He had made up his mind within an hour to give the Scalawag a return blow that would be more swift and surprising than his own.
And there was in his consciousness of power a touch of cruelty that should have warned the Scalawag against his next act of supreme folly.
He had been a deserter during the war, and a drunken member of the little Scalawag Governor's famous guard that had attempted to rule the state without the civil law.
As the Lieutenant-Governor ascended the dais and took the oath of office, the Scalawag rose and staggered through the crowd that opened with a look of awed pity as he passed from the chamber.
There was but one man Norton loathed with greater intensity and that was the shrewd little Scalawag Governor, the native traitor who had betrayed his people to win office.
The Scalawag official hurried to meet his distinguished caller--a man whose administration thirty years ago was famous in the annals of the state.
You can't understand, dear, I am entering now the last phase of a desperate struggle with the little Scalawag who sits in the Governor's chair for the mastery of this state and its life.
The Scalawag began his answer by wringing his slippery hands: "I realize, Governor Carteret, the gravity of my act.
But if they could hold these prisoners until the election was over the little Scalawag believed the Klan could be thus intimidated in each district and the negro ticket triumphantly elected.
The old Scalawag was the Judas Iscariot who sold his people for thirty pieces of silver which he got by licking the feet of his conqueror and fawning on his negro allies.
The little Scalawag paled and his voice was scarcely a whisper: "Why--why, what do you mean?
Watch that r-rampageous scalawag Dud Hollister an' do like he does.
Tess stopped talking to the aggravatingScalawag and lifted up her voice to shout after the Gypsies.
Gypsy lady when we were driving home with Scalawag from Mr. Howbridge's the other day.
If you can get Uncle Rufus to harness Scalawag you girls can drive over to Penny & Marchant's for those things.
Scalawag shook his head, danced playfully on the old stable floor, and then proceeded to wheel the basket phaeton out of the barn and into Willow Street.
When Scalawag brought the Corner House girls to that corner the car was so far away that the girls' voices at their loudest pitch could not have reached the ears of the Romany folk.
Scalawag objected very much to going faster than his usual easy jog trot--unless it were to dance behind a band!
Meanwhile Tess left Ralph to hitch Scalawag while she marched up the stone steps of the Howbridge house to deliver Ruth's note into Hedden's hand, who took it at once to Mr. Howbridge.
The Power of the Scalawag A Forestry Commissioner had just felled a giant tree when, seeing an honest man approaching, he dropped his axe and fled.
There can be no doubt but that he was a sad scalawag and ribald rogue, with as few moral scruples as ever burdened a purveyor of popular amusements.
I ran off to sea soon after they were married, like the young scalawag I was.
George was a real nice fellow, though he was a scalawag for mischief, and some said he had a liking for a glass even then.
The carpet-bag, scalawag and negroid State Governments made raids on educational funds.
A scalawag delivered the gem of the occasion: "Ladies and gentlemen: I am happy to embrace this privilege of speaking to you.
Neither he nor his running mate the scalawag or turn-coat Southerner, was received socially.
Carpet-bag and scalawag leaders were purchased, and agreed to use their influence to divide their party.
One of Lakin's relations was that while he was conducting a great revival meeting among the hills of north Alabama, Governor Smith and other prominent and sinful scalawagpoliticians were under conviction and were about to become converted.
In Dallas the illiterate negro commissioners voted for a higher rate of taxation, though their names were not on the tax books; their scalawag associates voted for the lower rate.
Jones, a scalawag candidate who had been purchased by the whites, they would be reenslaved.
Here was the beginning of the alliance of carpet-bagger and scalawag that was destined to ruin the state in six years of peace worse than four years of war had done.
The black vote was not eliminated, but gradually fell under the control of the native whites when the carpet-bagger and scalawagleft the Black Belt.
The carpet-bagger and the scalawag were harder problems.
Nearly all of the carpet-bag andscalawag witnesses who testified on the Radical side before the Ku Klux Committee complained that the courts would not punish Ku Klux when they were arrested, and that juries would not indict them.
Governor Lindsay and the pseudo-Democratic lower house stood out against railroad legislation, and the indorsed roads were in bad condition when the next scalawag governor was elected.
Almost invariably the scalawag disliked the Leaguer, black or white, and often the League proscribed the former as political teachers.
Among the scalawag members of the convention, who saw that the carpet-baggers would rule the land by controlling the negro vote, there was much dissatisfaction and at length open revolt.
The blacks always felt that the carpet-bagger was more friendly to them than the scalawag was, for the carpet-baggers associated more closely with the negroes.
A scalawag from north Alabama wanted the negroes to sit on one side of the House and the whites on the other, but he was not listened to.
And that scalawag has been tryin' to bust you up in business, eh?
I hope so," says I, "but if he keeps us here and then rents his horse to Skip he might as well be the meanest slinkin' scalawag in the state.
There's enough trouble in the land without having a scalawag in the Tomlin family.
And if she had had the remotest idea that they affected his interests or his future, she would have risen in the church and denounced the carpet-bagger and his scalawag associates, and likewise the Rev.
The scalawag managed the Negro, the latter did the voting, while the carpet-bagger held the offices.
The scalawag was the native white man who made up the middle class of the South; the planter above, the Negro below.
But if Elizabeth Luke lay ill and in need, a passage of Scalawag Run might be challenged, whatever came of it.
In that event, nothing could excuse the reluctance of the man who should decline an instant passage of Scalawag Run with the pitiful appeal.
True, it was not inviting--a passage of Scalawag Run in the wet, gray wind, with night flowing in from the sea.
A drab mist had crept around Point-o'-Bay and was spreading over the ice in Scalawag Run.
Scalawag Island, of whichScalawag Harbor was a sheltered cove, lay against the open sea.
It lay against the open sea; and the sea was high, rolling directly into Scalawag Run, in black, lofty billows, crested with seething white in the free reaches of the open.
Pausing on the crest of Black Cliff to survey the crossing to Scalawag Run, he came to a conclusion in relation to Peggy Lacey's letter that was not at all flattering to his self-esteem.
Telegrams had come to Scalawag Harbor in times of disaster in the course of Tommy Lark's nineteen years of life.
If you are crossing to Scalawag Harbor to-night, I should be glad if you would take this telegram with you.
