New Orleans Republican

Some Points,
Stewart L. Woodford of New York made the following points before the merchants of New York a few days ago: Of the term carpet-baggers, he said that it only meant a man who leaves one section of the country to dwell in another, and that in nine-tenths of the satchels carried by carpet-baggers in the South might be found an honorable army discharge. "Carpet-baggers," said Mr. Woodford, "I believe that old Miles Standish, as he stood on Plymouth Rock, was the grandest old carpet-bagger this country ever saw." But the Democrats say that these are all dead issues, demand that we talk of bonds and taxation, and say that after eight years of "Radical misrule" the country is saddled with an immense debt for which the Republican party is responsible. This kind of talk reminded Mr. Woodford of the man who remonstrated with his neighbor for throwing a rosewood sofa to his child that was drowning instead of going half a mile for some pine lumber. When the war was upon us we needed money and had a right to have it at any cost.