单词 | carpet-bagger |
释义 | carpet-baggern. U.S. Political slang. derogatory. After the American Civil War of 1861–5: an immigrant from the Northern into the Southern States whose ‘property qualification’ consisted of the contents of the carpet-bag which he or she carried. Hence: any Northerner who went south and tried, by the black vote or otherwise, to obtain political influence. Also: (in extended use) a person intervening in the politics of a locality with which he or she is thought to have no permanent or genuine connection. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > carpet-bagging > one who carpet-bag adventurer1857 carpet-bagger1868 1868 Daily News 18 Sept. All ‘carpetbaggers’ and ‘scalawags’ are whites. The carpet baggers are immigrants from the North who have thrown themselves into local politics, and through their influence with the negroes obtained office. 1872 Spectator 21 Sept. 1194 At the elections which took place in June, 1868, ‘Carpet-baggers’ and other adventurers who put themselves forward as the friends of the freedmen were everywhere successful. 1880 Gen. Grant in N.Y. Herald 26 Oct. See the prosperity and the thrift that has been brought to these new States by these carpet baggers! 1888 N.E.D. at Carpet-bagger Mod. Eng. Newsp. The electors have preferred the local man to a carpet-bagger from London. Derivatives carpet-ˈbaggery n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > carpet-bagging carpet-bag rule1857 carpet-bagging1869 carpet-baggism1872 carpet-baggery1884 1884 Milnor (Dakota Territory) Teller 30 July To abolish this infamous system of territorial carpet-baggery, and to require all appointees to territorial offices to have been two years residents of the territory. carpet-ˈbaggism n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > carpet-bagging carpet-bag rule1857 carpet-bagging1869 carpet-baggism1872 carpet-baggery1884 1872 N.Y. Herald 16 Dec. 5/1 Carpet-Bagism in Alabama. 1881 Philada. Record No. 3459. 2 The ‘solid south’ is a protest against carpetbagism..in the form of Northern men going down in person to take charge of Southern politics. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1868 |
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