Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Government by carpet-baggers; the practices or methods of carpet-baggers.
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It had stood like a wall during the cruelties of Reconstruction; had fought the good fight for white man's rule; had crucified carpet-baggism and scalawaggery upon a cross of burning adjective.
Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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