Oh, of course, she knew about the Scallawags — Southerners who had turned Republican very profitably — and the Carpetbaggers, those Yankees who came South like buzzards after the surrender with all their worldly possessions in one carpetbag.
Instead of suing him to try to get half of his worldly possessions, which would have been a whole lot of media holdings, she says, I'll take a lot less.