The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-16

Hon. william ID. Kelley, NJ. o. for the Fourth
District of Pennsylvania, delivered the following ad-
dress last evening, at Concert Hall, to very large
brilliant, and enthusiastic audience. The speaker
was listened to with marked attention and was fire.
quently interrupted by applause. He spoke substan-
TALLY as fOllows:-
HISTORICAL PARALLEL.
Oaths are not an adequate foundation for govern.
ment All history attests this fact. republic which
not sustained Dy the intelligent apprehension of
t. vital principles, and their hearty acceptance by
Is people, is IN constant danger of overthrow Whom
he sun went below the horizon on the LIST Of Decem-
ber 1851 France under the constitution of 1849
n republic. Itwas Monday, the evening on which
the President, whose inaugural oath bound him to
maintain the republic held his reception nt the Ely
see. There was nothing unusual in the number or
character OF the guests. They were, probably each
each have looked into the hearts of AL, and behsld
their secret workings, the story of the night would
not have read as it does. The brilliant assemblage
embraced some OF the most loyal friends of the re.
public. Count de Horny was not seen by the guests
who first departed. He had manifested his devotion
TO the drama, and the hdbites of the theatres had
seen him among them early in the evening; but the
company separated early, and at IL o'clock thsre
were DE Morny Maupas and st. Arnaud, and, at
tended by Colonel Bevile, orderly or subordinate
officer of the President, they followed him to his
cabinet. 1t was almost midnight, and the republic
still lived. Let contemplate its dying hours 1t
will not detain us long, fOr when the first beams of
the ascending sun lit the spires of Paris the Empire
was IN embryo, and the republic with the preceding
day, was thing of the past.
OOOnel beVlll6 was soon Q0spAtcneQ TO the State
printing Office with a sealed packet. 1t contained
the copy or procamations with which the streets of
Paris were to be pacarded before daylight and the
outgoing mails burdened. One Of them asserted
that the Assembly 1.-THE Congress of France) was q
hotbsd Of plots and conspracles; announced its
dissolution, ana placed Paris and the twelve sur.
rounding departments under martial law. About IL
O'Clock word was brought the consprators that q
battalion of gendarmie surrounded the printing
Office, and that under the supervision of the director
the overawed printers were putting the proclama-
tiOns in type. The President executed letters re-
hIaC Cab md fftorr 60 tbo
Secretaryship of the Interior. he had some days
before recalled from Algeria st. Arnaud the John
Secretary of War; the officer whose order, within the
range OF military duty, was law TO the generals of
an order that bodies of troops which he had put
Inder command OF his cor corrupt Rartisans should
dOTsay, the Place de 10 Concorde, azd be posted
in the vicinity Of the Eysse to protect its inmates
If necessary Maupas, project of the. police, in
another apartment held separate interviews with a
number of commissaries, and, under the pretext
that he apprehended an arrival of foreign refugees
incarceration OF seventy.eight OF the most dstin.
guished generals, most trustworthy officers and
mentors Of the Assembly (Congress), and most
courageous and most eloquent popular orators Of
France. With the execution OF this order the revo.
luton was accomplished. When day broke the
more faithfully than Lee and johnson love ours and
The Assembly (COngressl without the officers TO
people to demand that the CONSTITUTION be main.
famed and treason made odious by the punishment
Ot consplring traitors.
mo SUDDEN OVERTHROW OF THE GOVERNMENT
APPREHENDED.
The American people need apprehend no sudden
overthrow of their Government like this. The power
of France was in Paris; it flowed thence to the
our country It resides equally in every organized
political community throughout our limits WASH
ington, not the centre of political power is the nero
focus at which the people, will concentrates and ex-
presses itself. We therefore, need not apprehend
Soup d'etat or sudden overthrow of the Goyernment
fbn lfu
which commends men to the confidence of Andrew
johnson, may, from the floor OF the Senate, sound
the temper of the people on the subject aud in &C.
cordance with his reeorced oath, press such sug-
geslou upon the President; the amnestled Rebels
and jubilaDt Copperheads may borrow his own
sedtous language and denounce Congress as an
irresponsible Central Directory" and their organs
say, as did the Chicago Times that
Ilf the rump Congress shall not speedily abandon It's
sedous revolutionary and lawless practces II 1t shall
IN eTHGg S a afe I Of states
the Congress of The United States do hesitate
Johnson to Constitute himself the Cromwe OF he e
and dissolve the rumD by military power"
WHAT WE HAVE TO FEAR
But they who defended Mrs. SUrratt and her CO.
conspiIaIoTs. who JUSTIFIED the conduct of Wirz who
mourn the martyIed Booth, and proclaim their
belief that the providence, dark and nscruable as
country i1om the hands OF Abraham Lincoln was
beneheent one and who are now the amIliaIs Of his
successor, doubtless advise him TO adopt this course
and his many new ounselOrs, chosen from the per-
jured but acute leaders Of the late Rebellion, will
trouble him with no suggestions Of dissent from
scheme so entirely ceincident in purpose with the
lawless and inhuman war they waged against us
But this is not among our dangers. The President,
though he is sometimes ndiscreet Is more adroit
tutIons are too broad, too well apprehended,
and too highly appreciated to permit us to
consider this as practical danger The sources
of our anxieties are more subtle. What we
have TO Tear is not the change in the form
of our Government but infdeity to its prn.
cples by those who administer II. Let
me not be misunderstood. haye no apprehension
knows no doubt. They understand their rights and
will MAINTAIN the independence of the popular
branch of Congress ana avert this danger me
intelligence of the American people is not the NIB
Ject OF idle defamation. Whatever may have been
the impression IN Europe on this point prior to Mr..
LineOln's proclamation of the 10th of April, 1861,
calling for seventy-tiye thousand troops all men now
know that the American people understand their
1nsutHtons IN general and in detailj that they
cherish the spirit, and ready TO peril property
and life in their defense. But we must not forgot
that that which violence and open assault capnet
accomplish is sometimes achieved by fraHd and de.
cepon and herein is the OF all our dangers.
A subtle, though narrow intellect. an elastic con
science, intense egOtism, and tho control of almost
bOundess patronage, ,makea combination that cannot
be despised in any controversy,
LOVE OF OFFICE NOT PECULIAR TO AMERICANS
The love of honor OF emOlumeut is not pecuIiar 70
the American people; nor does It, as satirists cy.
MICS and the victims OF Oit-recurring disappointment
declare, sprlng from vanity or Overweening love OF
SELF lhe multiform ana eountiiuly endowed chari-
ties in which our country pre.eminently abounds
the story OF the sanitary the Christian, the Union
and the FTeedmens Commissions, through tho handa
o. which 20 many tens OF millions OF voluntary con.
civilization across the continent, and the rapidtY
with which our country is interaced with costly
works oil improvement attest the TACT that the Aus
rican people, who dig and delVe most assiduously
apply least of their gains 10 the eradication o
purely selfish purposes and cOgnize most fully the
truth that man holds tine treasures which God con.
m tTla farh hfa fall