Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-05-24
TERMS or SUBSCRIPTIONS,
JuDoE KELLYs SPEECH IN NEW
ST ORLEANS.

ORLEANS.
In the absence Of any report Of the re-
marks made by Judge Kelly at Mobile,
before he was attacked and driven by
mob, eager for his blood, from the plat.
form, we present copious extracts from bis
great speech at New Orleans, delivered on
Saturday. II is probable that the speech
he began 10 Mobile did not differ much in
character aud language from the speech at
New Orleans:
THE OPENING REMARKS.
FELLow- CITIZENS OF LOUISIANA In
response 10 the invitstion Of our Govern
or. aud the Mayor of this beautiful and
growing city, am here TO counsel with
you rs to the best interests Of our country.
Lot me, however, nrst congratulate you
upon your enfranchisement, and thank
che loyal men among you, without regard
10 race or color. who, during the late
struggle. braved the dangers Of battle in
defense Of the old flag; and you, who
quietly remained true to IL, amid the dan.
gers which surrounded you, and remained
true to the country, for the part you took
In my enfranchisement. Having address
ed large aud enthusiastic audience in
Memphis on Tuesday night, and standing
la the midst of this brilliant scene ia the
city of New Orleans, am able to pro.
claim that at length am a free man in
my native land, aud may traverse its wide
extent, carrying with me my conscience
and convictions without fear of personal
violence. This was impossible before the
war. The institutions OF the South were
mot cosmopolitan. Her peculiar system
of labor not only controlled, but contract.
ed her civilization. Disregarding the prac-
fice aud precepts Of the founders Of our
Government, aud ignoring the admoni-
tions Of experience. she turned deaf ear
to reason-refused to listen to renion-
STRANGE. aud finally punished dissent from
her judgment as q crime deserving out
lawry aud death.
Attempting to maintain that which was
'"peculiar," and incapable Of modification,
'save by absolute overthrow, in n progress.
i've age, in land Of vast and varied re-
sources. peopled by generation. more en-
'terprising than any that had preceded il,
she arrsyed against herself all the forces
Of civilization No poet ever sang the
charms Of slavery. No linner ever en-
bodied upon glowing canvas its beauties.
No orator ever descanted upon its bless
ines. Aud, though dumb dogs that could
not bark proclaimed from many pulpit
the duty OF servants to obey their mus.
tiers, as the sum and substance of the gos-
pei the voice Of christianity bado consci
epfious men s.do unto others rs they would
have others DO unto then." and to be
eyes to the blind aud feet to the lame, and
the cries OF the wronged against those who
withheld their hire from the laborer as
cended necessarily to the ears of the Lord
of Sabbath.
To this attempt on the part Of thspco-
pie Of the South TO isolate themselves. to
exclude from their broad and fertile ter
ritory the advancing civilization of the
age, may be ascribed the terrible war
through which We have just passed. 1t
made them intensely sectional, while the
steady md rapid development of the North
was demonstrating to its more rapidly in
creasing millions the benefcence of ma
tionality. Ii created a separate aud an
tagonistic system Of civilization. The
North welcomed all classes Of emigrants
from all lands. She made herself familiar
with the inventions and discoveries of the
day, and applied them to purposes of util-
ity. She challenged the freest discussion
Of all topics and all systems. She provid-
people, including the unhappy few to
whom, in deference to Southern interests
and demands, she denied the full rights Of
citizenship. But the South, wrapt in its
delusion, repulsed erligration-rejected
allscience and literature that controvert-
ed the divinity of slavery and the justice
and economy of uureq'iired toll She de-
MED to ller laborers education, and could
consequently not avail herself of and was
indifferent to, the scientific aud mechani-
cal progress of the age. Thus, while the
breach between the two sections was wild
enine, the disparity in power between them
was constantly increasing.
-Contrast, my friends, the des selopment
of the NortS; New York, and its environs,
which are really, though not municipality,
part Of il, already exceeds Paris in wealth.
splendor, trade aud population. London
and Paris are the only trans tlantic cities
which exceed Philadelphia in these res
poets Boston. Cincinnati. Chicago, and
other cities, all exceed New Orleans in
population. Yet your beautiful city, past
which the waters of sixty thousand miles
of rivers flow, is the one great city Of the
South.
THE FIRST DEPARTURE FROM REPUBLICAN
PRINCIPLES.
When the sages Of '76 proclaimed that
al men are born equal, and are invested
by nature with the right to lite, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness. they utter
cd the law that was to fashion the ins'i.
tutions Of America, and shape the civil
ration Of her people. They were ever
true to that law; for they controlled the
States at the time they framed the Con-
stiiution Of the United States; and thus
every FREQ man, without regard to color,
was q voter In every State, even South
Carolina. And while the Executive Gov
ernment remained in their hands, aud
their private influence controlled the Leg
islaiion Of the country. the free colored
man was not denied the right of suffrage
under any Territorial Government.
Though South Carolina had steadily de-
manded her exclusion, from ITS, In the
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