The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-20
they are. because they are white.

Judge Kelley logically reviewed the
present State of Southern society, illus
trating by the experience of his late
tour, through the reconstructed region,
the necessity of impartial suffrage as
the sole remedy for the political evils
now affecting the Southern people,
He 6etiered that, IN the logical course Of
eCentS, the cOiOyed man l0Ouid, bytHe year
1870, rOte IN both MdrylGQddnd Deidacdre.
He referred to speech made by him as
long since as February, 1866, advocating
the constitutional right of the Congress
to regulate suffrage in all the States,
and supported the positions then as3um-
ed by him with ample legal arguments.
He next took up and considered the re-
latiOns of the labor question to that of
suffrage, showing their intimate con-
nection and the importance to the
Northern laboring man of the adoption
Of principles Of civil justice. BY his
Well-knoWn mixture Of wit, logic and
sarcasm, the Judge carried conviction to
many previously doubling minds on
this important branch of the suffrage
question, and was repeatedly greeted
with loud applause. He then resum-
ed:
The hour of triumph will come to
the loyal men of the Border States
long before it is expected. The fine
arts, the mechanical arts and religion
itself, are all the on side of right. No
poet eYerSung the praises of slavery; no
painter limnS on his canvas the gran
deur of tyranny; no sculptor perpetual
tes in marble the WrOng-dOer or the OPP
pressOr. God and nature are on our
H., LAT, ,osTy ho
man, his broken ShQc les get cliHgiRg to
him, shall rOte, shall enter the jury boz,
and shall hare dU the rights Of q citizen.
The North and South have alike en-
tered on new and grander march Of
progress, but our work is even greater
than the regeneration of our own bright
land. The eyes of all Europe are upon
us, and the struggling millions of the
Old World begin to realize that what A
merica is doing, England, France and
Italy may do. Let us then cheer and
gladden. the hearts Of the oppressed ev-
cry where, and make our land in the
future, as in the past, the l0de-star to
which all lovers of liberty will be at
tracted.
The Judge closed amidst great enthu-
siasm, and after three tremendous
cheers for Kelley, the convention, on
motion OfGeneral Harrington, adjourn
ed sine die.
Comment upon the above account
would be superfiunus. None is needed.
The resolutions speak for the Radicals
of Pennsylvania as we'll as for those Of
Delaware. The keystone and the little
- +n
In the estimation Of Congress neither
ofthem has a republican form of gov
ernment. They will both be recon
structed by the Sumner-Kelley bill,
unless Radicalism receives a check in
this State at the coming election. The
Yankee Judge Williams is a firm be-
lever in the high-fown rhapsodies in
dulged in by Bill Kelley. He is pledged
to decide the Sumner-Kelley bill to be
constitutional and binding on every
election officer in Pennsylvania. He
will not deny that charge. No Repub-
lican paper dare deny it for him. 1t is
part and parcel of the plan of the pres
ChU pOIllIIoI IeliIl It'iSh' IiC 4lCpdDII-
can press in different parts of the State
have so announced it. The ISSUE is
fairly and squarely made up, and it
must be boldly met. Nothing can pre-
vent the passage of a bill making ali
the negroes of Pennsylvania the full
political and social equals of the whites,
except the election of Judge Shars-
wood. Even that may not besufficient
to deter Congress ;'but with him upon
the bench Of our Supreme Court the
obnoxious law could not be enforced.
We hope every Democrat will put
this article into the hands of his Re
publican neighbors. They might not
believe what we say, but they cannot
refuse to credit Forney's Press and
Judge Kelley's speech.-L@acaster IN
! teUigencer.