The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-05-25
KELLY8 SPEECH IN MOBILE

Times:
FELLOW CITIzESs:-T am here tonight,
not as has been stated in one Of your papers
as the emissary Of a faction, and not to speak
IN the interests of a faction, but to speak, for
the whole country, and to endeavOr to heal /
the wounds Of that country. We are one |
people, not only so by common constitution, j
but nature herself, has made Us one people. /
We occupy common country from the Gulf /
to the lakes, from ocean to ocean. Our geo /
graphical position makes US one people, it is |
the order Of Providence Into your grand /
Cuff pour the rivers watering sixty thousand /
miles Of a common country every acre OF
land that these rivers water belongs to ourl
common country. The speakeFb here alluded
to the grand extent of that common country, \
but our notes suffered during the confusion.
He lad beeen denounced by the city press /
as the leader of a faction The faction he
served was thiTty>two millions Of people,
and ke served them against the world
loud and long continued cheers.
He came to speak to them because be felt
that they would not be guided by narrow
minded men, and would isten to even the
views of the notorious Radical from PensyI-
vania.
The war that has scared both sections has
been equally felt. Half a million of your
Southern brethren lie In unmarked graves
ana Q0uDtG LIlG uumD6r OF NOfGaefn men lie
equally undistinguished No marble marks
their remains. regiments lie whore the pIow-
share shall pass over them and the farmer
! viii find many acres rendered fertile by the
/ bodies of the slain.
This horrible war was caused by the dem
! agogues of the South, and they are trying
now, as they tried then, to keep US asunder
/ We meet here to take counsel together
| TCheers Although notorious Radical, as
Z ~ IL I
with respect IN Memphis and New Orleans
He also felt safe in Mobile Inspite Of all
1 the editorial quilts In the State, he was there
! to take counsel on and speak upon the inter
| ests of the country. First, they must forget
/ the evil memories of the past They must
/ forget and bury those remembrance.
Now all must exercsise a vigilant, a sleep
/ less effort to secure UNIVERSAL liberty. To
YOU who have been bondsmen, he would make
an appeal They say that you are ignorant
] The eloquent Vice President of the South
tern Confederacy said that slavery was the
| cornerstone of the Confederacy, knowing
/ that you won the regard and esteem of South
/ ern men by the human manner Ia which
i you took care of their families and titled
their fields.
Those who prophesied rape, murder and
outrage on your part were disappointed
| Trusting In God for liberty, YOU vindicated
your fidelity during all that trying period
/ of war You can forget the wrongs of par
| ties to yourselves, your wives and children.
You can forget You have proven that
you could We, of the North, though every
internal passion of human nature was
aroused in US when the rebellion Numbered
on Fort Sumter, and we rallied in our
strength from the hills, and wales we can
and do forget our wrongs and sufferings
The fair result of the war is the conquest of
your liberty.
The thunder of their guns made two ques-
tions
/. Have we a Government, and is the
right Of secession guaranteed by the Con-
/ stitution?
2. Has it proved in the sequel that slavery
has the divine sanction
These two questions were finally submit
ted. The South withdrew from diplomacy
and legislative settlement and resorted to
arms
They suggested a compromise, a compro
mise that then pronounced and now pro
nOunce, an unhOly One-a compromise that
fixed slavery forever In the country; that
| rendered Unnecessary for every State to agree
| before slavery could be extinguished in any
one State, and rendered the adjustment Of
| slavery impossible as long as one State re-
fused its sanction to the adjustment
The Southern Senators, in their seats, re
fused to vote upon the question and Andrew
johnson, of Tennessee, told them that the
result OF that action would bring war upon
the country. They would accept no compro-
mise, and headed by such men as Benjamin
and others, they precipitated the late war
upon the country.
They endeavOred to estrange us from each
other, just as the editor of the Mobile Times
has endeavOred to do when he made his at
tack upon Senator Wilson and myself How
many cannon we took during the war is i'm
material; we took all that we captured, and
lost all that was taken by the Confederacy.
Laughter. 1t was a big pool that we cap
tured They prevented us from knowing
each other then, and they are trying to do so
now. Would 1t have been safe to talk to
you before the war? No. Mol Would
you have dared to hear me2 No No I
Then the war has made US all free | thank
God as reverentlY for it as the humblest
freedman among you l am now free to
speak to you Were you allowed before
the war to read a Northern newspaperl
No How brutality was man treated who
was found on a Southern railroad reading
the New York Tribune, the Liberator. the
Independent, or any other Republican papers.
This right of free speech was never denied
at the North Southern natives spoke In our
academies of music and our halls, and
Southern papers were subscribed for and
read in al our reading rooms. Demagogues
would not let US understand each other
and have cursed US with this war TShouts
of turn him out, were here heard Don't
turn anybody out As long as the lamp is
burning there is chance for return to
| common sense.
Down to i847, February 8, John G. Cal
houn offered resolutions of an abstract char
acter relative to the Territories r'' Put him
dOwn" was shouted by the crowd One
word l have to say: Nobody had better
undertake to put me down 1 tell you the
| Fifteenth United States Infantry are at nv
back, and if the Fifteenth United States
Infantry cannot maintain my rights as they
were maintained in Memphis, have the
United States army to fall back upon I am
not afraid of being put down my friends
| will keep quiet and hear what l have to say
At this moment the speaker disappeared
] and the reporter of the Times, with all the
/ notes he coDld nick nm IN n hurry rnada HE