The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-08

, the cotton tax, which carried off all the poor
darkies earned. He would appeal to the manhood
of the white man on this question. he was for
taxing France iand England as far as he could
under the Constitution, for they gave all the ald
they could TO the war for the destruction OF TINS
country. England and France wanted some
things that they must get from America
tobaocoR cotton, and sugar; and he was Tor
making Johnny Bull and Johnny CraDeau pay
heavier tax upon them. The radicals were
abused for not giving Office to the negro and
place in the jury-boX. If they had right to
these privileges, why, in the name OF God, did
not the Democrats grant them tor the last eighty
years? He contended that both parties were
playing for the black mans vote; but let them
not be caioled by either but vote as they fought
for the Union. They were told that
the North did not suffer from
the war, and that tine South was suf.
tering from hordes OF foreigners brought here
for the purpose; but he would not tell them
that there was not home in the North that had
not vacant place at the table and an empty
chair at the hTeside. Their bravest met our
bravest; they had both suffered for eighty years.
They had been lying by pretending to believe
that men we're equal, and that the war was
Gods war to wipe out the fraud. Sketching the
history of the Constitutional Convention, upon
the question of introducing the word "white"
before "ctizens," in regulating suffrage, he
passed on TO the purchase OF Louisiana.
when IL was provided that no slave should
be taken there except by O citizen. John c.
Calhoun's doctrine in 1867 would enable
men to hold slaves wherever the Ameri-
can flag hoated, except on the high seas; and
although the resolution of Mr.. YanceY in l84S,
and Mr.. Clark's motion to amend the Consttu-
ton, were aCceded to, this war was forced upon
us by the South. We met it in the name of our
country. They fought the South to secure for
its people the proprietorship of citizenship.
(Applause.) That every child of the South
should be the heir to its resources. He voted
for Crittendens resolution, that the war was
not for slavery, though ne was an Abolitionist.
us we would put arms into the hands of their
slaves, and they would put down the Rebellion.
He asked MIR. Lincoln at one time to allow hun
to raise a colored regiment. 1t was not granted;
but black soldiers were raised, and from that
time the blacks were free, for no nation could
keep race in servitude which 1t had allowed
to die for 1t. After explaining the duties of all
the States to the general Government, he
asked what would have been the fate of this
country if the Confederacy had succeeded and
pointed to the present state of Europe, quiver-
ing on the verge OF terrible war, as an evil
dence to show that we would have our Ameri-
can Prussia warrlng upon our American France.
We would become a nation for the support of
half.a.dozen armies to defend the various re-
publics. AS 1t is, we needed no army, for we
could meet any and all the nations IN Europe,
united as we now are. He urged the people of
the South to adopt the Constitutional amend
ment, for he knew the spirit of the Fortieth
Congress, and stronger terms might be i'm
posed. If they were in doubt as to what these
terms might be, let them read Thad. Stevens
letter on reconstruction.
Upon the platform were large number of
citizens, among them some ten negroes. Judge
Kelley was listened to with intense attention,
not single word of interruption breaking the
thread of his address. He could not have been
heard with more respect in Philadelphia or
New York and yet twelve months AGO he dared
not have made such speech in Memphis, and
the life of neither Northern man nor colored
man was safe At that time the streets were
filed with rioters, and the flow of blood and
blaze of burning negro churches Redeemed the
sky. That spirit must be modified indeed when
a Northern radical can speak his opinions even
as calmly as Judge Kelley III this once turbu-
lent city, without being molested.
Mr.. D. A. Num-, candidate for Congress, then
addressed the meeting.
Judge Kelley goes direct to New Orleans to-
morrow where he will be received by Governor
Wells and Mayor Heath.