The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-06-18
JUDGE KELLEY AT HOHE.

liam d. Kelley, who recently returned from bis
trip through the Southern States, was serenaded
at his residence in the Twenty fourth Ward this
evening, by the citizens of his congressional dis
trict
After the hearty cheers OF welcome home had
subsded, Judge Kelley addressed the meeting,
saying that he was grateful to bis constituents,
friends aud neghbors for the demonstration be-
fore him. He never knew how sacred the word
home was until after his recent absence, during
which he had passed through some peril
When covering before hundred bullets at one
scene Of his travel. and the companions of his
travels equally posed as himself, he realized how
dear home was. The scene before him moved him
to the heart. When he left for the South he did
SO on tne invitation of the Governor of Louisiana
and the Mayor Of New Orleans. There, as
elsewhere all through the South, save in one
city, be was met with all courtesy and kindness.
He went there without any thought ct danger,
with hatred to no man.
He thought that the opinions he had so often
expressed to the people in Philadelphia he could
as kindly say to the Southern people, and so he
did 10 every place except Mobile, where they
would not hear him; but he begged his consti-
tuents not. to charge the violence upon the citi-
zens of Mobile or the citizens of the country at
large. Cheers 1t was more due to Andrew
johnson, President Of the United States, than
to the dsloyal authorities of Mobile or the mob
who supposed that they enjoyed immunities un-
der them. 1t was reereant Northerner sent
there by the President as Assessor of Internal
Revenue-Colonel Mann, late of Michigan, the
owner of the Mobile Times-who, by statements
published in his paper, provoked the disturb
ance 1t was no indiscreet word of his (the
speaker's) that brought on the attack.
No fyuOo orf fhrn
days before his arrival, and the man who was
shot beside the chair of the correspondent of
the New York Herald, who was the first victim
on the platform, would have fallen just as GER
tainly if he (Judge Kelley had been reciting
the Lords prayer instead of making speech.
1t was said that he hid under table. Laugh.
ter Now, he was not soldier, and boasted
of desire to recklessly expose his lite; but he
confessed that he would not object to having
table to protect him when he heard the bullets
pattering about. He would not refer to the
courtesy which met him at all points from Mem
phs to Danville, through Tennessee, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, Alabama. Georgia, North Car
olina, South Carolina and Virginia They were
already acquainted with all this, owing to the
enterprise of the Northern journals, and more
especially the New York Herald. Had he been
the nations benefactor he could not have been
received with more cordiality, or his opinions
accepted with a more hearty endorsement, and
by none go much as the gallant soldiers who
fought 10 the Confederate ranks.
He assured them that he knew from observa-
ton something of the Southern people, and he
repeated what be told them in the South, that
the whole nation will regard the war as the throe
of agony which preceded the birth Of the greatest
free nation the world has yet known. (Cheers
ha snaaker then ertered nnon doscrint;nn Of
the Southern country, of a most fatterng kind
and contrasted its wealth with the poverty of
the people. He had seen the workings Of the
Freedmen's Bureau in Salisbury On ration day,
and would never forget that picture. When he
told the Southern people how much the North
was progressing by its industry, they thought
he was painting fancy picture. If the people
of the North do not furnish means for educa-
ton, the blacks would exceed the whites in
learning within five years. He then described
the colored schools, and said that twenty five
per cent Of the scholars would be regarded as
white people in the North.
It was this fact which induced the Southern
leaders to proclaim the doctrine that slavery was
the condition of the workingmen, for they had
too many white slaves to deal with. He des-
cribed the feeling of the South as favorable to
reconstruction. They were taking Northern
papers they understood their position and
needed no missionaries; but much good might
be done by sending coored men Of culture, of
whom there were plenty among the colored peo-
pie. He named many in the various States as
specially fitted for that purpose, of whom their
old masters spoke to him in the highest terms
of commentator. If any of his hearers thought
Of emigrating be advised them not to 60 fifteen
hundred miles to the West; for within few
hours travel in North Carolina there were more
advantages to be had in water power, mineral
products and fine lands
What the South wanted was agricultural ma
chnely, phosphates and fertilizers to restore the
soil. These, with an energetic population, would
make the South blossom like garden, and would
build up loyal country. He favored the idea
Of going South in small colonies, not to work for
wages, for they were miserably poor, but to de-
velope the resources of the country The
speaker, after some further remarks concluded
BY thanking his friends for this kind welcome
home, and retired amid repeated cheers.
LIKES MATRIMoNY--A citizen Of Montgomery
County, Ind, was married recently for the fifth
time. He has lost two wives by DEATH one by
elopement, and two by divorce. He still thinks
matrmony good institution, like the fellow who
was SO piously inclined that he joined the church
four or FIVE times.
u NJ I " Il r . L Il z
OF
RTH G. A r o. LIN A.
The ONE HUNDRED and FoRTY-SIXTH TERM