The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-13
RECON STRUCTION.
JUDGE KELLEY IN NEW ORLEANS.

HE ADDRESSES A GRAND MASS MEETING OF UNION
lists IN LAFAYETTE sQUARE-TEN THOUSAND
PEOPLE PRESENT, ETC.
NEW ORLEANS, May l2-New York could
hardly have made finer display upon any
loyal occasion than this lately Rebel city did
last night at the mass meeting in Lafayette
Square to hear Congressman Kelley, of Penn
sy1vania, speak. Since the bloody riots of July
1865, there was never such an assemblage in the
sent. They came in ward clubs by the hundreds
and thousands from all quarters fthe city, with
flags, transparencies, and bands. The platform
was decorated all round with United States flags,
in silk and bunting, and lanterns hanging be-
tween them. The front was festooned with
wreaths. intertwlned with magnolia blossoms
which filled the air with perfume. About four
hundred persons occupied the platform, en-
bracing many of the leading citizens and several
ladies. Rockets and other fireworks in showers
cleaved the sky, lit up by a calm Southern
moon The scene was grand in the extreme,
tion of society here year ago, 1t must have
been Witnessed with surprise and qualification
Mayor Heath introduced Judge Kelley In a
highly patriotic speech.
Judge Kelley thanked them for the invitation
rendered him by the Governor and Mayor, and
reioiced that he was at last able to visit New
Orleans and all other pol tions OF his native
land, for he, like themselves, was now free to
carry his conscience and convictions whittier
he pleased as a citizen Of the United States. He
could now call all the country his home. The
peculiar system of labor in the South had con-
tracted her civilization She had shut out
friends who would delight to visit and sit with
her citizens at their hearthstones She had dis
couraged immigration and refused access to the
Inventions in science and art of which the
North availed itself
The North had many great cities, two Of them
rivallipg Paris and London in wealth and popu-
lation, while their beautiful city, past which the
waters of sixty thousand miles of rivers flow
| was the only great one in the South. He con-
trasted the railroads of the two sections, to the
cheapness, all Of which was due to the isolation
in which the South had been enclosed in order
to preserve the divinity OF slavery When the
decree of l776 proclaimed that all men were born
equal, the law was uttered that was to fashion
the institutions of our people. They were
| ever true to that law; for they controlled the
States at the time they framed the Constitu
| tion of the United States, and thus every free
man, without regard to color. was voter IN IN
the fact that until Calhoun broached the heresy,
in lS47 that slavery in the territories was not q
! subject of Congressional legislation, he traced
the slavery agitation to the Kansas troubles,
and he recalled the vote upon Yanceys motion
simiIar 70 that Of Gaihoun's in 1877 vote of 2i6
| nays to 36 yeas What a change during the
| twelve succeeding years After that vote the
Democratic leaders of the North assured you
| that if you would strike for your supposed
rights, they would stand by you on the battle
field; How were their pledges keptF The
| names are known-Gustavus w. smith ana
They gave You besides what the little girl pro-
posed to give the missionary cause, their pray.
| ers, and then they went round to their neigh
Still the million of graves aiied BY the best and
| bravest of both sections are ohargeaole 70 bne
| South for submitting the question 10 tne ar
! bitTament Of war ne had seen 2 leEFeg rom
| franklin Pierce declaring II you seeded there
| would be no war, or thot If there was 1t would
| be co.extensive with the country, and that
| blood would flow in every village, town and
| city of the North and West, How were his
| pledges keptP In what city 81 the North did
| blood flow? Between the citizens OF Whlch
1 Northern States was there armed collision, and
| from which of the Northern States did men
| swarm TO swell the ranks OF your armies? So far,
| history will held the North, especially the
| Democratic party there, responsible for open
| ing the way to rebellion. 1t had kept the mass
| OF her people in profound and degrading igno-
| rance The laws OF each State prohibited by
| penal statute the education of the slave popu-
| fation This was inevitable. Intelligence and
| culture are incompatible with slavery; the
absence OF schools, the want OF general fields OF
| eIIpIov ment degraded the non-slaveholding
whites of the country, and the least enter
| pristng of them left the land of their birth To
| find happier homes elsewhere, showing thai
since 1880 over los, 900 people had left the nine
CHANTING States TO go 70 Indianas Illinois, ano o
/ North .He continued:--Do you reproach me
and others of the North that we did not come
in those days and lay these arguments before
your All, my friends, you forget the terrible
despotism that you established over your
selves You raised the cry OF Abolitionisti
against Northern men, and with threats
and bloOdhounds pursued them 70 deaLn
You treated the difference Of opinlor
as the most heinOuB OF crimes; but
J come mot 10 bandy elimination OF reerimlRs'