The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-15
How Northern Men are Received South
The Associated Press.

How Northern Men are Received South
The Associated Press.
WE almost despair of any genuine reconstruc-
t;on in tbe Southern States. If few weeks
are allowed to go by without some direct
insult to the flag or some gross assault upon
loyalists, we begin to believe that the day
of repentance and reason has arrived. But
no sooner does such belief seem warranted
bv the facts, than some fresh outrage occurs
which shows that the spirit of rebellion is not
dead but sleepeth and that it needs but an
opportunity to once more appear in full force.
The dastardly attack on Judge Kelley which
was perpetrated last evening at Mobile, is
another evidence of the spirit of the Southern
people. By preconcerted plot the right of
free speech was denied to our fellow-towns-
man. and the meeting broken up by violence.
Several deaths were occasioned by promiscuous
firing upon the crowd and, for time, the
riot was success. The arrival of the United
States forces quelled the Rebels, and the city
was taken possession of by the military. When
IL ia remembered that the various Northern
orators who have gone South have done so at
the request of the Southern papers and South
ern speakers, who professed to desire free
debate, this infamous invasion OF the rights of
our citizens will appear yet more heinous. AS
long as such a course of action is pursued, and
the people of the South tolerate such ruthans
in their midst we would have them kept
under the heel of iron, until all such spirit of
riot and treason be crushed out.
1t is bad enough to have to allow our public
men to be shot at by a Southern mob, but to
have the Associated Press turned into an
organ for defending the would-be murderers,
is a little more than human patience can
peacefully submit to. The Associated Press
is Northern institution, supported by
Northern capital, invented for Northern use,
and all its employees are fed by the gold which
comes out of Northern pockets. Under such
circumstances, it is not unreasonable for us to
expect that the truth should be told, and that
the Association shall not be prostituted into
an engine for vilifying Northern men and
defending Southern assassins. Yet such has
been the constant action of the Associated
Press ever since the Northern speakers went
NOuOh' w hOh OuhSV NOllSJ opOhC Nk N0lu-
phis, we were told that he had "slim" audi
ence and that the whole affair was a decided
failure. Such was the information conveyed
by the despatch from the Memphis agent. By
the Memphis Post a reliable paper published
on the spot, a different tale is told. 1t says
"The Greenlaw Opera house, the best audi.
ence room in the city, tUaS JiUea tUitb ladies and
gentlemen, without dRtinction of color or
of any differences, but peacefully, intelligently
united IN giving their attention To that radical
OF radicals the Hon. w d, Kelley, of Philadel-
phia. We are happy to point to the whole scene,
the ability and cddOr of the orator, the numbers,
The order, He Intelligence, the attention and repre-.
sentative character Of the audience, and the
vigilant uardianship of a faithful police, in
sympathy with the law of freedom and devoted
10 the preservation OF order, as the felicitous
opening of the radical campaign in this wide
sweeping Mississippi valley"
This account is different from the Failure
despatch of the Associated Press. Again, in the
account of the riot at Mobile last night, the
Associated Press SAYS
He continued in this strain for some
minutes, using language and expressions lcen
diary, and which were calculated TO lead Lo ano
interrupted by white man on the outskirts OF
the crowd, whom the police promptly arrested
The first shot was fired at this poiAt-U is inpoS
"Instantiy shots followed from the negroes
VINO were all well armed and the firing ther
became general Immediately after the firms
commenced an alarm was rung, and continued
during the progress of the riot, which LASTED
about an hour. 4 large majority Of the shot
tOere fired bY The negroes as 6W gerry JelU of III,
1OhiteS present lUere armed. having attended tht
meeting to listen quietly to Kelley and without
the remotest idea of provoking riot"
This account is so utterly different from tha
given by all the special correspondents, ant
bears such evident marks of falsity on its face
that it is disgrace that the Associated Pres.
should tolerate such malicious and wilfu
falsehood to come with the prestige of its name
1t is time that such nefarious falsehoods should
be stopped, and it behooves the chief of tn,
Association to see that all unreliable and Rebe
employees be placed beyond the reach of in
sulting the loyal editors and deceiving tn,
loyal readers by their wanton preyarication o
the truth.
The Importance of the Nomination foI
the ViCe-PTesidency.
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