The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-20
JUDGE KELLEy,s SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN.


SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD.
Large Meeting Of Whites and Blacks al
Montgomery. AIa.-Speech Of Judge Kelley
Sensible Advice 10 the Peopie-Orderiy Con-
duct Of the Audience. &c.
MONTGOMERY Ala. May 10, 1857
Judge Kelley addressed large meeting, composed
about equally Of whites and freedmen, last evening" at
the Capitol grounds He was introduced by MI. john
c. Refer. Of General Swayne's civil staff Governor
Patton and many other distinguished citizens. OF both
parties were the platform Several carriages hled
with ladies were the ground. The meeting was I'M
disturbed by the slightest interruption The speaker
was listened to with profound attention and respect
Upon being introduced Mr.. Kelley said that he wished
Thorn to understand that he did not come to promote dis
cord among any people section but 70 heal II possible
with such influence as he could command tho wounds
Of bleeding country The results OF the war; terrible
as they are in the present. be benehcent in the
future He regretted that 1t inevitable but seemed
to have come In the order OF Providence All great ben
es reached US through suffering The throes Of agony
which afflicted alike the North and the South brought
with them the birth of new nation He pointed out
the contrast between the richness OF the South and that
OF tho cold North, where had to toll for every dol
lar bat still the Northern were richer and enjoyed
more Of the luxures of life. Alabama alone had more
resources in mineral aud other wealth that all
New England put together. In none OF the
Eastern States was there COAL and little
iron; they could not grow corn there In
Alabama they can grow wheat months earlier than in
the North but they had not done because they relied
upon other States for food and devoted their
special crop All vegetables can be grown in this State
There copper lead and gold in their hills and
would be their fault If the North did not send
abroad for their crude birthstone specimens OF which
and other minerals no had moment ago in the
Executive chamber These facts told in foreign lands
md tha fac hat nj
schools being known abroad capital and labor would
pour in from those countries They have their coal and
iron sumberng in the ground and throw the Toll upon
the shoulders Of labor In the North they make coal and
iron their laborers, and throw the heavy work upon
machinery. Young, tender girls and the widow OF the
soldier tend the loon and direct thread while the
steam engine does the heavy work. 10 coming to the
South he thought that his experience might be OF SER
vice to them, and he hoped that he might be remem-
bered for doing them some good He alluded 10 the
common school system in the North and Northwest, for
which every man. rich and poor, is taxed, and the
humblest boy step fran the school to college, and
thence TO learned profession and tho head OF CON-
mercial establishment. This his story. Since
his eleventh year he pupil in public school.
Up to twenty-five he was working mechanic Although
there were such cities New York, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati or St Louis in the South. vet they had at
their command 10 connection with their other resources
the richest cotton fields and the richest rice fields or
all America The sections OF country had the same con-
sttutiou and flag; but in the North the boy edu-
Gated to rise in the world and become the richest man
in the and the law guaranteed to the working
fair wages for fair days work. He urged them to
build rolling mills erect furnaces employ the water power
at Wetumpka and up In the other cotton Districts and TO
rotate their crops do in the North The day will
when Alabama will conne herself to cotton as
her sole CROP but she will send her railroad iron to the
Gulf. The wives and daughters Of men as dusky as
those around him would spin the cotton They need not
tell him they can't 1T for he had visited the colored
schools and found enough Of talent and intelligence
hand II they only trained them. Addressing tho white
people, Mr. Kelly said he failed to ind any other
for the difference between the North and south
than their contempt for the rights OF man as man He
urged them 70 aside their preudices and reconstruct
tho South promptly and willingly II that were done
be would declare in behalf Of the whole country that
the present laws Of Congress would be naty unless 1t
driven enact harsher measures and before many
years the South would be more liberal and as prosperous
the North He then addressed the freedmen, remind
ing them that their freedom meant the right TO toll for
their living and get paid for IT, bat IN doing 50 they
sr % sS' s ss Ss smart man wins the
race They Ut liberty 10 protect their wives, and
they should take Of them, and send their children
than their fathers They must live In peace with the
people of Alabama they will have 70 pay taxes and
study politics Of their coantry Let these who were
mechanics try 70 start for themselves and those who
were farm laborers should avail themselves Of tho
homestead law or re Government men ianas wsrs too
tho agent Of party but he loved the party be Oe-
the Union belief in the rights Of man its two
bases Abiding the views OF tho republican party
the eyees Of the Mississippi whose wretchsd condition
had lost millions Of acres to the South should be kept
IN order by the general government because they BE-
iieved that that river was great national highway and
essential to the prosperity Of the whole country Con-
gress will 60 farther than has done In the matter
OF reconstruction and had done nothing that not
Essential TO the maintenance OF Christian republic
Citizens Of Montgomery, have spoken to you a.
would have spoken 70 the czens of Mobile had they
listened to me. there be anything offensive In what
have said, then proclaim, as the Mobile people did,
that ought 70 be shot down. (Cres Of mo. no." and
Amid the cheers Of the audience Judge Kelley retired
This morning he left for Atlanta