The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-25
THE SOUTH.
JUDGE KELLEY,s SOUTHERN ToUR.


CORDIAL RECEPTION AND ADDRESS OF JUDGE KEEL
LEY AT CHARLOTTE, N. c.-DEPARTURE FOR
DANvILLE, ETC.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., May M.-Judge Kelley
arrived here early yesterday morning from
Augusta, where he stay lust long enough TO
zens. Mayor Blodgett, OF Augusta, who was
Confederate officer, and seized the arsenal at
and conducted him TO the hotel, where he was
soon surrounded by a number OF gentlemen,
some of them eX-Con nfederate o and United states
officers but all equally cordial in their greeting
General L. w. sweeney, commanding the
Charlotte. Major Harris, Governor Vance, Can
tain Lasell, commander of this post; Lieutenant
Humbert, Sth United states Infantry; Postmas,
ter Frazier, and several gentlemen who had
served in the Confederate army, paid their re-
spects to him and Joined in friendly CONVERSE
south. There seemed to be no difference OF
opinion upon reconstruction under the Military
bill. All spoke hopefully OF the future and
kindly OF the negro In his new character of
citizen and voter. The tenor OF Judge keley's
speeches is generally approved OF by aIl parties
At s O'clock this evening Judge Kelley ad.
dressed meeting, of whom large majority
were whites, in front of the Court House. He
was introduced by Mr.. Harris, Mayor of the
Barringer, to whose brother, Victor Barrlnger.
a resident of Concord the speaker first referred
as one whose correspondence with him after
the war, which was published, had done so
much good In the North and made him (Judge
KS Kelley most anxious 'I to visit that Vicinity
had been heralded TO them as breeder
of discord between races and interests; but
words hei had spoken tended that way they
were unconsciously spoken. He came to see
how Northern capital could be directed towards
the development of Southern resources
Wherever he had gone, excep tin one Instance,
Il It. was SO in Tennessee. Lo1lsiana. AIaSamSs
and Georgia, and in none was he more warmly
welcomed than by the General who commanded
fHn( q NJ Unf
ford) and the General who commanded pOr-
tion of 1T in North Carolina General BarrInger),
productions and advantages of North
Carolina, which CREWS all the cereals
ness, its peculiar Southern productions and
its vast mineral resources -of gold lying in q
belt forty miles wide, besides copper, sulphur,
etc. He came to them to talk in family coun-
Gil, after all the sufferings through which both
sections had passed, and the doubt in which
they both now stood, to see how these resources
could be employed, and to ask that the past be
forgotten, and as brothers under one flag to
combine for the general interest of the whole
country. (Applause.) He dwelt upon the edu-
cational system of the North as the cause of the
superior condition of the laboring classes there,
and urged the necessity of similar sysl
tenn in the South. The laborer in the Nort1
who was thrifty, laid by his money to buy as
cigars. Remember this. my colored friends;
you must get homes, but in order to do so. you
dustry. After referring TO the enconragement
given TO Immigration in the North, and the
it. but had driven its own white Citizens iSto to
the Western States, where they could obtain
good wages, and have the benefit of the COM
mon schools, he said his mission to the South
was to invite them to generous rivalry that
dusky skins they would ind ali the power to do
what was done in the North in perfecting
machinery, and using 1t for the relief of human
labor. He paid high compliment to the freed
mans schools, and begged of tnem to embody
in their new Constitution system of common
learned 10 use their own iron instead ofsending
to England forit and to manufacture their own
cotton, the thousands from abroad who now
settle down north of the Potomac would gladly
come to North Carolina, and the mechanics
who now make the machinery which he saw in
their own woolIen mill to-day would come
here and build the engines and spindles in
Charlotte. AS TO the action of Congress, he
said that 1t had kept faith with the South.
Only one State had adopted the Constitu-
tional amendment, and Tennessee was now
the other States acted likewise they would
all be in Congress soon. AS to contiscation,
themselves, and II the lash was applied twould
be by themselves upon themselves. Congress
did not intend to enforce confiscation; but If
the South rejected the amendment and the
Military bill he could not answer for what mea-
sures they might insist upon by being taken in
order that republican government should be
preserved. Judge Kelley concluded with
peroratton OF great brilliancy and force, which
was listened to with marked admiration.
AT the close of the speech several Confederate
officers and other gentlemen who are not so
| well reconstructed as the soldiers who fought
thanked him profoundly. The Mayor remarked
that the speech had done more good for North
Carolina than anything which had happened
The colored band of the city serenaded Judge
Kelley at the Mansion House tonight.
Invitations having come from Concord, Sails
| bury, Greensboro, and Danville, Judge Kelley
| will speak at all those places, probably CON
| cuding his Southern campaign at Danville.
He left for Concord by the night train evidently
bearing with him the best wishes Of all classes
in Charlotte.