The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-05-30
Judge KellSge New Orleans

Inc eoncl9qlbg poHl4p OF th'
mastery .addTAss Of Hon. Vim
Kelley, Of Pa. recently delivered
before an immense meeting Of The
citizens Of New Orleaos, is giveT
below. We regret that we have
not room for the entire speech
which was strong, eloquent and
sensible talk to the people of the
South
Having endured the agony and
bloody sweat Of four years Of war,
conducted with unequaled vaIor,
and on scale Of unequaIcd mag.
nitudc. we rise as a new nation. to
perfect the continental temple Of
freedom and equality, the founda
tions O. which were 80 wisely laid
by our forefstbers From those
foundations we have removed the
only two faulty stopes those on
which were inscrD1 the fatal
words, Compromise and Slqvery
In all this broad land no man ms
his brother man [Sensation I
You, men of color-you, citizers Of
Louisiana, who wear the livery of
Afric's FURNISHED sun-give thanks
unto God that He has turned and
overturned, until the humblest of
you stands erect in the mojesty of
free manhood. the equal of your
fellow man before the laws Of your
country. as you are before the be-
nefcent Father of all.
He guided the pen Of Abraham
Lincoln while writing the procla-
nation of emancipation. Great
enthusiasm and applause. And
they who enacted the civil rights
bill and the military bill, to secure
the enforcement of it's provisions,
went reverently to Him for coun.
sci, and recognized His sovereign
presence as in their midst. The
charter of your freedom Is from
Him 1t is His last, best blessing
to you. Maintain il by sleepless
vigilance, and by any lequisite sac
rifice; for in surrendering it you
will be alike recreact to man nd
God.
See TO it, that a common school
system, broad enough, as is that
oflhe North, 10 embrace every
child born in the commonwealth,
or brought into it by emigration, is
established by the Constitution
soon to be framed for your State.
See to it, that the press is free and
be tolerant of opIniun, for by the
collision of opinion is the truth e.
licited. Welcome among you the
people of every cline and nation,
and remember that the prosperity
of the State is bat the aggregate
prosperity. of the individual citi-
zens thereof Will you not do this ?
We will, yes. yes ! | know yon
will. And as this assurance thrills
me. | behold a vision grander than !
that OF Columbus; for l know that
behind the islands that interrupt
ed his Western voyage to the In.
dies lies broad continent, sweep
ing from the rock bound coast Of
the storm, lashcd Atlantic TO the |
golden shores of the sleeping Pa
cific. Applause. And that from
the Rio Grande to the perpetual !
snows of Mt Hold, 1t is inhabited |
by one people, who, though differ
ing in origin, are homogeneous in
thought and sentiment
and who. though the citizens of
thirty. seven States, each having it's
dwell under one form
Of government, and that the freest |
yet devised by man Applause ! |
can not better illustrate the val |
ne of this unity than by pointing
to the future of your own beauti.
fol city. lis the interpot for the
commerce of the Gulf. the trade of
which proceeds under our bright
lag
The river that winds a-ound you
,arries to the sea the waters Of six
y thousand miles of river course.
rha valley it drains will sustain a
of FIVE hundred millions
,f people They will be free, in
.elligeht, ehterprising, and given
% commerce and your citizens
will be the center of its great com
nerGial exchanges. But as |
ook through the vista OF brief iu-
ure, the glories Of the cities of an
iquity fade away, and Eloreuce,
enice and Genoa, recur to me as
10 many distant villages Not Pa.
is OF London will be your equal,
or behind each of them lies q terri
ory less in extent and resources
han any Of a dozen of American
States while behind New Orleans
ie the resources, agricultural, min
iral and msrufacturing-oi a terri
ory broader and richer than all
" Yestern Europe, and people dos.
ined to be at no distant day, more
numerous than that country, from
iuuny Portugal to hyperborean
Norway And when those days
hall come, loyal men Of Louisiana,
he name OF Abraham Lincoln will
,s uttered with reverence by evcry
ip. and all men will give thanks
o God that He so ordered His prov
dence as to establish political O.
lnality throughout the enduring
Union of American States. Ire
nendous applause followed this el-
,quent reference 10 the man whom
III in the audience delight to hear
poken of