The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-29
THE SOUTH.
JUDGE KELLEY's SOUTHERN TOUR.

JUDGE KEIAEY's ADDRESS AT GREENSBORO, N. g.
GREENSBORO, N. O., May 2S.-Judge Kelley
addressed meeting, composed almost exclu-
slvely OF white people, to-day, in front OF the
Court house, There were fewer colored people
present than at any OF the previous meetings
The notice was very short; but owing to the
facilities of the mysterious influence OF the
negro telegraph. which acts like kind of Afrt-
can cable in these negroes, numbers Were
gathered IN from the country. The majority
of the citizens of the town were present, inclu-
ding all classes and parties.
Captain A. W. Tourgee, OF the Union Register,
introduced the speaker. For an hour and half
the Judge held the audience in rapt attention,
contrasting in detail the systems of labor and
education in the North and South, and showing
that the reason why the latter section, though
rich In It's natural advantages, was poor in the
comforts OF Its laboring people, was because
they relied upon their three great but destruc-
tive staples-cotton, mules, and niggers; because
they discarded machinery, and wasted the
and laborious agricultural laboTs III they would
only quit damning us at the North, and dam up
their immense water power, they would be
better off. (Laughter) They were ready to go
to war at any time If rheumatic Niger ran
courses run away without any use. which could
do more work in q week than all the negroes in
into honest competition with the North,
Ghat lhey might snare The prosperity OF
@ aV DO ohey 6y wl9 al
be known all over the world that fair wages
We're given to the laborer, and that his children
could be educated In public schools. 1t was not
by depressing others, but by advancing them.
the dullest and the darkest. that they could
attain prosperity. Before two years North
Carolina would be flooded wit Northern labor
and capital. He had seen 1t already at work in
the gold mines OF Concord, and the copper lands
near Greensboro. The law protected labor in
the North. You cannot say to woman, "Y ou
have washed my shirts very nicely, but don't
like your complexion, and won't pay you"
Iaughter.) Oh no; you can't do that with us.
He had seen enough of the thrift of The negro
here to convince him that the Southern people
were beginning right He saw in their suburbs
that morning two thriving villages, in building
one of which the negroes were assisted by the
Society of Friends. and the other by the aid of
their old masters. (Applause.l Measured them
that Congress had not cheated them, Hehoped
that the sherman bill would be hnality, and
no one at the North desired coufiscation. He
concluded by addressing some words of advice
to the freedmen. copjuring them to fulfil their
new duties faithfully, in peace with their white
friends and, above all, to avoid whisky. But
they may say, "The white man drinks whisky"
Very well; every time they saw white man
drink let them drop the price Oft in box, putit
in the savings bank. and before long the white
mans land would pass through the still into
the colored mans hands. 1 have thus given
you, said the speaker, the gospel of radicalism
in all its forms.
vote of thanks to Judge Kelley was then
passed, and the meeting separated. Among
those present were many ex-Confederates, Mr..
Mclean, member of the Confederate Congress,
and others. The United States Army was also
represented by Lieutenant O'Connell. OF the
Eighth Infantry, ..t.