The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-21
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North, such responses of denunciatior
and threatened retaliation as might
have been anticipated A journal
usually so moderate and just in It's
dealings with political opponents, as
the Cincinnati Commercial, gravely
speaks of the affair as ian attempt to
murder Judge Kelly" the Radical
orator of the occasion. 1t is well
known that he was delivering himself
of speech very wounding to the
sensibilities of the white people who
had assembled to hear him, and calcu-
lated to arouse the worst passions of
prejudice and hate in the bosoms OF
the blacks; but that those studied
injuries to the community in whose
presence he was speaking, called forth
no response whatever, except from a
drunken person. and that the firing of
a pistol by this person when an at
tempt was being made to arrest him
by the police, caused the whole excite
ment. ..5,,..
We have before us the speech de-
livered by Judge Kelly in New Orleans,
and we find that from beginning to
the end, it was full of disparaging
remarks about the "civilization" of the
South; bitter arraignment of her
people for alleged offences against
law and humanity; and an attempt to
array race against race. No we'll
bred man will obtrude himself
upon any people to mock them
in their calamities; and inasmuch
as they are powerless to protect
themselves from unprovoked insult
it is to be hoped that they will be pro-
tected by the military authorities No
man who thinks it his duty to come
here to repeat in the ears of the, negro
what he knows and everybody con-
cedes, that he is free, and that he has
the right to vote as he pleases, and to
explain the provisions of the Recon
struction Laws, and to advise the South
to accept the conditions embraced in
them or to discuss the political
topics of the day-necd apprehend
that his mission will elicit complaint
from any portion of our people But
the systematic attempt to create spir-
it of hostility on the part of the blacks,
towards the white and thus to destroy
The peace Of the. community, to pro-
luce disorder, and even bloodshed,
amounts to shocking crime against
society which the authorities having
the power ought to abate.
Speaking of the conduct of Kelly,
5he Mobile Advertiser and Register
says truly that nothing could be more
cowardly than for a man to come
among a conquered people, whom he
Knows well are strictly guarded by |
United States soldiers, and talk about
Ealing on the army to protect him
When some drunken vagabond in the
rowd interrupts his speech. The re-
ult showed Kelley's character. When
he first shot was fired he disappeared
Inder the table and remained there I'M
il the crowd was dispersed, although
wo colored men were standing upon
he platform, exhorting their compan-
ons to preserve order, and to make no
disturbance. When safely sheltered
n the Battle House Kelley could not
est without guard of soldiers. The
layor called to assure him that he was
erfectly safe without guard, and
ffering him protection if he would
peak that day. The valiant Kelley
efused to be appeased, and though,
lie Advertiser says, that he had moth
e to fear but his own conscience, he
ill retained the soldiers near his
ody until he was safely landed upon
steamboat, which he had specially
lartered to take him out of the city.
Although near two hundred shots
ere fired, only eight or ten persons
ere injured, confirming the truth of
lie statements of witnesses that
lie blacks fired in the air as they ran
way from the field. A number of
istols were picked up afterwards, and {
was presumed that many of the own
rs were so astonished at the report of
leir own weapons that they dropped ;
lem and ran. AS laughable as this
fair was generally, it had serious
'pect Two inoffending citizens
ere killed, far from the scene of the !
sturbance, and several were wounded ,
? parties of blacks two miles away.
MExICo.-The Picayune has late &C 1
cunts from Mexico, to the effect that |
aximilian has routed the besiegers at
ueretaro, and that the Imperial ,
rces are moving to the relief of the J
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