The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-05-31
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Special telegram to the Daily Dispatch.
III d @ Z /, ,KEfLY'S SPEECH In
DANVILLE.
IT Is MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN
IN MOBILE.
The Congressional Acts a Finality-
No Con Ascati0n OF Private Pro
perty-He Claims to be
Fair Spec linen OF the
Radical Party.

DANyILLE, VA, lay 3O.-Juoge Kelly,
of Pennsylvania, whose tour through the
South and whose Radical speeches have
elected so much newspaper comment,
especially since the Mobile riot, arrived in
this town on Wednesday morning from
Greensboro, and of course there was no
little curiosity on the part of many per-
sons to see the gentleman. On that day
he visited the freedmen's school and seve-
raj other places about town.
To-day it was announced that he would
address the people, at IL o'clock, in front
of the Virginia House, and considerable
number of persons assembled to hear him,
most of whom were colored, though there
were quite number of white citizens in
the crowd. Your reporter heard the
speech through, but will telegraph you
only a brief outline of it. His remarks
were more conservative than was generally
expected, and nothing was said calculated
to do harm. Though some expressions
were used which grated harshly on south
ern ears, perfect order and quiet pre-
vailed during the delivery of the speech,
and itleft, on the whole, a favorable impress
sion on his audience of both colors.
Judge Kelly commenced by saying that
it was not his intention to create discord
among the people at the South; on the
contrary, he desired to encourage feel
ing of brotherly affection among the peo-
pie of all sections. If anything had been
said by him during his southern tour to
wound the feelings of any man, he de-
clared it was spoken thoughtlessly. AS
to the negroes, he urged that they are now
free and equal under the law, and it is to
the interest of all classes that they be
educated. He also addressed himself
particularly to the colored people, and
gave them some good advice. He told
them that freedom did not secure to them
the ability or the right to live without
work.
On the subject of congressional legisla-
tion the Judge was very explicit and en-
phatic. He had been asked, he said,
whether the reconstruction laws of the last
Congress were a finality? In answer, he
would say that that remained for the south
ern States to determine. If the excluded
States shall accept and act under these
laws of Congress honestly and fairly, and
shall establish a system of free schools,
and secure their benefits to all classes, he
believed these reconstruction laws would
be q fnality. If, on the ether hand, they
shall reject these terms of reconstruction,
Congress will make other terms which
will be still harsher. 1t will then confis-
cate estates worth. more than a certain
sum, and will disfranchise more persons
than are disfranchised by the present law
of Congress. The southern States, he de-
ciared, had it in their power to gain ad-
mittance into the Fortieth Congress.
As to contiscation, he said there would
be nonc-at least, of private property.
The Government would hunt up and con-
fscate such property only as belonged to
the Confederacy or to the State govern
ments during the war.
Judge Kelly said he was fair specimen
of the Radical party, and he had given
the people the doctrine of that party.
Comparing his speech at this place with
reports we have seen of him elsewhere,
we are obliged to come to the conclusion
that his tour through the South has some
what improved and notified the orator
from Pennsylvania. He alluded in pretty
harsh terms to the treatment at Mobile
but every where else he said he had been
kindly treated.