Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-06-06
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Alarming.
We find the following atrocious senti-
ments in the speech delivered at Mont
gomery day or two after the Mobile riot
by that fanntical incendiary and radical
disorganizer, Judge Kelley. We quote
from the report in the New York Herald.
"He urged them to build roIling-mills.
erect furnaces, employ the water-power
at Wetumpka and up in the other cotton
| districts, and to rotate their crops as we
do in the North. The day will come
when Alabama will not confine herself
to cotton as her sole crop, but sho will
! send her railroad iron to the Gulf. The
| wives and daughters of men as dusky as
those around him would spin the cotton.
| They need not tell him they can't do it;
! for he had visited the colored schools aud
found enough of talent and intelligence
there to convince him that they had
! the laborers at hand If they only trained
| them. Addressing the white people,
! Mr. Kelley said he failsd TO find any
| other reason for the difference between
the North and South than their con-
| tempt for the rights of man rs man. He
urged them to set aside their prejudices
ard reconstruct the South promptly and
willingly. If that were done he would
declare, in behalf of the whole country,
that the present laws of Congress would
be finality unless itIvas driven to enact
harshermeasures, and before many years
theSouth would be more liberal and as pro-
sperous as the North. He then addresse d
the freedmen, reminding them that their
freedom meant the right to toll for their
living and get paid for it, but in doing so
they must be justto all. Freedom means
that a good man is better than bad
man, and the smart man wins the race.
They were at liberty to protect their
wives, and they should take care of them,
and send their children to school, that
they might have q lighter task to endure
than their fathers. They must live in
peace with the people Of Alabama. They
will have to pay taxes and study the
politics OF their country. Let those who
were mechanics try TO start for them
selves, and those who were farm-labor-
ers should avail themselves Of the home
stead law; or, if the government lands
were too far away, Congress would see
that laud-offices should be brought near
er to the people. He was not the agent
of party, but lie loved the party he be-
longed to because of its great principles.
Devotion to the Union and belief in the
rights Of man were its two bases"
himself to woman suffrage, which he
thinks inevitable, gives notice that here
after, instead of spending his time on
election days as hitherto, in bringing up
lame, sick and indolent male bipeds to
the polls, he will get himself snug car
riage and call around for the good-look-
ing lady voters, and by conveying them
to the polls mingle business with pleas
ure in the most enchanting manner
H.. L.. l. t.
But it may be that now and then he will
find the fair voters at the wash-tub, or
intent on baking or scrubbing, and be
compelled to wait until they "put on
| their things;" or some kindly disposed
young widow may engage to vote his
ticket and drive herself, if he will hold
the baby while she goes TO the polls; or
he may now and then be tartly inform
cd that there isanother gentleman whom
the fair electOr would prefer TO accom-
pany to the polls. But these are minor
disadvantages, and our editorial brother
can make the way clear by sending out
delicate scented notes of invitation some
days before election, stating that he would
be happy to convey to the polls in his
new barOucbe, on the momentous day,
the divers lady electors of his vicnage,
with the expectation that they will de-
posit their votes for the Hon. Serene
Cab, in whose keeping thegreat interests
Of our magnificent country will be more
than safe, and who ia opposed on princi-
pie to q tax on chinonsn or any such
thing. Under the pleasant practice of
woman suffrage we shall evidently know
some things that we do MT know now.
-s--
Col. FoRNEY, VIM. Prescott Smith,
and another gentleman, rode around
Liverpool in a carriage for three hours
and half at a cost of only two dollars in
our currency. This economical feature
of the city impressed the Colonel very
pleasantly. In his last letter he records
the following incident prior to the land
ing of Mr.. Peabody at Queenstown:
A very Characteristic incident took
place between Mr.. Peabody and the
committee of Americans on the day he
bade US farewell, which deserves notice.
One of the resolutions referred to the fact
that whereas Smi:hson and Girard had
bequeathed their princely benefactions
to the care of posterity, Mr.. Peabody had
enhanced the value of his example by
courageously beeomin1his own executor,
and by giving his personal care TO the
execution of his splendid trust. When
this resolution was read to him he asked
that it might be read second time, after
which, with winning courtesy shall
not soon forget, he said that he would be
greatly obliged if the whole passage
could be stricken out of the proceedings.
Whatever may be said of me- he ad-
ded, and however just your abstract
view may be, yet even the shadow of a
contrast that might be construed into q
criticism upon these two illustrious men
should be carefully avoided. They did
their best, and they did nobly; and if
they had thought of it, would have pro-
baby taken exactly my course The
suggestion was instantly complied with"
THE New York Day Book is varfously
disgusted this week with its Democratic
associates. II accuses the World of in
diting ''two columns of sneaking and
charaetsrstc sdds C. and nbn:
sneak and declares that "abuse from
such a source is really praise 10 gentle