The Cecil Whig., 1871-04-15
Extracts from Speech of Judge Kelly,
ON TIE KU-KLUX BILL.

throughout the South. admit that there
may be considerable portions of the coun.
try in which a general state of good order
prevails. l make due allowance for con-
dition of society following great war,
make due allowance for all that, and fol
the effects of the poverty and Ignorance
that necessarily resulted from slavery
Violence is to be expected under snch Cir
custances. Violence, sporadic, emotional
sudden, riotous, turbulent, we were tC
expect. But the possibility of organized
armed, trained, drilled, sworn bands o1
murderers, who should murder for politca
effect, came not within the scope of my
imagination. Yet the proofs are glarine
as the sun at MONDAY or the stars in a
moonless and cloudless night that this state
of affairs has existed and does exist to a
large extent among men who are bound
by the highest honorable obligation known
to soldiers-a parole of honor-to remain
at peace. The camps or klans Of Ku-K Klux
Confederate officers, and largely camposed
of paroled soldiers. Their camps and klans
are military organization, and they are
all armed.
ARMS FOR THE REBELS.
The gentleman from South Carolina Mr.
| Elliott told us the other day that there
came to them through the port of Charles
ton, in swiftly recurring invoices, great
/ pumborc of WiucbaStor rif1aS and n partio
ular species Of revolving pistol. Poor men,
without visible means of support, whose
clothes are ragged, and whose lives are
almost or absolutely those Of vagrants, are
thus armed with new and costly rifles, and
wear in their belts brace of expensive
pistols. Twill not pause to ask who furnish
these weapons, with which Southern Re-
publicans are to be awed into silence and
inaction or murdered.
NORTHERN oyERTUREs.
1t is within my knowledge, sir, that in
the early part Of 1867 there was a combina-
tion of Northern capitalists who had gath
cred together subscriptions amounting to
| $500, 100000, to he placed at the disposal
of the people Of the South on such security
as they could give. These men were ready
to establish credit mobilier with such a
| capital which would lend money on mort
gage payable in annual installments, the
entire principles not to be called in for a
given number of years AT the instance
of these gentlemen | went through the
South to look at its resources and to report
upon the probable safety of such invest
ments, and from New Orlerns l made a
preliminary report, such as could be made
by observations from the railroad and from
intercourse with the people had met upon
the great thoroughfare. 1t was favorable.
The next report they received was of a
certain scene in Mobile, in which, as my
companions tell me-for military power
restrained me from making personal ex-
amination-thc wall before which | stood
while speaking to the people was marked
with sixty bullct-marks. One man
was struck in the head, the bullet passing
round under the scalp and taking off part
of the ear as it came out. Another, within
three feet of me, placing his hands upon
his abdomen, cried out, "My God, l am
shotr' and fell dead to the sidewalk. Tha
was the next report. 1t had precisely the
effect, gentlemen, that these assassinations
of humble men have upon your interests
and those Of your constituents.
THE MURDER OF THE looks.
Every man driven out of the South,
every annoyance, social or otherwise, in
flicted upon his family, is barrier to the
flow of capital and check to the develop
ment of your resources. And for your
sake, as well as for the sake of cur COM
mon country and her free institutions and
laws, l will support this bill. do it with
no spirit of hostility, but with feeling Of
fraternity.
You could have had in Mississippi large
infusion of young farmers from Lancaster
county, Pa, but for the slaughter of the
two Cooks, who had gone there without
politics or political affiliation, and carried
their hereditary estate with them. And,
Mr.. Speaker, when their crop of cotton
,,s ,;,o and ro,dy for ,,;oly;pcr tboir oar
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cases were 1ound IN the HELD Inc neigh
bors who had annoyed them up to that
time would not permit them to enjoy the
c,;. e ,d +bo ,,o,,roos who
had peen palo thelr wages anu hao hoI
worked on shares, were charged with hav-
inc murdered them. because as it was
c,I,o,,, .,;d +ho;r ,nooos bod boo,, with
held' ana they suspected tiat Tie crop WIS
ABOUT 10 dc carried OH.
WHAT SIGH MURDERS DO.
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