New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-02

success. The tariff on iron has been fixed
IN manner so favorable to the Pennsyl-
vanla interest that even the most rapacious
dealer can hardy suggest anything more
| favorable Iron and abolition, the two
hobbies which have for SO long engrossed
Alr. kelleys attention having been vir-
tually retired from active politics by sue
cess, their disciples are on the lookout for
other employment. Mr.. Kelley, among
others, has just taken walk round on the
political track, and took in Washington
and the Secretary of the Treasury on his
return. OF course, he went South, into
the northern edge of North Carolina,
perhaps; possibly into Alamance county
itself. Here he found everything SO quiet,
peaceable, broherly, that he was forced
to shed bitter tears of regret for having
last winter voted for the force bill. For
getting the history of the section of the
South which ne visited, ignoring the re-
port OF Senator Scott of his own State on
the famous Ku-Klux disturbances Of three
or four years ago, and disregarding en-
tlrely that the worst cases have been pro-
vided for in the prisons of Albany, the
conscience-stricken statesman smote his
breast and wept because he had vote on
record which authorized the government
OF the United States to punish such out
RACES as he had witnessed in Mobile.
The reasons assigned for this change
of front are that no such severe meas
ure as the force bill is necessary for
the government of the peaceable people
among whom he has just passed six weeks
so happily. In this connection We desire
to console Mr.. K elley with the suggestion
that his Southern entertainers are in no
manner of danger of punishment from the
effects of his imprudent vote. Certainly,
because the force bill did not become a
law; and possibly on account of their very
correct behavior. No peaceable, well-dis-
posed citizen ever finds himself in a COLI
troversy with penal statute, and if the
people recently discovered by Mr.. Kelley
in the little Southern arcadia which he
saw during his six weeks travels are Ill |
that he represents them to be, they would |
not be likely to hear or know anything |
about force bill which WAS only intended |
to awe naughty men into good behavior.
The moral We derive from Mr. Kelley's |
two Southern journeys is, that y trip so far
IS Mobile makes him cry aloud for ven
3eance upon the heads Of his would-be
'ssassins, while a skirting along the
Northern edge Of the South for six weeks
sends the honorable gentleman back to the
capital weeping bitter tears because, under
he inspiration Of his first tour, he had
'ainly attempted to enact law to punish
lisorderlS people.
Northern statesmen and correspondents
lave fallen into the conceit that they can
ind out more about the sentiments of the
people Of the South during hurried trip
trough the country in sleeping cars and
hotels, than those residents know who
ave eaten their peck Of salt With thom
Ii Ir. Kelley feels that he hos done this
ection of country On injustice and now
eeks to repair it With vain re srets, he has
aade promising beginning for 9ucce.e.
ho merely intend8 to striko out on O
eW line Of popularity With 9 view t. the
ext lrcsidential term. and we hes.r he il
n aspirant, he is in 0 1sir way to Be OH
it'll the old love before Is Is or pitl. 5Ias
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