The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-05-08
RFCUSANT KELLY.

Judge Kelly the famous Philadelphia con
gresham, better known as pig-iron Kelly, OF
account of his devotion TO the interests of tn,
mig iron monopolsts of Pennsylvania, and
who had lately achieved further notoriety or
account of his advocacy Of the Kellogg Camp
bell ouixotic paper money initiation scheme
has achieved further notoriety by making q
recent trip to the south and returning with
his head all awry and topsy.turvy on the
Southern question. Formerly, and up to the
late adjournment of congress, no radical was
more thoroughly convinced of the ingrained
disloyalty and total depravity of the southern
people, or of the necessity of the most strin.
gent enforcement laws to keep them from
breaking out in open rebellion every day and
numbering all the loyal whites and super.loy.
al blacks in cold blood and roasting them on
spits and eating them.
But after briet sojouIn among these
bloody minded southern white leaguers, mar.
vels of marvels what change! Judge Kelly
comes back total disbelieyer, in the first
place, in the whole southern outrage bust
ness. Attorney. general Williamss outrage
mill he is ready to denounce as a disgraceful
institution. On the contrary, he aflirms,
where the colored people in the south are so.
Der and industrious, they are as little troubled
by the whites as they would be anywhere in
the north. Again, the supposed feel
ing of hostility toward the general govern.
ment on the part of the whites of the south
generally, and their discontented and morose
feeling on account of the destruction OF
slavery, he says is the sheerest myth while
the patience and equanmity with which the
ex.rebels and shareholders quietly accept the
situation and bear with the daily annoyances
and positive wrongs they suffer from the ne.
groes are marvellous TO witness. Mr.. Kelly
was the more amazed in this respect after wit
Messing few days session of the state legis-
lature at the capital of South Carolina The
pompous ignorance, pretension, rapacity and
greed Of that body, composed almost entirely
Of negroes, was something he had never be-
fore believed possible. The credit mobilier
itself was positive innocence by side of it.
But the hardest sight of all he encountered
was the niger lieutenant governor of South
Carolina. 40 see," says he, that man in
that office, when l remember when he was
discharged from q city restaurant in Phlla.
delpha for stealing, was very hard TO see
HIM in his rufiles and his diamonds, swelling
around in Columbia, was a melancholy
sight
After all these humillatng sights and ex.
periences, the venerable pig.iroH philosopher
and rag-noney devotee mounts the stool of
repentance and confesses his sorrow and con. |
triton for having voted for the force.bil of
the last session OF congress, measure in
which he can now see as much injustice and
nfamy as Sam Cox himself, and which he is |
nexpressibly glad was so happily defeated
N the senate. Mr., Kelly is willing to make
any atonement to the south, and not able to
hink of any thing better for them immed. |
Itely, promises to do all he can IN the next
congress to put the government paper mills
md printing presses to work to grind out for
hem plentiful supply of greenbacks, "in,
erconvertble Tor government bonds bear
ne 1888 per cent. interest per annum'