The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-05-23


uer,. home. kindred. anc friends ! he'll
xou al the invitation Of the Governor "i
Louisiana and the Mayor Of New Orleans
80 visit that distant state and city, bop
inc that | might serve our distracted
country. and eager 10 view that nearly
oue-half of our country, from which, by
,s.son of nv love of personal liberty,
had been 50 long excluded. l did not
dream of danger. Others spoke oft, but
scoffed at the idea went bearing no
hatred to any man, but believing that
the truths which for the last eleven years
I have been in the habit of proclaiming
10 YOU would be especially useful to the
people of that section. gladly avsiled
myself of the opportunity of uttering
them kindly and courteously in their
midst: and. my friends, throughout my
extended excursion was received with
all the kindness and courtesy the people
were able 10 bestow on me, save IN one
city. therefore beg yon not 10 charge
tie murClerous spirit Of the Mobile mob
10 the southern people at large. TAP
plause.l That outrage was due more
largely to Andrew johnson, the reaction
ary President Of the United States, than
even to the municipal authorizes OF Mo-
bile or the mob they should have held
in subsection. The chief promoter OF that
murderous riot was recreani northerner
who had been sent that city by the i'res-
ident as assessor of internal revenue, tol.
Mann. formerly Of Michigan. who owns
the Mobile Time. That paper had in adj
vance Of my arrival, excited the passions
of the southern people against me, and in
an article on the day proceeding my ar
rival every allegation, in which Colonel
Mann admitted, in the presence of two
gentlemen now present, TO be
WHOLLY FALSE AND UNFOUNDED,
had influenced the passions Of the Irish
citizens of Mobile against me. But not
TO detain you with the details of that
sanguinary scene, let me say that the out
break was provoked by no indiscreet
word of mine. Ii had been planned be-
fore went to the meeting, if moi before
] arrived in Mobile and the man i'm
mediately behind me would have been
shot through the head, as he was, and
and another not five feet from me would
( have been murdered, as he was, at the
preconcerted signal. had been reading
I the litany or the Lords Prayer am
I told il has been sneeringly ssaid that |
/ 90; under table. ] have never been a
soldier or sought reputation at the can
( mons mouth, aud very freely admit that
when bullets were whizzing and patter-
E ing against the wall behind me | would
/ have thanked Almighty tiod for bul-
let-proof table under which TO creep
The paper containing that address was
mailed TO you and other citizens of Mo-
bile. but, more than than this, the Tn
ion Republican Congressional Executive
Committee published il, together with
those had made in New Orleans and
Montgomery, Ala, in a pamphlet enti-
tied The South, Its Resources and
Wants or this pamphlet more than
$4,000 copies were distributed, and in
INV anxiety to vindicate the Southern
people from the susyicion Of the crime
YOU had fomented. this pamphlet was
widely distributed throughout the coun
try and was mailed 10 you. But again
when, 1870, HenrylCarey Baird 4 Co, o
Philadelphia, published volume of my
speechs, letters, and addresses, this pam
phlet made part Of its contents, and thu
found further circulation.
hope that my reply to your question
will prove satisfactory TO the whilon
proprietor and editor of the Mobil,
T1n,es. WILLIAM u. kELLEY