Year: 1878

IT'S SAID that Judge Kelly, has be-
come so disguised with politics that he
will withdraw to private life at the end of
his present term in Congress. There is
little wonder at this. For really the
Press of his party in his State and es-
pecially in Philadelphia has been sold to
the brokers and the cooperative bodies
which they mainly control. There is no
Democratic Press in Philadelphia; or
what there is there, is so utterly barren of
intellect and energy as to be worthless
1t is in the hands of the lawyers, the most
venal class of that city, eminent as it is
for its bad politicians.


Two of these scoundrels, few years
ago came to Wilmington, and sued us in
the U. S. Court for libel, for publishing a
paragraph cut from the Telegraph of that
city. They claimed fifty thousand dollars
damages and would take no explanation.
The villains were thrown out of Court in
their own city, and abandoned their case
here. But they put us into the cost of
lawyers fee.


Judge Kelly has ably served a bad
party. He has expended great talents in
endeavoring to vindicate wrong and pro-
pagate bad doctrines, and now begins to
see that his efforts are not appreciated
when the party is about to collapse. We
knew him when he was better man,
when he was an able young Democrat;
and we have ever believed he allowed
himself to be driven from that party, to
take the bait that was offered him by
Forney and few others who dreaded his
talents and aspirations.


But what wonder is it that Judge Kelly
should be disguised with the politics of
his party, and abandon it because of the
harsh words and lack of appreciation,
when the politics Of his party is allowed
to drivel down to mere sectionalism and
its representatives seek prominence from
the effects of abusive and offensive lang
uage heaped upon the white inhabitants
OF the Southern States and such Demo
Gratis as hold the same political views il
the north.


A vast country like this with its various
climates and productions, requiring o
leading to different industrial pursuits
difficult at best to be kept under one gov
erlment with the freest latitude for til
variations of local laws; and it cannot b
expected that one section or one elias
will allow itself to be taxed for the bene
fit of another without resistance in TIN
shape ofargument. But When argumen
ellicits such scandalous abuse and yitupei
alton as flowed from the lips of Gen
Banks before Radical club i'll Boston
against whole people, the difficult q
maintaining ones government is greatl
augmented. No such vile and disgustin
style is found to be used in Europe eve
by different nations when waging wa
against each other. And no candid ma
can believe, If he reads and ponders til
speech of General Banks that the Soutl


A PSSP'S "1O hdilOeu III tIlS UIuO
by such men unless they tamely allo'
themselves to be taxed for the benefit {
such as Banks and those he represents
II Judge Kelly is disguised with the dc
rlslon which his efforts have brought fort
from his own people because he chose t
Introduce policy and back it up by sue
arguments as he could, how much moi
cause il there for the able men of IL
South to feel disguised with a conditio
Of affairs that leads them to believe tn;
men are lifted into power and are col
tinued in power in the North, becau.
they show in their language hostility
the South that can be construed into 1
other than the language of deadly enmit
and has for its aim the enslavement
the more southern States to the mo
northern ones and the efiectuation
this horrible condition through appeals
the worst passions of the clubs of Il
North and the ignorant and prejudice
negro race ofthe South. What disgu
must Democrat feel for such votes
tend to sustain Banks and those wi
helps him to produce hostility and enmi
between common race of one commt
country.





"THE MIDDLE GLASS MusT RE ar