The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-25
Position of Gov. Perry, Of South
Carolina.

The new provisional Governor OF ooutn
Carolina made speech at Greenville on the
Sd of July, which is reported and which we
find published in full in the Chicago Repubii-
can. The speech was made before the ap-
ointment of PERRY as Governor, but his re
ptentiou in the office will be regarded by tn
South as the endorsement of his sentiments
by the Administration. And it will be seen
that his sentiments are precisely those of Gen.
ROBERT f. LEE, and while they justify the
rebellion as legitimate, and insist that the
citizen owes a paramount allegiance to his
State and is therefore justified in armed re-
belhon against the Government of the United
States. He admits the Union has triumphe
and deplores the fact, but while he yields re-
luctantly to the power of the United States,
he maintains the legitimacy of the rebellion.
We make a few extracts from PERRY S
speech that our readers may see what views
the rebels viii regard that the Government
ndorses in the person of its Governor of
South Carolina:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN: This public meeting of the
citizens of Greenville is one of deep humilia-
ton and sorrow.
A cruel and bloody war has swept over the
Southern States. One hundred and fifty
thousand of our bravest and most gallent men
have fallen on the fields of battle. The land
is filed with mourning widows and orphans.
There is scarcely house in which there has
not heen weeping for some loved one lost.s
Three thousand millions of dollars nave been
spent by the Southern States in carrying on
this war. And now we are called upon TO give
up four millions of slaves, worth two thous-
and million dollars more. Our country has
beenravaged and desolated. Ourcties, towns
and villages are smouldering ruins Conquer
ing armies occupy the country. The Conied-
eracy has fallen, and we have been deprived
of all civil government and political rights.
We have neither law nor order There is no
protection for life, liberty or property. Every
where there is decentralization, rapine and
murder. Hunger and starvation are upon u.s.
And now we meet as a disgraced and sublu-
gated people, to petition our conqueror to
restore our lost rights. Such are the bitter
fruits of secession.
FRANK STATEMENT.
Mr.. Chairman, ] will here frankly say, asrs
have often said during the past four yeat
that there was not a man in the United Sta
who more deeply regretted the secession =
the Southern States than did at the beg
ming of the revolution; and there is not NO
in the Southern States any one who feels NOR
bitterly the humiliation and degradation
going back into the Union than do. Still, /
know that we shall be more prosperous and
happy in the Union than out of it.
PEACE GREAT CONSOLATION.
Mr.. Chairman, as much as we feel the hui
initiation and degradation of our present stu
alton, and deeply lament the losses which have
befallen the Southern States, yet we should
be happy to know that this cruel and bloody
war is over, and that peace is once more res
lation amid our wants, distresses and humilia
ton. The husband win no longer have to
leave his wife and children the father and
mother win not be called upon any more TO
give up their sons as victims to the war 1t
is to be hoped that in very short time civil
government will be restoredin South Carolina;
that law once more will reign supreme over
the State, and that life, liberty and property
will be protected everywhere, Is they have
heretofore been.
THE SECESSION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES
~. VERY DIFFERENT FROM REBEI.LIox PROP
xR.
ut, Mr.. Chairman, the secession of eleven
G3telve sovereign States, composing one
ka16 the territory Of the United States, was
600 IS more than a rebellion. It was le-
ff6l par between the two sections, and
6key toward each other, throughout the
Nr tognized belligerents, and were SO
and recognized BY foreign nations.
1ers were exchanged between the two
! h ercnts, and none were treatedas traitors
= the whole of the four years. war.
eds of thousands of prisoners were thus
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