New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-20
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cessful candidate for Congress years ago, but
believe he never rose to any political emnence
because he was esteemed "unsOund by the
Nuliifers and embryo Seccssionists who have
sway there. The President selected him ior
Governor because he seemed to have iairer
record than any other prominent South Caro-
linian. When almost every other White had
run mad on Secession, he kept silence; and II
was understood that he would have been a
Unionist if ne had dared. And, as Mr. Petigru
is dead, and the President disliked to appoint
any but South Caroliilian, he was taken
Gov. Perry has since been making speech
on the Sd inst.--to his Greenville friends and
neighbors, which seems to us an extraordinary
performance. He opens thus:
"Mr. CHAIRMAN: This public meeting ofthe citizens
of Greenville is one of deep humiliation ald sorrow
cruel and bloody war has swept over tne
States One hundred and fifty thousand OF our orayes
and most gallant men have fallen on the htldS OF Dat
,le. The land is tlled with mourning widows anu
orphans. There Is scarcely house IN whicn inele ns
not been weeping for loved one lost Three lhou
sand millions OF dollars have been spent ~ the Souiheu
States in carrying on this war ana no" VIC ~
called upon to give up four millions OIL 's'r
has been rayagCd and desolated. our cliles, to"h'
aud villages are smodering ruins ConqneIins armies
occupy the country The ConiedeTaey mas ialen nl'a
| ieal rights We have neither law nor order. Iheie
is no protection for life liberty or property. Ever!
where there is decentralization rapine ana murder.
Hunger and starvation are upon as Ana now w
meet as disgraoed and sublughted people 10 pcu'ioh
the conaueror to restore lost rights Such are Ihe
bitter fruits Of Secession
We cannot believe that this is the spirit in
which President johnson expects his Pro-
visional Governors to address the people whom
he has chosen to prepare them for early reStor-
alton to their former status in the Union. And,
| if there be in South Carolina no better timber
than this wherefrom to fashion a Provisional
Governor, we think the manufacture might
have wisely been postponed.
. After setting forth that he had originally
opposed Secession because he foresaw its defeat
and faure-that the people Of no State but
South Carolina were really for it, and that the
Southrons lack the tcnacity and endurance
essential to success in such struggle, he pro-
cecds:
"Mr. Chairman I will here frankly say, az hav.
often said during the past four years that there vas no
a in the United States who more deeply regretted
the Secession Of the Southern States than did ~ the
Soufkrn States any pkO jses more bitterly hs hriia
tiOn and degradation Of going baes into the Union titan
do. Still know that We shall De more prosperous an
happy In the Union than out OF IT.
j. All which may be true, 80 far As Mr.. Perry
feelings are concerned; but, if so he is yer!
unfit for Union Governor.
Mr.. Perry proceeds to say Every justly, w
think that JEFF. Davis is not specially to blame
for the failure of the Rebellion--that the PEG
pie had grown tired OF fighting and had skulkeC
from the feld-that Johnston, when he sur
rendered, had 20, 900 men on the muster-rolls o
his army, but only IA, 900 in its ranks-that TOT
MANY of those who rushed the South int,
Rebellion proceeded to claim and secure ap
pointments that kept them out of the range d
Union bullets-and adds:
Congress. too Mr.. Chairman. is greatly TO blame
for their exemptions Al bdueen me ares Of efShteer
and fortfus should hare been forced into the army ana
kept there. 1t matered not whether he doctor law
yer preacher politician, editor, or school teacher;
an aDeboded he should haze been sent 10 The array
But strange 10 say the three classes of men who were
mainly instrumental in punging their country into this
mad revolution were all exempted by Congress from
fighting alude 10 the politicians newspaper editors,
and preachers Of the gospel This was not far. The
who gets w fight should always take his share
j Of it,
Gov. Perry proceeds to sey that President
Lincoln's death is no loss to the SOuth-he hay
ing been Wing aud non-slaveholder, while
johnson is q Democrat who has held slaves, and
who voted for Breckenridge in 1860; wherefore,
"judging from his antecedents, the people
should have every hope and confidence in him. "
He next sets forth that the overthrow of
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that the slaves were not very profitable
that free labor will prove quite as advantageous
as slave-that the negroes are not to blame for
the evils which have overtaken the South, and
should be kindly regarded and fairly treated
that, Inundated as the Southern people are, it
is consolation that they are no longer to be
forced into the ranks and set to fghting--that
Secession was not properly rebellion, because
1T was organized by constitutional sovereign States
acting in their sovereign capacity. and not by unau-
thorized assemblages Of citizens
Treason may be committed against the state ofSouth
Carolina az well az against the United States Atfer
South Carolina Jeff the Union all her citizens pers liable
as traitors. in the State Courts. Yho took "d"
II they were liable 10 be punished as traitors
in the United States Courts. for taking side
with the State then all were traitors and liable to be
executed traitors whether they fought for served
the one or the other Government This wOud, indeed
be most cruel and laInentabe condition. Death was
their portion, act as they might To stand neutral
they could not and to choose between the State and
United States was death. Surely q principle 50
monstrous and absurd cannot be enforced There
thousands and hundreds Of thousands in the Southern
States who deeply regretted the Secession Of their
States but after the State had seeded felt that their
first allegiance was due the State"
ALI which is not the doctrine that President
johnson appoints Provisional Governors to in.
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