New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-20
PROVISIONAL GOV. PERRY's MES.
4AGE.

At moment when the public eye is anxiously
serutnizing the reconstruction experiment oil
the President it is unfortunate for the success
of that experiment that Provisional Gov. Perry
OF South Carolina should have published
message, the tone Of which Is little in accord
ance with the reasonable expectations OF the
loyal North. No one, we venture to say, will
regret it more than President johnson. 1t is
scarcely in good taste, TO say the least, for a
lust pardoned Governor, addressing half
pardoned Convention, to east an imputatlon on
the purposes of the loyal States, and TO arraign
a great party dominant in those States for its
views on national policy. Gov. Perry thinks it
necessary TO assure his Convention that
the President will oppose the Capitalization OF
power in Congress, AID tho infringement Of the
constitutional rights of the States. Who pro-
poses to centralize power or infringe any rights
of the States We know of 10 party or in
dvidual advocating such policy, but We pre-
sumo Gov Perry intends us to understand that
it is the Radical Republican party North"
which is thus guilty, since he subsequently re-
proaches that party with an effort to interfere
with the suffrage question. But, "yOn" says
Gov. Perry to bis Convention, twill settle this
grave question as the interest and honor Of the
State demand" Those who wish well to the
Presidents policy will be the first to depore
that one Of his Governors should thus forget
that in the reconstruction of the Union, all the
States have an interest in the acts Of each Of
the insurgent States, and that the latter are to
come back on such terms, and with such a form
Of Government, as shall tend to assure the
future stability and perpetuity of the Union
which they have vainly sought to break in
pieces.
Gov. Perry goes out of his way TO exhumc
the bred Scott decision for the sake of a fling
at the Republican party. "Thcy forget" he
says Of that party, IT that this is white mans
Government, and intended for white men only;
and that the Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that the negro is not an
American citizen under the Federal Consttu.
ton" We may be excused for forgr ing what
we never knew. II was not 'lite mans
Government when Thomas Jeircr "A and the
American Congress immortalizcd themselves by
declaring that all men are created equal. 1t
was not a white mans Government during
the last three years when it found refuge
against white traitors behind two hundred
thousand black bayonets. Nor did the Su.
preme Court ever decide that the negro is not
a citizen. There is, though not decision Of
the Court nor an opinion OF the Chief
Justice, a dictum Of one Roger b. fancy
since gone to his reward-that negroes have no
rights which white men are bound to respect;
but six Supreme Courts could not make that
Infamous doctrine law to-day. The difficulty
with Gov. Perry is, he wants to put the clock
rour years back. We assure him it Is impos-
,ible. We assure him in all kindness that South
Carolina must present herself at the doors Of
he House next December with words quite
,ther than his on her repentant lips, if she looks
o see those doors fly open to her delegation. 1t
S hardly worth while, it is hardly good policy,
% couch petition in words that are an insult
% the party which is to grant THO petition, or
% reject it at its discretion. ~
Again, Gov Perry recognizes in express terms
hat Slavery is abolished and that the Conven-
,ion must accept abolition a" fpality. Yeti