Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-07-29
Mr.. Johnson md the Governor Of
.. south Carolina. do. n. .


Governor Perry, lately appointed Provis-
ional Governor Of South Carolina, has left
Washington on his return to that State.
During his stay in Washington he had OPP
portunitjes of exchanging views with Mr..
johnson upon the general questions involved
in the exercise Of his authority rs Governor,
and his views have met with the Executive
concurrence. 1t will be remembered that
much discussion was aroused by the speech
delivered on the Sd instant by Gov. Perry at
Greenville Court House, South Carolina. In
that speech much was contained that was
we'll calculated to arouse the ire Of the North
ern extremists, and Mr.. Johnson's appointee
was subjected to great deal Of invidious
comment at the hands Of tho Radical press.
A strong effort was made to induce Mr. john
son to reconsider his appointment, and to
dispossess Gov. Perry Of his Office; and, in
order to do this, the Governor was presented
to him as q man who talked like rebel" If
he was not one in reality. However, Gov.
Perry has seen Mr.. johnson, has spoken with
him, and has probably satisfied him thnt the
best way to get along with the people of the
South is to treat them with proper and de-
cent respect.
Mr.. Johnson's rofusal to reconsider his
choice of Provisional Governor Of South Car
olina indicates that the telling points of Gov.
Perry's Greenville speech did not meet with
his disapprobation. 1t showed, in addition,
that he has some respect for man who hon
estly expresses his opinion, and who processes
| to tell the truth, distasteful though 1t be to
many of the dominant party to arraying
himself in flimsy and pretontious garb of
loyalty.
Being a Southern man, Mr.. Johnson is
some what acquainted with the Southern char
acter. He knows that character to be COM
posed Of the elements of courage and pride.
lie is aware that to smooth the path of peace
| and good will he must refrain from hurting
the one in order that the other may not be
aroused. Hence he has not been disposed to
call Gov. Perry to account for the manly
sympathy that he expressed for the stricken
people of the South in his Greenville speech.
Doubtless in the work before him, Gov.
Perry will be greatly assisted in his inter
course with the people Of his State by the
sentiments that he has expressed. They will
SEQ in him man who will not wreak par
tisan vengeance upon the people over whom
he Is called upon to rule. Like Gov. Pier
point here in Virginia, he will secure the
sympathy and cooperation Of oven those
formally the most determined in the southern
feelings, by liberal and impartial policy.
Happy, indeed the southern State that now
possesses in its Governor man whose polit
ioal charity and catholic views will ensure a
safe pilotage through the troubled sea ol
doubt and confusion that now overwhelmi
the South. Unfortunate the State, which
like Tennessee, recognizes Us its chief magis
trate man whose reason is clouded by pas
sion, and in whom the elements Of a bittel
partisanship mingle with the natural wrong
Of hasty and vindictiye temper. In ex-
tending to Governor Perry his endorsement
Mr.. johnson has given another clue to hi
policy; has again corrected the malignancy
of the proscriptive element Of the North hal
indicated his desire that peace may be brough
about, not by angry and continued menace
but by generous recognition of at least thu
honorable impulses that swaysd tho Southern
people, and, finally, has softened the bitter
ness of defeat in the hearts Of the people o
South Carolina by appointing as Governor I
man who does not hesitate to identify him
self with tho woes of those over whom he OK
ercises an authority as obsoluto rs any tina
the presence of bayonets can afford.-Rtch
iuOnd Com. Bulletin, 28ik.