Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-07-21

Provisional Governor Perry, of South
Carolina, whose cop,ical Sd Of July speech
we printed last night, Is, II appears, n good
deal better than his word, and that is q kind
Of man very apt 70 be liked in the end, though
he may not be a favorite at first. He told bis
people that he felt himself bitterly disgraced
and Inundated At the failure Of Q rebellion
which he opposed as unwise and causoless;
and from his address an incautious pcrson
might gather that he would oppose all just
measures Of reconstruction.
But dispatch from Washington this
morning assures us that he has just issued q
proclamation for convention, in which he
has suggested to the people such measures
as will radically change the South Carolina
constitution He urges, II is said, that the
State shalt adopt the amendment to the
Constitution abolishing slavery; that the
parish system shall be abolished that the
presidential electors shall hereafter be cleo
ted by direct vote of the people; and, in
general that the State laws shall conform
TO the spirit and form Of those of the north
ern States, and to the Federal Constitution.
The truth is, Mr.. Perry, when he made his
Sd of July speech, was trying to straddle
very sharp fence, and his contortions, how
ever painful, were not unnatural. lie was.
as q Union man, addressing q population
which he evidently thought to be bitterly
rebel he had been silent for four years, and
the habit Of speech had in some degree left
him he was drawn to ono side by his con-
science and regard for Andrew Johnson's s
favor, and to the other by his fears Of the
audience and desire to please them. Like
Launeelot Gobbo, in the play, he was n prey
Of contrary impulses, and the result was
something very much rs Launcolot himself
expressed it: ....n ...r. .g.arF
Laun.-Certainly my conscience will
serve me to run from this Jew, my MASTER;
the hend is at mine elbow, and tempts me,
saying to me, Gobbo, LdWnceiot Gob6o, good
LduMeeiot, or good Go66O, or good LdHmeeIot
GoJ6o, Hse your legs take tie start, rNH
array. My conscience says---'io; take heed,
honest LaUnceiot; take heed, honest Gob6o.
or, as aforesaid, hOaest LaUnesLot Gob6o; do
not run! So0rn running tctid thy heels!
Well, the most courageous fend bids me
pack; via, says the fend; array away says
the fend, for tie heapens' rouss up a 6raVe
mind, says the fend, aud run. Well, my
conscience, hanging about the neck of my
heart, says very wisely to me-Ry hoRest
Jrfe,ia LahnceLoi, 6otng an honest mzns 8
soh-or rather IN honest woman's SON. for,
indeed, my father did something smack,
something grow to, he had kind Of taste
wen, my cOnsclence Snys, NtdWCfot Ohugt
not; bulge, says the fendi bulge not, says
my conscience. Conscience, says ], you
counsel WE'LL fend say /, you counsel
we'll; to be ruled by my conscience,
1 should stay with the Jew, my
master, ANDREW Johnson,) who,H tGod
bless his mark y is kind of devil
and, to run away from the Jew, I should be
ruled by the fiend Ithe rebellion, who, saving
your reverence, is the devil himself. GER.
tainly, the Jew is the very devil Incarnation
and, in my conscience, my conscience isibut
kind of hard conscience, to otter to coun.
sci me to stay with the Jew; the fiend gives
the more friendly counsel: l will run, fiend
my heels are at your commandment, ] will
rum ...-. % ...t.t t..t .....s .'
Governor Launcelot will be more encour.
aged presently, and will probably mako a
different speech next Sd or 4th Of July, by
which time South Carolinians will get used
to q speaker saying freely what is in his
mind Hitherto public speaking hus been
n somewhat hazardous experiment in that
State, for Union men.--N. I. Post.