The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-08-02

ing and repair shops.
Radical Assault ON the President.
The Chicago 7ribune. commSnting upon
| tie recent speech of Gov. Perry at Green
yille. s. c., remarks - follows
eW. sdmit that it was dificuk to End con-
petsnt white man in South Carolina sufficiently
loyal TO be intrusted with gubsrnatorial powers
but 1t does seem that one few degrees less re-
bellious than this man Perry might have been
found. 1t 10 easy to imagine what sort of recon-
struction will be manufactured under the leader
ship and auspices of man who lauds Lee and the
rebel cause and regrets the failure of the treason
able attempt to destroy the American Union. The
provisional governor of Georgia is of the same
stripe Perry of South Carolina, and the govern
ors of Alabama and Mississippi very little
better. Next winter we shall have delegations
from those states demanding admission TO seats
in congress, who will be even less rePeatant than
Perry OF South Carolina. Will they be admitted .
That's the question:
This same Gov. Perry was member of
the national democratic convention In 1860.
He was one of two of the South Carolina del
egation who declined to follow the seceders,
headed by Yancey, of Alabama, when they
attempted to break up that convention. The
break of the democratic party at Charleston
was the beginning of the secession move
ment, and was so understood at the south
When Mr.. Perry took his seat in the body
of the hall where the convention was held,
the morning after the scism, he was greeted
with hisses from the gallery and Hobbies,
where q crowd of fre-eaters had eongregated.
Subsequently, when the storm of CIVIL war
was about eliminating in South Carolina,
Mr.. Perry wrote and published strong let
ter, earnestly deprecating everything like
secession, and denouncing the attempt TO dis
solve the Union. These things he did in the
very face of public opinion in his state, and
with the spirit of bold and brave man, who
foressw the calamities into which the south
was rushing, and stood resolved to warn his
fellow.citizens of their danger despite of all
personal consequences to himself. We do
not. cannot believe he ever at heart acquies
ced in the rebellion, though, like thousands
OF others, he may have been compelled for
the time to submit to that despotic train of
circumstance which swept all around him in
a seeming sufferance as to the confederate
scheme. His recent speech at Greenville,
though 1t contains some expressions of q oe-
culiar character, shows him to have been at
heart loyal throughout He casually speaks
in high terms of the personal qualities of
Gen. Lee, it is true; but the Chicago paper
stretches the fact greatly when il says he
tempt to destroy the American Union" He
".
he distinctly and emphatically declared, II
know we shall be more happy in the Union
than out of it." He reviewed the losses and
sacrifices of the south and avowed them to be
1.-THE bitter fruits of secession" He showed
that the election of Mr.. Lincoln furnished no
plausible prstext for breaking up the Union
that the accession of the republican party to
power could not have injuriously affected the
interests of the south, being in a minority in
congress and on the supreme bench that in
the very nature of things slavery was sure
to be crippled instead of benefited by the rev
olutlon that "there was not a state except
South Carolina, In which there was mt n
majority against secession :" that the ioss ne
slavery would be no real loss at oil and
that there was nothing in the terms proposed
by President johnson in whom he expressed
great confdence) to which the southern peo.
pie should object. Such reasoning does not
strike US as "rebellious," pOrtcularly when
we consider the audience to whom it was a l.
President johnson, in his appointments of
provisional governors for the states lately in
rebellion, has by no means pleased the rad
lcal wing of his party, as the extract we
have copied sufficiently denotes. Had he
taken the advice of the earnest men" who
,laim to have elected him, he would have
rejected persons like Ben. Butler from the
north, and inaugurated a rule which, instead
If restoring peaceful civil governments in the
'outh, would have exasperated the people
md rendered them Indifferent towards any
fort to resusitste the fallen fortunes of the
country. No less do the radicals exhibit on
'osition to the policy of the president in their
hostility to the admission of representatives |
n congress from the reclaimed states
Without knowing who are to be sent to |
ashington from those states, they PREJUDICE
heir cases unfavorably, and suggest their re-
,ction in advance. Doubtless there is to be
renewal of the endeavor to exclude the
'uth from the halls of congress, and thus
reclaim, against the fact. that the Union
as not been re-establishsd. This course. if
iccessful, must continue a chaotic state of
lblic affairs indefinitely, obstruct the peace
Il channels that events have opened and
srpetuate that sectional bitterness which
,erated to produce the war. Ia such a con-
oversy we still believe the thinking masses
i'll sustain the practical policy of President
'hnson which the radicals are denouncing.
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