The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-21
NEW YoRK, July 20.


The Times Washington special saws that the
South Carolina delegation, headed BY Gov.
Perry, had an interview with the President at
4 O'Clock this tWeenesday) afternoon, which
resulted in the mutual satisfaction Of the par
| ties.
IL appears the delegation was suggested at
various town meetings throughout the State,
and the members had been selected and were
on their way to this city before they knew
that Gov. Perry had been appointed Provis-
ional Governor of the State. Gov Perry
first heard of his appointment when he had
got seventy miles from Rome.
In the course of the interview Gov. Perry
assured the President that South Carolina
would be represented BY her Congressman in
the month Of December, next, and, doubtless,
by the first day Of the session; that the State
would adopt the amendment TO the Constitu-
ton abolishing slavery; that the parish sys-
tenn will be abolished /; that the Presidential
electors will henceforth be elected by direct
vote of the people, and, in general, the State
laws will conform TO the spirit and form of
those Of the Northern States, and to the Fed
eral Constitution.
Gov. Perry issued q proclamation this even
ing, which viii go forward by special messen-
ger tomorrow, calling State Convention to
meet on the third Monday of September, for
the formation of new Constitution, and for
the consideration of the several measures
therein suggested.
Provisional Governor Perry made re-
markable speech at Greenville, South CaroIi-
| na, on the Sd inst, before he knew OF his ap-
| pointment- Its tenor may be inferred from
the following expressions
s Nr. Chairman: will here frankly say, as
| have often said during the pas. four years.
/ hat fbors. O.
J who more deeply regretted the secession oi
] the Southern States than did at the begin
ming of the revolution, and there is not now
IN the Southern States any one who feels
, more bitterly the humiliation and degradation
Of going back into the Union than / do.
Still, know that we shall be more prosper
Gus and happy in the Union than out Of il.
| He also said JEFF Davis was not specially TO
blame for the failure of the rebellion tha,
the people, tired Of fighting, had stalked from
4 the field that Johnston had 10000 men on
the muster rolls of his army, bat only IA, 900
/ in his ranks, and adds Congress, too Mr..
1 Chairman, is greatly to blame for their ex-
emptions. All between the ages of eighteen
and forty-five should have been forced into
the field and kept there. it matters not
whether he was doctor, lawyer. preacher,
politician, editor or sehoolteacher, if an able
bodied man, he should have been sent 10 che
army but to say the three classes of men
who were mainly instrumental in plungina
their country into this mad revolution, we're
all exempted by Congress from fighting, Il
aliude to the politicians, the editors and
preachers this was not fair. The man who
gets up a fight should always take his share
| Of If.
He also said that President Lincoln's death
was no loss to the South that he was a Whie
and non STAKEHOLDER, while johnson is Dem
ocrat, who has held slaves, and who voted
for Breckenridge in 1860; therefore the peo
pie should have every confidence in him
lie ranks Lee next to Washington.