The Portland daily press., 1865-07-24

IuuS Vi Tic PAIN anu JdlInetbO. ss.-.es
The speech was made before its author was
appointed Governor, or at any rate, before he
knew of his appointment. Had it been known
at headquarters that utterance had been given
to such infamous sentiments, and that such a
feeling was cherished in relation to the Union,
a return TO its flag, and the loyal people of the
North, we doubt if the people of South Caro-
lima would to-day rejoice in such an official
leader in bringing them back to the Union
fold, as Provisional Governor, B. F. Perry.
The following extracts, though not connect
ed, but separated from their connections, do
no injustice to the speech referred to- We give
them as samples: ASA
THE GOVERNORS FEELINGS.
Mr.. Chairman, / win here frankly saw. as |
have often said during the past four years, that
there was not man in the United States who
more deeply regretted the secession Of the
southern States than did at the beginning Of
the revolution; and Lhert Is not nous an The
utitein @tdtes on acho feel more bitterly the
humiliation and degrGtiatiou OF going back
into thr Union than lido. Still, know that
we shall be more prosperous and happy in the
Uaion than out OF it.
DAVIS NOT TO BLAME. x
1t has been too common, Mr.. Chairman, to
at i1bute the failure OF this great revolution to
tle Pie ident OF the late Confederacy This,
sir, i, mistake The people were themselves
to blane .or its failure They were unwilling
to maze those sac ifices which were essential
to its succs5s. Many who were most proIni-
nent in the movement never did anything for
it after the war commenced. Instead of seek
ing their proper position, in front of the bat
tie, they sought 1bomb-proofs" for themselves
and their Sons.
WHY THE SOUTH FAILED.
When General Johnston surrendered his
army ne had on his mu staf roll seventy thou
sand men. but only fourteen thousand to be
carried into battiel .Genecal Lees army was
In Gne same condition. Where were the absen-
tesj? At home, ON Through, staying over theif
Burroughs, deserted and struggling! At no
time dulfng the last three years of the war
was there moro than one-third of the army
ready to march into battle How was it pos
sibIe Tor the southern people to succeed, acting
thus2 EEsFss.s.ss fs-4sS.
WHAT on 9Hr To HAVE BEEN DONE.
Congress, is greatly to blame for these ex-
emptions. All betweed the ages of eighteen
and forty-ive should have been forced into
the army and kept there. It mattered not
whether he was doctor, lawyer, preacher, pol
itician, editor or school-teacher: if an able
bodied man, he shonld have been sent to the
army. But, strange to say, the classes of men
who were mainly instrumental in plunging
their country into revolution were all exempt
ed by Congress from ightingl | allude to the
politicians, newspaper editors and preachers
of the gospel
LIBERALrTy TO THE FREEDMEN.
The idleness and vagrancy of the negro in
free state may be a nuisance to society. 1t
must be corrected in the best way we can.
hacen doubt IN nine cases ut of ten freedom
aUiU prone q curse instead of a blessing to the
negro. No one should turn off his negroes if
they are willing to remain with him for their
victuals and clothes, and work as they have
heretofore done. Il ssi,.s s. s. s.s1
TREASON Against SOUTH CAROLINA.
Treason may be committed against the state
of South Carolina as well as against the United
States. After South Carolina left the Union
all her citizens were table, as traitors. in the
state courts, who took sides with t1es United
States and fought against her. If they were
liable to be punished as traitors in the United
States courts for taking side with the state,
then all were traitors, and liable to be execut-
ed as traitors, whether they fought for or serv-
ed the one or the other government This
would, indeed, be a most cruel and lament
able condition. Death was their portion, act
as they might. To stand neutral they could
not, and to choose between the state and the
United States was death. Surely principle
so monstrous and absurd cannot be enforced.
There were thousands and hundreds of thous-
ands in the southern states who deeply regret
ted the secession of their states, but after the
state had seeded felt that their first allegiance
was due the state.
THE sLAvEHoLDER's WAR LEGITIMATE.
But, Mr.. Chairman, the secession of eleven
or twelve sovereign states, composing one-hali
Of the territory of the United States, was
something more than rebellion. 1t was le-
The highest generals, as well
as the humblest privates, were treated as cap
tured soldiers by both governments and ex-
changed while this gigantic war was waging
and cannot now be demanded as traitors, tried
and executed as traitors. m
LEE GLoRIFIED.
The greatest and best men of the southern
states wore most conscientiously leading thi.
war, either in council or on the field of battle
!. In al history there is not dmore perfect mod
ell of n pure and great man lsure Wdsliaqton
than General Lee. That he should now bt
hung as traitor would be an act of national
infamy thai would shock the whole civilized
world, AMI render the name of the United
States odious in history.
THE REBELS CoMPLnIENTED.
Whilst do not think, Mr. Chairman, that
the whole people fthe southern states have
behaved well in this war, and done their duty
at bona anu on the lad IF battle, yet there is
a very large proportion of them who have
won immortal honoRs, and whose glory in war
and wlsdOm i'll council will Illustrate many O
bright page in history. They have been I'm
succs 5siul in their revolution, but this should
nos, an1 does not detract from their heroic
galantry on the field of battle, or their states
manship IN the cabinet or halls of legislation.
ATROCITIES OF UNION SOLDIERS.
c1nnot and would not, Mr.. Chairman, ask
my fellow citizens to forget the past in this
warso far as the North Is concerned. There
hupe been deeds or dtrocity committed By the
United Suites armies lchich can neUer be for
gotten Ia the Southern States.
This will suffice. The above are enough
to show the quality of the man to whom has
pesn committed the reins of political power in
the state which has the signal dishonor of be
ing tue nrst to rebel, the first to insult the
flag, the first to fires gun against the consti-
tutional authorities of the land.
The N, Y. Evening Pot indulges the hope
that Governor Perry 'isa good deal better
than his word,p which, says the post l.sis kind
of man very apt to be liked in the end t,o,,o1
he may not be fayorite at first.n
The PoSt bases this judgment on a d,sn,4o,,
setting forth that the Governor has lust ism 81
proclamation for a convention, in which bo
has suggested to the people such measures as
will radically change the South Carolina con
stituhon. he urges, it is said, that the Stat.
shall adopt the amendment to the Constitution
abolishing slavery; that the parish system
shan he abolished: that the Presidential cleo