New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-15

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speech OF the Hon. II. r.. Perry Of sSafh
Carolina.
Special Dispatch The N. Y. Tribune. ~
PHILADELPHIA Tuesday, Aug - lseo.
E1.Goy. Perry of South Carolina addressed TIE
JobusonCymer Club this evening National Guards Ha
This Club is an organization advocating the eec'oh u
Holster Cymer the Democratic candidate for Governor Inc
Club announced that Senators Cowan and Dooe Wouu au
dress the meeting bat neither present
Gov Perry opened with compliment TO the beautiful city OF
Philadelphia and the great hGnOp ne H. cens He said he
came from South Carolina. He came ID INC spIs. arJ
by our great soldier Gen Grant who sad hat noen.s 80
be more beneficial at this to the whole country tnah o
the inhabitants Of the different sections 70 Mso ,soes
against the South the South against the NORTH DIt tO
peiudices would soon as they met anu
one having the same religion literature manners
and and they should be one people forever e S
always been Union man. and believed that tne VI ,
States was the great palladium Of liberty IL was proper
that he should speak Of South Carona what he eeng na
t Of the North should be accomplished South Carolina had
accepted in good faith the logic events She had braye ana
CALAMITY conended for principle when she 3elevu she %
right 10 exercise and defeated Now her people Aad
abandoned all notions C Secession and they were touE az
OV
nee anew TO the Constitution and Government OF the states
and they people however mpuye however wrong thy
might be- who bad most tenacious adherence 70 honor
princpl When such people allegiance to the Gov
under which they lived they Woug po,est @ mont
abroad aud defend il in and in peace as as
well people Of Pennsylvania me people Oh Th ,av
had assembled their conventions South Carolina was the s
State the Union to ADOPT the amendment to the =
ton aboishng Slavery. That her evidence OF VIKING
ness back into the Union and be loyal Sne gs' p
hundred millions Of dollars cyi the adoption OF 'n ss
GoufhE aroliu
might have committed many SINS; but II was ., snr
Of an snb Carolina had obeyed
The President and done all that be asked She had amehou
her CONSTITUTION and made much popular and rePn
ican than it before and she was entitled ana haa
right to expect after dong all TINS ta' the sou w
admitted back into the Union and Der a dT sad been
kept out because the gs "a sSare the power
which belonged the people Of the Republic Were me
southern States third the Union to be made the DO
ellie the humble and the obedient slaves Of great central
poweri No. should follow the example great Roman
epublic which conquered province but became
part Of Rome, and its inhabitants Roman citizens All be
ked was that the South should be restored Why we're the
southern States kept Had the North any sPpre1so
there OF rebellion or revolution in the South voice
None"I The South was prostrate-desroyed be mign.
She had been conquered her houses destroyed her cities
ned and devastated her fields laid her ruined
her and railroad stocks lost her railroads broken up m
and people Her planners for the last
three years had had crops The seasons had oeen aga
peseuce and Of them almost at the point OF
starvation. An erroneous opinion preyaled IN Tue Ne.
regard 10 the negro population Of the South Instead Den
crne 10 the negro not respectable man IN south
Carolina who did not feel an interest 10 al tae pe3pe m S
he formerly owned interest which would lead him 10 ae
feni those people they were imposed npIe him nsye sus
posed give the negro equal lnsee 70 . n nses bv
laws which DO enforced well against the ~e man
AZ The negro the opinion was universal nat me
General Government having set me negroes ies
duty to see that they protected ne gthteu ns a
ht,er abIe toand would give them thaproecou more effect
lively than could BY the General hrougn
all the Fieedmen Bureau na e1u W hr,v 70 le
The Freedmens Bureau agency was onerlne D . ~ -
ness and ysgrancy Congress had not Ty 70
relieve the poor white people Ss Of
Go COO or support and protect negroes who
ice in Was there any equality in THAR That the citizens
OF should be taxed and their money taken by the
in deness who il they would work could support
themselves The fields in sections OF the state were
wing the land In South Carolina because the
will not cultivate them while they have the treedmen
Bureau depend upon for supports and while on tbs subject
there was opportunity for the Investment OF capital
United State than va: now presented ~ South
largely indebted and had no means TO pay her
were Obliged 10 sell then or portion Of them II Northern
would seek Investment IN those rich lands IN the course
,bat cSpal could find They had been told last night bY
Gov Orr there disposition on the part OF Tue POO
pie OF South Carolina repudate the National debt He
psJ sad tho same thing In communication which had
written February Mr. Horace Greeley Editor OF HE
TnnyT He declared to- night there State in the
Union which was further from Intention TO epudate
National debt than South Carolina The people South Caro-
lima had taken the proper view OF the su0ect
OF always be above suspicion The Southern
people say the American Government our Government and
although the debt incurred In eon9uering u.s. yet we
would cut off right hands than iepqdiae one
dollar OF They said and said properly after the contest
was over all but hono that honor no one
can from We viii cling TO H. aud we WI abide by ~
There rational man 10 South Csrona who expected
as was alleged In Congress that the General Government
wog Confederate States debt There was not
single South Carolina who expected or hoped for any
such thing debt Itwond never be assumed
by the General Government by State There was no
disposition IL anywhere. The people OF
South Carolina were waiting to be taxed
Ncwesey and Vermont TO pay the great national debt now
hanging the country That debt had never scared MN
IL was bsgaee In 30 30 the debt could be
paid provided Congress would use that economy which was
use in all their disbursements Of the public funds.
But If they spent millions lavishly. would they be
Increasing was the duty the people hold their repre-
sentatives strict accountability on THIS SUBJECT lie con-
graduated country the great moSememen which was
going in Philadelphia great gathering OF the clans
Massachusetts, Vermont and all the States They were as
sembled to-day and he might that frmer and more
assembled in his life He had faith and hope
and confidence In the work which they had originated
He had doubt but that the Of right woad prevail and
that the thing would and the Constitution De redeemed
Gov closed expressing the hope that when he again
presented himself Philadelphia audience he could do
an equal that all the Southern States would be
stored 10 The Federal Union aud woud manifest the zeal Tor
that Union which Pennsylvania had and which they had IN
years by rayng around the Union protecting and
defending IT, and sustaining Its nag wherever might wave
The speech loudly cheercd throughout and
cuson Postmaster Cleveland of Hartford Conn., declared it
to be the patriotic speech he had listened
asked the large audience with him. which they obg
ngy did After speeches from Perrin York and Lewis
H.