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WINNSBOR._ '1'hursday Morning,_oly 27, 1865. ** --.. - - : t - 7 -M7 4 WArV'En, at this Office, one or twvo ne wsboys, to sell papers on the Charlotte & South Carolina; railroad. None need apply except thoso of an industrious and enterprising disposition. To Messrs..T. J. SPnINKLE and DA. Van Joes, thle obliging and gentleman ly messengers of the Southern' Express company, running between Charlotte, N. C., and Columbia, S. C., we have been, placed under obligations for many fiyors in bringing and carrying our exchanges, and procuring for us late papers. The messengers. too, beyond, nmning both North and South, will acoept our thanks for their kindness to us in for. warding our exchanges. We appreciite the kindness of all, for which we return our thanks. All persons, it will be borne in mind. applying for executive pardon, nmst take,;he new amnesty oath, a certified copy of which they will forward with their petition to the Prosident of the United States. Paroled soldiers of war, of all gradee, may take the amnesty oath. Such are the orders as we have seen in General F:SSENDEN8' office. at this post. The Washington correspondent of t he New York Herald, writing uider date OfJuly 18, furnishes the annexed in reference to a South Carolina delegation who went from the Vestern'and Nor Western portion of our State to have an interview with President JousNsroN in reference to the re-establishment of civil government in the State : ,Tii-Sour r CAnrrs. D-:%LOAT>X F:-LIN op. TilE PoPLI.. OF -rHE STAE-. -A delegation of South Caroli-ainus, composed of lion. B. F. Perry, recently appointed a provisional governor ; Hon. Jams L. Orr, C. J. Elford, J. W. Gra dy, W. T.. Leith and Foster Blodgett, arrived at Willard's yesterday. Thcso gentlemen, inulud ing Governor T-rr, were appointed by the people of W-s tdn ary Northwestern South Carolina to couie to Washingtonand urge the ap pointment of a provisional governor for the State. On their way hither they received information of the" appuintmenst, ofono of their number to that office, but conclnded to continue their journey for the purpose of consultation with-tihe President as to the. measures to be .adopted in ti reconstruction of civil gov ernment at IZ. The naail facilities - nnl even the usual mo MtercoM municationin Son d been completely deat I days had clapsed a lega-' . tion had tart efore that fact wus tern and Northwest. >rising the most populou P State, and this delegatio inted for these counties n o ihat ey might be properly represented i e. They are, however, much gratilipd at the se leetion of Governor Perry, who resides in this part of the -Stale, and has always been a consistent opponent of' seessiohn, haing fought againtt It in the seedssion convention of.183~1 and 1832, and3( also in the one held in 1852, and repeatedly opposed it in'public speeches since. This delegtion repieet the people of South Carolina to be unanimous in their ac-, quisseen~ce in the present order of affairs, .and not ' only satisfied with their costly experiment 9f setting ujp a gov ernent, for themselves out~dde of the Uniori, and convinced' of their ina-. bility to break tip the, Union but are willing and anxions to accept. the re stult as an unavoidable conclusion, aund determined to do all in their power to become a 'useful member of the 0o(d 'Unithd S3tates. It is thejr determsination to lose no time in repairing the damages that have accrued, and they expect to be the first of the rebel States .to present their new constitution at Washington. One trood rosualt df the necessity for a provisional gover~mEnt is that, it will afford an oppgrtunity lobg 'desired in vain by-a large majority of-the people of the to Amend their coiestjtution bs "rp~ese t t tat of ntePolitkiesy t1e 5 pleof reoobatronu, i M~i ew (4 u sufferable tyren2y b.wilk-they~ hi' until no t,~p ~pdIo~ Speech of the Ron. B. F, Perry. Ai ;? MN Pt 1|{~ee ing in' til:Coun JIMUsO, 0. ; S. C.. ml. Monday, thc,3rd # ly, 186'. rn. Canb :This public meet, ing of the citizens of Greenville "Is one of deep humiliation and sorrow. A cruel and bloody war has swept ovel the Southern States. One hundred an fifty "thotisand of our bravest -And most gallant men have fallen on the fields oJ battle I The land is filled with mourn, ing widows and orphans 1 There i scarcely a house in which there has not been weeping for some loved one lost Three thousand millions of dollars Iav< been spent by the Southent States iti carrying on this war ! And now w< -are called upon to give up four millioni of slaves, worth two thousand million of dollars more ! 'Our cities, towns ant villages are smouldering ruins ! Con quering armies occupy the country The Confederacy has fallen, and w( tave been deprived of all civil govern ment and political rights. We han' neither law nor order. There is no pro tection for life, liberty or property Everywhere thern is demoralir.ation rapine and murder I EIunger and star vation are 1ipon tis ! And now w( meet as a disgraced and subjugated peo. ple, to petition the conquerer to restor our lost rights ! Such are the bittel fruits of secession How difTerent, Mr. Chairman, in tone, spirit andl character, was that meeting of the oitizens of Greanville just five vears ago, in this same. buildinig, whicla inaugurated this most fatal, bloodv and disastrous revolution I Then all wa. joy, hope, excitement. and confiden'ce. Seated in my law ollice, looking toward this court house, I saw a crowd of per. sons rushing in, composed of co;legc boys anmd their professors, inerchatits, mechanics, doctors, lawverv and idleri from the hotels, with a sprinkling 0a farmers and planters. Soon I heard the public speaking commence, anl the ait was rent with the.wild and raptUru1s ap. plalse (t' the excited audience. The lnoi extravagint tle denunciation o the Union, thejouder were th'e shomits ol applause ! I repeated in my heart the memorable wcrds of Clrisr-Ithair /hrgive themn, they know ac-t what thet d, I" - My mind was then filled witl the worst forebodiigs as to the future. I thought I foresaw all the evils whicl: have sinde hfallen our beloved country, Blit my political influence was gPon, anl my voice was lowerless to stay the in. g.rand oxcited feelings of nmy fellow. citizeis. We were at that time, Mr. Chairman tht most pruspermius, free and huiaIppy peopic on the face of tho earth. 11c stni haad never shone on an empire or na tion whose future wps more bright an. glorious. But the public mind had, uu. fortuniate-ly, been prepared, in the South ern States, for thirty years pIst, for an eflort at disunion. The people had heent induced to believo that disunion would be a quiet blessing, and that it might como without war arid bloodhesl 1 T leading politicians of the Southi n xiouslI iting for plaisibl for ae toin the Americar O in. The ecti . pf Abraham Lin coin President of the United States bj a sectional party, aIt the North, was re garded as a favotable opportunit y fo accomplishing their long cherishedlpiir poe We, were told, after' ti event that there was no longer any safety: ii the Union for slavery.or our constt tional righty Leit nB now see, Mr. Chairman, i there was any truth in this assertion Mr. Laincolni was elected in direct con formity with thte F'ederal Constitution Hie wvas elected in' consequence of th<n political divisions and dissensionis at the South. 'Had the Southiern States becr united on one candidate,' insteatd of vot, ig for three, thne resutlt would have b'eor different. Afr.'lincoln only receinrd a little more than one third of the votes east in the Presidenth# election. H< therefore weun into -ofgcowith a larg< ma~jop'ty of the Amenecah, people b psdto tle Kmnnmelration. Tet was at that tie a'majority of twenty seven members of the Honsn of' Repre sentatives in Congress, in opposition t President ,Lincoln. There .was a taa jarrity bf sin 'nen~ibei of the Senaat'e' ol thte United States opposed to lym, Anld, air, a .majority of .the Supreme Court of thIe U~nited.States wore opposed to. the avowed principles of the Reuibi can party, which elected Mr. fiinceon Where, then' -was tjhe--power of the 'db oihjute the~ 8ogith or iMft&I , ,.o~y '1 rights. of fte dA~i~i ~). iAn, D2JVoti (& 409080 tnge ; Qw iea. 1I oe h election of President Lincoln was, then no j4?t ground for seea*i0n. But it *a urged, 3r(hai da the Republican Party whe1d s it tO ascondency q bo.th 1onsM gresa, and then: the 'enstitutiono it of the Southern States would be destroy ed. There was no reason for this as sertion, wheti we refidet that p iajorit, of the 'peelpi of the. United ,States wer, opposed to.the principles of the Republi can party. Adtni however.- for argti ient, thatithe President and his part, might be in the ascondant, and wonh make sggressions on Souther n rights ani institutions. Then, sir, we should hav had the whole Democracy of the Norti rallying around their' violated Constitu tion and standing by the South. Ant if war had come, it would have been a the North,.where the people were divid ed, and not at the South, where the, were llt uied. It would have been ciril, as well ats sectional war ; in 0h6 Union, and for the Constitution of th, Union. But, -sir, there was not Ih slighest probability of such an issue The Republican party voted alimos unanimously, in Congress, in 1860, tha they had. no power to interfere -witl slaverv in the States, and no wish to di so. if they had. When the Souther: States seceded from the Union, an< withdrew their inonibers from Conigiess they took the Federal Government on of the hands of the Denocracy, am turned it over to the Republican party They abandoned their friends and allies the Northern Democracy, who ha< I miaiiftilly stood by thle South for mor than a half century, to the tender mer cies of their political opponents and ene mies ! This was not inaccordance wit] Soithern honor and chivalry. What <her causie had the Southeri States for their act of secession ? Po eight years immediately preceding thil revolition, during the administrations, o President Pierce and Budhanun, ther was not an act bf the Federal Govern mient of which they coniplained. Thei could not complain for the Governmen Was iu their own hands. Is is true, thi Northern State Legisliature had nullifies certain Acts of Congress fivorable t< the Sotith. But was this just causo fo rebelling agaiiivt the Federal Govern nO ct ,hoid they not have Indhere< the- close to that Government, and as sisted in enforcing its .laws ? Hov strangOe to tink of thes Sonthern State; r-- belIin- againn a Government of whicl they d d1 not c< m lain ' It is said that, the Sotliern Sitatew l4 the Union to >reservet slavery ! 1-1ou fatal t he iistake I Every one onght tI have kinown that slavery wns stronge: in the Tnon than it posily could be out of the Union. Indeed, the 'Unioi was is only safety and protection Whilst i) the Union we had the vowel of re-capturing onr fugitive slaves. On of thie Uion w.(. con'd have no sntel power. The whole civilized world w. opposed to u? on this jinestion. and; as slavo power, woid have looked ulon tp with scornful jealonsy. But, Mr. Chairmain. the madness ani folly of the Souhern States, in co meneing this revolution, is 'now mani fest to all. There was fanaticism at the Soith, i. well as the North. Politician; did all they could, in both s"ctious, ti stir up the worst passions of the hummat heart, and make-the people forget the~ were fslfow citir~ens of o n~e great, Ropub lie. WVe were toktl that the Norths'rr peopsle wonl 'not fipht, that thei-e wo~uh he no w"ar,'and offers' wore madn t< drink all the blood that wvould be shed F history should have taught themii tha no great Gtovornment, htke onry,'eve was, or ever2061d 'be, broken -up with Out wvar and all its dire consequenicoe. How was it, Air, Chairman, that,4hr Southern States failed in their rebellio i It is true the contest was a most.nne qual one-eigh't niillions of' persons fight ing against twetity-two millions ! Thi one having neither Government,; army, navy or mianufactu u' the othei having-a ths, ntlux of .for, eignerg nd mlg oes to in. crease" te atm Tio Southetrr ped e en vel enthuastkt pe ut tey Wtt the energy and pei ance of the I North'. I said te tny Mnds, at, tre beginning of. this war, that my greatest appreheision was, that our soldiers wouldI get ired 'of the wvar and quit it. I did'not believe is possi ble to hold iu ,m 'etctiona ighst nuillioni of pople, seatterd Vover snoh an im rnns territory as oomposed the South era States, if they were disposed to rake any ari' evrery Wutrifie, is th2 Dutch Republiodid i their'#ar ot indb.~ pentdence.. But) alry the groat ca4*6 @1 ottr failure ithat the heart 4 h Shorn noterwain thi rve sl1 ot a State, o. -afof thovotm. 4i Mr. Chainai, I will here frnblily say, as I have often sai4 d i'ng the past foul t years, tliat walo& 'a man in th Unjted Stat mo deeply regret ted th sctes f thoSouthern States a than I did, aitxia.beginiinig of the revo' -lition ; anad there is .not now in lite -outhern S3tates any one who feels mor< bitterly the ehumiliation and degradation of gonig b aqk into the Union than I do. Still,'I kn ow that we shall be more pros ptrous an.d happy in the Union than out r of it. I It has been too common. 'Mr. Chair I man, to attribute the failure of this great ) revolution to the President of the late i Confedp racy. The people were them - selves to blame for its failure. They I were nn willing to make those sacrifiees t which were essential to its success. - Many who were m'ost prominent in the r movement, never did anything for it af. t tor the war commenced. Instead of seeking their proper position, in front of the battle, they sought "bombproofs" for i themselves and their sons. There were . others who got into 'soft places' and offi. t -cial positions, where they could bpeeu t late and make fortunes on Government i funds. .In fact, towards the latter part > of the wat, it seemed that every one was k trying to keep out of the army, and wai I willing to pay aiything. and make any sacrifice, to do ' so. When General t Johnston surrendered his army he had I on his muster roll seventy thousand , men, but only fourteen thousand to be carried into battle ! General Lee's ar I my was in the same condition. - Where i were the absentees ? At home, on fur lough, staying over their furloughs,'de strted and straggling I At no. time, i -durig the last three years of the war, was there more than one-third of the V army ready to marcb into battle I How r was it possible tor the Sduthern people 4 to snccel, acting thus ? f Congress, too, Mr. Chairmani, is greatly to lIlame for their exemptions. All between the ages of eighteen afid forty five should ,,ave been forced into the army am)n4 kzept there. It mattered not whether he was a doctor. lawyer. I pruncher, politician, editor, or school > teacher. If an alble-bodied man, he $11hould hiave hei a. sent to the army. But, strange to say. the three classes of I men who weve nminly instriuniental i' - plunging thieir country into this mad revolhinon, were ill exempted, by Con gross, from fig.ining I I allude to the politic'ans, newspap r e-litors aid prench. rs of the Gospiel. This was not fair. The niman, who gets up a fight, should al wnys take his share of it. It hns been said, and repeated all over the Sontherin Stat,..s, that the South has I sustained a great loss in ltthe delth of 1. President Lincolii. I do not think so. President Johnison is a much abler and firmer mun than -Lincoln was. He is it every Wav imore acceptable to the, I Soulth. In the first place, he is a South ernman. and Lincoln was a Nqrthern ma. He is a Democrat, and Lincol was a Whig, a Republican. President John,3n was a slaveholder, well ac I quainted with the institution, aiid knowswvhat is proper to be done in the great change which .has taken place. President Lincoln was wholly inac a quninted with sla'very and Southern intitutions. Preuident Johnson is a main ofiron. will and nerve, like Audreiv Jamctoi, and will .adhere lt his priji ciples and iolitic'al fauith. On the other hand, Presjdent. Lincoln' showed himself to be nothinjg moro than clay in the banids of the pottted~ ready to chaige Is mecas ures aind, icpo a h.bddjo i partv. 'eid t oheso has ial heIaighost and most honorable offiees iin heat ofTennessge, with greatabii. ty adsatisfaction to the people. There is no stain or blot on his priiste cttarae ter. Thme ablest speech ever'delivred in the Senate of the Unite'dSt; s, the iies b4tween the North and Sputh was (pade PIresidedtt JoheAson. ti voted for lreckinridge in the P~reidm1 tial. canTvass of 1860. Jndging, t):en, from his antecedents, te outh phould lmavp eveory hope atnd confidence in hj im. ,, .Mr. Chairmian, thuture to mv mind, is not so .gloomy a some .wowa)d llave mis. belinve.. I hv9 no otlpubt. itp years the Souern Stateagijl:1y, hap .and prosper-on ina~ and we shgli bud 't.at the loss ot *av ry will l~eno -logs mtt all to Qar real e tfrt amga ais ,fact~on~ 'he pkeuto,,nd fprmer w And .theunet Prta 1 rester, w hyred o , th m wit t, lave rJ Evry latidolsr an~ rent him4 Ie or plantation, for ene.thii phaegr .VQ duct.. $dins 'r y J l e no akes out, afteor su . sl4gaves. trupha very few &aidv li .counJ ttj Nakeexe thin -erene oe diie4 outprofit or reinungti"on., The and " q. worn git, andA country remains iim iiraveNL 1 pnter or ('armer i; yVe a Iing. after support. 1114"A' V ishnim t, it is invested inl pugh ofnxgslaes. Hence, in creased -wenith odds nothing to th enjoyment qf life, or to tlk(kiiprove. ment of tlhe countrv. The idleness ayid vagranoy'of the negio, lat 'i free State, maity bW'a xmis. ance to socIVty'. I.t* idlkit b orrted' in the beat way we can. I 'have no doubt, in nine cases out of ten, freeduin will prove a cnrse instead of a blessing to the negro. No one. should turn otr his negroes, f they are willing to remain with l)am; for their vidiials'an4' clothea and yprk as they hhve heretofove done, They have lind no agency in - bringing about the change which hu takesi place, and we should feel no ill-will towards them ou ilbat account. Mr. Chairnnan,: as,. much ats we aill feel the hinniliation and degradatl n of' our present situation, and deeply blgnent the losses which have befallen -.the I So -itern States, yet we shobld be happy to know that this cruel and bloody war is over, and that peace- is once more restored tol our countryf This is a great consolation amidst our wants, ditresses and humiliation. Th-e husband will -no longer have toleave-his wife and children; the father and mother will not be called upon any more to give up their sons as victims to the war. It is to-be hoped that, in a very short timo,-divil government will be restored in South Garolina': that law once more, will reign supreme over the State, and that life, liberty and property will be protected everywhere. as they heretoforo have been. The resolutions submitted to this ' meeting express a hope, on the part,of the people of Greenville, that the President will enlarge his amnesty proclamation,- and grant a pardon a all who are liable to prosecuktion; .l(ie secession of the Sonthern Statos wps far greater, and very differen from4 rebellion pioper. It was-. orgstned by coistitutionual sovereign Sfhktake acting in their sovereign eapneity, and not by unauthorized assemblages ot'- citisei4b. Treason may be commnitted against. the State of South Carolinn., as well as againbt the, United States. - Aftr South Carolina left the 'Jnion- all'her citizens were liable, as triitors, in the Sinlo courts. who took sides with the Umted 'ates anl fought aiga-in.t her. If they were lhaible to be punished us traitor in the ,United States courts, for tiking side with the States, then all %%ere traitors and liatle tY be executed as traitors, whether they fmught for or served fie one or the other Govern ment! This would indetd be -n .mnot ernel and lamentable condition. Deatit was their portion. net as they might. To stand neutral they: cold not, and to choose between the State and United States was deat hi ! Suirtily. a principle so monstroums andl abisird cannot bo enforced. There were thouamnds and hundreds of thousands in the Sonthern States who deeply riegretteid the sces. sion .ofthiel State, but after the. Stato seceded, felt tha. th'eir first allogianoe' was' due tht Stwit. But, Mr. Chairman, the secession if eleven or t*blve sovereign States; con posing onmd~half' of the tserritory otthe United States, was something moree than a rebellion. "It wa.'legitimage war betwveen the two-aetionhs andtf.y actedl toards each other,' throughout, *tho war, as reecngnized helligoeity,'eq4 were so treated an4 recognised.1f&bt. eigninatiori W Piidoners wvereexenlagedj between'the twd belligerents/'ati'none were treated ase traitors,- during. the whole of the four years'*inr. Hunhdreds of thousands of' prisonerw were; n exbhanged. The highest'genes ase welt as; the' humblest prtvatei1 M*ete 'treated -as captured soldie**byi.bk overnmelnts, and' exchanged, 'a general officer who has bee an ed while this gigantle w aging, eatno't how be de a a4raitor, tried Mhd execute li' tirahtor. There have been fo hat vats in -Europe in which 'r arme wbre carrIed. intoee ildon the fi'elds of:-battle. 'To ah. a ar aroshielisiply is ~pplication of tnisve ogroa ~ndlbest men of the Mou~ntho ta 4p most consietidinaff AIadiri this r~ either In cobuneiflor en'ho sold of" batti,. In Ol'hh "tIt4Is ieet a tnoro perfect Wvd).' pere und great inan save eisl ) * thIan - Gnerul Leo. ~tu ts a now thE iting la. a tr~tr*ditib'-An 40I-efisanonal' infaayi er Woe*i4 ihock thet whole c'Nilix~d Hdia d dt the Pnmedi' t IJatd.8 4dour in histor$ Whl~t I4~ Adiir, Mr. Chair-. th 50h 'I, a'4y