The Weekly Journal, 1865-07-14

effective and elevating tlie negro as miTcn as they can. It is,' however, more a work of time than the labor of enthusiasm and fauati cism. The people of the South have the largest interest in the question. We arc willing to co-operate for selfish, if for no higher motives. We bavo taken the liberty, encouraged by your kindness, to throw out suggestions by which the policy of the Government will be most surely and effectually subserved. I repeat that the new system of labor is to be inaugurated by,, clear, sound and discreet judgement. The negroes arc ingnorant.? Their minds arc much inflamed with liberty.? They arc.apt to confound liberty with license. Their great idea is, I fear, that freedom consists of exemption from work. . Wc will take in good faith and carry out your intention with zeal, and hope for the best; and none i will rejoice more than the people of the South if emancipation prove successful.^ Freedom to the slave is freedom to the master, provided yon can supply a motive for industry. The people of South Carolina, from their fidelity to honor, have submitted to great sacrifice; they endured all. We are defeated and conquered |

t ytva jl>uc tin r-n. a vuitrij f I Shrevefort, La.t June, 8,1865. J > , ?SiiDiEns?1The struggle for independence^ has ceased. "As solcficrs bT~the Cdnfetteret*" ? States?an army defending the rights of yonr " ' country?you won the respect of your enemies and tho admiration of the civilized world. The '* power which you could not resist has crushed the hopes which you had cherished, and com- * polled, by force ofarms. obedience to the United States. You have obligated } ourselves to 4 abstain from further acts of hostility, and are permitted to return .to your homes to follow your pcacef avocations' without molestation of your persons. The same fidelity which yop displayed npon the battlefields should be shown' in the new engagements into which you have . voluntarily entered. Go peaceably to your homes, cultivate friendly relations with, all, abstain from all hostile acts, and discountenance every attempt at disorder. You will have much to forgive and much to ' endure; bnt as * courage has been your characteristic on the field, let the spirit of magnanimity and-fortitude > ;j ? ? kfi* wkon fvla

YVUUIU uo UCIfbCi ov iv ucviniu wj iwnt xxo wiiv of the delegates had just remarked*, that the Constitution of South Carolina did not establish slavery) it were better to mscrt a clause antagonistic to slavery. Judge Prost said, substantially: The object of our prayer is the appointmenfrof a Governor. The State of South Carolina will accept these conditions jn order that law and order may be restored, and that enterprise and Industry may be directed; to useful ends. "We desire Restoration as soon as possible. It is the part of wisdom to make the best of circumstances... Certain delusions have been dispelled by the revolution} araong?tliem that slavery is an elcmont,<?f political strength and moral, power. It is ven' certain that the old|notion respecting State rights, in the maintenance of which those who made the rebellion in South Carolina erred, hssfceasea to exist. Another delusioD, viz: .trat^ottpn is king, has likewise vanished; in e are to come back with these notions dispelled and with a"~ new %stem of labor. The people will cordially co*operatq with the Government in making that labor

O ; "put down rebellion, suppress insurrection ana repel invasion. The slaves went into the war as slaves, and came out as free men of color. Tlid friction of the rebellion has rubbed out the nature and character of slavery. The loyal men who were compelled to bow and submit to the rebellion should, now that the rebellion is ended, stand equal to loyal men everywhere.. Hence the wish of restoration aud the trying to get back the States to the point at which they formerly moved in pcrll?t harmony. lie di 1 not intend to scivc any particular clique or interest. lie would say to the delegation that slavery is gone as an institution. There was no hope tjiat the people of South Caiolina could be admitted into the Senate of the House of Kcprcscntatives until they bad afforded evidence by their conduct of thistruth. The policy, now that the rebellion is suppressed, is not.to, restore the Slate Government tlirongh military rule, but by the people, while the war has cihancipalod. slaves, it has nmani'innfpjl ?i Inr'vpr number of white men.

jjjv' to talk plainly, so there might be no misnnUor; '* standing Therefore it were bettor they should look each other full in the face, and .not imi1' " tsite . tlic ancient augurcs, who, when they ulet one another, could smile.at their success hy deceiving the people. He-said if this Union .was to be preserved it must be on the prinei ;? ;?-pal - -pal ;?-pal of fraternity, both the Northern and South V 4rn States' maintaining certain relations to the < X'Ovcrnment. A State cannot go one of the Union, and, therefore, none, of them having gone out, wc must deal with the' question of restoration, and not %rcconstniction. He suspected that lie was-a better States Plights man' \-than some of those now present. . . v Mr. liolmes-Jyou always so claimed to be* (Laughter.) ' / The President replied that he al ways thought that slavery could not be sustained outside of Constitution of the United States, and that U-Tiil?ever the experiment was made it would ^ IVKntliaii it oniiiil in* r*mtlr) lint hi*

Wns7Sr the Union, and that if slavery set itIaelf up to control the Government, tiic Government must triumph and slavery perish. The institution of slavery made the issue^and we mignt as well meet it like wise and patriotic j and honest men. All institutions must'be | subordinate to the Goveftiment, and slavery J has given way. lie could not if lie would remand it to its former status, lie knew that; some whom he now addressed looked upon him as a greauTcople's man gnd a radii.nl. Uut' { how eve^Rilcasant it. might be to them, be | had no hesitation in. saying that before and . after he entered the1 jpublic life lie was opposed ! to monopolies and perpetuities and entails, i " For this be used to bo denounced as a dema- j gogue.- W5 had t monopoly art' the South hi j /- slaves. Tlmigb he had- bought and held j Slaves, he hod never sold one. From Magna j L. harta we hid derived our ideas of freedom of "speech, liberty of the press and -unreasonable J

Pres. Johnson asked the delegation to subrait whom they would prefer to hare'as Pro- ^ ' visional Governor. , To this they replied they had a list-of five "... men, viz: Ailren, Mclllily, Beyce, Col. Mbn- ^ v- ' ^ ning, late Governor, and B. F. Perry. All of ' * them were spoken- of as- good meB, but who; ? *$ >t' liad been more or less involved in the rebellion. Mr. Pcrrv was a District Judge in the Confed* ^ . /: eracy,- until a few weeks before it collasped arid is said to have always been a goodJUnion man ' ; *r - 0 and a gentleman ofatriet integrity. The jpco^- \ ?$$''"' pie certainly would respect him, and he coulds'- * '( *\?r not fail to be acceptable. ( * '*> The President said he knew Benjamin ? Perry well, having served with him id Congress. . ' #

Mr. Holmesasked?Is not that altogether accomplished ?.' The President replied that he did not think the <|Ucation fullv settled. The question as to whether the black man shall be engrafted in the Constitution will he settled.as we go along, lie would not disguise the fact that while he had been persecuted and deuounccd at the South as a traitor, lie loved the great mass of the Southern people. lie opposed the rebellion at its breaking, and iought it everywhere, and now wanted the principles of the Govcrnmcoi carried out and maintained. Mr. Holmes interrupted by saying; We" want to get back to the same position as you describe, as we are with out law, no courts are opened, and you have the power to assist us. The President replied that the Government "nniint tm rti! nnlnss it iq hasPfl nil vifrht- The