The Daily Phoenix

The New York World, commenting upon Gov. Perry's recent letter, says,

"WHERE THE BLAME BELONGS. - The statements made from time to time in these columns of the causes of the disturbances occurring in some parts of the South, and more particularly in South Carolina, are borne out by the letter we republish herewith, written by one who has hitherto been regarded as among the calmest and most practical of the South Carolina statesmen. Governor Perry was one of the few public men in that State who vigorously opposed secession, his Union record was unimpeachable, and it was into his hands that the United States Government placed the control of the State the instant the war was over. When such a man arraigns the policy of Governor Scott and the radicals in South Carolina, it cannot be urged that this is another effort of the ex-Confederates to confuse the subject and shift the blame of the recent troubles from their own shoulders to those of their political opponents. Governor Perry's letter sets forth the true condition of the State, plundered by Northern adventurers and raided over by an ignorant and insolent negro militia. If the good people in this part of the Union, who think Butler's Ku Klux legislation for the South is necessary, will imagine a Governor of New York or Massachusetts arming the savages in their midst and refusing arms to all who possess a spark of intelligence or a dollar's worth of property, and the consequences that are likely to flow from such a discrimination, they may, perhaps, realize how much they have misjudged the facts in the case. Under a similar condition of affairs here we would be very likely to feel, with Governor Perry, that there is a point beyond which human endurance cannot go, let the consequences be what they may."