The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-03-28

term, that compliances, if not sacrifices,
would not be required from him, to Sc.
cure Abolition votes for second term,
Does political history show that sacrifices
of this character are never offered at the
shrine Of ofice-that the surrender of
personal opinion is never made the condi-
ton of future and indispensable support
from party powerful enough to turn the
popular scale!
Now, let US admit, for the sake of ar
gument, that both candidates stand before
the people of the South with equal claims
to their support, as relates to Southern
interests: Mr.. Van Buren, is the actual in
cumbent, and we have tried him by all
the tests that determine political frmness.
We have measured the stature Of his mind
and found it Of the proper proportions
The question to be resolved, then, is,
shall ne be sustained for second term,
having no concessions to make, as the
condition of future support, or shall Gen.
Harrison receive any portion of the South.
ern votes, who is yet to- be tested as to
his moral and intellectual capability, and
who, if he succeeds, will necessarily
have to conciliate opposition by various
compliances, to secure votes for second
term! On which side is the most risk!
Do the Southern people hazard less by
continuing support toaa trsd,pr .untried
Statesman-to one who is about to enter
on the last term of his official existence,
as Chief Executive, or one who aspires to
clothe himself with the attributes of this
high office for the first time. The people
of the South have sufficient sagacity to re.
solve the question for themselves, when
ever their minds are turned into the pro.
per channel on this great subject.
Snake Story.-A huge black snake was
recently killed in this State upwards Of
thirty feet long. On opening him he was
found to contain two squirrels, five birds,
and two young negroes!-Miss. Paper.
Nothing to one that was killed in this
vicinity, measuring upwards of forty rods.
Our snake, on being opened, contained
family Bible, the .unexpired lease of a
three story brick house in RoyaI-street,
three boxes of Peters Pills with direc.
tions, an unfinished mile of the Nashville
Railroad, three stray horses, three pack
ages Of tickets in The Grand Lottery, a
Dulll music grinder with his barrel organ.
plan of the city of Uncle Sam, lost since
1887, and pair of peg boots which the
owner is respectfully requested to prove
and take away When you can tell of
bigger snake story we'll try again.-Pica-
yWnc.
. '-"S SAL" said tall raw boned Yankee to
his sweet heart, 81. hope to be goshbusti-
tiedly chcwcd up, if don't love you so
want TO eat you up"
John Randolph's opinion Of Henry Clay.
Tho Washington Correspondent of the
Baltimore Republican, writes to tha. paper
as follows:
"The late John Randolph, of Roanoke,
was a keen and close observer. man who
scanned the objects of men minutely, and
found no difficulty in defining them. Some
years before he died, he said that it was
plain, that one of the first & dearest objects
OF MIR. Clay's heart was the political des- !!
truction Of Mr.. Calhoun: aud mark me, said
ne to Eiend in Loudon, who day or two
after reported the remark to me, he will
follow Calhoun to the grave, and beyond
it, if he outlives him, and will riot among
his ashes. His detestation is inveterate
and uncompromising, and it never will be
A Curious Grist-4 Yankee, who mi.
grated, some twenty years since to Illinois,
.'"''-c" the following inoeniaus substitute
for grist mill. At the foot of faIIin a
small stream, he drove down crotch stick;
he placed another horizontally about eight
feet long, to one end of which he had fixed
pestlc, and on the other bucket. The
water faom the fall filled the bucket, car.
ryng that down and raising the pestle.-
Near the ground he had driven peg, upon
which the one side of the bucket would
strike, capsize and empty itself, letting the
Pestlc fall into large Indian Mortar, con-
tanning the corn. In that way he made all
the mea! he used. One day, on returning
from his work to, his mortar, he found an
addition to the stock he put there, in the
shape of racoon, with was pouded up,
hide, hair and bones, with the corn, to a
slmilitude in consistency, work.house soup.
The coon mt observing any thing to in
terfere with his intentions in reference 10