The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-11-18

~ ought my iTICniS' E"T', u ah'eTl
to what has appeared in all The l'a?"rS "t
the Administration party il relation II ny
visit to Vireinia. 1t is the cry that State
Governments will not he SAT-: ii Yuu al
nit Northern men 10 have any ;;ra-
bic share in the councils rf iic Genera!
Government. hive u.,'n, have always.
where had an opportunity, .alk"d ab"ut
this matter, anl those domestic ins;tu-
tions of the South To whc: il is intend
ed TO refer. Years ago, uttered my
sentiments in regard to slavery, and
hold /" the same opirioms up to this hour.
then said that it was against all prctence
that Congress had the right to interfere in
the question Of slavery in the South
Cheers.
These are also the sentiments which
have since uttered; tie same sentiments
which uttered in Worcester, in my own
State, in.July last. Cheers.
now ask my friends here to read
published speech Of mine upon this sub
jecl, Which delivered in my place in the
Senate, in January, 1880. | have no.
thing to add to what | then said on the
subject, nor have any thing to take back
from all that has been said by me on that
subject. But have one word to say to
you, my friends, upon this important to-
pic; and it is to repeat my desire that you
will read what have before spoken, and
that you will remember what | now say,
that hold by the Constitution of the U.
States, that is Congress is absolutely pre-
cluded from interfering in any manner
directly, or indirectly, with theinstitution
of slavery, or with any other State lnstl-
tuition. Loud cheers, and cries Of "say
that again!"]
Well, Twill say it again, and | wish
you 10 remember what | say. | will re-
peat t-and wish you to tell it wherever
you go-spread it abroad upon the wings
of the win'l, that /, Daniel Webster.
here, in the front of the capitol Of Virgil
nia-in the month of October, 1870
with yon October sun shining full upon
me-in the midst Of this assembly y-be-
fore the couutry--and with all the res
possibility that attaches to me--or to my
name iii any way-Geclare, that there is
no power either in Congress 'or the Gen
eral Government, in the slightest degree
TO interfere with the institution of Domes.
tic Slavery! Tremendous cheering, and
cries of "That's two thousand votes for
Hsrrison."]
We wish that Mr.. Webster had not
given too much cause 10 suspect him OF
insncerly in this declaration. Had he
no eye in the making of it 10 those "lwo
thousand votes for HARRISON" echoed
back from the audience? Ii looks susp-
cious. We cannot forget the pertinacity
with which Mr.. Webster has ever aIyoca-
ted the discussion and reporting on Aboli-
lion petitions in Congress; we cannot for
get that he vo,ed against Mr. Calhoun's
celebrated Resolutions on this subjcct.--'
But MIR. Webster himself has surely for
gotten that it is not now three years since
he declared in the Senate that Congress
could prohibit the removal Of slave pro-
perty from State TO State--or as the Abo-
litionists and MIR. Webster called it, the
slave trade between the States. If this
be not maintaining the right of intel fer
cnce with slavery, we are at loss to ina
gine what would. But there is other evil
dence that IT.; declarations; bold and un-
conditional as it looks, is to be taken,
like MIR. Wcbster's Jeffcrsonian Democra-
cy, with caution and large allowances
Mark this sentence: "Congress is abso-
iusely precluded from interfering in any
manner, directly or indirectly, with the
institution of slavery, or Nth any other
State iaStitution.'
Any one who knows the history of the
the last Session, and has read Mr.. Web.
ster's speeches on the Bankrupt Law, will
see that the concluding words refer to the
banks, which he defended against the
operation of the proposed Bankrupt law,
on the ground that they were State nsti-
tutions and could not be subjected to the
operations of law of Congress, in which
we agree with him. But 10! Mr.. Web
ster's great quarrel with the Adminstra.
tion is that it will not interfere with the
Banks; that it will not create regulator
to control them and keep them frcm 60
ing too fast or too slow; that it will moi
"nationalize the currency" of the State
Backs, by concentrating their dispersed
and anorganized power in centre to be
established by the Federal Legislature.-
MIR. Webster's words, "precluded abso-
Iutely from interfering directly or Indirect
ty," he has himself expressly extended
TO every State institution 10 the Banks