The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-06-02

fee. Itwas then appreRended that MT:
Preston was wavering, and Gov: M'Daf-,
fe's denunciation ins.his message, against
a Carolinian taking Federal Office, atthsi
time, was significant But South Carolis
ns did not send back Mr.. Preston merely
to oppose men, whatsoever their position.
towards her principles; she always re-,
garded men nothing, principles epery-
thing; and while acting with the Wings
in opposition to Jackson, and the5earlier
part of Van guren's administration, she.
took care to let these bank and tarif.whigs
know that she was 1Dith them. not of them.
She did not identify herself with them.
that in their triumph she might share the
spoil. If she had sent Senator to op-
pose men, regardless of principles, it
would have been an act unworthy OF her,
and base Office for him, which no man Of
self respect could have accepted AT that
time the democratic party were deemed
stably secured in power. but whea they
rsked all by adopting Southern principles,
and leagued against them the powerful
money interest, the Northern stock inter-.
est and British influence, they then gave
the Wings the elements of their present
triumph: it then became the path of pre-
ferment for Southern man TO identify
himself with the wings. 1t was then that
South Car olina rallied to support the par
ty which incurred risk for the principles,
that the wings found her cast iron senli-
mel impracticable, unmaIleable. and taunt-
ed him for his folly in sacrificing himself
for principle, and were as surprised. as
above, when John C. Calhoun Showed
them that he was sent to Washington not
to oppose men, or join in making Presi.
denis. but TO maintain the interests Of
his State. Mr.. Calhoun proved then as
he had proved before, most inconvenient
colleague to more practicable nulliiers.
He would not bend, and his iufexibility
rebuked them from accommodating them-
selves to circumstances. He adhered rig
idly to Southern principles, refusing to
rise but by the triumph Of or princiI les;
all who adhered to these principles with
the same pertinacily, must have postponed
their hopes of Federal promotion, for the
probability of Southern triumph was re-
mole and doubtful. They were thus pre-
cluded from share in Federal honors,
and the limits of State were TOO narrow
for their ambition. They saw too that
should Southern principles triumph, the
chief honor must enure to Mr.. Calhoun,
as the unriealled champion Of those prin-.
ciples. He kept them back from promo.
lion abroad by his example Of fidelity TO.
his State--and they tried 10 break him
down at home. But when Mr.. Calhoun
acted, he knew our people-knew that
he risked nothing here; their principles
were as cast iron as his own. He was
safe here, and Mr.. Preston would have
been safe here had he stuck to our cause,
and not thinking more Of men than he
did Of principle deemed it "scrvile' to do
SO.
When Mr.. Preston speaks Of the "spoils
party" he means to adopt the old slang of
his present confederates, but it recoils
against himself. Wings are the .'spoils
party" which the '.venal" are tempted to
join. Witness the unprecedented rush Of
office seekers to Washington!
Mr.. Preston's "straightlorward course"
of which he boasts. is illustrated by his de.
claring at Columbia that Mr.. Clay was
not the man for him, or he the man for
Mr.. Clay, and then going straight to the
North, and lauding Henry Clay to the
skies, and ever since obsequiously echo.
ing his potential voice, ana obeying his
marching orders even when il came 10
dodging behind the Vice Presidents chair
for it. -. =.
tbs mere slang and not the fact, as lie
asserts, that the Sub.treasury system has
fallen. The ruin and huge dismay around
US is from the explosion Of the Banking
System, pampered as it has been by con-
nexions with the Government. The Sub
Treasury System has not failed, and the
only reason why. the Wings cannot get
along with it is that il is the honest sys.
TEN. Z
If Mr.. Preston's aversion to a National
Bank is not, as he says, increased by the
frightful results from the Bank Of the Uni.
ted States. He errs greatly il he supposes
that he can weaken with the people the
force Of that warning. by calling il mere
State Corporation. The people know that
the same elements which produced such
results in State Institution would have
caused them in national or federal one
and that the plague spot was upon the