The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-02-16
Correspondence Of The Mercury ,o,,
WasHtSeToS, Feb. Z, lo42.
SENATE.

one from citizens of Indiana, rayhhS
- take measures to complete the Euinoeiianu
Road in the States in which 1t mas oeel nm so';f-
menced. and continue 1t wcstWaIu M " 'he
r. oceon. one from Judge Mckinney SIa:!nS 1I
that tho Ninth Judicial Circuit OF the 9hneu
States has two-thirds more BUSINESS anu ot:e-
third more travel, than all the otnef eignt
cuts combined, and that law pe passeu ioi .ne
sonalization of service among the CIRCUITS; ST.
al from manufacturers OF New Jersey anu . ~ III
svlyania, stating that their business calihot ue
sustained I'M competition WIN the 1o.e: thO+
at With duty of 20 per cent, and asking that
- mo, bo increased; and several demonstrating
ar,;1st the repeal or postponement OF the BANK
ru2t Law. co,,o-nor of his State
h.5 .ronsmitted to him the proceedings OF the
au Iar;s,ature on the subject of the Distribution
~, consisting of Report and five NesolutioHs,
.L,aa of which were adopted unanimously, ana
al o,har two with but few dissetents, repud!-
-, ~. o'" thot measure. He would express his
aony;ct;on $50 that nineteen out of twenty, II not
n;netv.nine out of hundred of the citizens Oh
bis State were opposed to this unjust anu une :
constitutional law. 1t was to hlm source Vi
nrde to represent State which with such uiianl- IAN
In;tv had rejected this dangerous Drioe' lne
3 5aocnment was ordered to be printed.
NJ Calhoun said, he had received from the
800 source. the proceedings of his Legislature
on the subject of the controversy between tiie
States Of Virginia and New York, which ne ASK
~ u,;rbt he read The Report having Deen
re,d Mr G. said it would be seen that these
nroceedings grew out of a law passed oy tae
State of VIRGINIA as measure OF necessity 10
nrotect herself against the position assumed Dy
the State of New York, and that Sonth Caroli-
-. had hacked Virginia in the position sne as
smnned and had passed similar law. IL was
,,ot h;s nurnose to say word in vmdlcatlon OF
tho course pursued by these two States. III any
y;ndication were necessary, 1t was amply maze
by the yery able Report OF the Legislature just
read: but he rose to ask the earnest anu solemn
attention of the Senate, and especially OF eeha- !
TORS from the non-slave holding States, TO the
results of the course pursued by the Abolition |
lists. The present was suItaole ooeas'oi' "
do so, as it was one of the stages OF ts progress
Whatever doubt might have existed OF tle tell
dency of the Abolition movement at its origin'
there could be none now, that it would END In
the dissolution and overthrow OF the GOVERN
ment, if it was not arrested, anu sPeed'iy ar,es
ted He would pass over the result whicn nad
already to a considerable extent oeen produced
the estrangement of those who should be the
hest friends. and repeat his profound conviction,
that the inevitable tendency of the Abolition
was to destroy the union of these
States. Slavery in the South, was not simple
slavery, but political institution, and to her
the most important and essential of all others.
What was the object of Divine Providence IN
the two races together IN such
laroe and nearly equal numbers, 1t was not ior
them IN INQUIRE. There they were, ana IL was
onlv under the present relation OF master anu
.I,ye that thew could exist. Break that relation,
and the inevitable result must be, the expulsion
of or the destruction of one or the other by
force Tn this posture of affairs, what was the
course to he pursuel by the South! She must
nrotect and defend herself by all the means
ppIaced within her power by the Constitution,
Trbe communication between the North anu
the South has become dangerous to the lattel'
NOT because there was body of families IN tne
North. but because they WELD power sum
Gent to govern the legislation of some OF the
States in passing laws which affect the properly
and endanger the institutions OF the ooutn' anu
to counteract the mschievous tendency OF such
laws, the Legislature of Virginia has' WIN
consummate Judgment, moderation and patriot
ism, made such amendments to her ponce laws
as were rendered necessary, and South Caroll- !
ma has assumed position by her side. What
would be the result II the course now PuiSueu
by certain portions of the North should be per-
sisted in! Why just in proportion as the COM
munication between the two sections becomes
dangerous, the Southern States would move IN
a BODY, and pass laws restricting the intercourse
with the North, until the Communication would
be stopped altogether-by mail, as well as COM
mercial, for the same regulations Will De ap-
piled to stages, steamboats, and railroad cars
as to vessels navigating the ocean: This do they
would, and do they must He called upon gen
tlemen of the North, he appealed to them IN the
name of our common country and OF PATRIOTISM,
whether such state of things between the TWO
portions of this Union was desirable. lie re-
ferred to the proceedings in the other wing OF
the capitol; he referred to the proceedings OF
Convention of four hundred delegates recently
held in New York, in which the slaves OF the
Southern States were invited to leave their
masters, and the mode of doing it successfully,
pointed out to them, and they were promised
protection and assistance when they reached the
North. He would not comment on the mlsta-
ken views relative to the position OF the South
ern slaves which were entertained at the North
but would assert, without the fear OF contra
diction, that there was no body OF laborers IN
any portion of the world without the limits OF
the United States, who were so comfortable IN
their physical condition, or had so great pro-
portion of the avails of their labor applied to