The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-11-15
From the Columbia Telegraph.
MEETING IN FAIRFIELD.

| From the Columbia Telegraph.
MEETING IN FAIRFIELD.
NOVEMBER 6, 9 p. m.
DEAR SIR: hasten to give you the result
of the Fairfield Southern safety movement
At IL NJ, today, one OF the most respectable
meetings, in point of numbers and intelligence,
have ever seen, assembled in the Court House
at Winnsboro'. After the usual prelminarIes
had been gone through, Preamble and Reso-
Iu,ions, expressive Of the sense of the meeting
on the grave subjects which had called them
together, was reported by the committee OF
twent; one appointed for the purpose. As
these Resolutions will soon be furnished tor the
press, il is unnecessary to nntlce 'h'm iur'her
than to say they embody the true ooulhern
spirit. The Resolutions were opposed oy
Messrs Rutland and Buchanan, two promising
young lawyers, as premature and not indicating
the proper course Of action. They were re.
piled 10 by Gen. Means, in one of,he most elo.
quent and convincing arguments have ever
listened to. He was ably sustained by Mcssrs.
Mccall, Black, and Elliott. Upon the final
passage Of the resolutions, there was but Two
dissenting voices out ofthe immense crowd
there assembled. 1t is but jus, 10 the two gen.
temen opposing the resolutions 10 state that
they avowed their readiness, when the proper
time came, 10 20 as far as any one in defence
of our rights and our institutions. So too OF The
two gentlemen who voted against the hnal
passage Of the resolutions. We may differ as
to time and The mode Of action, hut there can
be no difference among US as to the extent oi
the wrong.
You, my dear sir, know how Respondent
have been upon this subject. will despond
no longer. have never seen so much enthu.
siasm at any meeting upon any s'bject as this
The people, the unpurchasrd people, were
there in their strength, showing by their inter
es, in the proceedings, their unallerable deter.
mination TO stand ny the Constitution, and their
rights under that Constitution. 1t would have
cheered your dropping spirits to have been there
and witness the harmony between Democrats
and Wings, Cass men and anti. Cass men, Tay.
lor men, all sacrificing their prejudices and
political Differences upon the altar of the public
good. Let this spirit pervade all sections OF
the South, and she will yet be regenera'ed and
disenthralled. The spirit which animated
glorious ancestry still nesIcs in The bosons oi
our people. II is "not dead. but sleepeth. -
Let but Virginia or the Old North State or
Georgia. whose gallant sons once threw down
the gauntlet ofdefance to the insolence OF power
and stayed the strong arm Of the Federal Gov.
ernment, but lead off in his matter, and my life
UPON it, South Carolina will I've there. In a
great cause like this, the "post of honor is
private station" We covet no other. pat.
riot who fights for his country, fights as braveIy
in the ranks as at the head of a division. Yet
should our CO. Estates of the South fail rs in the
hour of ulinost-need-shal we tamely submit
to an act of damnabe injustice and wrong, he.
cause we may stand alone! God forbid. We
ask the CO operation Of our suffering allies; we
ask them 10 lead of in the contest-will they
do il? Who can doubt itl A common sense OF
injury will bring about common srugg le, and
the Constitution will ye, be preserved, and
the rights of the South maintained.
Yours, 4 DEMOCRAT.
GALLANTRY OF AN AMERICAN WHALEMAN.
"A citizen of New. Bedford furnishes the
Washington Union with the following record
of the eallaniry of the officers and crew OF an
American Whaer:
You have recorded in your columns repeated
instances Of American valor and hardihood ex.
bibied during the late war. But few days
since, you noticed the affair Of San Jose, in
Lower California. About the same time, the
whale ship Magnolia, Capt. B. Simmons, be-.
longing to Charles w. Morgan, Esq, OF this
city, arrived in port with full cargo. The
incidents connected wilh her voyage along the
California coast possesses so much interest, dis.
play the energy, promtilude, and courage oi The
American character, together with the patriotic
spirit of our seamen, to such degree, that up.
on becoming acquainted with them, resolved
10 communicate them TO your paper.
As the Magnolia was proceeding down the
coast, at a considerable distance from San Jose,
she was hailed by two CT three launches, or
small vessels, full of people. Upon approach.
ing nearer, Capt. Simmons discovered that one
Of them contained the alcalde of San Jose, who
with others Of the best families of the town, had
taken refuge on board these boats. They in.
formed him that there had been an instruction
against the United Slales authority, and that
the Californians had pillaged the town and
committed numberless outrages, and were then
besieging the priests house, which was the
strongest in the place, and was occupied as n
fort by the Americans. II was commanded by
Lieut.. Haywood, and defended by only twenty
FIVE men. The alcalde further stated that there
had been much firing during the day and night
previous, and he knew he must have nearly ex-
iausted their ammunition, and must surrender
speedily unless immediate assistance was rem
dsred. Capt. Simmons, uponconsultaton with