The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-06-21

It was unanimously agreed to as sonnd Demo.
cratic doctrine, and rs deserved compliment
10 Mr., Polk. When the commtiPe mel the
next morning the first proposition made was to
reconsider that amendment, and To strike il our.
enquired why! 1t had been admitted 10 be
rood Democratic doctrine the night lrsorr! The
answer was. Gen Cass voted against that
veto of Mr.. Polk, and if we put this in we will
condemn our nominerT
These virtuous. piIitcans-these trustworthy
representatives Of Democracy--had discovered
by morning that the avowaI Of a truth would put
an error to blush?-ihat the praise OF patriot
would be the condemnation nt political here.
tic!
The vote was not rrconsidered-bnt il was.
as Mr.. Y. firmly believed, because it was 10"
barefaced even for that body-but that il this
idea that Cass had voted against Mr.. Folks
Veto had been thought of before the amendment
was adopted, it never would have graced those
resolutions. As it is, it will indeed become
thorn in the side of the nominee!
There were several other equally apposI'e
illustrations of the want of principle which ac-
lua,ed the Democratic National Convention in.
stanced by the speaker; but the above Will
suffice as sufficiently characteristic.
MIR. Yancey went on to say that thus cut on
from enter aiming any hopes of justice being
done 10 us by the National Democratic Party,
what were we 10 do? Certainly we had nothing
to hope from the great Wing Party. II had
always been opposed TO us-and always, from
its principles and the locality Of its masses, must
continue to be 50. Even Gen. Taylor,
Southern man, and Shareholder, to get lis nomi.
nation, had to write that unhappy Alison letter.
thus deprive himself OF any positive power as
an Executive officer to do good in the event OF
what we conceive to he unconstitutional lrgis.
Iaton-and in which, SO strong is the spirit of
opposition to The South in the Wing ranks gen.
! orally, he had to blink this most vital of all the
questions of the day
Our hope, fellow citizens, said Mr.. T., is in
ourselvrs-in our own u7purchasable energies
in our own incorruptbe nlegrily-n the Peo.
pie of the whole South. They will be true to
themselves. With this great Southern princi.
pie as nucleus, let us call upon The South to
rally to one man-o meet in their primary as
semblies-to meet in Southern Conrenti"n-to
consult and agree upon ticket for President
and Vice President which shall he acceptable
TO ALL by reason OF its talent-s rurity-its devo
ton TO the Constitution. This is The end we
should aim at | would not advi-e that 10 he
recommended here. however, at this meeting.
Your resolutions, believe, are now sufficient
for the moment. You should lose no time in
declaring your denunciation oi the nomiree OF
the Baltimore Convention, and of the utter dis.
regard OF principles exhibited by that body
You should lose no time in rc.asscrting in deci
ded tones the high position which you design to
occupy; leaving to future consultation with your
fellow Citizens of the South the nomination OF
ticket, and the manner in which that nomina-
ton should be expressed and made known.
Mr.. T. said that in the Democratic Conrrn.
ton he had acted as an instructed delegate of
the Alabama Democracy. He believed no one
could point on, in wha, he had departed from
those instructions in single io,a. He had
been instructed, and he had pledged himself 10
his brother members ofthe Alabama Conven-
| iion .'undrr no political necessity whatevrr 10
support for the Offices of President anil vice.
President any persons who were in favor "l
either of the forms nfexcluIing slavery from The
Territories" which hr had been commenting
npon As for himself and one other from Ala
hama, whose name (Mr. Wray) deserved to be
mentioned in honor whenever Southern men
spoke of their defenders, they had adhered to
that pledge. and wonId a'here TO it. He be
licved his State would do sn-that Florida
would do so; and that the adherence would prove
to lie contagious, and would spread like the cir.
cing waves upon the bosom Of a placid lake in
to which a pebble was dropped, uatil it had
covered the face Of the whole South, and had
rolled over its entire population. The cause IS
that Of our country. 1t is, too, just cause. and
the God who controls the dcs,inirs of nations
would. in his own Aise way, see to it that 1t
should achieve noble triumph.