The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-11-15

pointed:-Gen. d. F. Jamson, Capt. Jacob
Stroman. Capt. Donald Rowe, Capt. p. s. Jen.
s1nincs. Major d. ]. Rumph, Col. w. L. Lewis,
Cant. Murray Robson, DR.. W. S. Rowe, J. g.
M'Michael, John H. Fielder. DR.. J. D. Rumph,
Col. 4. Or, J. J. Wannamaker. Thos. Oliver,
Capt. Lewis Fielder, Major D. S. Dannelly,
Capt. 0. NJ. Dantzler, Capt. d. Houser. J. J.
Andrews, Dr.. Benjamin Lewis, Henry Ellis,
L. E. Cooner, DIR. ]. H. Morgan, Capt. l.. E.
D. Bowman, Capt. V. d. V. Jamison.
During the absence of the Committee, Capt.
T. B. Whaley addressed the meeting; afer
which, the Committee through their Chair.
man, Zen. Jamison, made the following re.
port: sr-
-, The Committee appointed to take into con.
sideration the continued agitation by Congress
Of the question of slavery. what checks can be
interposed to prevent such attacks upon the
character and institutions Of the South; and it
that cannot be prevented, to declare what ,;and
they are now prepared to take on this most I'm.
portant subject, beg leave to submit the fol.
lowing Report and the accompanying Resolu-
tions:
The time has arrived when the slaveholding
States ofthis confederacy must take decided &C.
,tion upon the continued attacks of the North
against their domestic institutions, or submit in
silence to that huma;ng proposition in The
opinions of mankind that longer acquiescence
must Inevitably reduce them. Forbearance Is
often virtue with nations as with individuals,
but when il involves the loss Of position or
character in either, il is base, dishonorahle sub.
mission. Ifthe South will permit The Cons'i'
tuition to be trampled under foot-if she is
willing to become fixed minority, used ONLY
10 assist in registering edicts for jealous, hos
tile and unjust majority, who admit no rule to
govern but their own wills, and no measure
but the keenest conception of their own interest.
It is best that It should be known to US at once,
and that we should endeav,r TO accommodate
ourselves, as well as we may. to state OF things
so degrading. That such will he the inevita.
bic result of longer submission TO the incessant
attacks on our characters and institutions, your
Committee for moment doubt, unless the South
shall take firm and concerted action to prevent
Il. The agitation Of the subject OF slavery
commenced in the fana,ical murmurings Of a
few scattered aboli,ionists, to whom it was
long time confined; hut now il has swelled into
a torrent Of popular opinion at the North; it
has invaded the 6reside and the Church, the
press and the halls Of Legislation il has seized
upon the deliberations Of Congress, and at this
moment is sapping the foundations, and about
to overthrow the airest political structure that
the ingenuity Of man has ever devised.
The overt efforts Of abolitonism were con.
fned 70, long period to annoying applications
to Congress, under color of the pretended right
of petition-it has since directed the whole
weight of its malign influence against the an.
nexation of'rexas, and had we'll nigh cost 10
the country the loss Of that important province;
but emboIdened by success and the inaction of
the South, in an unjust and selfish spirit OF ma.
,ional agrarianism. it would now appropriate
the whole public domain. 1t might we'll have
been supposed that the undisturbed possession
of the whole OF Oregon Territory would have
satisfied the n-slavebolding States. This
they now hold, by the Incorporation Of the Or.
dinance of 1857 into the bill Of the last session
for establishing territorial government for
Oregon. That provision, however, was not
sustained by them from any apprehension that
fhe territory could ever be settled from the
States ofthe South, but il was intended as a
graiuitous insult to the Southern people, and
malignant and unjusti6able attack upon the in
ss;ta,ion of slavery.
The boundary between the slavehodug and
nea .slaveholding States was supposed to be
fixed by solemn compact on the two sections
known as the Missouri Compromise, and the
line of SO deg. 80 min. North latitude was u.
dopted as the limi, between them. Whatever
may be the opinions Of your Committee as to
the propriety ofthis compact, and of the con.
eessions made by The South to preserve the U.
II, bo So
disturbed, as it has been sanctioned by time and
long acquiescence; but beyond that, they would
not eoacede one inch, should it shatterthis con
federacy into thirty fragments. II is this further
concession that we are now called upon to make.
Indeed, no new line has ever been limited at.
We are called upon to give up the whole pub.
lie domsin 10 the ianatical cravings OF abolition.
ism and the unholy lust Of political power. A
territory, acquired by the whole country for the
use Of all, where treasure has been squandered
like chat, and Southern blood has been poured
out like water, is sought be appropriated by
one section, because the other chose to adhere
to an institution, held not only under the guar.
antees Of the constitution that brought this con.
federacy into existence but under the higher sane.
tion OF Heaven. Should we quietly fold our hands
under this assumption on the part of the non.
slaveholding States, the fate ofthe South is
sealed, the institution of slavery is gone, and
iis existence will be but question OF time
Are the Southern people prepared for such
base abandonment of their natural, social and
political rightsl Your Committee hope not
they believe it not. What, then, shall be the
remedy Your Committee are unwilling to an.
tcipaie what will be the result Of the combined
wisdom and joint action ofthe Southern portion
of the confederacy on this question; but as an
initiatory step to a concert of action on the part
Of the people ofSouth Carolina, they respect.
fully recommend for the adoption ofthis meeting
the following Resolutions:
Resolred, lst. That the continued agitation
oc iho &C sla l,. Tia r,oapla IL