The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-01-17
MORE TROUBLE AHEAD.

| MORE 1RUUbLc AaEaD.
When Madame Roland, the celebrated
daughter of Neckar, was carried to the place OF
execution in France, during the revolution OF
1898, in passing by the statue Of liberty she
exclaimed in spirit of truth and admonlion,
80, liberty, hop many crimes are committed IN
thy name'" So we may truly say of the poIit.
cal aholitionists in Congress, who with liberty
on their tongue and anarchy in their hearts,
are striving to pull down and destroy the only
free republic on earth, by separating and tear
ing asunder the links that unite the confedrracy
of siatcs-:he great legacy bequeathed to lis by
the blood and sufferings Of our revolutionary
fathers. Liberty is like religion: it should not
be made The cloak to fanaticisnl, or persecu.
tion, or political intrigue-neilher should the
freedom of all the slaves on earth he permitted
Tor one instant to endanger the social rights, The
free institutions, and enlarged blessings which
republican governm nts confer on all mankind.
We know the history Of aboltion-we know
the men connected with it. We have grown
up with them, and know their motives to be
empty and hypocritical as far as humanity is
concerned 1t is is the old political haired
against the south. only whispered when follow
ed by the indignation Of the people; but now
openly avowed, when political intrigue has
given them the vantage grand. What is sa.
very in the District Of Columbia? A mere
name. Its limited number Of slaves are no
more than domestics, with every privilege and
every comfort Liberty and humanity have no
agency in the present movement. II IS deep
seated fanacs,n and POLITICAL hatred to the
south; and the people, who are not mixed up IN
the question, but have everything at stake in
the perpetuity of the Union, in its domestic
prosperity and happiness, should he rallied to
the rescue in every state, and Union party
established to save the Union-a party which
snail take precedence Of all others. Remon-
STRANGE, PRAYERS. entreaties, and solicitations
are met with insolent taunls and insulting def.
ance. What remains to be done! For the
south to leave their seats in Congress-! That is
precisely what the abolition party is most desr-
Gus OF seeing accomplished.
| A southern convention, fully represented,
must necessarily grow out of this stale OF things
We think we know the people Of the United
States; and the morent they can be brought
to view the whole subject, divested Of the fc-
tlious sympathy which surrounds it, and see the
danger which threatens the Union the moment
they see The south moving in defence Of their
constitutional rights-tbey also will move in
their strength, and the tall of the aboitionists
in every State will be as prompt and sudden as
their rise. Freedom ard slavery are mere
names TO cover deep and designing objects
Southern slavery grew out Of the cupidity Of
| the north from the very abolilionisis who are
living ut this day on the wealth accumulated
| by their ancestors from the African slave trade.
The mischief is here, and they brought il here.
The south is the victim. They invested their
money in the northern speculation Of slaves,
and the cultivation Of the sol! can only be &C.
cornplished by slave labor. EmanciPate them,
and the southern States are ruined, as the West
Indian colonies now are. Keeping the south
ern States in the Union by conpulson, by fire
and sword and by civil war, is what the dis.
unionists never can do, and what never can be
accomplished. Suppose the original declara.
,ion of the Hartford Convention is carried into
effect-"1he Potomac the boundary-the negro
States By themselves" what at this day is the
wish Of the abolition pary-what is 10 become
Of us here in the north? A southern conftder
acY, producing all the agricultural wealth ofthe
country-reacbing from the Potomac, the de.
sinnated boundary, to the Pacifc-carryng
with it the immense internal trade Of the Mis-.
.;ssi,n; a-l the urea, lakes-estabIishing trea.
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