The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-11-07
THE GAME OF THE FREE soILERs.

ern satety-but they will find that they are
building their hopes on quicksand.
That the Wilmot Proviso per Sc, for all prac.
tical purposes will be henceiorth abandoned by
the political wire.pullers, or used only as
sbu,tiecock in the lower House, is not impro.
bable--Eor The Northern agitators have found
firm platform on the Free Soil dogmas, based
on principles equally deiusive and dangerous.
Let any man analyze the principles proclaimed
by that faction, which now has succeeded in
gaining tho ear Of the Northern people, and he
will find that they tend to the destruction ot all
properlv-al settled government-all cons'itu
tional euaranti-s-all conservative ateg,iards
and down through wetering anarchy to
that worst reign of terror, Moi law, and gov.
ernment Of numbers alone. The Frrnch ia
cohins never in the maddest period oflheir fren.
zied folly advocated more level!ing and radical
doctrines. than those hidden by john Van Bu.
rem and his allies under the specious and sound
ing ca,chwurd of Free Soil. And what is the
object that these men propose TO gain to them
selves? They design 10 rule or ruin-thelr
aims are "a selfish As their professions are false.
The WiImot Proviso has been used only as The
ladder by which they have climbed up to their
present hademiuence and they can now afford to
kick il away. for they need its prop no longer.
The cant.of Abolition, which they at first used,
has long since been dropped for they are sure
of the aid ofhose fanatics in anyf;e'nonstra''ons
against the South: and the political purposes
which have actuaied the Who'll" movement now
stand revealed in the broad light OF day.
The power of the Southern States Is to be
broken-,heir area circumscribed-the value oil
their property iminished-all further accession
either ofterritory or consequent increase OF po.
litical representation to he prevented-and
while the North grows stronger each year, The
South is to he starved into submission to her
sovereign will and authority. Already the
leaders of the Free Sellers are coo'ly calcula.
ting on the possibility of dispensing altogether
with the aid of the Southern membrls in carry.
ING out their projects of personal asgrandize.
ment--and confident Of union among them.
selves, counting largely on our divisions 10
make US their easy prey.
The Editor of the Cleveland Plaindedler
(their s,aunch ally) thus reveals the hopes and
wishes ofthe New York Free Soilers-addng
thereto the expression ofhs own feelings. He
says:
81 have had personal interviews with John
Van Buren, Preston King, Judge Nyr, Ed.
Crosswel of the Argus, Van Dyke Oft the Atlas,
and am sa, isfied that it is no sham, and that a
permanen, union is affected. We look upon
this State as redeemed. and permanently SO,
and that in '52 and hencetorlh she will be found
first in the grand list of Democrats. With Ohio
as our own, we can very well spare South Caro-.
lea, Georgia, Alabama. and Mississippi to the
Slave propagandsts. and we hope in God they
will put the great Democratic party under no
obligations to them in future by voting the
Democratic ticket.
"Benton will force Missouri into right posi-
tion, and Virginia will be ours till old Father
Richie bolts, which will not be in this world,
nor The world TO come, for he has nowhere else
10 90. Counting Pennsylvania, ace haue electo.
raj potes enough 10 elect President and control
thepolicy Of the country ''ahout another South.
ern Stale"
The lines we have italicised comprise the
real policy Of the Free Soil fac,ion--whether
its members claim affinity to it as Wings or
Democrats for both are fighting for precedence
in its ranks--it is a spoils party most emPhati
cay, and bound together by the hope Of plum.
der will trample on the Constitution, and risk
a civil war to put its threats into execution.
The attempt ofthe Plaindealer to identify the
Democratic with the Free Soil party shows the
card he is playing for The leaders and the rank
and fiIe of the Northern Wings are as good
Free Sellers rs he is--and rs insolently repu.
date the alliance OF what they are pleased to
term "savery propasandis,s." Nay. the srea,
"Danel" himself proclaimed some time since
that the Wing party of Massachusetts always
had occupied that plaform-and the orthodoxy
OF Thomas Corwin or Judge Mclean in tina,
political church, is equal to that Of Van Buren,
or of Benton.
Bu, this very fact Of the eageruess Of each
party a, the North to claim superior orthodoxy
on this point, and to vie in regulating South.
ern support or sympathy, must impress more
strongly than ever in the Southern mind the
vital necessity Of united and concerted action
throughout the entire South to rosist this or
ganzpd assault, and to prntect and preserve in.
violate the equality Of the Southern States and
Southern people. both of which are now by
every covert art and open assault most maiig
nantly and baseIy assaied bv the mongrel crew
that composes the army Of Free Soil.
Against this borde Of venal spoils.men, rabid
fanatics and deluded dupss, the South can oppose
the weapons cf truth. reason and djustice.
Let her but present An undivided front in our
National Councils and at home, and all will he
well. Ifshe does not the doom of jerusalem
whose sons would return from a triumphant
repnlse of the Roman egions to renew civil
strife among thcmselves-will also be that of
the South.
Heroic as was that defence. internal discorls
brought down the ruin which their desperate
valor else had averted: verifying then, as ever
since, the maxim. that a house diriaed against
itself must fall. MAY second and as signal