The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-05-30
From the N. Y. Herald, January 30.

Z OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TO THE U.
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- We publish in our columns to-day. The ia.
nous Southern manifesto prepared by Mr. Ca',
Sinun, Of South Carolina, (he separate paper "t
Mr.. Berrien is almost iden,ical,) and issued nn'
der the appreciation Of large portion ot ,ne
/, present Congress, sitting at Washington. we
also published, in the same connection, and rs
&, accompanime Mt, very curious and remark
able speech delivered by Elk Governor Seward
oftbis State, at Cleveland, in Ohio, in the mon'n
OF October last.
So Mr.. CaIhoun's manifesto on the Aggrrsslons
made by the North on Southern institutions,
Z and Mr.. Stewards speech and declarations, de.
9 clarine the purposes and principles OF the party
with which he is connected at the North, Will
thus be seen to he part and parcel OF the same
agitation and the same disturbing controversy,
which, for tho first time since the revonIon'
: now seriously menaces the permanence OF TINS
. ,confederacy. We desire our readers to peruse
both with care and attention.
Ia; The manifesto written by Mr.. Calhoun, has
7 .been very much commented upon by the news
: paper press. Since the Southern members
held their first meeting in Washington, for the
purpose of maturing such paper and issuing !,
10 the Southern States Mr.. Calhoun placed
himself at once in the front rank, as champ''
ta,issof Southern institutions. This won'u o'
$ course excite the jealousy Of many OF his col
alleagues who would on that account naturally
9 endeavor TO misrepresent and misstate the po.
si,ioas assumed by the writer, and the principles
: which he declares before their coming TO light
: Northern newspapers, il appears, have been
fill of missstatements, and Mr.. Calhoun ana
s. his associates have been accused OF entertain
! Ing, deliberately, the purpose of dissovins the
Union, without any justiiable cause being
merely urged to such purpose by his own ex
ageeraiions of Northern movements. 1t is now
evident however, from the facts as they appear
in both of the documents which we now publish
that Of Mr.. Calhoun and that Of ex Governor
> Seaward-that the allegations made ny Mr..
Calhoun in his manifesto against the agSres.
sons of the North, are correct in every paT'lc-
ular. Read carefully the speech delivered ny
Mr.. Seward, at Cleveland. in the month OF
October last, and there will be found calm
y ss.and deliberate purpose announced' under 'ne
pretence of humanity, to interfere with those
Southern Interests have been guaranteed solemn
~ by the constitution, and which have been
projected under II for the last century. The al
legations made by Mr.. Calhoun, that Northern
legislation has violated the federal compact, IS
! Completely made out by the declarations and a.
vowed purposes of ex Governor Seward. In
the city Of Cleveland, Ohio Mr.. Seward made
these declarations and avowed those purposes
which ifcarried out to the extent so broadly
marked, would at once violate, still further, the
Constitution of the United States. and above all
things, bring abou, an early and certain dis.
ruption between the North and the South
The advice which he gives to the local Legs.
lat,ire of Ohio, relative TO fugitive slaves, w"'lld
clearly and emphaticallybc, il carried out an
iBfraction ofthe Constitution as il now exists,
between the North and the South The gen.
eral avowal also made, of elevating the co!ored
race to perfect equality with the whites, over
fhe whole OF this Confederacy, is the particular
feature which distinguishes this remarkable
speech of Mr.. Seward.
Now, with these remarkable and striking
documents before US it is perfectly clear that Mr.
Calhoun and the other Southern members in
Congress who have issued the Southern man.
iiesto, are perfectly justified under the Consii-
tuition, in making the declarations which they
have made, and in pointing out aggrcssions
which have been attempted by Northern ana'
tics on Southern rights, in violation OF the Con.
siitu,ion. We do not wish to enter into any
discussion on the abstract question OF slavery,
Tas applied to the African race. As long as the
union of these States remains intact under the
present Constitution, such question in relation
10 The colored population of the South is not
oFen for public discussion. The Northern
States, in becoming members of the Contedera-
cy, and parties to that instrument, pledged their
faith, and their honor to certain conditions in
reference to particular class Of the population
of the Southern States. As long as that Con.
stiiution exis,st those privileges must be adhered
q TO by all public men in the North as well as
the South. Those who would get up and make
such gross aud open atlemp, to counsel other
wise, as Mr.. Seward did at Cleveland and else.
where, last summer, must be characterised and
a.. sci down as either double faced demagogues OF
the worst shape. or as determined and resolute in
purpose Of bringing about speedy and ea'ly
disruption ofthe Union between the Northern
and Southern States. There is no escape from
such an alternative.
Such is the present condition of this very crit.
ical and very important question between North.
r err and Southern feelings. II is the first time
in the history Of this Republic that such crisis
has been produced 10y the agitation Of questions
in both sections that only lead to violation Of
r the Constitution on the one hand and CON-
ple,e disruption of,he Confederacy on the 9th,
or.
= What, then, is TO be done? Have Mr.. Cal.
) houn and his associates oycr.estimated the i'm
;sportance of the c'sis? Certainly not. The
i course OF Mr.. Seward and the faction Of Aboli-
tionisis attached to his fortunes in this and the
other States, will slowly but surely bring about
that castrophe which all would deplore, ifthe