The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-03-08
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.
WASHINGTON, March 4.


long a time, been the subject of anxious expec.
t.tior, is now before the public. Additional
intere st was given to it; delivery by the pres
ence. Of MIR. Cal!Icun, and his bri + predatory
rem arhs, before il MAS read by Mason. 10
Sc; ate chamber IS crowded, and never was
| any sp ech received with more r found atten-
lion. When Mr.. .lhoun appeared in tie
| chan bel, he WAS Immediately surrounded, and
coTGi lily eetcd bv Senators, among them Mr.
Webster n Mr.. kiag. Mr.. Calhoun looked
pile and enacia ed, but his eye was bright
and his smile as Pleasing as eve:.
You will see that Mr.. Calioun's view is not
that the Union i, coming suddenly to an end,
for that it will not fall before single blow; but
tn t agitation would gradually weaken and
break al! its lies. He tells us what will moi
save the Union, and what will save it. 1t will
not he saved by the Plan of the administration
nor by Mr.. Clay's plan. 1t is to be saved, he
says, by convincing the South that she can re-
main In the Union with safety and honor to do
justice by awarding to the South an equal right
in the acquired territory, and to do her duty by
securing the stipulations relative to fugitive
slaves to be faithfully fulflled-to save the az
itation of the slave question and to provide for
the insertion of provision in the constitution by
an amendment which will restore to the South
in substance the power it possessed of protect.
ing herself, before the equilibrium between tn
sections was destroyed, by the action eftis
government
| am really afraid that not one of these con-
ditions will be compelled with. As to change
ofthe Constitution, giving additional guarsn:
ties to the South. it is past praying TO-: The
fugitive slave bill may pass, but that will be CT
no effect without State Legislation.
Mr. Calhoun thinks, and so does every one,
that if the question be not now settled, it proba-
bly, never can be. He wants the majority to
say whether they will settle the question on the
broad ground of Justice and duty, or not; and
if not, to let the States separate i'll peace. But
ifthe North should reduce the question t. sub
mission or resistance-if they will not suffera
peaceable separation, he wishes thatto beknown.
Here is the gift of Mr.. Calhoun's speech:-
Silence, he says, will compels to infer what you
intend. "ln that case, California will become
the test question:" Upon this last remark hangs
long and fearful chapter in our Congressional
history Almost every Southern member will
adopt Mr.. Calhoun's general views; and the ad.
mission Of California is not to take place with.
out fearful struggle, that will convulse the
Union. That struggle will, appreheud, BE-
commenced in Congress by repetition of the
scenes of Monday fortnight.
Mappily Mr.. Doty, in fulhln,ent Of the under,
standing OF last "Wednesday, withdrew bis res
olution this mo ming, as soon as the journal was
lead, / do not anticipate any disorganizing
measures for long time.
The accident which happened the Smithsoni.
an building is said to be accounted for, without
supposiug that it will be unsafe hereafter. Ion.
FANArICIsM CAN GO NO FURTHEE.-Our readers
will rccollect the beautiful lines which Senator
Dickinson quoted in his eloquent speech:
"Thou, too, soil on o Ship of State.''
They were extracted from long and admirable
poem on the union of the States, by Professor
LongfclIow Will it be believed that at meeting
of Garrison and his tanalical crew, held lately at
Faneu Hail. tthc cradle OF our liberlies) the fol-
lowing resolution was passed "with much ap-
pausp, mingled with Kisses !"-Wash. UniUn.
Resolced, That it is wi h deep regret we per-
ceive that the poet Longie!ow has prostitutcd his
fine poetica genius TO euogize the bood-stained
American Union, as freighted with the hopes and
interests of humanity-as being noble ship, i'll
vulnerable to the rock, and proof against the
Storm built in the most skful and wOrkmanlike
manner; whereas the history ofts creation and its
cruise demonstrate it to have been
'.-a peridious bnrk,
Built i the eclipse. and rugged with curses dark,
rotting through all her tmbers, leaking from stem
to stern, laboring heavily on storrn-tossed sea,
surrounded by cloud OF disastrous portent nav-
gated by those whose object is piratcal one,
(namely, the eXtelision ard perpetuity Of saveryD
and destined to 90 down full many fathom
Deep to the Joy and exutaion of all who are
yearning for the dc'iverance OF groaning world.
Another Posr OFFICE GRIEvANcE.-The
Richmond Wing complains that the letters by
the Niagara, which ought to have arrived there
ON the evening of the Sd instant did not reach
there until the evening of the 4th. The Wing
very properly calls the Postmaster Generals
attention to the subject, and adds:
1T is justly considered great grievance by
this commercial community. The cause of it
is, that the postmaster in New York, caring
about nothing but that city, lays aside the mails
due south until he has distributed the whole OF
the New York mail And by that time, the
Southern cars arc gone--and the matter for the
south has to remain for another day."
The detention of the steamers letters is felt