The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-08-20
From the Daily Carolinian. !.
To the Hon. e. S. Foote, u. s. Senate:
CoLuMpIA. Aug. 70, II

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me.
have been waiting to see your report Of
Yourself in the Union, but not having been able
as vet to obtain it, am obliged to refer to 9th
er papers.
You attributed TO me the solemn declarations
Il refer for convenience to sort or summing
up in the report of one of yonr ilmumeTable anu
intolerable speeches, made cn the Sd of August,
and published in the Southern Press and other
papers) "that il Congress shall undertake to
admit California into the Union at all, South
Carolina will secetle from the Union, and seize
/. upon California, upon the mouth OF the MlsslS'
sinpi and blockade the Western States.
Il made no sach declarations. The report OF
my speech at Camden, which served you for
text, contained no such declarations. And You
of course knew perfectly well that you were
peverting the truth. =,
The report of my speech was prepared with
. out conspldugme by the secretary Of the meet.
3 ine at Camden, was never seen by hne mltI al
!. Ter its publication, (which was unexpected to
rine,l and being brief has encouraged you to use
Your petty articles Of distortion. But the re-
port, in its actual state, is sufficient TO convict
vou of dsingenuous practices, as was rendered
evident by the correction made by a, Senator
from Missouri of a niis-statement into which,
trusting to your version, he had inadvertently
!, fallen.
5 What did say on these points was, in SUBJ
stance, this: That if California, with its pre-
tended constitution and usurped. boundaries,
should be admitted by, Congress as State, or
should be left in its. present condition, excluding
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slayeholding States ought to secede from the
present conledcracy, and form Southern con-
federacy,. That if forced into :. war by the in
Justice of the. North, the slavebolding States
might rely on sure elements of success, amongst
!, which would be the power, by closing the Mis-
sissippi against the commerce of the Northwes-
tern States, to bring that section to TERMS
And that theinjustice practised by the nom
siaveholding States, in attempting to exclude
the South from, all share of California, and to
rob Texas of itsterritory, would justify the con-
federacy of the slaveholding States in taking
possession by force of the whole or of any pait
Of California.
: The Northern man who denounces this as
treason, would meet simpl with defiance
Ihe5seTile Southern sycophant who raises the
cry, provokes inexprcssible SCORE.
& Byway ofapology for undertaking to arraign
me before the Senate, you asserted according
to a report which find in the Baltimore Clip
peri that i. seemed to be rendered necessary by
the very particular mention had made Of YOU
This is not merely 4 perversion, like the state
ment alluded to above. but a fabrication Of your
fancy. did not say word about you i'll my
tb.t I = .,u
is not a word about you in the report oft But
perhaps, with the instinct of Scrub. in the play,
you felt that il had spoken Of you, it must
have been in terms Of contempt
Perlpit ule now, sir, as you are in the habit
of lecturpg Senators and citizens, in or out of
place, (but mrst retract part of the express
ion-l do not know that you have ever had suf-
fcent sense of decency to do it in pfacr,) to Of
fer you IL very short lecture for the amendment
of your manners.
10 pcrvert the language of 0thcrSintO a sense
not Intended by them, is not regarded rs repre-
hensib!e in clown at Il circus or a Jester over
n coNivill bottle. But it is not very becom-
ing to use this trick for effect on the floor Of the
Senate, even in these days OF senatorial Decline
whel Scrub may be Senator. have pointed
ont your pervcrsions of the language in which
my speech was reported; you will make the
proper acknowledgements or not, according as
you may have any regard for truth left, or as
you may, among the Compromises to which you
are addicted, have compromised away what lit
tie OF the quality you ever possessed.
You bantereda IL Senator from South Carolina
with the offer that you worl if invited, come
to Charleston or Columbia. to discuss the ques.
tioas which have been before the Senate.
When South Carolina desires instruction IN
the doctrines of the federal and consolidation
school, she can send for some statesman worth
listening to--Mr. Webster, for instance, who
could perform the task with some ability.
But it would nat be generous to hold You to
your offer. You will need to exert all your
powers, sach as they are, including your ac-
knowledged power of brass, to excuse or palIi-
ate to. the people Of Mississippi the deliberate
treachcry to your State and to the South, SD
long preme;i,ated by you and for time con-
ecaIed under the disguise of violent Southern
feeling. impclling you to brawl loudly with the
abolitionisls, and to bully Col. Benton, until he
turned upon you and out bulcd YOU.
With the hope that this letter may prove an
acceptable addition TO your curious epistolary
collection on the subject of the compromise,
have the honor to be, sir. &c.
NANCY GREGG.
9 Nat hnino nuitc curc tl,,t Won will IN