The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-06-28
1Dolitiral Departn1rut.
LETTER OF DANIEL WALLACE, OF SOUTH
CAROLINA.

of South CarOlind:
Fellow Citizens: deem it my duty, during
the present important session, to give you all
the information in my power, in reference to the
great questions now at issue before Congress.
And as cannot consistently with my duty, leave
my seat to do this in person, l am constrained
to address you through the press, as the only
mode open to me.
The abolition of slavery Is not an idea OF
American origin. 1t had its origin in the Euro
pean mind, and its first inception was long be-
fore the end of the eighteenth century. VIM.
Wilberforce, an enthusiast and fanatic OF Eng
land, was the founder of sect of fanatics
whose utopian creed is predicated upon the
idea of the perfectabilty and equality of the hu-
man races. The fundamental article OF the
creed taught by Wilberforce is universal eman-
cipation. His followers, according to an inva-
riable principle of the human mind, have ex-
tended their creed so as to include it in wide
range of subjects, of which the founder of the
sect perhaps never dreamed in the widest vaga-
ry of his fancy. This sect have constituted
new school Of political and social philosophy.
They claim to be guided by the pure religion OF
the Bible. They have inscribed upon their ban.
ner the motto of Voltaire, the greatest inf!del
and blasphemer of the world, who, after he had
his writings, precipitated the French revolution,
in which six millions of men were massacreed
or slaughtered upon the battle.felds of Europe,
and which ended where it began, in despotism,
built temple and dedicated it to "Deo optimo
Mirimo." The sect founded by Wilberorce
have adopted this motto, and proclaimed that
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the divine law. Mahomet did the same thing
while he was depopulating Asia with fire and
sword. They seek to gather together the hu-
mau races, the Ethiopian, Caucasian, Mongoli-
an, Malay, and Indian, into one universal politi-
Cal and social brotherhood, and to place them
all on 4 perfect equality, without regard to col
or, language, social and mental condition, or
primeval distribution over the face of the globe
Their creed includes socialism that is, that
property shall be held in common, and that all
the members Of a community shall have equa!
right to all the property owned by the indiv!da-
ais ofthe community, which includes agralian
ism. That there should be community of
wives, aud that the marriage rite ought TO be
abolished. 1t includes the "Iight of labor"
which constitutes u fundamental article in the
constitution of the so-caed French Republic,
which means that the supreme government OF Il
State must find labor aud employment for every
iuhabitant, and pay fair compensation for the
same out of the public treasury and if the gov
crnnent fails to find employment, the applicant
for labor must be paid the price OF labor, whe-
ther he labors or not
Their creed includes the idea Of universal
equality according to the French notion as ex-
pressed in the motto, "iberty,. fraternity, eqnol-
uy." The proposition is to establish this equal
ity by a levclng system, which pulls down ev-
cry member of society to the condition of the
lowest, no matter how degraded the lowest may
be, or what the color of his skin, or the condi-
tion Of his morals, religion, or intellectual de-
velopment. The Protestant Churches are in-
cluded in this leveing system-they too must
be pulled down and reorganized to suit the new
order of things. Hence the creed of these ia
natics involves the distinct proposition, that in
asmuch as the bIack race at the South cannot
be raised up to the level of the white race, the
white race must be pulled down to the level of
the negro, and that all must stand together III
the same political and social rank. And instead
of the negro being subject to the white man, the
negro, by his right of suffrage at the ballot box,
must make laws for the white man. The pro-
gress then which is demanded, is not upwards,
but downwards. AT the North, this downward
tendency cannot 60 lower than the lowest rhue
man; at the South. it must 80 to the level of
the lopest negro. 1t is upon this idea that mod
ern demagogueism at the North, rests its hopes
ofpreferment ltisa a great mistake to suppose
that Abolition is the only evil which is invol lived
in the controversy now going on,
The disciples of Wilberforce spread all over
Europe, adding new articles to their creed as
time rolled on. Thos. Clarkson was sent by
Wilberforcc from London to France as IL Mis-
sionary to propagate the new faith there. lie
arrived in Paris in the midst of the storm and
the blood of the French Revolution. A fitting
time and appropriate scene for such mission
Robespiere, Danton, Marat, and all the early
chiefs ofthe revolution, and the Jacobn clubs,
were abolitionists The disciples of this school
made their way into the British Parliament and
French Chamber of Deputies into the Diets
of Denmark Sweden, Holland, Portugal, and
the Spanish Cortes, and after the Spanish revo-
luton, into the Legislative councils of the South
American republics, and into Mexico, and sim
ultaneously into the United States; and it is
worthy of remark, that Wiberforce was the
propagandist of the idea which resulted in the
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