The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-05-21

balance OF pOlltlcal power INTO the nanus OF
these people, the devotces of radcalism of ey-
cry kind, which would result in utterly break.
ing down the power Of the old States; and, as
Mr.. Douglass remarked the other day, not only
dictate laws for the old States, but enforce them.
With view to this, Mr.. Webster made q Iflaas
tery effort to CONSOLIDATE the powers Of the Old
States, which has proved splendid failure
the reason Of which failure is the determinations
of the North, the entire North, to destroy our
political rights.
The fate of the Compromise Bill believe.
(and with great deal of pleasure, too) is seal
ed. | do not believe it will ever get out of the
Senate, and certainly will never psss the House.
The administration party under their gallant
leader, Truman Smith, will oppose it, ard so
will every Southern Senator-mind, rseatf
Southern in feeling, not locution; aud that vote
feel sure will defeat it. The evidences on the
part of Southern members to establish here Il
Southern press, has had wonderful effect
The Republic, the reesoubtable organ of the
administration, has bursted--at least Bti4itt
and Sargent have quarrellcd and both quit
Richie and Burke have dissoirett their mniDn !;
and now the old man of Virginia" will f.jyif
Il re.entrance into the Southern ranks, in order
to throw cold water on the movement for es.
tablishing Southern press What will the
South do! Has she calmly made up her mind
to yield to degradation unheard of before?E
Surely it is not the chivalrc South, the land Of
stout hearts aud noble deeds, that will thus in
the zenith of her glory aud while she yet has,
power to conquer, strike her flag and basely
yield Would to God that every Southern man
could stand in these halls, if only for single
day, and hear aud see what he does not now
believe, the determination of the North to de.
grade the South, aud not one would ever cry
out again I" the glorious Union." This humbug
of the South not being able to dissolve the
Union, and become vastly benefited thereby,
is dream which she has but awake from
to laugh at her own folly. $50
In the House nothing was done to-day. In ?
the Senate Mr.. Douglass said he wished to start
some test question, and therefore moved to lay
the entire Compromise Bill OH thetlble. Lost
by Il vote of "a for, Is against. MIR. Webster
voted in the affirmative, also Mr. Yulee, Of Flo
rida Mr.. Yulee afterwards explained his resi.
sons: that there was nothing for the South to-
compromise, and he was not in,fayor of the
committee, for which he received what .Mr,
FOote no doubt considered a severe castigatfon
from Mr.. Foo,e. He (Mr. Foote) is now openly
denounced by Southern members. have never
heard better freesol speeches than those of
Alessrs. Clay and Foote, and Judging from Mr..
Hale's manner he was well pleased. b Mr. jeff.
Davis then offered an amendment to the bill,
providing for the protection of the profits aris
ing from slave labor in the territories. This he
said was to uumask Senators those ,yho pro-
fess to be Southern men, and yet hold that the
admission of California is no grievance to the
South Jefferson Davis is i master spirit, and
never was man more devoted to the South. He
is the man upon wlonftlle mantle Of Calhoun
should fall.
May l6.-After the morning, business was
over, the amendment of Mr. Davis was taken
up. Mr.. Foote as usual, got the tloor and oc
cupied the entire space OF an llllourand aquarter
with strange mixture Of. enlogistic matter on,
Mr.. Calhoun, frce.soiIis,n aadlis controversy,
with Yulee, Of yesterday. After hesNls called
down by the Vice, President { iir. King Of Ala.
who is Vice President pro tenn. during Mr.. iii.
mores abseuce,) Mr. Clemens obtained the.
floor for the purpose ofmakilig a speech. He
made the assertion ut once, that alr. Foote .oe-
cupied different grounds now, from what he did
some time sinee-which assertion he fully sus.s
tained He submitted to u motion to go iuto.
executive session, aud will finish his speech on,
Monday next. Would all the South were rs
true as Mr.. Clemens is !; we would have little to
fear from Northern aggression. There are
here from the Sonth SIS men Senators and
Representatives-fro the elevated position of
Clay to the degraded level Of Stanley, who are
untrue to the Southland of this number, not
one but what has been spoken of for some GO I
vernmeutal office, except u few paltry s0als
who follow in tho wake of'the larger fry it
is dreadful state Of affairs. Let tho efyef
',the glorious Union, us some of the submission,
lists OF the South use the tern be SUCCESSIVE, and
in two years from to-day, the South will scarce
ly have corporal's guard here. Agaiu | say !
to the South, there is no chance Of safety thro'
the General Government have the pow,
er-they will maintain aud enforce it, utterly
regardless of the most sacred rights Of the
South-nor can the people of the South be,
come sensible of this fact, as they should be-.
unless they were here They laugh at the
Southern Convention and say yes, the North
say-and not in isolated instances either, "that
it is useless for the South to talk of resisting
Northern aggression; she is divided within her.
sell, and can do nothing" And now 1 ask the
South, in the face of alt this, what are they go-
ing to dot Will you yield VIII you basely
;olJ9 A ,non,harl nc b;oJ, ron,,ta fron, tlsasr