The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-06-28

couipage and distinction. The millions of pub
lie money that pour into the Golfers of the Gov
ernment now, is scattered broadcast over the
Union, to buy men to the support Of its meas
urcs. This is not new with the Governments
of the world. Kings and Empcrors do the
same thing, and we will in the end see the evil
and fallacy of supposing our government agents
are honester than those of other countries.
When Henry Brougham took his seat i'll the
British House of Commons, the throne OF En-
glands king soon trembled under the blows he
struck for the rights of British subjects. But
British gold soon hushed his voice. Henry
Brougham was converted into Lord Brougham
by the Kings patent Garters and crosse
decorated his person, and the great seal of tie
Kingdom and ten thousand pounds year, 81.
fenced forever the magic voice of the peoples
great champion and advocate. The same pol
icy is pursued here now with firm and steady
step England and France, at no period of the
reign of their kings, ever played this game with
more ability, or with greater disregard to the
rights of the people, than the government here
is playing it now. An ample number of South.
ern men fall into the vortex of ambition thus
opened If the people of the South would save
themselves from ignominy and ruin, they should
look to this in time.
The abolition of slavery has at all times
been demanded by a people living at a remote
distance from the place where slavery existed.
The power which abolished slavery in the re-
mote isles of Europe, Asia and American, held
its Court three thousand miles off. That is our
condition now. The abolition party Of the
North live at remote distance from us, and
carry on their schemes without being amena-
BILE to our laws. They guardedly keep beyond
our jurisdiction, so that the penalties of our
people, cannot be enforced against the criminal
disturbers of our peace. The powerful engine
of the press assails US at a thousand assailable
points. The General Government, which re-
peat is now under the unrestricted control Cf
the Abolitionists, is turned against US by the
fanatical functionaries of the North, and this
engine too, the most powerful Of ALL pours in its
fire upon us, and we cannot return it.
We are thus defenceless, as far as this gov
ernment is concerned, from the mode of war
fare waged against us.
Our ranks are continually thinned by deser-
ton in struggle in which the odds against us
grow greater and greater every day. Even the
right of petition, that we are apt to regard as
sacred, but as now claimed by the North, and
exercised without restraint, involves the mon
strous abusrdity of a people living fifteen hun
dred miles off, petitioning Congress to relieve
another people from an evil which they do not
feel, and the very existance of which they de-
ny.
The facts have presented are facts of his
tory. They do not rest upon me, therefore,
for their authority. Can any sane man, who
will give due weight to the consideration here
presented, for a moment suppose that this abo-
lition spirit will stop of its own accord. All
Europe and America are aware of the immense
advantages ofyour institutions and position, and
that, if permitted to goin the march greatness
you will hold in your hands the commercial
trident of the seas, and control the commerce
of the world You are therefore to be held
back now. Your greatness, the fertility of
your soil, your industrial pursuits, your agricul-
tural, mineral, and manufacturing abilities and
resources are not yet half developed = they are
but in their infancy, and you are but in the in
fancy of your greatness In the Southern Sec
ton of the Union constitutional liberty itself,
is destined to find its last retreat-last resting
place upon this Continent. You have within,
your own borders selt:sustainin5 power that
makes your own will the law of your future
destiny, and that Of your children for ages yet
to come. 1t is for you to say whether Aboli.
ton shall go on to its accomplishment or not
If you do not arrest it, who will The people
of the South alone have the moral courage to
arrest it. The question is with thcm and up
on them rests the responsibility of the decision.
The Constitution of the United States, is, to
all practical purposes, dead letter. The ma
ority have repealed it, and it isamong the things
of the past.
Another truth is clear. You will never have
peace, security, or repose, while this Central
Government, entertains jurisdiction over the
question of slavery. This truth will be part
of the history of future times. If the South be
true to themselves. they have nothing to fear,
but everything to hope. But am profoundly
impressed with the conviction, that the South
have nothing to hope for from this Government.
have no reliable means ofinformation upon
which to found an opinion whether MIR. Clay's
plan of surrender will become law or not
Any opinion could give would be only con.
lecture. There is a probability that the Aboli.
tionists may divide upon the question. Their
difference of opinion only applies to the mode
bv which their plans are to be carried out. some