The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-08-02

and thence proceeding with a trade that looks
very much like Mysteries and ending with pick
ing out of their connection, some of the strong
passages and arraying them as precious speci-
mems"
The "Southern Press (" accompanies the
speech with a strong editorial, in which Mr..
Clay's denuncation of Mr.. Rhett is repeIled
with dignity and effect.
Our contemporaries of the South Carolinian,
andthe stateRights Republican have taken the
occasion to make some pretty severe comments
on Mr.. Clay. The Carolinian opines that
Mr.. Clay must be bent on enlarging the market
for one Of the staples of his State, and proceeds
to say:
" Could MI. Clay's pious wishes be carried out
every pine tree in the South would be galIows
and old Kaintuck could not supply rope enough
for halter for every Southerner whose heart
beats in unison with the sentiments uttered by
Mr.. ,Rhett. "a
The doom of a traitor! And this invoked
in the Senate Chamber of the United States by
a recreant to the South, upon the head of an
ardent and devoted friend of her rights under
the Constitution. We may well despair of
justice, when an expressed determination of
resistance to aggression upon the constitutional
rights of any portion of our people is branded
treason in the Senate Chamber, and draws forth
applause from the galleries"
The State Rights Republican, after passing
warm eulogium on Mr.. Rhett,s speech, and
treating the Kentucky Senator's attack with
pretty broad expression of scorn, forti6es itself
with an admirably apt quotation from New
England Orator:
although England" to use the words re-
Gently uttered by General Gushing, of Masa-
chusetts although England set price on
the heads of John Hancock and Thomas Cush.
ing, as traitors, yet they well might and they
did retort-that the aggressor and not the ag-
grieved; that the violator ofthe public compact
not the victim of the violation that the op.
pressive majority, not the oppressed minority,
was responsible for the dissolution of the Union
between, the British Colonies and the British
metropolis" -
If Mr.. Rhett be traitor, the citizens of South
Carolina are traitors to q man. Should he
meet with a traitors doom, SO CONSIDERABLY
and piously invoked for him by the pseudo.pa-
triat, Henry Clay, there will be thousands who
would gladly share his fate"
The other day motion was made inthe Sen.
ate to give the editors Of the Southern Press a
once by proposition . ssayi 7 WAS net 81 es as
National E,a seat also. The Era is.lhe anil.
slavery organ publshed'in Washington city.
This is one of the annoyances that a sanction
of sectional organs at Washington has prepared
for the South. The Press is established on pur-
pose to meet the arguments Of the Era. The
South acknowledges that the opponent is re.
pecrable, and worthy to be met in the war of
words. If Congress then give privileges TO
one, il must in all courtesy extend them to the
other. We should vote against admi'tingeither
on the floor Of the Senate. We should pay no
compliment to sectionallsm: but if either was
admitted, we should admit both. If we must
have such sel.to, let it he fair-n" gouging.
Louisville Democrat.
The Editor ofthe Louisville Democrat don't
know how he would vote on This question. He
would have to ask his party leaders or masters.
In assigning US an equality with the Editor of
the National Era the Democrat has given US
position much above his own. We have far
more respect for the man who engages in the
chimerica scheme ofmaking freeman ofa ne
gro. than for one who, like the Editor Of the
Democrat, has made in his own person slave
of white man.-Southern Press.
The Morgan county meeting declare in favor