The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-04-19

ministers, and proposed that their governments
should aid with the United Statcs) the Doml'
nican party. twas favorably received by the
ministers, and would have been carried into et-
feet, but Mr. Buchanan, when he came into OF.
fee, did not think it of any Importance, and
let it drop. 1t was bad policy-the Spanish
white mulattoes should be sustained. Mr.
Tyler also appointed political friend ofhIs,
Mr.. Hogan, to go out; but | never saw his
report on his return from st. Domingo. 1t
was never published or noticed
"The blacks of Hayti should be put down.
1t is an island far superior to Cuba. suppose
if large party were to 60 out now to aiu the
Dcminicans, they would be received with open
arms; but the St Domlnicans, after the Haytlens
were put down, would be very suspicious, but
in the end the American party would control
the island.'
POLITICAL PARTIES.
every old issue of both parties is obsolete
dead! They have no principles. SpoIls,
plumber, absorb both. 1t must end fatally
This administration may exist to its end, but 1t
is doubtful. The next Congress may end 1t.
The Democrats will unite, in every free State,
with the free soilors, to gain the power and
patronage of the State governments, to finally
break down the whig general administration,
and get the spoils Taylor is setting unwsely
filling his places with whigs-disappointIng
twenty where he satisfies one making terri
BILE opposition in his own party, who are equally
desirous of spois as the democrats. 1t he
drives off the South, at the next Congress he
must exist in feebleness until his term Is out
For twenty years have toreseen all this
Plumber and spoils will cave in our system l
understood our evils, and see our danger clear
ly. have understood it ever since was Vice
President. My mind was then matured. lhad
an important part i'll all, and great experience
and ample time to reflect. Corruption is in
both parties equally alike now. | would not
take the Presidency to be trammelled. What
have to gain My conscience is my only re.
ward-its approval my only ambition. would
preserve the Union if could. would protect
the South. The rights are sacred. Justice is
the only safety for the federal Union. AS things
are going, the South will be forced to separate
MULTIPLICATION.
al would have dictated my own terms al
Washington, but for one thing Jackson was
popular in Tennessee 1t would have been Il
war in the South. did not wish it But tol
that would not have compromised them. II
would have been a Southern State against d
Southern State, for Tennessee would have
foug hit for Jackson"
THE PRsIDENoY.
al have not concealed opinion. Twill al
ways take the liberty of speaking my honest
convictions LII do not to the full. it is because
the measures are not ripe
"othce can add nothing to me. Were
President, would put the country right, bu
that is like putting salt on the birds tail. Nc
man can be President unless he will pander tc
the public A patriotic President is impossible.
QUOTATIONS.
sIn allusion to to the quotation in the South
ern Address, "rimeo Danaos, ct dona ferentes
-Ineverused quotation before, and the worlc
may guess at it."
ACQUAINTANCE IN HIS OWN STATE.
al am an object af as great curiosity to peo
pie outside of circle of five miles in this State
as any where else. Not one man in hundred
in this State ever saw me"
STATE INSTRUCTIONS
81 never know what this State thinks of {
measure. never consult her. act to the bes
of my Judgment, and according to my con
science. If she approves, well and good. l.
she does not, or wishes any one else to take my
place, l am ready to vacate' We are even''