The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-05-28

Intelligencer.
Editorial Correspondence of the Journal.
WAsHINGToS CITY, May 81.
To-day Mr.. Soule. of Louisiana, made his
speech; and we have no hesitation in saying it
was the best we ever heard. Mr.. Soule is a
native of France, having left Paris, where he
was an editor, at about the age of 25, on ac-
count of his republican principles. He is yet a
yonng man, with something Of the French
brogue and air; but he is all the orator,-and
better still, he is every inch Southern man.
He poised his lance to-day against the compro.
promise bill-unhorsed its champions, and
came off master of the field. Mr.. Clay rose
after him to throw cold water over the effect of
his speech; but the ramparts of truth and JUS
tice, SO deeply thrown around the position and
arguments of Mr. Soule, proved invulnerable.
even before the battery of the Kentucky Sena-
tor; and we must say that Mr.. Soule is eyi.
IDENTITY too strong match for Mr.. Clay, altho'
it be Mr.. Clny. Mr.. Soule proved that the
Mexican laws were not in force over the terri
tories; or if they were, they admitted of Ger.
tain kind of slavery-Pconage; and proved
that the Constitution of Vermont admitted that
kind Of slavery; thereby deducing the fact that
the effort of the compromisers is, to throw
slavery from the necks Of the blacks upon those
of the whites He proved that the bill gave
nothing to the South, but rather took away that
which she already had, and gave all to the
North. He said that he should oppose it, and
that no Southern man could vote for it. Mr..
Clay said, why did he not propose il plan then
that would hc better, and suit the entire coun.
try? So you soc that the thing has arrived at
this point: The North must have a concession
from the South, and will not be satisfied unless
the concession is considerable bonum; the
South is disconteuted; tho Northern members
lie still, and wait for the Southern traitors to
browbeat the rest of the South into the conces-
sion How far the South will yield do not
know. 1t is now the crisis of the crisis. We
will know who are for the South, and who
against her. Location no longer makes Il
Southern man; for many south of Mason and
Dixon's line are our worst enemies.
May 22--To.day Mr.. Upham endeavored
to throw the stigma Of pconage from Vermont,
and make an assault upon Mr.. Soule; but it
was the latter Senator's easiest task to demol-
ish the "ugly representative" from the Green
Mountain State Mr.. Upham eadeavored to
prove that according to the Constitution Of
Louisiana sine was free State Mr. Soule said
it was known she was slave State, aud if
slave and free, then he hoped her Senators
would be very welcome in every part of the
Eall. With his GOODNESS and sarcastic powers,
Mr.. Soule has little to fear from the paltry at.
tacks of such men as Mr.. Upham.
MIR. Pratt, of Maryland, offered an amend.
ment to the amendment of Mr. Davis, proyi-
ding that the Constitutions of the new States,
to be formed from the Territories, should have
nothing in them relative to slavery-but that
the owner, carrying slaves, should be protected
in his property.
Mr.. Downs, Of Louisiana, made speech, ac-
companying it with a full complement of bis
inimitable gestures, opposed to MIR. Davis
amendment, and in favor of the compromise.
1t will be recolected this is the gentleman who
made such speech in favor of the South, some
months since, and for which the New Orleans
Crescent tried to rasp him SO severely. Fear.
ing a second attack, Mr.. Downs has preferred
to play a traitorous part towards the South, and
thereby escape the Crcscent's curses. The
more debate we have on this question, and the
longer the vote is postponed, the worse for the
South. 1t would seem that office is so brilliant
a luro, that ono.half of the Southern Represen.
tatives would sell the South to gain place.
The Union, which was once our shield, is now
manufactured into an instrument of war. and
welded in death strokes against us, by the oP'
posite party. 1t Is time the South should ask
what the Union isl 1t Is already evident that
the Constitution is in the hands of the majority,
and may be, and will bo bent to suit their own
peculiar purposes 1t is useless to talk about
our loving the Union, If in It we can maintain
our rights; why, we had as we'll say we love
night, if we can have daylight in its midst
We never will have Justice in union with
those who reduce US to the necessity not of con.
sldering whether we will receive compromise,