The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-05-24

Instantly set Tree; tfiit dill t'iose laws iio" HI
force, admitting the right of slavery, are, before
God, utterly null and void;" " that no compen-
sation should be allowed to the planters for the
manumission of their slaves" And they have
denounced the Colonization Society as ga
cheat and hypocrite,' for no other reason
than that it offers rational and practical plan
for doing what they themselves are attempting
to do by means destructive to the Constitution
and the Union. But they have not stopped
here. They have repeatedly, in their conven-
tlons, periodicals and pulpts, declared, "We
will give the Union for the abolition of slavery,
if nothing else will gain it," and, to finish their
creed, have adopted, as one of their great fun
damental dogmas, that the condition of slave
ry absolves us from all the obligations of man.
kind"
The practical application of this principle
would be productive Of consequences that might
make even fanaticism shudder. A being abb
solved from all the obligations of mankind, is a
wild beast of prey let loose on society, Freed
from all the restraints of morality and religion
by the condition of slavery, he holds no tealty
to the laws of God or man he has natural,
naienable light to do wrong-to set fire to his
masters house; plunder his property; pollute
his wife and daughters; rob them, and murder
them: in Short run a.muck against all man.
kind Such are the doctrines of these exclusive
" friends of the entire human race" 10 this
condition would our brethren of the South, of
our own color and race, whose forefathers had
their full share in securing to the people of the
North the blessings they enjoy,-to this condl.
ton would they be reduced by the practical
application of this detestable dogma.
1t is but the other day that a negro emssary
of the abolitionists, commonly known as "Ora-
tor Douglas" was listened to at a meeting
at Syracuse. by an assemblage of white men,
and unsexed fem lie devotees of amalgamatlon,
while insolently addressing them as follows
81 believe the slaves would be more than
match for their enslavers, if left to themselves.
Let the Union, then, be dissolved | wish to
see it dissolved. .Iwelcone the bolt, be it from
heaven or from hell, that shall shver it to pie.
ces.'' These are the doctrines with which the
speeches, sermons, and writings of the aboll-
tioaists teen. They are taught to our children;
t'lev are m5ibed with the mothers first nutri-
ment. and e lrliest lessons; for it is to the wo.
men of this country such principles are ad-
dressed; it is by the aid of their powerful in
fluence, as wives and mothers, that these dan.
gerous incendiaries expect to succeed, in sap
ling the Constitution, disrupting the Union,
and establishing hierarchy, by substituting
their own interpretations of Scripture in place
of the authority of laws and constitutions, and
asserting the superiority of tanatical dogma
over them both
Well aw are of the virtues and weaknesses of
women; their tenderness of heart; their prone
ness to be led away by the feelings of the mo-
ment their quick sympathies for human suffer-
ing, and the facility with which they may be
deceived by artful, designing men; it is among
them that they SOW their seed, and reap their
most exuberant harve<ts. They have according
ly enticed them from the family fold, and those
sacred duties imposed upon them by God and
nature, to instil into their hearts and minds
principles at war with society, and fatal to the
peace of the domestic hearth, as well as the re-
pose Of society. A great majority of these re-
formers who sign petitions to Congress insult
rg the feelings. and backening the character,
of the inhabitants of fifteen States, are females
wives and daughters, who, with all due re-
spect to the sex, might much better be at home,
attending to their domestic duties, and presi
ding over the morality Of the parental board,
than acting the Quixotte in petticoats, and stu
dying the beauties of amalgamation.
Among the signers Of those petitions to dis
solve the Union, presented by men who are
sworn to uphold it, crowds Of little children,
who are thus betimes imbued with principles
directly calculated to undermine our civil and
political institutions, and, in fact, to upset the
entire frame of society, by innovations on the
long established principles of social organza-
ton. These friends of the entire human race
90 to the fountain head-they dig at the root.
Our children are taught by their mothers at
home and their teachers abroad, who in the
North and East are almost all tincturcd with
abolitionisrn, that they must give the Union for
the abolition of slavery-to 'welcom the bolt,
be it from heaven or from HE'LL that shall shiver
it to pieces" and that the condition Of slavery
absolves us from all the obligations of man
kind"
This is no idle declamaton-no shower Of
arrows shot at random. We appeal to the de-
ciarations of fanaticism just quoted and we ask
whether those by whom they are made, and
those by whom they are sanctioned, are not
enemies to the laws, the Constitution, and the
Union and whether in declaring that the con-