The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-08-06
1rIHIE JOU@NAll.
CAMDEN. S. @.
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1850
The Camden Meeting and the Union.

The course that the Washington Union has Pur-
sued toward the South, has severed it forever
from the confidence of the Southern People. And
now with "a pale and yellow melancholy" he de-
cries each movement of the South as @more Ultra
ism," "Treason," and like expressions ofhorror.
We take no notice of the pecuniary incentives
which drive this paper to the support ofthe Grand
National Party" And coupled with them the ef-
forts OF its reputed co-editor-Gen. Foote-to gain
place under the government, snceit is certain ne
can no longer represent the people he has betray-
ed. MI. Richie would fain still the tumult in the
South-Ihe would have them yield TO Northern ag-
gression, and place their necks footstools for
the North to uphold the "glorious Un'on"-and
wonder in concert with Mr.. Foote at the character
of the toasts at our celebrations in Carolina on the
4th As we'll might he sit, Vulture like, on the
verge of Eua's crater and with his hoarse croak-
ing, think to still the rumbling thunder of its i'll
ward fires He remarks, relative to the Union,
that "there is imminent danger, and our brethren
in the North as we'll as of the South should be ac-
quainted with the signs that are exhibited in the
horizon. On the present occasion to which we re-
fer, it is not one man whose speech breathes dis
content and disunion; but it comes to US in the
shape of a popular meeting which has taken place
at Camden, in South Carolina"
Does he look at the papers? Does he not see
from Arkansas to Florida, demonstrations of the
same nature!
He asks us Col Gregg mad7" Is Father
Richie mad! the indications are against him. 10
suppose that an aged Politician, and southerner
too could think the South so tame as to submit to
the miserable efforts of political jugglery to de-
grade and subject her. In awful array he copies
the entire proceedings of the Camden meeting,
and holds us up to tie horror stricken North as
"Disunonists." You are right, we are dsunionist
nnl.ea NO cot aa,I.i.y- taHo irRy h>-s - ,w.;te
our title to our own, with our swords for pens, and
our blood the ink, depend upon it that tto will be
drawn-36 80 is most emphatically our ultima
tum We have all to gain BY dissolution Of the
Union-nothing TO loose-and can you listen to
the mighty voice, which is rising from the Dan to
the Beersheba of the south, asA Aoub. our determ-
nation? Every breeze bears upon its wings the
oathes of nation of freemen, to assert their rights
and think you, Father Richie, that the threats
of hemp rope, from one whose life has been one
long, deep curse to the South-the picayune blus-
tering of him whose business if is to Footc Clay
bills, or the long union homies ofyour most wor-
shipful Editorship, can convert the South into
submissionists! Ifso, you are sadly mistaken.
You class lis with Seward, Hale, &c-well Sew
ard and Hale are better friends to the South than
you, Mr. Foote, Mr.. Clay, &C. are. They are the
open enemy-the hossst enemy-we see their ad-
vances and know how TO meet their attacks. You
would mask the abyss and direct our footsteps d.
rectly over its mouth. Believe itsir, the Hotspurs
OF the South, as you term them, are numerous
enough to have the Union as they made it. or
have it not at all. We ask the North no favors,
and we shall never ask them any quarters.
eyOur location and institutions mark us as
the people to take that stand relative to America
that Sparta or Athens held towards Europe, and
we should, like them, prepare to meet any and
every emergency. Let US have Spartan training
to accomplish Spartan acts. We suggest to the
next Legislature the establishment OF branch Mill
tary Schools throughout the Stale, say one for
each Congressional District, which should be not
only preparatory SCHOOLS, bnt able to give full
course in military and practical sciences. Letus
have young men who know how to handle the
sword as we'll as Horace-who spend more time
in acquiring a practical and useful education,
such as is generally attained at those schools, than
in poring over Greek and Latin, and reading al
ways of men and acts, and take no measure to
enable themselves to initiate them. The expense
will be small, and the benefits incaculable, and we
earnestly hope the Legislature will adopt some
plan of accomplishing this important purpose.
The Pistol Committee
Has reported. 1t makes Mr.. Benton in the first
place the aggressor. Acquits Mr.. Foote for his
defence but condemns the wearing of arms in the
Senate.
The Hornets Nest.
The editor of this truly excellent paper has
added to its title the word "TRuE SouTHRoN," and
the paper is now published under the name of the
"Hornets Nest and True Southron" We have
on several occasions noticed the bold and decided
position he had taken on the side of Southern
rights and we hail this as an additional pledge of