The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-10-15
THE MODERN HAMLCAR.

OF the session at Washington. How softly his
toues are now moduiated on the snhJect oi
Southern Rights, letreceut debates In Congress
show.
It is difficult to realize that throughout it,
this one and the same gentl tl.man that at differ
ent periods of the same session, should use the
language of the following paragraph:
az SPEAK NOT FOR OTHERS, BuI
FOR MYSELF. Deprive us OF this right and
appropriate this common property 10 yourselves,
tits then your government, not mlne. men
am its enemy, and | will then, if can, bring
nv children and my constituents to the altar OF
liberty, and like Han.ilcar would swear them
to eternal hostility to your foul. don'lnatlon.-
Give us our Just rights, and we are ready, as
heretofore, to stand by the Union. every part OF
if. and its every interest. Refuse it, and for
one, WILL STRIKE FOR lNDEPEN-
DENCE."
This is Mr.. Toombs somewhere about the
vernal equinox.
"How terribly our army swore in Flanders"
The following is Mr. Toombs when approach.
ing the autumnal:
1The objection that the gentleman urged to
the bill, seemed to be that there had been Sc
lies of outrages perpctrated upon the South
If, said Mr. r., the passage ofthe territorial bills
without restriction on the subject of slavery Is
not an outrage, and the gentleman does not
suppose it is, then there has been none commit
ted. And have this to say to- the gentleman
Ii there have been aggressions perpetrated on
The South, she has done the mischief herself !;
she has only herself to blame. Its by her own
hands and by the hands of her sons that the
wrong has been done."-Debdte ON The tfdh
!, Bill, 7th inst
~, Like the sap which, in the vegetable king
81 dom, ascends with the approach OF springs ge-
NAL warmth, and sinks when the chlis OF au-
tumn are at hand, the fervor Of our Represent.
atiye's Southern blood successfully glows and
cools
The language of the first extract is somewhat
10 cousonance with the position assumed by
Messrs. Stephens and Toombs in lS4S, when
the former, by .he aid of seven other Southern
votes defeated the Clayton compromise BILL
That bill, they contended, did not give US our
Just rights, inasn,uch as il did not secure to the
Shareholder, by express recognition, the right to
go with and enjoy lis property in slaves i'll the
Sommon territories. Nothing less than this
would do Mr. Too,nbs, even during the present
session. Neither Northern wings nor North
ern democrats could blarney him irto agreeing
to any thing less Even this session he denoun.
ced Gen. Cass's squatter sovereignty doctrine
as ridiculous, and said that it had not u friend
or apologist in any sensible man in Congress
but its author He kicked right out OF the wing
traces, and refused to be proptiated by any
thing short Of protection to the rights of the
STAKEHOLDER in the new territories He said:
ISTAND upon the great principle, that the
south has right to an equal participation in
territories ofthe United States. ICLAiM THE
RIGHT FOR HER To ENTER THEM with her pro-
perty, and security to enjoy it. She will divide
with you, il YOU wish it, but the right to enter
all l SHALL NEVER SURRENDER, and
that, WE WILL MAINTAIN the position
there laid down.
Well, we ask, has the South got division
by SO 80, or by any other line Of division! On
the contrary, is she not juggled out of every
foot of the common territories!
The modern Hamilcar cannot point his chill
dren or his constituents to the first green spot
of earth in all that vast domain, where they can
settle with their slaves without encouutering
that ''foul domination" by which their slaves
are made free.
Among the outrages daily committed in the
South, is the constant agitation of slavery in
Congress-
The Charleston Mercury has well put the
case:
"Ifa man were to walk every day up to Mr..
Toombs' gate, and call him pirate, thief, ag-
gpessor and coward, and threaten to drive him
out of his house with his slaves, would he con-
slider this an outrage! Judging by the stan
dard man, yes. Judging by the standard of
Mr.. Toombs, politician, probably not. Rather,
judging by Mr.. Toombs some months ago, it
would be a hideous outragc-judging by Mr..
Toombs now, it would be a rather mild and in
offensive, if not a positively friendly action
But the people, who judge from the instincts of
manhood, and not the maxinls of party expcdi-
ency, understand that words which embody in
suit or instigate wrong against us, are outrages.
The agitation of slavery in Congress has al:
ways had this character. 1t is a-Issis s , anu Il
dangerous Vuaeev people OF The Soutii,
which they ought long since to have suppress
ed, or to have withdrawn from n Union which
tolerated it."
There hare been outrages on the South, and
some other own sons are responsible, in high
degree, for them-not the least conspicuous
among whom are those who defeated the Clay
ton Compromise for the reason, as they alleged,