The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-02-15
THE CALIFORNIA CONVENTION.

,,,,a, 70 ,,,,ss C,l;for,;, int, thc s7uiou rs 4
SEQ rv;tp bcr ,,,osont Co,stitrtiou, It bchovrs
ovor of pr,l,r and sound rpDu;lican nril,.
,;,l,s tn no,.o o,d cnuc;.l.r how Tint ronstit,.
t;I, ,,..s r.on,.J I. w,s framed bv . coov.r.
..'n ~. N,o ,nnSt ;nno,t,nt ;ro,;
w., ,,Lo eInat,5 tr,osc Jnlrr,tns and rlothcd
y !, -, ",I WIKI or.ou w. inc.l,t9 f,r Lundrcls o
thousands of frccmcn.
A Mr. Russel has lust returned from the
m;nns. tlis gentleman was present during the
nJoc,;o, and p;yes some idea how # wos con.
,l,.toJ lilo saws "the boyos wore thrown
,no,, tc +,,n b.llot of overv one no matter how
sha.. ~, od tbov had beon !, ,be torr;to,.v
,'n..an ,nhathor t,,a, h.,l ,,ono to tho rro;on
~ ~ aa.,1o .t =, moralv mnon. ,our of obsory,t;on
',ho,t'an 80 snond !. faw months catherine cold
~ tradno and then TO leavs, nerhaps forever
III nera sufFsred without regurl TO form. de.
cencv common sense or law, to abuse the much
ho.stcd nr;vilpoc Of q freeman"
NJ p,,ssol oIse,,.ed that str;l,;nn fc,tprc of
~. n,ool, election ,,as tho vast mn,Ier Of abo.
l;.;on;sts ,,bo met On tho owe of il swarmed
;nto +ho torr;tory and fairly bese;ueJ the ballot
hoyoS Ho dooS not dubt from the movements
orthoso mon that tbov were sent ont as emissa
res I ~ of M tHe country with regard to the slavery
Question @ ii After the deed was done, thew exultcd
l,,,5t,. o,..- Il ond manifested savage ioy over
% tho :nDnosed nrostration of Southern rights.
Tbcy5ad accomplished their fiendsh purposes,
ond vere ret,rnine to their homes to receive the
oonoro+,,lot;ons of those who sent them, and of
tbo o;,t; slavery nartv generally.
Nov in Wow of this statement of facts, rela.
tod bv an witness, is it not matter of pro-
founj as+on;sbment that Southern men aud
tou"u S.T.s ,,na,.or ore found who advocate the
,d,n;ss;on of neople and State Government
ORGANIZED and constituted as was the Conven-
Democracy and democratic principles, but save
us from such democracy as gathered round
the polls in California
Independent OF the gross wrong i,i't''oeu ~
be inflicted upon the South, the whole thlng
was mockery and burlesque of the sacred pri-
vilege of freemen. Conservatism has ever gov
erned Southern Statesmen, and we nave an aoi-
ding confidence that no Southern senator or
Representative will be founa 10 s:''c'ion S".h
an outrage upon American institutions Dy vote
or voice.-South Cdrolm,an.
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ALABAMA-A Legislative Convention was
held on the 5th inst, in the Hall OF the House OF
Representatives, at which the members OF the
Legislature from each Congressional aistric'
were appointed separate nominating oomi'ni''
tees, to nominate four delegates from each us
trict to the Nashville Convention oh ,lle ioi'
lowing evening % delegates were eiecteo' TO-
gether with eight additional delegates ro" '''e
State at large.
The delegation is said to De an ape one Ill"
from the names, it is evident that 1t embraces
some of the soundest and most reliaDie men oi
both political parties III the State.-''io'
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THE QUESTION All "ASlilNu uloN.
We clip the following extracts from the
WASHINGTON Correspondence of the Pcansyl-
vanian:
The course of the Government in this most
critical uneture. is worse than trifing and dem-
eoo,,;sb II ;s comical in the highest degree.
Ssyar have we had. in modern times, amore
foro;hle exbib;t;on Of the po]icy of Nero .fdding
ILL., pon,Ivos hurnnol than on this occasion
VIM "hn ;n the hone that non.committplism NAV
,I., ~nI' Continuance of mower in their hands.
.."u I:s'ot =. of tho second WASHINGTON see fit to
Ie 'ie .4 49,. ..ome ofbidc and seek rs though
r. f' 600 tl,,t under tler feet there is Il nine
.D' a,,,IoJo Jostrov;,o their charge in its
oxr,os;on which thcy of all others c,:n best and