The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-11-01
ConuudrIlm.

Conundrum.
The Mercury has the following: Query. Why
are the voters of Charleston Dstrist more true 10
their relations than TO their country!
Answer. Because they stick to akin (Akcnl
and desert their homes [Homes)
For the Journal.
Messrs. Editors: 1t is strange, indeed, that
the men who live now in the nineteenth centu.
~, who have the experience of those who lived
in former ages to guide them, are still as incon-
sstent in their views and actions as the ante.
deluvians were, if may be allowed to 90 quite
SO tar back for comparison.
"Touch not, taste not, handle not the un.
clean thing" is a command of one of the great.
est Apostles who ever lived, since the advent Of
our Rcdeemer. Consequently men who pre-.
tend to recognize and obey the command must
not even Indirectly violate it. Now if fI,were
native and resident of New York, Phikdel.
phia, Boston, Providence, Hartford, Concord,
or any other of the Northern or New England
cities or towns, where slavery is considered
such d curse, and such blight upon the fair
fame of our "Glorious Union,"I should prove
ny sincerity by abstaining from the use Of su-
gar, coffee, rice, tobacco, or molasses; would
not wear cotton, or in any shape make use of
any article produced by slave labor; this is the
length to which the fanatics of the North will
have to carry their morbid philanthropy, in Or
der 10 prove that they are sincere. When we
hear that Messrs Chase and Root of Ohio,
Hale, Giddugs, Seward, aud all the host of the
AboliioniSts and distnrbers of the peace of our
once happy country, have denied themselves
these comforts and Injuries, in order more fully
to carry out their ideas of humanity, (9) then
we shall believe they have some feeling indeed
for the blacks; but this inconsistency am sor-
ry to say is not entirely confined to the people
Of the North; form ls4S party in our own
State, calling themselves Taylor Democrats"
showed their verdancy, and are now on the
stool ofrepentance, looking as ridiculous as the
loving swain who had planned an elopement,
and when the appointed hour arrived was con-
irontrd by the Mamma instead OF the daughter;
(excuse the llustrction) you know the result
The old Hero OF Buena Vista is gone. and
with him be buried all his faults; but who is
lett in his steadl Millard Fillmore, than whom
there is not more bitter enemy to our institu-
tons; and as such, must he an enemy to the
interest and well being ofthe country at large;
| shall not here attempt to 60 into the merits of
the Bill for the Admission Of California as 4
State, it has been fully discussed and the coun-
cry knows its history, but would ask, aid not
Mr.. Fillmore sanction an open riolation Of The
Constitution maen he signed that Bill instead of
reioing ii? If men in high places will perjuTe
themselves, what are we to expect from those
who are aspiring to high places! let the politi.
cal history of the last ten years answer. Let
Mr.. Fllmore's Quixotic message to Congress,
and the letter Of his Squire, Daniel Webster, to
Gov. Bell of Texas, answer
4 stranger coming from any part of Europe
would suppose that the United States Senate
was composed Of men of the highest tone of
character: MEN Of stern integrity; men who
would sooner lay down their life than even to
wink at a dishonorable action; that wouldslay
aside every consideration of personal interest
and use every faculty God has endowed them
with, to support and uphold the honor of their
country, and the Constitution that made it
country; alas how sadly would he be mistaken;
instead of the patriot he would find the polit.
clan, seeking to promote bis own ambitious
schemes; the demagogue, the fanatic, forget.
ting the wants and interests Of their white con-
stituents and brethren at home in their zeal for
the negro far away from them; trying las they
pretend) to elevate the latter, against the ex.
pressed law Of nature, to- the standard of the
former; theory too absurd to deserve a mo-
ments consideration. What philanthropists
would they be indeed were they to turn their
attention to their affairs at home, let Mr.. "high-
er law" Seward get up society for ridding the
ely ofNew York of all the pck.pockets, for.
,ign convicts, abortionists, publishers and ven
,lers of obscene hooks. papers, mock auctions,
and allthe other villanies with which it abounds,
then begin with PLiladel phia, then Boston, then
visit Cincinnati, pick up Mrssrs. Chase, Root,
Giddngs and other dear lovers of the black
race; they will also want MIR. Hale and the
yod-like Daniel, also Messrs. Winthrop and
sanlett, and lest there be any difficulty with
he Indians take along Messrs. Ewing and Vim.
on, of Ohio, and Gwinn, now OF California, let
he name of the Society be "The Northern,
tew England and Western Reform Society,"
'lect Millard Fillmore President; Messrs. Web.
ter, Seward, Clay aud Winthrop, Vice Presi-
Tents; Messrs. Hale, Giddings, Root and Chase,
Corresponding Secretaries; Messrs. Greely and
torrance Mann, Recording Secretaries; Messrs
twin, Viuton, and Ewing, Treasurers; H. S.
'ootc, Horn Blower; Capt Ranlett, Standard
Bearer; and Fred Douglass Door Keeper; bs.
in the work Of Reform st home, when you
ave finished it there, then turn your attention
y thr llessinGs 0f slayarv as II nou aY;sts In