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

origin. 1t was originally imported from Eng
land, and is beyond doubt, in great measure,
supported by British influence, if not British
money. 1t was Immediately after the return of
the emissaries of the abolitionists from great
meeting in London, where Sir Robert Peel fig
ured side by side with Daniel O'Connel!, chat
the Colonization Society was denounced as a
cheat and hypocrite. This was shortly
followed by the organization ofa National Anti
Slavery Society, which began its exploits with
declaration ofinterminable and exterminating
war against the people of the South, the recog-
nized rights property, the rights Of the States,
and the sanctity of the Constitution. The name
of the living God was blasphemed to sanction
the violation of His attributes, and the authority
of His sacred word prostituted to purposes
equally at war with both.
The movements of the abolitionists on either
side Of the Atlantic, are Simultaneous they
are pulled by the same wire; and it is evil
dent close and intimate union subsists be.
tween them. The American fanatics are little
better than cats.paw of British state policy
The cue is taken from the latter; every move.
ment in England is followed here with implicit
subserviency, and every sentiment echoed with
most ahject servility. They handle the same
tools, play into each others hands and wheth-
er aware of or not, the American fanatics are
instruments ofthe British government in bring
ing about separation of this confederacy,
which, if accomplished, will rid England other
only dangerous rival in commerce and naval
power; while, at the same time, it removes from
the contemplation Of her half starved peasant
IL.
to the permanency of that system, which has
made so many millions of industrious, hard
working beggars. That this, is the key to
British Government sympathy for African
wrongs, ispfoved by its utter Indifference to the
devastations of India, and the sufferings of Ire
land; by tolerating in its eastern empire, among
the lowest caste of Hindoos, species of slave.
ry far more oppressive and degrading than that
of onr Southern States by obstiuatel ly resisting
all attempts to relax that system of extravagant
expenditure, which entails on the people bur-
den of taxation that robs them Of the very ne
cessaries of life; by expelling the negroes Of
New-Zealand from their country,' and cutting
their throats at the Cape of Good Hope for no.
body knews what, while redressing their wrongs
in America
Can any rational man believe, for a single
moment that government so regardless OF the
rights and happiness of the human race every
where else should feel any real sympathy for
them in the United State! Assuredly not
The philanthropy of the British gooernnent is
political philanthropy-an engine of state. The
direction it has taken of late years is peculiarly
lcveled at the United States, and has two-fold
object The result of the operation of free in-
stitutions, rs exhibited in the unexampled
growth and prosperity of this great confedera-
ton of empires, is the bug-bear of despotism
1t makes the old dry bones of superanuated
abuses rattle in their coffins and the spectre Of
liberty haunts them in their sleep. The exanl-
pie has become contagious, aud nothing can
save the crumbing edifices of despotic power
from being prostrated by the earthquake pop
ular Indignation, but either to remove such
dangerous spectacle from the contemplation
of the people, by dividing and distractlng this
auspicious Union, or so dstorting its features
and blackening its character, that it will no
longer be the pillar of fire in the great desert of
the world, to guide mankind from the house Of
bondage to the land flowing with milk and
heney.
Hence the simulated sympathy, not only OF
the British government but of all European
despots, for the African slave. They we'll know
that the institution Of slavery is the weak point
of our confederation, and that in which it may
be most successfully assailed. They are aware
that it is here the fortress is most vulnerable,
and it is here they have pointed their batteries
The British government, as the one most deeply
interested in this conspiracy, has exerted all the
influence ofits position in working on the SYM
pathies of the white slaves of Europe, until they
shem almost to have lost sight Of their own bon
dage, in pity for that of the African. The i'm
perial despots of Russia and Austria, while
wading knee.dcep in the blood of the Hunga.
rians, and crushing the liberties Of Europe under
the hoofs of their whiskered Pandous and Cos
sacks, are among the most Jealous of abolition
ists There is nothing so pleases them as the
doctrine of amalgamation, which, if drought into
practical operation, would so debasc the free
white citizens of the United States, that they
would become unworthy offreedom, and incap:a.
BILE ofits enjoyment. The great bugbear would
speedily vanish, and despotis,n sleep inpeace.
This, if we do not greatly err, is the true Sc
cret of that extraordinary sympathy for African
wrongs, in the hearts of those who are callous
to the wrongs of the natives of every other
| Ia al. I,,yIn