The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-09-20
1politifal department.
From the Southern Press, Sept ID.
THE RANDOLPH EPISTLES,

THE RANDOLPH EPIsTLEs,
With Faets and Reflections for the Southern
People.
The Nonhs triumph ouer The Somh--1he rerets
and rejoiciags ouer her-The Resuhs-Cdta
foraiG and The WiImot Proriso-Ufah and
Ner Merico through kindred measure =
The South withom a foot Of The acquisition
Topay three; fourths Of hep price. .-''.
FELLOW C1rrzENs OF THE Souri,:
One Of yourselves-born among youIDr,e,a
among you-dwelling among you-.ano noie'
ing an humble, but common share with you' !"
the South's rights or wrongs prosperity OF ao'
versity-in all she does, or has, or hopes tor
and who. in common with you, must prosper or
snffer and stand or fall with her-presumes to
hold counsel with you upon the present gloomy
asnect Of her interests and destinies. Having
no great name of his own to give weight to
what he SAYS, he must, as aioretime, borrow
that of another, over which you have often non
ored him with your audience, on matters OF II en-
ineut public concern, in times gone BY over
that aon,sae de plume, hehas lately been pfoher'
ing respectful counsel in your behalf, TO SO
preat parsonage as, the Chief Magistrate Of
the Union, and even how, he puts aside his uIl.
finished Randolph Episties," " that ne may hold
closer and,weiei.ier communion with you.
Fellow-Southerners the long agony in Con-
eress is ever, and the struggle is past! Inc
North is triumphant, and your native South mas
been utterly routed in the contest and Is mere
helplessly PROSTATE and trampled upon faita,
fnl and intrepid minorites iu both Houses stood
by her to the last, and kept outnumberipg hosts
at bav. and would finally have vanquished them'
!. but NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. augmenting their forces,
and inspi,itiug their courage, in serrled phaianH
and with overwhelming odds, they charged
once more, and all was lost But even VIC.
tory SO thorough as this could not sufficiently
humiliate and disgrace the South, without
public triumnh and exultation over her! Ac'
cordinply. from the slave-soil of the District,
and within ear-shot of Washingtons tomb, an
100 salutatory guns announced this memorable
Jubilee oyer.the PROSTATE rights and fortunes OF
his native land, while Examinations and bon'
fires, and rockets and joyous n,instrelsy, gave
light and zestt the celebration on-and on IN
credible reality! there were Southern members
of Congress- who sanctioned and shared IN ,tuese
exulting mockeries over right, justice, equality
and their own native South And more than
= this. The bruit goes, ,nat no less than eight ot
the aspiraahts 10 ias PRESIDENCY FIVE of them
Democrats and three Of them Whigs-four OF
them Notherners and lonr Of them Southern:
ers-nameIy,: Messrs. Webster, Cass, Dlckin-
SON and Douglass, from the North. and Alessrs
CLAY, Hi!iiafd, Cobb and Houston, from, the
sonth, made night and the thoroughfares oi
E Washington boisterous and eloquent with their
gratuhtions upon this glorious achievement
exploits, men of the South! sink deepdown into
yonr hearts, and carve it in your memories,
should ever in coming years man among them
claim the Soath's electoral help towards their
national promotion If any thing could en-
hance the Indignation and ire with which every
Southern patriot must contemplate revels and
reioicings over such oppressive ard wrongful
successes as these, it would be the paper huzzas
and vivas with which those Southern journals,
the Unam, InteHigencer. and Republic, nour-
iahed and enriched as they have been, through
Southern patronage, have hailed, reconnted and
applauded the passage Of these baletnl meas
ures, and these greetings and gratulations over
them. Bullet us pass from these exasperating
memories in quest of what there be in these ex,
traoldinary proceedings Of Congress, of such
advantage to the South, in fruitiop or in prom
ise, that Southerners should have supported, or
that Southerners should have rejoiced in them
A vast majority of your Legislatures, with
Virginia in the lead. passed resolutions last win
ter, Didn't they : that the people ofthese States
respectively would not submit to The Wilmot
Prouiso or any kindred MEASURE" but would
resist the same " al all hazards and to euery er.
trem,ty" They had no objections to "the
Wilmot Provso nor any kindred measure" had
they2 further than to the aim and tendencies Of
either, to deprive their citizens of their equal
rights in common with the citizens of the free
States, to migrate with their property to any
portions ofthe territory acquired from Mexico.
!, None whatever. 1t was not then against the
mere name of the Wi!mot Proviso, that so grave
and imposing menace was aimed, was it 3
Most certainly not Then it was the depriua.
ton Of their citizens Of their equal rights in
these I euitories, which -.hey would not submit
to, and would resopte!y resist "at all hazards
and to the last extremity" whatever the meas
ure, or whatever the name through which that
deprivation should be efected-was it not so
Exactly and to a certainty-and for that very
reason, and Ito make assurance doubly sure"
and for no other purpose whatever, they eu,.
ployed the alternative language of "ony kin