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

| the United States by open force has slgnally
failed heretofore, and become hopeless in fu'
ture British arms have been tried in vain,
and British philanthropy is now our most dan
gerous enemy. The "protectorate" of the
puissant King of Mosquitoes is mask for ar
resting the construction of the canal across the
Isthmus, so vitality connected with the interests
of this Republic; and sympathy for African
wrongs, the pretext for aiming deadly blow,
which menaces its very existence. A compar-
ativeIy small sum of money, judiciously distrib-
uted, for the purpose of enabling the abolition.
lists to pay the expenses of their missionaries to
London meetings and domestic conventions,
setting up papers and periodicals, to foment
sectional preiudices and denounce the Consti.
tuition; and maintaining itinerant lecturers, to
undermine the very foundations of society, and
inculcate on our wives and daughters the beau
ties of amalgamation, this may be done
at one hundredth part Of the expense of a naval
or military expedition. The plan is admirable;
"the plot is an excellent plot; and if my Lord
Palmerston, or the pious old ladies of England,
could only manage to enlist our transcenden-
tai senator, as the Guy Fawkes, to setfire to the
train there can scarcely be doubt that Senate,
Congress and Executive, the Capitol and the
White House, would all be blown sky HIGH"
as my friend John Randolph used to say. But
it is feared the senator is too scrupulous and
too incorruptible. He may not sickle at un-
dertaklng an agency as attorney in a matter on
which he is to decide as legislator; or he may
stretch his conscience so far as to violate his
oath to support the Constitution. But these
are small matters to great man, who scars
above all legal and constitutional restraints,
and who is accountable to the great tribunal of
his conscience alone Many people think he
might be bought dog. cheap but, for my part,
hardly believe he would sell himself, unless he
could do it with safe conscence-that is, in
perfect safety.
This imported demon of fanatcism is not,
however exclusively employed against the u
Mon; it has another and still deeper purpose,
namely, to crib and circumscribe the freedom
Of individuals, by substituting its own usurped
authority, its own hair.brained will, in place of
those civil laws and political institutions origi-
nally devised for the protection of their rights,
and the direction of their conduct as men and
and citizens. 1t aspires to become, not only
the spiritual, but the political dictator; to mould
our civil polity to establish new system Of
moral and religious duties; to make what has
been heretofore considered innocent an offence
against the law of God and man; and brand
our forefathers as instruments in nflicting OIL
their posterity the greatest curse that ever fell
on the heads Of mankind."s 1t makes them
"men stealcrs,"" dealers in human hesh;" for
nearly all the people of New York, in good
circumstances. at some time or other held
slaves True, they were very honest people,
aye, and read their Bibles too But though
contemporary with, and actors in the glorious
drama of the Revolution which established our
freedom, they had not the remotest idea of the
distinction betwixt right and wrong-they
had not the happiness of being the cotempora-
ries of William Lloyd Garrison, Abby Folsom
and our transcendental senator, whose con.
science is above all laws, except OF his own
creating. They saw not these burning and
shining lights which dim the lustre Of the Sa-
viour of mankind and his Apostles, and show
as clearly as the meridian sun, that they were
ignorant of their highest duty, or regardless
of its performance, when they so studiously
abstaned from denouncing " the greatest curse
that ever fell on the heads of mankind"
1t was reserved for the inspired abOlitionists,
to make the astounding discovery, that what
had been considered innocent from the earliest
ages of the world, and practiced by all man.
kind, without distinction, Jews. Mahometans,
Pagans, and Christians, was crime of so deep
dye, that the stain must be efaced at the cost
of the sacrifice ofevery temporal blessing. That,
in short, it imposed an obligation superior to all
Others combined, on those who were perfectly
innocent of all agency in its commission, to Of
fer up their country as an atonement, and their
fellow-citzens as victims
The space allowed in this Review will not
permit us to discuss this most important subject
thoroughly, in all its bearings, on the great
universal interests of human society. Had we
room, we would trace more distinctly and
methodlcally, the consequences ofthis deeP-ald
conspiracy to subjugate one race of mankind,
under pretence of emancipating. another; and
to render the reason, the experience, the laws,
and the great principles of justice and equity,
subservient to the freaks and dogmas OF fanati-
csm, by subjectiug the powers Of the state to
its control, through an alliance with political
hypocrisy and ambition The union of church
and state will be nothing to this The state
will become the tool of the church, and the des.
potism of priests substitute for that of kings.
Tho bo,ctnl freedou, of actiOu and will now