The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-10-18
GEORGIA.


Convention. If she submits, all is lost; if she
resists every thing is gained. The victory is as
certain for Southern Rights and Southern Hon.
or, as that the sun will rise again to morrow
morning South Carolina will follow her lead
with alacrity; so will Mississippi; so will Ala
bama; so will Florida; and we do not despair
of North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia
still less of Arkansas.
The fact is that Georgia holds in her hands
at this hour the fate of this dIscordant Union.
If she SecedsS, and we hope that no other REIN
edy will be contemplated, all the slaveholdIng
States will secede first or last, except perhaps
those border States which may elect to connect
themselves with the United States North
So then, it is an issue of the gravcst charac-
ter, and is SO treated by the Press and polltl-
clans of Georgia. No halfway measures are
advocated, but the plain question of submission
or secession. This is right: in affairs OF such
import it is idle to be skirmishing about the
outposts.
The political battle will be fierce: it is so
already, and we regret to add somewhat dub-
Gus in its results. The talent of the Press in
that State is decidedly in favor Of secession,
and is now remarkably eloquent in it's appeals
and cogent in its arguments. We can only In
stance the Macon Snd Columbus papers.
The politicians are pretty nearly balanced.
On the side of submission, the chief ones are
lst, tnat valiant and misbegotten dwarf, A. ID.
Stephens, who commenced his course in the
late session of Congress with a grand flourish
of trumpets in favor of southern rights, and all
that, fully equal to Stone & McCollum's Cir
Gus, and then sloped. He rose like meteor
and fell like stick. 3D. Robert Toombs, who
with Stephens are political twins, bound by
chord like the Siamese. We will not clothe in
appropriate language, the deep disgust and
loathing with which we regard these recreants.
We have not the words to do so: but will quote
from Moore, the Irish Poet, some lines which
suit their cases:
Oh for tongue to curse the slave,
Whose treason, like deadly blight
Comes Ger the councils of the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might
May Lies unblessed cup for HIM
Be drugged with treacheries 10 the brm,
With hopes that but allure to fly,
With ioys that vanish while he sips,
Like Dead sea fruits that temptthe eye;
But turn to ashes on the lips!
| His country's curse, his childrens shame,
Outcast of virtue, peace and lame,
May he at last with lips Of flame,
On the parched desert thirsting die.
Just Prophet, let the damned one dwell
Full in the sight of Paradise,
Beloding Heaven and feeling Hell.
Allied with these men are Howell Cobb and
Marshall Wellborn, both of the late Congress.
Some northern compliments, with suggestions
in some newspapers of his name for the Vice
President have turned the head of Mr.. Cobb,
Mr.. Wellborn is a small potato, with just sa.
gacity enough to decline a reelection. These
we believe, are the submission chiefs.
On the other side-on the side of the South,
we find a brighter list Foremost in eloquence
and in zeal stands Walter Il. Colquitt 1t is
not necessary to inform the reader who Col
quit is. The Senate Chamber and the pulpits
of Washington have often rung with his stirring
tones. Heis among the few public men in the
Republic whose course has been characterized
by patriotism, piety, and political consistency.
There is not purer character in Georgia, or
elsewhere By his side stands old Gov. Troup,
who has once before detied and defeated the
Federal Government, and his name is now
SYNONYM, for tirmness and honor. Very old,
and oil the active stage of politics, the impor-
tance of the present crisis has reused the old
veteran and he takes the boldest ground for
the strongest measures. The old wheel.horse
is a full team. With them are Gov Towns,
Mr.. Stiles, Mr.. Haralson-in short their name
is Legion. The candidacy is already opened
for membership in the Convention as we learn
from the following extract from the Columbus
Sentinel:
The CoNvENTIoN-It is possible that we
shall have some notable characters in this Mr..
Hamilcar Toombs and Mr.. Gravedigger Ste.
phens, are already in the field, and we presume
the friends of Mr.. Esau Cobb, will attempt to
honor him with similar candidacy. If there
are to be any of that ik in the convention, these
are the very men all others whom we wish to
see there. They have been the authors of all
this mischief and it is proper that they should
thus meet with the chastisement which honest
men there administer them.
Upon the whole whilst we think the Conven.
ton will contain majority Of patriots who
will advocate succession, we confess we fear
different result, and it is quite certain there
will be no approach to that unanimity so very
important in this case.
Well, if Georgia takes as she ought, the lead
in this great movement of Southern ldeliverance,
what will North Carolina do! We cannot
tell. If she will look tamey on, regardless of
her mutual interests with other States of the