The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-07-02

school, from the fact that we have northern books,
how can.we expectthe Institutions which we SO
warmly defend and cherish, will be perpetuated.
Teachers, think of this In your approaching
Convention, pass resolutions that there shall no
northern text book be admitted in the schools of
South Carolina-and let him who is nearest abo-
tionsm be the first to vote against the resolution.
The Progress of Usurpation.
The Baltimore Sun, under its telegraphic head,
has the following important news from New Mex
leo:
SANTA Fe, May rs, 1904 Convention. of
Delegates has been called and held, which formed
and promulgated Constitution for the govern
ment of the State of New Mexico. The Conven-
ton assembled at Santa Fe OIL the 18th OF May,
and the sessi on lasted eight or nine days. i'll which
time the Constitution was framed, which would go
into operation about July. The boundaries the
State were'defned, and slavery prohibited
The Constitution was adopted on the 25th OF
May; in fifteen days afterwards an election was to
take place for members Of the Legislature. Two
Senators and Representatives in Congress would
also soon be elected, and efforts would be made to
take their seats during the present session.
MIR. ST. Vrain, Judge Otero, and Henry Conne-
ly, are among the most prominent candidates for
Governor, and Capt A. w. Reynolds and Major
R. H. Whitman, for Senators. 1t is supposed that
Hugh N. Smith, the present delegate in Congress,
would be elected to the House of Representatives.
The present Administration may be termed
steam machine for making States. Col. Monroe's
Proclamation bearing date 2sd April, calls an cleo
ton for Delegates, on the 9th May, to the Conven-
ton to assemble at Santa Fe on the 18th of the
same. They were in session one week-passed
their Consttution-had it adopted-and elected
State Legislature under it. And that in New
Mexico, where the only mode ofconveyance is be-
stride mule over mountains, unbridged rivers,
and deep morasses. 1t manifest the whole affair
was from the inception to the terminus, Santa
Fe piece of work-not New Mexico. 1t cannot
fail to arouse deep Indignation throughout the
Southland in Texes something deeper than in
dignation the following extract from the Mont
gomery Advertiser, gives the correct language:
"Is any man so blind as not to see what must
necessarily flow from this order Of the Military
Governor of New Mexico, authorizing and direct
ing the handful of people of that territory together
with portion ofthe Slate Of Ieras to form State
Government? A people which Mr.. Clay recently
showed in the Senate were totally unfit for State
Government--but some ten or fifteen thousand in
Misunderstanding a foreign language, entirely ig-
norant Of our institutions and laws stupid, semi
barbarians and savages, large portion of whom
inhabit the domain of sovereign State Of this
Union, as is manifest by this proclamation. Can
it be supposed, for one moment, that Texas will
submit to such an outrage? Why, if We were to
Judge from the tone her press, and of her Gov
ernor and other pGblc officers, she has now OIL the
road to Santa Pc, or is organizing fol that purpose
a military force, designed to take possession Of
and deftnd, her sofia part Of the very territory
that the<President of the United States has order
ed to be formed into State. Is it not clear as
the hoon-day sum- that if the plan Of the President
is/tarred out, that civil war must be the result
And ifa finishing touch were wanting to the enor-
I nifty of thus usurpation, it may be found in the
fact, that it is perpetrated during the session OF
Congress, and while the question of all organiza-
ton of Territorial Government for this territory.
and settlement ofboundary with Texas, IL under
consideration in that body. And all this is done
by a President, with the declarations and pledges
OF non-nterference with the appropriate duties OF
Congress stereotyped upon his hypocritical lips
We cannot believe Texas will submit to this
how can she? And we feel snre, too, that what
ever course she may pursue, against such auda-
cious usurpation, the rest of the South will sup
port her. The battle has to be fonght-and now
while our helmets are gleaming-our shields gilt
terng, and lances poised, is the time to decide the
issue. Let it commence, if not at Santa Fe, some
place nearer which We can reach sooner.