The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-05-03
THE COMPROMISE.

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They have heretofore been made, ostensibly,
and perhaps, in reality, to preserve the Union;
As much opposed to them as we are, we would
nevertheless be willing to make another That
which has been foreshadowed from Washing
ton, we esteem no compromise at all, except
on the part of the South. The North would
Weld nothing but a prepos;erous pretenticn.
She has no right to exciGde shareholders from
the new territories. Hence. in waiving the pas
sage of Wilmot Proviso, she merely yields
the exercise of the power Of NIGH, not right,
not justice, rot a Constitutional preTog1iire!
In the first place it is proposed to admit Cali
fornia. as now organized, and seeking admission
mo the Union, as Il sovereign State. vi course
that will be against the South.
Next, it is proposed to pay Texas sum- oi
money in consideration of her yielding her
claim to New Mexico, cast of the Rio Grande,
to the General Government.
That will, Of course, be against the South,
for she will contribute her portion of the ml-
lions to be paid to make New Mexico terri
tory, only to be admitted, after while, as an
other free State, to add to the political strength
opposed to the South. Southern men, who can
favor that, if they are disposed to maintain the
rights of the South, will have to give up COM
mon sense and practical reflection to some
magic spell, the origin and influence of which
is beyond our limited comprehension. We can
see but little good to result from passing more
stringent laws for the recovery offugtive slaves.
If sovereign States will interpose to prevent
their recovery no,o, in rioldtion OF The ConStna-
tim, will they be more apt to yield to mere
law, passed by Congress, under that instrument,
which is nop the supreme lac Of The land. Yet
we would be glad to see the law passed.
TO abolish the slave trade in the District OF
Columbia, as proposed, is certainly not very
friendly comment to the institution of the South.
What good will it do the South to establish
territorial governments in New Mexico and De-
seret, maintaining silence as to slavery, when
many at the South, as well as all at the North,
insist that it is nor excluded from them by lar.
This is the feast to which the South is invited,
bv the terms of compromise which we find
floating about in the papers. These proposl-
tions may inspire some with the divinest flights
of hope, aud Joy, and admiration. They can
not affect US in that manner, for, we simply
ask, what will the South gain by them! and
the reply is-nothing.
If two individuals had an equal right to a
niece, o. property, submitted to arbitration, how
woud ON, Of them feel, when told, 1--WE have
settled the dn;su;lty for YOU is true, one of
you gets nothing, IN: your rights arc not de-
MED, and your honor is no. .mprgceeaISAahg al 4,
hands, be friends, be happy nc "o":u .": rc, :cei
little all over most too glorious i9r ILLS !'le
If the Justice Of man did not, thc streets o re-
cancellation would make him almost happy
enough for the elysian fields. Such an arrange
ment as the above one Tor the South, ought to
make her happy enough TO be wiling to give
up, at least, two or three Southern States, to
le lree-soers. If that could not bring her
down, her poverty, weakness aud danger in a
few years would. Augusta Republic.
SURGICAL OPERATION RY DR.. MoTr.---.We
find the following brief report of an operation
by DR.. Mott, at the University, few days ago,
in Noall's Times:
A young man had a tumor growing out OF
one of his nostrils. It came, in time to fill the
whole cavity, and so extensively aud firmly at
tached, that it was impossible to pull it out with
forceps, as is done with polypi. The worthy
professor put on his considering cap, and studied
out I'LL opeTauOh, anu tnct, 10 HIKE ill sure,
he performed OH dead body. Satisfied of lis
praeticabty he began. First, he made a
straight incsion from the inner corner of the
eye to the mouth, through the upper lip; then
dissectcd the flesh from the bone, SO as to turn
all the iesly part of the nose over upon the
other side of the face This done, he sawed
through the bone, and by IL nice piece Of car
penter work, laid open the whole extent Of the
nostrL. The tumor was now exposed, cut loose
and easily extracted, and the patient got well,
without any Disagreement, but Il line where the
tieshy parts were reunited This was an i'll
genious bold, and most successful operation.
"What a ccnsOrious liarp' exclaimed old
Mrs Partington, as she read in a certain news
paper an account of new counterfeit which
WAS said to contain three women and bust of
Washington on each end. "What," said she,
General Washington on bust It's not so,
and the old lady lifted her specs and declared
she had known the old gentleman for the last
thirty years and she never heard of his being OH
a bust-much less with three women.
A New R1FLE--P. W. Porter, of Memphis,
has made self:loading rifle. 1t has revolv-
ing wheel perforated by forty chambers. The
discharge of one chamber loads the adjoining
one. This is an improvement on Colts revolv-
or and will he of preat benefit to the CalifOr- |