The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-10-18
Correspondence Of ,hs Baltimore Sun.
WAsHIsaroS, Oct. 13. Is

An election for members Of the next Con.
sgpess wil take place Tomorrow ip South Car.
.oliIla. tits admitted that nine,tenths OF the
voters .fand suffrage is extended to every white
citizen ii South Gasnlinn} are disunionists, per
Sc. j doSnOt think tue present members are
for disuaioil for disunion.s sake. but their ad'
dresses at home look something like it. They
ought to be excused by their constituents for
not quitting their seats when the California bull
passed, but It isa doubtful matter whether they
win be. Something more than signing pro.
test was expected from South Carolina and
Georgia Senator's. How are the latter to be
excused for not ,obsyiug their instructions to
leave theirseats and go home when California
was indicted as State,
The truth is, simagine, that much OF. the
southern excitement Is for Buncombe. They
are an excitable people, but not more 30 than
the Nosthern people, who have cross OF the
Norman Blood. There must be, in this coun.
try, some vent for passion and feeling; and a
runaway egro case, occurring now and then,
affords 9 topic for pleasing, and to dema.
gogues. q profitable agitation, Some better
cases viii be ready hy.and by. A combination
for the acquisition Of the Antilles and the North
American British Provinces, will produce an
excitement that will swallow up hundred fu-
gitiYe cases, Nothing is SO certain, In this
country, as perpetual agitation-and. after all,
experience has shown that u Is preferable to
the unruffled calm Of despotfsm.
But, reverting to the fact, that it was neces,
sary for South Carolina members to apologize
to their constituents for not, indignantly, quit
ting their Seats is it not surprising that another
election should be heidi Is 1t not more sur.
prizing that the best men In Carolina contend
for the honor of membership of the House OF
Representatiyesf Isit not amazing that, in the
Charleston district. one Of the candidates should
expe1d some twenty OF thirty thousand dollars
to prorrote BIS eleeton9 Does not all this
show that, in South Carolina agitation, there Is
such thing as CANNON In the Northern
States, tits difficult to bring the attention OF
whole community to al single point Men busy
about their farms, and their ships, and their
merchandise, and their studies, or their pleas.
ures, will not turn aside to contemplate the real
dangers Of the Union. arising from the abolition
movements. When the Northern agitators
shall effect what Mr.. Woodward, of South
Carolina, predicts that they Will, then discord
must reign,
L do not see IN the Ohio and Pennsylvania
elections any results prejndicial to the cause of
the Unionists. The members who voted for
the peace measures have not been discarded,
It appears that Pennsylvania has sent democrats
of the old line to represent her in the next Con.
gresx. SO far as / have learned they are men
of national policy, They may be called upon
at the next Presidential election, to cast the
vote Of the StsIs for q President. They will
90 for candidate who will promote the peace
and harmony Of the Union.
The election has, suppose, sealed the fate Of
che tariff Of projection, II has, hope, accom-
plished this much--that the wings, as party,
will drop the protective policy. ltought not 10
be party question, IfParties, on both Sides