The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-12-10
Something New.

II is news TO US that the South has no right TO
secede and that Southern Congress would be
TREASON. We consider the source from whence
this sentiment enanates-and We attach no fur
tler importance 10 ii than TO cay that We are not
surprised at any thing now-a-days-since so many
species of net1 things as well as new men, should
suddenly spring into eXiStencr-it is prolific
time, and harvest fer political jugglers, az we'll
as for new phases and kinds of Demagogues.-
There is more than one kind of this article; the
term delnagogue is not intended alone 10 be ap-
piled 10 a rantng faction orator. who manufactures
his speeches and sentiments TO suit circumstances
single Specification of the term therefore is not
sufficient scope TO allow 10 denagogueism-it
may he found IN various shades and colors, from
the ranting, raving Sewardte who, by one fell act
Of "higher law" would deluge our plains in blood,
as sacrifice TOO small for his base and guilty am
bition, even down, by regular gradation, to the
mean contemplate colporteurs of abolition senti-
ments, under cloak Of wandering professorships,
who nsidiousy are accomplishing the same end
to which the "higher law" portends In our pre-
sent critical juncture, we cannot too carefully en-
quire into the motives Of all new men or clarac-
ters who come into our midst from suspicious quar-
ters, under suspicious or doubtful circumstances.
(These remarks are intended, we take occasion to
say, only for those who have no visible business
or calling in our midst, and are not BY any means
meant to be invidiousy applied to honest men,
who unfortunately hail from the land of Seward,
Hale and Giddings) This is no time to dwell up
on the abstracts OF the ques,ion-let IFS come right
up to the mark, let us meet the issue in the face
how is it, we ask, that men are allowed free egress
and ingress in our Statee disseminating the seeds
of discord, exciting jealouses, expressing their
opinions in opposition to others, and remain in
our midst, whilst southern man can't 60 to Bos-
ton and reclaim his fugitive slave when legal au-
thorities are in his favor? There is something
ne,p in this matter that we cannot understand
when we reflect that southern men, whose saliva
ton, in political sense, depends upon themselves.
we want every man TO show his colors-those
who are not for us are against us-no middle
ground here! Let us try at all events, so far as
we can, to expel the Arnolds from our camp. Let
US have men, if we can get but few, those few
firm tried !! and trueM! Let the intallible test,
"bv their works ye shall know them" be indis-
criminately applied, and if the special committee
OF Vigilance, whose duty it shall be to provide
,oays and means, cannot satisfy themselves IN re-
gard to the precise location of these transient gen.
temen, who are so actively engaged in promulg-
ing treason, let the interposition of the lee non
scripia Of Judge Lynch be at once vigorously call
ed into requistion 1t is something new to US,
that certain individuals should assume the right of
debating to us what we ought to do-what We
ought not to do, what is treason, and how and
when, and all that. This we say is the acme OF
Gaping the climax ofimpcrtlnence.
sJy"The submission men at Washington, and
their Mort. ern masters, are throwing up their hats
in great gier, at the return Of our deegatlon.-
They lake ii as sue index that South Carolina
Will submit Little do they know the lndces to
S,urh Ca.0lina's Intentions. Never was she more
was she more active. The
Hessian scribber X of the Baltimore Sun thinks
that compliment from "hs great self'-his own
ero ipse ,neum-will be most humbly received by
Judge Butler, aud will no doubt have the effect Of