The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-10-08
CONGRESS.

The first session of the thirty first Congress
ends to-day, at twelve O'Clock, NJ.
Iii, tie longest session ever held 1t has pas
sed fewer acts than any other, but has done
more mischief than all the others put together.
II mas confiscated the rights of one section OF
the Union, TO a vast and valuable territory, and
transferred it to the others and has thereby ag
rravated sectional hostility, which perhaps
never can be nllaycd. 1t has done this under
the false pretence of compromise and concllia-
ton: and in less than one month after the deed
was done the tiiings ofincreased agitation and
discomfort have reached the Capitol from the
North and the South, in tones thatappal the per-
pctrato-~ "f the wrong.
The dominant part of the dominant party OF
the Empire State of the North, having seen the
facility with which pundcr can be obtained by
a clamor and vote, is indignant that more was
not demanded, and cries aloud for more. An
o.erwhnmng majority of nearly two to one OF
the Syracuse Convention o(the Wing party OF
the State of New York, has asserted the doe
trnes OF that Senator who has led the vanguard
of tie Northern aggression in the late contest.
massachusetts, the leading State ofne Eng.
land. is also camoring formore, and has nor two
sicii,itDr5tn follow wherever SEWARD will lead.
Ohio. he leading State of the North west, also
has nuM two Senators, one OF each party, both
ct whom insi,; OH the immediate conversion of
New Mexico into Il iree-soil State that terri.
tory il.o which the the. South has been uocked
with Il nominal privilege of admission.
But whilst this notice ofrencwed and aggr;i-
waited agitation comes from the North, We have
still more serious andcm;,hatic movements from
the South. Patriots aud Statesmen of the Souti
who have optpsed these aggrrssions from the
BEGINNING, ;tIA warned their cauntryIien that
librrty was no: the price OF apathy, nor the
abandonment Of halfthc lights ot people the
best mode OF defending lae other hall, arc at
length heard and needed.
1'.e States Of the South are moving Gcor-
gia is gathering her pcorl in solemn council.
Tx legislature OF Mississippi will be convened
bv Proclamation. That of Texas convenes at
th2 saii,e time. So that III sixty days four
Snutacrn StIles Wi! he prepared TO determine
the most inonentous questions that eau be con-
silered by civilized people. Alabama, Ar
kansas, and Florida. have the same interests
and the salHc sentiments, and viii speak the
same language, and that promptly. This
makes seven States, and is h.'f the real South
era - Us. }"ar can ln'iht hrv the ot 49,
AHt VII aet urst tln4- decide. E;ot air.. =.
/, Is a.s,rar, tat a,.rr.., md ,scant.t,
%ort,, 81. { g.. .era... ..4, I.af tia ,c:.ria
o. cou.a.a..,.a ..aei i,ia,i-lo;l,d % .a;;,;y r,.
poll, 90 l'4 sgai.@5.
Ga., ,r-s: :s trp.opritted at this single scs-
sion sixty millions OF money, and more than
a hundred millions in land, besides the transfer
of an immense territory, from one section to
another Is this the sort of Government we
contracted for! We defy the production Of a
single passage in history, where Parliament
or Potentate ever exercised q powers so
unlimited so despotic, so oppressive, SO disas-
trous.-Sou'hern Press.
The Mobile Tribune quotes one Of the brief
and tervid articles of the Columbus (Ga.) Times,
and ia some comments on it, lets fall the fol-
lowing remarks.
In South Corolina everything seems quiet
We observe few expressions Of indignation
in the papers, few indications that anything
new or offensive to its people has occurred, Ell
ther in Congress or out of it. What this singu.
lar stale of apparent apathy means is more
than we can tell 1t may be the omnious
calm which precedes and ushers in the storm.
Perhaps We ought not to be surprised that