The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-12-13

ALABAMA.-We give (says the Hartford
Courant,) the following extract OF letter from
a gentleman in Alabama to friend in this city,
As a specimen of the state of feeling in the in
terror counties of the South. The writer is
native of Connecticut who has resided in Ala
bama for some years, and fully understands the
views of those about whom he writes:
"What Calhoun could not effect in twenty
wears. has been done in six weeks, viz: un'on
of the South. do assure you that, IN this
county, one of the wcalthiest, and containing
as quiet and intelligent population as there
is in the United States Wing too. where hrst
there was large Union party-there Is no"
not one permanent citizen that l know Of, or
have heard of, that does not say the time mas
come for secession For one, with many ties
TO bind me North-born there-having TRENDS
and relations from whom it would be painful to
iffer-Aaving hoped, and, until my recent VS.
it to the North, have expected that my chlldreh
and yours would live and die under the same
government our fathers had-it was with great
reluctance that was convinced that the MORT"
would not leave us alone, which was all we
asked. As it is, an, prepared coolly anu
calmly to vote for secession, and, lift IS neces-
sarv. to sustain the vote with life and fortune
The Union, as it has been managed for some
wears, has no friends here. These who hoPea
Justice from the North, are giving up tae'r
hopes, since the news comes Of the action III
Ohio, Pennsylvania and especially in Massa'
chusetts. Nothing but the eftectual waxing
up of the Union men, (f any such there oe')
at the North, and their effectual putting down
of slavery agitation there, can now save H.
Their ground has been taken from under them
by the notification of the slave law and tne
renewed and increasing agitation OF tile save
question at the North"
SOUTHERN MEETING AT NEw ORLEAN<.-
A great meeting of the cause OF CONSTITUTIONAL
Rights of the South, was held in the St Louis
Ball Room, New Orleans, Saturday night
The large hall was crowded to its utmost ca
pacity, ard the streets around prese'ted "a
wide sea of moving, jostling, surgng humanity,
Joseph Genois was appointed President, with
near one hundred Vice Presidents, from the
most influential citizens Of the place. froi.
J. d. B. Debow. and seven others acted as
Secretaries. Senator Soule, in response to en-
tbusiastic calls, addressed the meeting IN
speech of great animation, logical force and
eloquence. He reviewed the legislation OF Con-
gress, and showed thai it had been grossly un-
constiutionaland aggressive. As for remedies
he recommended the people to struggle yetto
obtain indemnity and security in the Union.
He did not advocate secession or dlSulon.
After this speech, Judge Alexander " alker,
one of the editors of the Delta, delivered brief
but eloquent address The cheers OF the audi
euce in response to both speeches are sand to
have been most enthusiastic and "rooi-llttlng."
The following resolutions agreed on by the
committee. were su3mitted'by H B. Kelly, esq,
and adopted with but one dissenting voice.
Whereas, The conduct Of large portion OF
the people of the North, OF all classes and OF
all political parties, has rendered manifest the
existence among them of dispositions, feelings
and opinions hostile to the rights and lnstltu-
tons Of the Southern States, well calculated to
excite serious appreheusions that they intend to
persevere in the course OF aggression and inju.
ry which marked the recent Legislation OF Con-
gress on the subject of slavery.
Resolved, That although we entertain an
abiding attachment, and cherish religious de.
votion to the Union, we deem it just and neces-
sary, at this time, to proclaim to our fellow.
citizens at the North; not by way Of menace,
but in spirit of friendly warning our solemn
conviction that the people OF. Louisiana will in.
sst, at all RISKS, upon the constitutional compact
on the subject of slavery, and will submit to no
violation or Infringement Of it whatever, and
that they will resist-eyen though that resist.
ance should create dissolution Of the Union--.
all attempts by Congress to egslate aggress-
ively upon their rights by the abolition of slave
~ in the District of Columbia, or the interdic-
tion of the slave trade between the States, or
the enactment of the Wilmot Proviso, of the
repeal or essential modification Of the Fugitive
Slave Law
And Whereas, The Union of these States,
is union of sovereigns in a confederacy of
equals, and can only be perpetuated by preserv-
ng uuimpaired the character impressed upon it
,y its founders.
Be it therefore further Resolved, That as
friends of the Union and of the South, we cor.
1ially approve the course Of those Senators and
in Congress, who contended
against all encroachments upon the equality,
ligpity and rights Of the Southern States, and
hat our thanks are especially due, and arc
hereby rendered to the Hon. p Soule, Hon.
:. LaSere and Hon. |. E. Morse, for the zeal,
ability and fidelity which they, in connection
With the late lamented J II Harmans0n defend. |