The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-05-31

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yourselves, we become 80 weak, that We Win
hot be able to protect ourselves 10 any way,
when The: wishes and predictions of sthesnos
|insulting and ultra abolitionists may be accom-.
|plished. y;ss;s g. :
That we are to get justice BY any aet efthis
Congress have yet to believe; and that fhepeo-
|pie of the South ought to look well 10 the cog.
duct of many Of their politicians here Aayf Is
little doubt. There are too mxpy candle tor
The Presidency, and their satellites md aspis
rants for national hon0rs of every other grade,
Ito hold the scale Of fall and stern Justice, with
|unwayering nerve, where s msjority is known
to have the power and to- be against assea
slavery. This, am aware, is strong language
|but it is truth -lamentable truth II Is tosbe
regretted greatly, that the South ever attached
Importance enough either to the speechsd Mr..
Webster, the nominal denunciation Of t6g VII
mot Proviso, or Mr.. Foote'S Commitfes with
Mr.. Clay at its head, to induce letting down.
|of feeling at SO inpartant q crisis cone,
here, ut all familiar with the re9l teehag Of
Northern men, who occupies whit soacrive.
IA true position himself, ever snppcssd any good
would result from the Committee, aith6ngh
many were willing to let TIE experiment DE-.
made. The report il made and inmy opinis,ts
lit much better einbodies the terms Of tie bateE
and sale of the South to fee-soiiisin, than Of
The admission Of California herself under
all the circumstances, would give to the aboli-
|tions victory unparalleled in all their former
progress BY the establishment Of govern
|ments for the other territories without the VIII
mot proviso, no great good can result to the
South, as Mr.. Clay himself agrees with the ab-
olitionists, that the Mexican laws are Of force
there, and exclude slavery, and that polaws
shall be passed by the territorial Legislature on
the SUBJECT of slavery would Seem to me but to
hold it subject to the Mexican laws until set
Tiers from the North should enter in sufficient
quantities to form State and exclude slavery
|forevnr.
The fugitive slave bill, as reported by the
Committee, appears 70 me 70 be legislatng for
THE slave instead of his master; making pre-
|cedent for further steps IN that direction, and
Int the same time futnishilIg tie means bywhich
IA plantation Of slaves might ruin their owner by
endless litigation.
More Objectionable than alt is the PROPOSE
ton to take off nearly one.third of Texasad.
United now, even by Mr. W Webster, to be slave
|territory-to be paid for fsohIe twelve millions
loo dollars) out Of our common treasury, aiid
Eventually to be under abolition dominion.
Add to all this, the abolion Of the slave trade
lin the District of Columbia, and We have tde
substance of the compromise amounting IN
Inv Judgment, to nothing less than daring pf:
fer of the sale of the South, d, hncre rapid
disposition than the abolisionists ever bsfurs
contemplated accomplishing at one grand
move.
No Representative III either Hease of Con-
gress from our State Is fosit, so fat a. know.
To say the most of i, It seems enle 10 Be Int
y platform for craven and noaiilions sabsnis:
ion by the South, and 70 build up sthe pros
poets Of certain candidates for tho Presidency,
md their friends, whilst Il does not sfarntsha
shadow of a pledge OF ass sori tliat eyeasifit
we're adopted, other and more rapid agGfes.
sions would NOT follDw IN thai. spirit which
Threatens our pltanate ruin, and from which We
so much want repose: 5ss;t
The most strenleus effSifs iF iis making here
by those who Iave ;;oSal paay so deqilyat
ieart, n effect public sentiment N fayof of tris
nis-cailed coinprpmise H is landed ID the
Unionia the highest terms and is colhmus IRE
aisd-with such letters as can be- liked aP here
fom Southern men, to effect public selsnilent
in its favor, whilst there Is rs yet, no prisdn
here, through which single sentiment against
it can be sent fo the people; and YET isss senorni-
ties are bel lgs exposed in the Senate and will
be in the House. &c a number who Ale now scek.
ing the floor are NOT ID be depsiyed Of ii until
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