The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-05-31
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sensation. The President had been GIVING his
views against the boundary claimed by Texas,
but Immediately changed the topic to Cuba,
and appeared to be taken by surprise with the
news.
There was cabinet meeting to-day. ;
1t is expected that proclamation will short.
3ly appear. We understand that Sir Henry BuI.
/ wer has had conference with Mr. Secretary
Clayton, in which it is stated that there is a
ssecret treaty between Spain and England, which
/ will require the latter to interfere, even if the
/ island is liberated tits apprehended that this
! will lead to blockade of the whole coast by
England, and that some chance collision with
/ the American flag will end in war.
tits supposed that this business will hurry
] on the compromise Of the North, while the
| South will 60 for delay.
SITUATION OF THE CoMPRoMIsE.- is ap.
parent that the chances for the passage of the
measures proposed by the committee have
wonderfully diminished of late The opposition
of the Administration, together with the increa:
Sing disfavor with which it is being received
throughout the South, rs well as the strength
(which is given to the ranks Of its opponents by
Northern Wing votes in support of the Presi-
dents plan, all indicate its defeat.
Another inducement to oppose the bill ap-
pears for the first time to have taken prominent
hold upon the minds of the friends of the South
and that is, il California is remanded back as
Ia territory, slavery will find its way there, un-
der the protection which the Constitution
throws over property in the Territories of the
United States. Horace Mann, in his Infamous
letter to the people Of his district, brought con.
!clusive arguments forward, to prove that if not
prohibited now, the institution must inevitably
|go there, because it was profitable; that slave
labor was just the thing for mining purposes /;
and that if the restrictions were removed, capi
tai, in that form, would assuredly take hold of
the investment
The fanatics of the North oppose the Com
promise, because it does not meet all their ini.
quitous demands; the Administration oppose it,
that the President may have the honor oI bring
ing into the Union the free State of California,
untrammeled by other matters, intended as re-
served capital for another campaign; the men
of the South oppose it, because it is unjust and
dshonorable; aud every lover of his country
ought to oppose it, because it does not settle
definitely the question of slavery. Those who
sustain it are chiefly class of men who desire,
peace upon any terms.-South Carotinian.
From the Montgomery Advertiser and Gazette
Messrs Editors: The Washington Cores
pondent of the Charleston Courier says, can
intelligent aud influential member of the House,
Just returned from Alabama, says that nine
tenths of the people of that State are for the
compromise reported by the committee of the
Senate The member Of the House, to whom
allusion is made by THIS letter.wrter, is Mr.. Hill;
lard of this District He spent few days in:
this city, some few weeks since, and before the.
report of the committee was made. His mis-
sion was melancholy one, and excited the
sympathies of all.
His means for forming correct opinion as!
to the public sentiment of the people Of the.
State, or even this community, upon the COM
promise, even before it was reported, must, Of
necessity, have been of the most limited char.5
acter. And there can be no better evidence of
his entire want of correct information upon this;
subject than the opinion expressed by him, that.
nine tenths of our people are in favor of Il COM
promise which, in the language of distin.i
guished whig, "abandons every ground takenI
by the South, and introduces principle not to|
be tolerated-a trial by jury for runaways"
No, sir, the people of Alabama are opposed
to the compromise, and the politician who shall
sustain, by his vote, such measure, will incur|
the deep, settled, and lasting dispeasure OF
those whose rights and interests will have thus
been betrayed. SOUTH.
PRospEcrs OF CRops.-We have learned
from gentleman residing in this city, who has
just returned from visit to several OF the East
ern Counties of Mississippi, that the prospects
of the planters and farmers in that region haveI
never been worse. He was planter in East
for thirty years, but is now engaged
in other business. He was, therefore, while on
his visit, the better able to view the scene;
around him with an impartial eye He informs
us that on the uplands the corn aud cotton
plants were literally washed away, while the
low and fiat lands were all under water, and
the crops drowned. Many planters have aban-
doned all. hopes OF cotton crop upon Target
portions of their lands, and are putting thenk
in corn.-Mobile Register
The CRops.- 1t is now, the day we write,
the 23d of May, at whchdate cotton is usually
to bloom, and corn about waist high.
At pre>ent, whilst tie most forward and prom
ising cotton in this section is, we undcrstand,l l.
nof ,,,.o tI,,n fI,rna IN fnur IN oboo h;rh