The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-09-10
cor,r,nondence of the Baltimore Sum.

HiN0TON, Gep~ q, lOoo'
The House undertook, to-day, to grapple
with the difficult and complicated subjects
which have hitherto baff1ed their WISDOM
That they We're desIrous OF commgro some
adjustment, upon some reasonable terms, they
had proved by the overwhelming majority
against the rejection of the Texan boundary
bill and the general assent given to the motion
to take up the subject and continue its consid-
Grafton till it is disposed of.
The speeches made to-day are in evidence
that Southern sentiment is not retrograding on
this subject, but advancing at a race-horse
speed, and with forty-horse power. Mr..
Daniel, of North Carolina, made stronger
speech on the Southern side of the Texan ques-
ton than any made yet. He was ready to
vote ten millions to enable Texas to defend her
territory, rather than induce her to surrender it
and he was for the South in the Union, and for
the South out fthe Union. This is pretty well
for North Carolina, especially considering that
the State gave two votes for the Texan bill and
the Compromise in the Senate.
Mr. Mcdowell, of Virginia, who has gen.
orally been considered and is very conciliatory
and moderate in his views and course on this
subject, spoke quite as decidedly against the
tendency of Northern policy to aggression on
the rights of the South as any one has done.
He had not, when his hour expired, come to
consideration of the merits of the Texan BILL
GEN. QUITMAN-TEXAN TERRITORY.
How Gov. Quitman of Mississippi, would
act in the event of the Federal authorities send
ing an armed force into New Mexico to re-
strain the Government of Texas, and prevent
its exercise of Government authority over the
territory east of the Rio Grande, has been for
some time question of issue between some Of
the Mississippi editors The Governor himself,
in the following letter to the editor Of the Vicks
burg Sentinel, tells what his course in such a
contingency would be:
JACKSON, Aug. ls, 1850.
MY Dear Sir:--Your note of yesterday call
ing my attention to the comments OF the Vicks-
burg Wing, upon the article in the Sentinel Of
Thursday last, was received last night
| find nothing in your article to justify the
comments of the Wing, especially as the Mssis-
sippian of the 10Th of July had defined my po.
sition upon the subject | therefore, see no
reason to avail myself Of your kind and obliging
offer to deny that soneassD spIns baTe ob
lection that it should be known, that believe
the title of Texas to the territory claimed by
her on this side of the Rio Grande to be indispu.
table; that the forcible seizure any part ofthis
territory by the National Executive would be
wunton act of despotism, which should be
sternly resisted by Texas; that as the evident
purpose of this movement is to converta portion
of her territory to free soil, the Southern States
should make common cause with Texas; and
that in the event ofa collision of arms, or great
danger thereof, l would deem it my duty to
convene the Legislature of this State, and re.
commend to them the adoption of prompt and
efficient measures to aid our sister State in the
maintenance of her clear rights against Fede-
raj usurpation. Nor have doubt, that in