Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-03-28

Wilson Lumpkin, Is suggested lof Tue suPPo''
of the Southern'Right party, makes sone,gen-
eral remarks on Southern politics Which we
cannot refrain from copying areat once
so true, so full of heart and SO eloquent in ex-
preston.
1--WE believe the Southern Rights spirit Of
Georgia will rally a support to Wilson Lump
kin, that will beat any Constitutional Union
dawdler that can be started. The order Of
"pcace measures" Is strongly infragrant in the
nostris of our people Time and close IT,
spection of the Legislative mechanism of the
omnibus bills, have developed its monstrous in
justice cts sweeping sacrifice of The rights OF
one section, and its wholesale surrender ofev-
erything valuable iu dispute, to the capacous
and voracous maw of the other. Another I'M
portant fact breaks on the Southern mind. 1t
is, that all these sacrifices blythe South ,cere gra-
tuiloMs and unnecessary-.uot even called Tor,
by the exigencies Of an impe'illed Union. The
North did not expect the South to yield so
much, and was as greatly surprised as delight
ed, when she beheld Southern members, sur
rendering at discretion, under the active fire of
the batteries of "Unionism." Georgia, alone,
had it in ber power to have saved the rights and
the honor Of the South lfher public men had
been true-if Toombs and Stephens had held
on in the course they started inf some had
not been corrupted by the glitter OF admins
tration patronage, and others had not been
awed by the flashes ofdanger that lit up that
storm Of sectional warfare aud Georgia, taking
courage from the example and heroic tone OF
hersetvants in Congress, had stood firm and
unblanched in the eye Of the battle, there is
nothing Euer, than that the North would have
yielded, and abated the monstrous demands
she. made as the conditions of compromise and
peace There is nothing truer, than that the
South was sfercefy assailed, feebly defended,
and basely betrayed" And the consequences
are.-not only a loss Of the substantial points Of
jnstice and rights ii the settlement-but a. loss,
81. that brightness Of her escutcheon, which
pride, 5duty,, and policy, command all people
and nations. to maintain as brilliant as burnsh-
ed silver. ~ & ( <nzt tss.eii Z, 81: as
-serhe South has been sold for atmess of pot
tage. Nay, more than that forthe lentiless of
the fugitive act, weresa already hers by the pre-
scriptions of the orgaaic lawiofthe land. - Her
champiQas gAse up all, for. the boon Of Sortil:
ern fidelity to clause ofthe Consiitution-,to
which its Sworn vows had been already pledg-
ed And the men who did this What are they
abouta !, They are claiming to hold i'm the palm
Of their. hands the sulfrages of. the people Of
Georgia. They claim the, verdict given in No
vember last under the panic Of their own crea-
tiou, as the,sssober second thought" Of spirit.
ed and Intelligent people. And they are found-
ing on it,S aparty organization, whose triumph
ofFederahsni, the tramplnig in tie dust of the
Southern banner Of State Rights, the election
of q Northern President, the abasement of the
men who stood by the South, when the storm
lowered, and 2the victory of those Southern
renegades who manned the smasked batteries
from behind which the Constitution and the
rights of the South were assailed."' -
p - s'FFTss c3T'S..--1l T8 ~ ~ ''srs-ss -
SENTENCE FOE KIpNappIse,-A man named
George-F F. Alberto was recently, convicted in
Philadelphia of kidnapping a negro, child and
taking tito Maryland, where it was sold into
slavery-and sentenced to twelve years impris-
onment in the Penitentiary. The penalty in
Alabama for kidnapping u free negro and sell
ing him, we believe, twenty years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary. - s.a'n &,43 = |
The above appeared in the Alabama Journal
published in this city, few days since. And
now, reader, Just listen to tho facts in the case,
and then make mp your own opinion Of a paper |
that,wouid thus mislead the public mind 81,
Some two or three years ago, a negro woman
ran awayfrom her owner; a MIR. J. S.Mitchell,
in Maryland, and went to Pennsylvania. Lear.
ming her whereabouts, he despatched two
agents-of whom Mr.. George F.sAlberte, the
individual named in the above extract, is ONE
to bring her r-home.; They did SO. During the
negro woman's absence, as runaway slave she
had q child, in Pennsyfvania, which Of course
was the property of the owner of the woman,
and was, brought with her to him. For this
of these two slaves, both the agent:
have been convicted and sent to tho penitentia-
~ of Pennsylvania for twelve years ; and the
Governor of that State has now made requi.
ton upon the Governor of Maryland for Nit.
chcll himself, (who never left the State Of Mary:
land at all, as we understand it,) as a fugitive
from justice--the offence being the recovery,
by his agents, of his own property, guaranteed
by the Constitution of the United States. OF
course the Governor of Maryland refuses to
give up Mitchell.
Now we ask, what kind Of comfy and rcc-
prosity is this among the people of two States
calling, themselves sisters, and their citizens
brethrens A man who goes or sends to free
State TO- recover his property, makes himself
and agents liable to long, loathsane and de-
grading confinement iu a rpepi,eptiary Now