Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-06-17
THE CONSOLIDATION CANDID ATE
FOR GOVERNOR.

Mr.. COBB being now fairly before the people
Of Georgia for their sufrages as Governor OF
the State, it becomes important for them to be
informed of his true position upon those impor-
tant questions which now SO deeply agtate the
public mind. The most momentous issues are
involved in the result of the approaching elec.
ton, since it will authoritatively announce the
position of this State on the great questions OF
States Rights and State sovereignty, and will
exercise powerful influence on the future des-
tiny of the South and of the Union. Georgia
from her political weight in the Co1federacy,
from her great interest in slavery, and her cen
trail position in the South, may almost be re-
garded as the arbitcr of the fate OF the South
ern people Hence the vast Importance that
she should give wise, just and patriotic decl-
sion.
If Mr.. Cobbs TO be Judged by the sentiments
and opinions attributed to him, on the powers
of the General Government in his late speeches
in this city and Savannah, as reported by the
Journal and Messenger and Republican, he Is
Il CoysoLIpAr1oN1sr and the last man, at Il
crisis like the present, who ought to be invested
with the chief Executive authority OF the State.
If our Interpretation of the reports of these
speeches be correct, Mr.. Cobb does not believe
that State has the right to secede for amy
cause without committing treason and rebellion.
Holding such opinions, and taking such 4 view
of our systsm of Government, should he be
elected Governor, and the occasion arise, he
would doubtless feel it to be his duty 10 furnish
the President u,th men and means 10 coerce and
force South Carolina, or any other seeding
State into obedience to the laws Of Congress
We hope the people will call him out on this
point They have light to demand direct
and unequivocal reply on this absorbing sub:
iect, from every one seeking their suffrages, and
we trust it will be fearlessly exercised.
The controversy between South Carolina
and the General Government is not one of her
own seeking, neither does it concern herself
alone. 1t is as much contest between Geor
cia and Alabama with the North, as it is of 5
Carolina. Whatever differences of opinion
there may be with regard to the action of the
latter State at this time, it is impossible i'll the
very nature Of things that the ncighboring
States should side with the Federal Government
aud aid in her subjugaton, without sealing their
own doom. A State coerced into omission
by the General Government, when resisting its
aygressions on the institution OF slavery, will be
Il proclamation to the whole world that Aboli.
ton is triumphant OH this continent. 1t will be
virtually telling the enemies Of slavery through,
out the Union, that we are ready to yield up
the whole question and pass quietly under the
yoke of reckless and aggressive mojority i'll
Congress. If the people OF Georgia desire to
let their voice be heard on the side of cfectual
resistance to Northern aggression, let them at:
firm the right of State to secede, although
they may never wish to exercise it. But if on
the other hand, sati,fed with anything they ca'
yet from their Northern masters, which God III
his mercy forbid, they wish to send to such
friends of the Union as Fillmore Il Co., the
"earth and water" the tokens OF absu lutte un'
conditional submission, they can do it in nc
way more efectually than by elccting Il Gov
ernor who denies the right Of secession, or re
mains silent while the right is denied by Abol
tionists and Frcesoilers at the North, and Sub
missionists at home. -Gcorgm Telegraph.