Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-08-26
From the Mountain Banner.
ABOLTTIONISTS IN GUILFORD.

The Greensboro Patriot of last week con.
tains the report of committee appointed to
take into consideration the state of affairs pro-
duced by the incendiary preaching of Mcbride,
Crooks, and one Bacon in that section. The
committee is convinced that said preachers are
incendaries of the abolitionists. Mcbride is
already gone, and the report declares that
Crooks and Bacon must leave-they must be
got rid of peaecably if we can, forcibly if we
must"
~ These emmissares, it appears, have made a
good many converts in GuiIford, and we learn
that there was regular row at Union church
8 miles from Jamestown, on Saturday the 18th
ult. 1t is stated that there were about 800 on
the side the preachers, and that clubs, stones,
&C., were freely used, but no one very seri-
ously damaged. A reward Of 5000 was offer
ed for the apprehension of Crooks and Bacon,
or 800 for either Of them, after the 5th Of
August. We annex letter, published in the
Patriot, and vouched for as genuine. 1t was
written in Indiana by 4 former resident Of Gull
ford:
"Berorc this reaches you the battle between
the "respectable descendants" OH one part and
Mcbride and Crooks on the other part, will
probably have been fought; yet give it as my
opinion that Mcbride aud Crooks will not be
driven from your county alive; and if the ere.
specLaJlc' shall in obedience to laU and ORDER,
slay them upon the field, their places will be
again and quickly filed by "a few more of the
same sort know this, because have con-
vcrsed with one Of their allies in this county,
who says, that though so years Of age, he is
ready to take their places. 1t is known here,
if not in your County, that there is Il number
of citizens Of Guiford that are leaguci with
these men in concocting and carrying out their
plans. What will the " respectable do with
them9 "'rher name is legion" and their iufu.
ence is not limited to their own families, while
their horses are not slow offoot when mounted
by a runaway negro, OF his route north. elf
this swarm of flies be driven away, their places
will be supplied by others more hungry" |
have mentioned these things TO saow you that
in passing in condemnation on the respccta-
ble" mob, am in the right use of my reason,
not fanatical, but disposed to look at things as
they are, and to submit to the laws Of my coun-
try. In conclusion, let me say land speak
udviscdly) that wherever these ministers have
Obtained the foothold that they now have in
Guilford, the peace and qart of the savehold
ing community is at an end; aud much as |
love wealth, would not this day accept as I
present, the best farm and negroes in your
county, with the understanding that should be
compelled to remain with them s years. For
whether slavery be right or wrong, of God or
the Devil, its days are numbered, Union or no
Union. The North has the asceuGencv, and
the power, the will and the determination. to
break its bonds, and that at no very distant Pc
Rod There is an upheaying Of sentiment, and
running out after "things new" love Of re-
form either fancied or real among the people
Of the great Northwest, that bctokens this more
strongly than does any opposition to the fusi,
tive slave BILL"