Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-04-29
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as MANY meanings as 5srnai1 may cnoose 10
give t-esp The contradictions cxbttd by the
two yrea. extent eXamE.es Of i seii governing
democracy vii l,t AR III drive him 10 despair
Only week. ago. "n lis being announced that
an iafinitcly small poftisn "f the pai.ano III
ten led To celebrate the birthday ol their present
institutions by going in procession 10 c:';ife''.
and tleposiiiag some flowers in ii Cemetery, llie
funds began to 3ta4:-ser, AMI so''.a siAiE tIou-
sand Soldiers passed il ignt iHd day '!n,i,'f
arms. the da, brtHre Yesterday We lad to re-
cord SECOND burst Of panic Terror III Paris. oc-
casioned bv II report that the officers "i tie na-
,ional guard wereto br elected hy univr's s;,l sst
frase according to ths letter oftire c""st'::i"n
Tie same evening tie A:T.e.cai! new 'imi"rs
reached ns with accounts ri Il prolonged p'l'!i
cat disturbance, of which the ie"hlvst Vibration
would have topped down one-Iai OF the Eu-
ropean thrones. A fugitive negro had been
taken into custody by the United States Mar
shall in Boston, under positive enactment OF
the central Legislature, sanctioned by an en-
nress provision of the Federal Constitution
The news spread. Tie official is attack ked by
a mob of coored people, and is compelled 10
release the prisoner, who is forthwith carried
I'm triumph to the border OF Il contiguous State,
and thence, by a new escort conducted t"lhr
British possessions in Canada. I!!" hulk ot
The respectable classes applaud. Tire news.
pspers are frantic with enthusiasm. 4 Procla.
NATION is issued by the President, declaring
that tho law must be enforced, and thousand
tongues reply that human Legislation m st be
postponed to the dictates the conscience and
the instincts of nature. It is the extreme "i
violence defended l,y the extreme OF anii.s"ci'l
doctrine. Well! YOU turf from the disastrous
columns, and, looking to the other side of the
page, YOU fnd Yourself in a report OF pr"rccd.
ings commemorative Of General Wasinston's
nativity, with edit rial comments thereon. The
leading men Of all parties have met together to
consecrate the name which is in itself q sym.
boil of Union, aud to proclaim the eternity Of
the hero's work 5. Every form Of strong and
sensuous metaphor is enlisted to express the
strength, the vigor, the stability Of the republic
Iii an easle It is the sun. 1t is O!ion, with
his belt Of stars. tits the Plcidas, "multpicd
by three" II is the infalt Hercules. 1t isa
Colossus seated OH the Rocky mountains, and
batninc his feet in the twin Foceans.s@ The very
rhetoric smacks Of flusty and unchastened youth
and seems tasrrom sc length of days in form as
subject Clearly the federation does not mean
: to go to pieces. .s--..,.,.-., s.4g i.z
The coHmotions at Boston point undoubt"d.
" to real and abiding danger. but they do
not prove that it is auy closer at hand than it
was before. The tendency Of the. abolitionist
) agitation to degenerate into disunionist move.
ment has provoked asso,t of reaction in favor
of the fugitive slave law, which, obnoxious ~
It is, has been enforced with unexpected readf
:. ness in New; York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, amp
some of the Northwestcrn STATES The It
tennis to compel the extraditou Of negroes ii
8Masaehusetts have, on the other hand, proved
fra;tfess, and the last failure took place under
the, alarming circumstances which we have just
sketched. But, as regards the popular feeling
on the subjects slavery, there is considerable
difference between. New England and the free
States which are inirninedate contact with slave
soil, or With receive certain proportion of
their iminigrant population from the South
Al, arrest under the recent enactment seems to
strike the New Epglandcrs in the light af
foreign aggression than as Legitimate, though
op;ressive, interference of q domestic authority.
! There is much, indeed, in the accounts we have
perused,> which recalls and s'illnstratcd by our
x own experience of the last four months. Put
ting out of the qaesiion such exceptional i'rl.
tants rs the Durham letter, we may assert that
the no-popery agita'ion grew out Of conditions
combinations exceedingly germanc to the
source ofthe fern,ents in Massachusetts. We
were all Of US told from our Infancy upwards,
that popery was prosecuting and nsarpl;'g. The
religious education, Of EnglShnlcn prp-snrpn-es
j.. such an article of belief Bat though an iusig.
nifcant secton Of the community had always
especially devoted itself to the cultivation ot
anti.Rotnish sentiment, in the great mass OF
Englshmen it had become practically extinct
vas principle ofaction, except $" far as it oe-
7casionaIly colored their view of the even ts'Ing
perplexties of the Irish question. Then came
+. the Pope's brief and the Cardinals pastor al.
The enemy, who had passed into the condition
of myth, assumed pal'ae and aggressive
reality, and point of meaning WAS given t"
lessons which had hitherto been sterile. Tne
country seemed, for the the moment to rally to
Exeter Hall, and Indignation at encroachment
began burning with an intensity which wo"ln
doubtless have been less violent in its innrd
ate manifestations, il our contact with the nsur.
ming power had been closer and more constant.
Just S., the New England populations have
been brought up in conventional ahho:rencc oi
negro slavery, against which the whole econo.
INV of their society is u standing protest.
Hitherto they have contemi lated it from a dis.
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