Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-12-29

divided and distracted--ferce in its home con.
tests, feeble in its outside ones, such will con-
tinue to be the case 1t availed Gulliver but
little chat his foes singly were contemplate, SO
long as the thousand little threads with which
he was tied, one to each separate hair, held
him down in his painfully ridiculous position.
The South is a CULVER When will she sweep
the threads!
But to recur to things here: the Compro.
mise controversy re-opened by the little
Pacificator" FoorE, still goes on. and the
Goals get hotter the more the windy little man
blows the bellows of his lungs. How many
speeches he has made in the course of the
week, including Interruptions and personal ex.
plantations, would be hard to reckon up. But
he has been most completely "squashed" by
your two Senators; first one and then the
other picking him up with pair of tongs, and
exhibiting the bat-like flights of this most fighty
politician. 1t is universally conceded that both
Mr.. BUTLER and Mr.. RHErT have worsted him
in every collision that has taken place between
them and after skulking off from the fail of
the former, he met equally severe punishment
under the lash of the other. Both of your
Senators have acquitted themselves most ad-
mirably in the trying position in which they
have been placed The defamers of South
Carolina cannot say that her race of orators
and statesmen are extinct, while she can show
two such able and ready champions on the
floor Of the Senate.
The debate is not yet closed. FooTE was
indulging in TRADE Of the usual kind to-day
in which he swore by Gen. JAcKsoN's Procla-
nation. and abused Mr.. RHETT, and tomor.
row your Senator will respond to him, having
obtained the floor for that purpose. After that
reioinder, MIR. FooTE will probaly try to
press it to a vote, in which he will not sue.
ceed, as SAM HoUsToN intends making a
speech, abusive of South Carolina of course,
and various others also wish to listen to the
sound of their own voices.
FooTE had hoped to carry home the vote as
capital, but will be disappointed. Whether it
finally will be laid on the table, or passed, is an
open question The chances either way vary
from day to day. Let that test be adopted,
and the incompatible substances composing the
existing parties will resolve themselves into
their original elements very quick. If it is
laid on the table, it will manifestly be shirk.
ing of the subject, and the bone will be thrown
into the National Convention.
The KossUTn fever in New York, and the
march, of agrarian progress there as connected
with it. you doubtless have remarked. Kos
suru will be here next week-but everybody
keeps cool about it. They are accustomed
here to lions Of all kinds, and are in the habit
of seeing the animals at feeding time. He
will manage to make sensation when he ar.
rives, nevertheless, probaly by speech on the
floor of the Senate.
No business of much consequence will be
done in either House, until after the Christmas
holidays Many of the members have gone
home to get their eggnog and digest their tur-
key in peace With the opening of the new
year opens in earnest the political campaign,