Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-11-11
CALIFORNIA.

There are indications that California has not
vat exhausted her stock of material for aboll-
tion apitatiou. The next Congress has chance
of beinp as busy with her affairs as the last
convention has been called by the Southern
Counties for the purpose of deyising and car
ryirg out plan Of separation from the North
ern part, under Territorial, not a State Gov
ernment. The two sections are essentially
different in character. The one is the land of
uold, and adventurers, and crimes the other
contains nearly all the old Spanish population,
is essentially agricultural, and would naturally
be filled up by emigration from the Southern
States. :.
The difficulty now presented, and which
seems, on the surface, to have caused the move
ment for separation, is the unequal oPeratlon
Of the State tax laws. The wealth Of Northern
California depends on the gold digging, where
there is no ownership of lands, and consequent
lyno taxable property. In the South the whole
Inhabited country is underindividual ownership,
and thus bears the burden of supporting the
State Government, though sharing the least in
its expenditures. South and North share 1t
there, verymuch as they do here m
But the consequence is different. lhe Soufh'
in California, seems to be moving resoiuteiy
and quietly on, to extricate itself from its une-
oual position, and the North appears by no
means bent on keeping its hand on the throat
of its victim:
Several of the papers Of San Francisco favor
the division. They admit that the probable
consequence will be tine establishment of sa-
very in the South; bnt they say that is mat
ter thew are not called upon to determine Tor
their neiphbors. We have before us paper
from the extreme North of the California set
dement's, which treats the question in much the
same spirit. and seconds the demand OF the
South for a separate organization. The ques-
tion therefore has become serious and practl-
cal
i It's certainly looked upon in this light by
the abolitionsts. The last number OF the
Washington National Era discusses with much
earnestness, this heinous plot for the introduc-
ton of slavery On the shores OF the Paclhc,
and sounds the alarm for the faithful to stand
to their guns. The Sandusky (Ohio) Mirror,
of the 2Sth ult., contains the proceedings OF
public meeting in Erie County, in which the
dangers that threaten freesoilism in the Pacific
region are largely dllated on. and the remedy
proposed is the establishment of n Free Ter
rritory League" the object of which shall be
by raising a large fund, to sci in motion intu,
ences powerful enough to counteract those that
are working, or are supposed to be working
in favor of slavery. The means they propose,
are. lst, the establishment of freesol presses
in Santa Fe and San Francisco, (for they allege
there is danger in New Mexico as well as Cal,
ifornia y I'd, to publish series of foul and
false Northern tracts, in both the Spanish and
English languages, " exhibiting the disastrous
influence of slavery slavery upon the morals
and the industry of a community" and 3D. to
hire set of lawyers to be sent as missionaries
to all suspected places, whose business it shall
be to render it impossible for any man to hold
slave property in peace. .g
This is the programme Of anti-slavery for
the present, and we suppose the South may
possibly have spirit enough left to abuse it, and
to say, if much more OF the same sort of thing
is done, they will hold a Convention and pass
resolutions but time will show.-Chas. Mer.