Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-05-16
NUMBER 80.

ed ourselves. We have not ruled ourselves
Both in the imposition and expenditure OF tax
es, we have been ruled by the North, contrary
to the whole spirit of the Constitution, and eve'
~ dictate of justice and liberty. Under the
forms of free.government, we have been prac-
tcalv laboring under most oppressive des'
potsm. -.
Now, It appears to US necessary to UNDER
stand this great feature Of our condition, be.
fore we can account for the subsequent aggres-
sions and insults, which have been heaped up
on us. Submission to tariffs, which have all
been protective in principle, has cast as down
from our original position of equality and free.
dom with the people of the Northern States =
It robbed US of that liberty in taxation, which
the Revolution of l776 aimed to secure Is it
at all surprising, that after submitting to be
plundered in our income, the North should see
no obstacle but its own will, to our being plume
dered of any other property we may possesss
By our submission to the tariff laws, we prac.
ticalIy surrender to them the mastery Of our
property. Why then should t'~r not take q
portion of the capital as well as the incomeg
Why should they not take from us our proper
ty in our territories, or enancipate the slaves OF
the South9 Abolition has thus sprung from
the tariff, and our ignominous election from
our territories from the tariff and abolition. In
our complicated condition Of modification,
shame and nfamy, we can now see the fruits
Of our own base abandonment OF our righfs-
We have raised up the fell spirit Of abolition,
and invited by our imbecility and cowardice,
our expulsion from our territories. - i9sa
Yet, shall we now submit, as we have done,
to the tariff, to the designs of abolitionisn apr
our expulsion from our territories Is the spir-
it of freemen SO utterly dead in the South, that
no wrongs can awaken Us 10 resistancear Ney.
er, in the history of pations, have any people
pretending to liberty, submitted to soutrages 80,
great and dishonoring, as those which charac-
terize that foul "budget" Of lies and eppres-s
sions, called the Compromise" +ts.ssl7
n. We won California and New Mexico We
of the South won them by our counseis, won
them by our arms. We made the warby which
they were acquired, and we sustained tin Con
cress and in the field to its triumphant and glo-
rious cousummation. Had the South not been
in the Union, or had she not pressed on the
Mexican war, who believes that the North eoald
have entered on its perils, or have acquired
these territoiies& ~. ,..,r,... .,.SF,sss,,i
And now, their equals in the Conlederacy,
and more than their equals in our sacrifices 10
acquirethem, we are to be thrust out from eve.
ry foot, of these magnificent domaiRs. The
mode In which this wrong has been accomplish
ed, is of no moment to any but those who are
content with the fimsiest subterfnges TO hide
their cowardice or treachery. Indirect fFaad
can no more reconcile brave man to the desc
Grafton of his rights, than direct or open ag-
gression. On the contrary, i may only deepen
the indignation which inspires the determine
ton for redress. Congress- indeed did not di-i
reetly by law preclude the Southern slapeholder
from settling with his slaves in California, but
it did the same thing indirectly. Under an ,ad-
mnistration hostile to the rights of the South,
California is made to apply to be admitted as
State into the Union, with a constitution pre-.
cluding slavery. Under the pretext, that lie
people have right to rule themselves q hand
fol of tmigrapts from all clmes and nations,
nhabiting small portion Of this territory, iafge
enough Tor six great States, undertake to ex-
clude from it portion Of its common proPsie-
tors, the Southern people. Congress ratlHts
the fraud Congress gives validity to the Con-
stitution thus made for California, which bad
no validity before, and thus renders the Wiinsot
Proviso triumphant throughout her boundaries
The same policy of indirection is carried out 70
exclude the South from Utah and New Mexico.
Thev are not, like California, admitted as States
into the Union; they are organized into 1er.
ritories, and nothing is said precluding slavery,
in the law ordaining Territorial Government.
Lo how the South has triumphed, say the
mean apologists in the South, of Northern cuns
ming and rapacity. Triumphant, and yet ex-
cluded excluded by Mexican laws existing
over these Territories, before they became our
property, and which they left unrepealedt Leg.
islation by Congress to exclude us, is thus un'
necessary, and for this cause alone does not
prevail. An Executive pledge to enforce these
Mexican laws for our exclusion, is left to &C.
complish this result, by the appointment OF Ju-
dicial and Executive officers, who will carry
out this policy. He has accordingly appointed
such officers; and we stand excluded BY all the
power of the General Government from enter.
ing these Territories. This is the consumma.
ton of non.intervention, which means only ex>
actly such Intervention as is deemed necessary
to exclude the South from all participation In
our acquisitions. We had thought that it :yas
the great duty of all Governments to project
persons and property. For these ends alone
Governments exist 4 Government which
does not protect property, is entitled to no sup
mort, 1t ought not to exist day. Yet the
Government of the United States has not only
failed to protect the slave property OF the South
in the territories belonging to them, in common