Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-10-10

last ten years We are engaged in great moral
Gas we'll as politicaD revolution, which, from its
nature can be neither retrograde nor entirely sta
tonarY in its course, and the State should there
fore bide her time, and wait the coming of events
"The brcing process in which all hope of con.
clIiationl is lost-the State should only secede
alone, aF last and desperate resort but she yet
has chbice-she is not, in honor, bound to seces-
sion, by any act of her Legislature--a sovereign
cannot bind itself to ITSELF TO do an act of selfde
structio1 we do not wish war in the present
stage of the queston-it would result in civil
warfare among the Southern States, governed as
they at present are, by Union majorities, which
would b& the knell of the institution OF domestic
African slavery-Protection of Great Britain!!-
The history Of the kind of protection she has eur
afforded FHer first act of protection would be the
liberatloh b of our slaves, that she might compete
with us las she has long earnestly wished but failed
to doD ih producing cotton in her own domnons.
Col. Chesnut then entered into full and exte l.
sve ENG niry into the expenses of separate ma
tional existence, requir ng navy-coast defence
-protedtion for the border-post Office system
&c. &c and exhibited an array of facts, incon-
troverti4l lie, tending to prove beyond doubt, The
incapacity of the State to support an efficient and
respectab BILE government, without burdening her
people With onerous taxes and cruel exactions.
A mete synopsis affords no conception, what
ever, of he force and clearness of an address like
that of Qol. Chesnut. So far as regards an inge-
MUS application of we'll selected facts and argu-
ments, "a and candid investigations deep research
and familiarity with the whole subject, it is
scarcely surpassed by any thing that has been
produce on the subject His manner of delive-
ry, his dcon de parler, is peculiar to himself and
is not unpleasant His language is chaste and
forcible, if not, at times, eloquent.
w. w. Boyce, Esq. of Winnsboro', followed
last. This communication is already SO exteuded
that we cannot notice even the points which he
made. For nearly an heur, he entertained the
audience, now necessarily much wearied, by a
vein ofharmless humor, which he made the vehi-
Gle of huch sound truth and argument. Mr..
Boyce is an interesting speaker, and was among
the frst to erect the standard Of the Cooperation
party.
Geor be Nc. Wtherspoon, Esq. read letter
from tn Hon. T. ]. Wlthers, expressing his views
on the Questions at issue, and encouraging the OBJ.
iects Of the meeting.
The audience then retired into the beautiful
grove, where an extensive table ;roaned under
an array Of roasted loins and joints, baked shoul
ders and fanks, dressed pigs and fowls, ducks OF
spits and pulIets boiled. pastries cakes, fruits, &c
which would have coaxed the most perverse ap
petite. The Pic Mic was certainly CONNIE il taui
and certainly sustained the reputation which th
Lancaster ladies enjoy for the manner in which
they get up such comforts for the inner man. AT
ter this interesting little ceremony was ended, tn
people dispersed quietly to their homes, well plea
sed with the trasactions of the day, and leaving be
hind them the stranger, favourably impressed 10
ward Lancaster audience. W. w. NJ.