Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-10-10
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for us all tending to the desired ends. We diff.
Ter among ourselves-letus us heal that breach
first, not by heaping on each other the most
offensive and odions epiihets known to our Ian.
guage, but by forbearancc and conciliaton ana
would willingly corsecrate the remainder OF
my life to this "work oflove," hoping aud trus.
ting that it may not be in vain. We are all on
the same line of march; and, it the Co-opera-
tiorists are slow of foot, and cannot keep peace
with the Secessonists, they must wait until the
rear comes up, and then move on in solid phal.
anx, rs they were wont a year ago.
This is not all. 1t has been already shown
that the aid and cooperation of the other slave
States is Indispensable to successful opPosi.
ton tn the government Let us send messen-
gers to their doors, to tell them oftheir common
dangers, and to sound the alarm in their ears
until they shall awake from their slumbers. If
all this shall fail. who can doubt that tile inia-
tuated and corrupt ma jortv in Congress will,
at no distant day, strike a blow that will sound
throughout the land, so loud as to awake the.
dead, if that were possible; then, at least, we
may depend on their aid and cooperation. q:
In determining on our course towards the
General Government we ought to consider
rather what is becoming and due to onrselvs,
than what is due to it. The Constitution OF
the United States was the result of mutual con.
cessions of the several parties to it and IT viii
not be fors otton that for more than half cen;
tury we at least were contented and happy un.
der its operation. Certainly no portion OF the
globe were more prosperous. Our soil gave
forth its fruits in abundance -streup.s CT wealth
poured in upon US through thousand channels,
and some of US will remember with what hor-
ror we heard for the first time, and within the
last twenty years, the declaration of disciple
of the Revolutionary Jacobin Club Of Paris.
that it was time we should begin to calculate
the value of the Union. 1t may be, and our
own experience would seem to demonstrate
that The wisdom of man is incapable OF framing
Il constitution aud government that would e.
aualize and harmonic the varied and conflict.
ing interests that are found, and must necessa,
rily exist, in an almost limtless extent of terri
tory, such us ours. That which may be most
desirable and beneficial to one portion, may be
ruinous and oppressive to another. Nothing
but the strong arm of power, can, under these
circumstances, keep them together, and 1t is
not impossible that in the end afl may realize
thatit would be more beneficial for all concern.
ed to separate in such manner as to unite on
" those sections which have 4 common ipter-
est, and thus avoid the perpetual broils and
bloodshed that must and will result from bind
ing these Heterogeneous and hostile materials
in Il common bond. would propose, there.
fore, :hat If a Southern Convention should fail,
as it probably will, the State Convention which
is to meet in January, should send delegates to
all the Slave States, and endeavor to arouse
them to a sense of our common danger. and
the necessity of acting promptly, decidedly and
in concert, and prevail on them, if we can,
to unite with us, in the approaching Con-
gross, not as supplicants, but as an injured
people, demanding their rights, charge her with
having violated in the grossest manner, in re.
spect to US, the most sacred and solemn guar.
antccs of the constitution, and demand por.
ton of the territory which has been acquired at
the common expense Of our blood and treasure
upon the principle of the compromise, by which
we consented that slavery might be excluded
North Of the degree 80 80 North latitude, and
avow our unalterable determination to separate
from the non slave holding States forever.
1t may be, and am prepared to expect that
this will avail nothing with Congress, and that
our messengers will be spurned with contempt
h. an unprincipled majority, or our memorial,
if it should assume thar FORM be trodden under
foot. or kicked out Of the halls-so be it. But
it will force Congress to decide OH the right OF
Secession, and Il have a confident hope that
when the other saveholding States shall see
that the majority have resolved to chain us to
their car, and drag us after them in triumph,
they will join lis heart and hand, in the holy
cause of equal rights, privileges and immuni.
ties
When have been silently recalling to mind,
and musing over the wrongs and indignities we
have suffered at the hands of the government,
have felt Il thrill of shame and indignation
coursing like spark of electricity, through
every nerve in my body, and vainly thought,
for the instant, that this arm, though enfeebled
as it is with age, could strike a giants blow to
avenge them. Others have, no doubt, felt the
same influences; and the practiced orator we'll
knows how to call forth the shout of defiance,
aud the battle cry, although the danger is not
at hand, or the enemy in hearing. have be-
fore remarked that the subject we are eonsid-
ering, is of the gravest import, and have
brought to it the best Judgment have been
able to form after the maturest consideration,
and am brought to the conclusion: that any
attempt by South Carolina, unaided, to resist
the Government under present circumstances
will fail, and th$t it will retard, to an indef,iie
period, the attainment Of what we desire, 10
alternating the o;her States from US, by moving