Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-10-07
From the Mercury.
"Get up Boys, tits Daylight"

election of Delegates TO the Southe:n congress
being at hand it may not be amiss to offer a
few remarks.
Of course it is idle to expect that the South
ern Congress will ever meet md | would sug-
gest that our Cooperation acquaintainces ought
to be ashamed to name the Southern Congress,
which was the last hope of cooperation, and to
attain which, they have not made the slightest
effort, unless it has been to nominate candidates
in those Districts where they thought there was
any chance of mortifying the Secession party.
Unless the omeus are faliacious, their chance
of success is as doubtful as the future existence
of an assembly, the name of which has been
used as a cloak for doing nothing.
But they have started some candidates, and
will perhaps, slyly start more. They Will GER
tainly claim as a Co-opcrationiSt, every voter
who STAYS at home on the day of election
Therefore, it behooves the SeccSsionis:s, (thc
only true Resistance men, to turn out TO
man; for mark me, if the Co-operatoniSta (the
do o-nothing party carry one Or two Districts,
they will claim triumph if We carry all the
Districts, but our friends do not turn out in
their full strength, wet blanket will be thrown
over the whole affair, and it VII be SAID the
people take no interest in the election. Turn
inc to the practical object of this communica-
ton, would call public attention to the follow
ing:
Ist. The Governor having Issued and pro-
claimed the writs of election, it becomes the
duty of the managers ofelection two Sundays at
least-to open the polls on the Cd Monday in
October and the day following, and hold the
election according to the usual rules, and this
whether they actually receive the writs Or not.
Cd. On the usual day for counting the votes,
(Which is generally "Wednesday with some en-
ceptions, see resolution, 1889, pages 339:l the
managers assemble, count the votes, seal up
the original ballots, and send the same with
certificate (of which duplicate is kept to the
Governor or Secretary of State, at Columbia,
endorsed. and by a sworn messenger, as in ca
ses of Congressional elections, (Scc Statutes
at Large, p. 1922 Then the vote from the
different Congressional Districts will be known,
and then the Co-operationists will haye to seek
some other excuse for opposing true resistance.
And they will find plenty of excuses and plat
forms "under existing circumstances" They
are opposed to Secession, and when Co-opc:a-
ton is buried (for it is already dead some will
discover las Mr.. - from - has donc,)
that the Compromise. is wise, just and liberal
and that Congre has the Constitutional right
not ONLY to abolish the slave trade in the lis
trict of Columbia but TO abolish slavery itself
in the District of Columbia in the public forts,
and in the Territories others. like the don.
C. w. Dudley, Of Marlborough, viii offer as
Ith reason for decoying The unwary, separate
-, =, will II>'l III
whole Union, unscttlc its foundations ANA pu'
in jeopardy the existence OF mighty hrr!'5-
ic.'' His cath being: ''The State having he
come party to the proceedings OF the AaSh-
vile Convention, is bound in honor nat t" some
(unknown) alternative between Submission an |
Secession, and finally in his 2G,h for lie goes
from \ to Z, he says "'rhe ponderous macrl-
ais of which this Union is now composed to-
gethcr with the reckless split with which is
Government is administered leave no room to
doubt that disruption of its parts, at ~ DIS
tant day, is inevitable. We are farce to con-
TEMPLATE such an event as ncat al mani, ''''t Ia
suspending the exercise of the right "t NccrS-
sion for the present, We do not only III tn cX-
pectation ofCo-operation to be cNciirJ by ;h"
further movements of fanaticisni, but 70 arise
from condition Of things entirely III lrpaml%Ht
of that cause, and from which Southern Con-
federacy must result" (C0HGM y0" I
IdSeed, my own impression is that onr "rpg
nents are in an awkward position; for Will"
some Of them are secretly rcjoiccl at the tal-
ure of the Southern Congress (hecau$e the
chances of disunion are lcsscncdJ there age
others who are awakening to the stern rcaIi'g
that Secession is the only remaining nca.1fr "t
Resistance. Therefore some otthcm Will lfaHk! =
saw, as Major John S Preston does in his ninth
attempt tie define his position, Lest, how" 'cH,
that this may not seem sufficiently explicit,
beg to repeat the language OF ny own. r'I''-
lisbcd within month past" If that Con TcsS
meets and dissolvcs without adjusting the PEE
liminaries of Southern Conlederacy, believe
South Carolina will be justified in am
course she may chose to adopt. Some few will
nobly redeem their pledge and say, there being
no hope of Cooperation, we 90 for secession;
but think most Of them will respond IN the
language of my fricnd--who by the way, never
made bad speech or wrote 4 good lcicr--nc;'"
spoke foolish thing, and never wr"t" sis"
one This estimablr gentleman seems perfect
" willing to give us his advice: hut (l"r this
among other reasons he had no advice 10 give,
as the lawyer filed a plea in abatement on thlr-
teen grounds, the first Of which was, that the
nlaintifr was dead The Hon. james l.. Orr,
forms striking contrast to our friend last
named He, in October last, buttcd maniuiIy
against Federal aggressions. Now he cracks
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