Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-07-27
Parties i'm Georgia.

We, can recall no periodn the political hlsto-
RS Of Georgia, when men and parties were so
much divided as in the present Presidential con,
test.-There are od-tashioned and time honored
Wings. who avow their determination not to
support the nominee of their party. Others are
ready to take the nominee, believing. as between
him and Gen. Pierce, that he is the lesser evil OF
the two. Others again are opposed to both, and
call for the nomination of third tchet--Danlel
Webster and Charles j. jenkins. Another class:
anxious to maintain tie organization OF the Con-
stitutionaI Union Party, and believing they can
accomplish more good in that way, in the pre-
sent divided state of the public mind, than III
any other. have nominated an Electoral Ticket
pledged to the support of Pierce and King
In other words, there are Union Democrats
and Southern Rights Democrats-Union Wings
and Southern Rights Whigs-Scott Wings and
anti-Scott Wings; Pierce Wings and anti-Pierce
Wings stand still Wings, or those who wash
their hands of both the candidates and will have
nothing to do with either-and 1'Ttium QuidS,
or those who 90 for a third candidate. In ad-
dition to the Legislative caucuses held by the
Union and Southern Rights members last winter,
there has been aSouthem Rights Democratic
convention, q Union convention, a supplemental
Union Democratic meeting, Fillmore conven-
ton, second Union convention, and Il supple
mental Wing meeting; and now Tertium Qad,
or Third mans convention and Scott conven-
ton, have been called-makine ten political con-
ventions and caucuses in one State within pc
Rod of six months Verify, Georgia is in a fair
way of exchanging the proud title Of :" the En-
pre State of the South" for that of the conyen-
ton or supplemental State.
In the good old times of Whiggery and Dem
ocracy-of tariff and anti-taritf-of bank and
auti-bank-of Jackson and anti-J -Jackson-it was
an easy matter to determine ones latitude and
longitude 1t was all plain sailing then. In
those days Major Jack Downing and General
Jackson kept things straight. But now, turn
where we will, we are confronted by an old friend.
To 90 for Pierce, is to be Democratized-to go
for Scott, is to become Sewardite-to stand
still is to be silly and impracticable-to declare
for third candidate, is to be Quixotic and Vi
-sionary. To do any one of these things, IS to
offend all the other parties, and to do neither Is
to isolate yourself.
In view of this state Of things, it would be
wonderful, indeed, if any course we could adopt
were not made a cause for censure. Each one
thinks we should decide for him, and cast our in
fuence for himself and his views. AS this cannot
be done, we have determined, for the present, to
stand aloof from the pending Presidential con-
test. We shall take no part in it, except SO far
as to keep the reader informed of the general
political news of the day, and to admit tempe
rate communications of moderate length from
all sides. Thus, instead of a partisan paper,
with only one side, the reader will have an indie
pendent paper giving all sides.
We cannot consent to enter into q contest
scTambe from Wh1tf Saeh patriot as jghaIs
holds himself aloof We could not alter the f.
nal result in Georgia, if we would. We prefer
therefore to husband our strength for future
mergencies--When the storm shall have past,
we shall be ready to put out in our little boat to
the wreck. and to save such Of the sufferers as
have survived its fury. Thus we may be nstru-
mental in gathering together many, if not all,
of the friends of true principles, Of the Union
and the South, who have been dispersed and
scattered over the face of the great deep. In
the meantime, we shall not be unmindtul of the
duties of an independent, conservative press.
We shall continue the war against extreme men
and extreme opinions, whether they come from
the North or the South-against Kossuthism,
the higher law and the lower law +; and shall ev-
er be ready to defend either of the candidates
now before the country from unjust attacks, and
either of the parties and parts Of parties into
which the people are unhaprly divided, from
Misrepresentation and abuse.
Sarannah Republican
GEORGIA BAPTIST STATE CoNvENTIoS.-The
report Of the thirty-frst anniversary Of this body