Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-06-08
The Presidential ElectiOn-Our
Choice.

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The Presidential EIectiOn-Our
Choice.
The most sanguine and hopeful among us, as
TO the upshot of the universal huckstering which
now peryades all parties and sections, for place
and perquisites, must confess that practically and
truthfully considered the South has little to gain
in the success Of. either side.
The utmost concession which Southern poiti-
clans expect to extort from the insatate appetite
of Northern vandalism, IS the fnaEty ofthe Com
promise, and the maintenance of the Fugitive
Law. 1t was the struggle for this pitiable boon,
which few weeks since dismembered the Wing
party, rending asunder the comrades Of an hun
dred fields. Truly trifing cause, for an effect
so stupendious Of what value to us is the as
sertion of the finality of the Compromise; or of
the fugitive lava Why, the South has cried a.
loud against the desolating plunderer Of the Com
promise, and we in Carolina have just emerged
from contest in which parties rvalled each 9th
er in swearing hostility and resistance to its in
sidious but fatal DEGREES.
And the operation of the fugitive law has al
ready impelled us to the unwilling conviction,
that it is far better to have it stricken from the
statute book than to remain as it now is, and as
it ever must be, utterly nugatory for its ayowed
purposes, and potential only, in multiplying ex-
tortion, and shedding the blood of slave holders.
Yet parties and politicians are wrangEng about
these things as though the assertion of the final
e ity of the Compromise, and the fugitive law was
not the re-enactment, and finishing stroke which
enstamp upon us, indehble shame and wrong
Worse than this, Southern men are found eager
" entering the lists, and waiting only for the
bare promise of these crumbs, to commit soul
and body to the struggle and fortunes Of the
campaign.
We know that this acquiescence in the Com
promise, for the sake of the Union, has won for
the South the praise of magnanimity, but such
uniting and deceitful praise, has emanated from
traitor lips, and cowardly heart. >Acquiescence
in deliberate wrong never was magnanimous in
any people.
Were it here the sure symbol of peace to our
homes and institutions, we too might pocket the
.fattey and be quiet But his are indeed feeble
eyes, which fail to see that as the star of South
em resistance gins to pale his intellectual fire"
the sun Of Northern empire steadily treads aloA
the path to his meridian splendor. We there
fore repeat our conviction, that the admission Of
the fnality Of the Compromise, and the fugitive
law, confers no benefits upon the South 1t is
rather the treacherous price, by which she will
be again seduced into the shambles, to be stran-
gled and butchered by her Northern masters.
Who then is the man for the South, and what
should be his politics We want no Compro-
miser, no go-be-tween, that the Union may have
peace, and the North all the spoils.
We want no timid, would-bejust President,
who sees that the outside of the platter be clean,
but winks at the rotten and wholesale villainy,
which reyels in the Departments. We want no
Northern man, with Southern principles, nor
Southern man, whose three hundred slaves, and
thousand bags of Cotton, shall dupe us into
hope, while he is made the ready tool of log
rollers, and tricksters. We have tried such men
and we want no more of them.
She most rabid and reckless fanatic, the most
unscrupuleus and corrupt fnancier, whose veins
are burning with the lust Of power, for himself
and his section, is emphatically the man for the
South. Paradoxical as it may seem the worst
man, is the best for. vs.. We know that our
peace loving friends will start at this avowal
They are not yet sick of that policy of Com
promise, which is insiduously and rapidly ruin
ing our beloved land. So long as this policy is
dominant, the South will continue to hug her
chains There must be some stern and terrible
remedy applied to stir her people, from their
trance. With such man in the White
House, surrounded bya Cabinet Of chosen Com
peers, and backed by powerful party, exultant,
and madly pressing onwards, the regeneration of
auth would be near at hand.
Rtion and outrage choke up forever
Compromise; let Consolidation
kthe rights of the States, and
Rthe Constitution, until the
for the Union, is pressed
kpeople, and we should
and stirring her now
>pel the wrong, and
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