The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-11-22
New York and the South.

degree of Importance which, under present cir
cumstances, we are not little surprised at. The
pith of the Intcligcncer's deductions is contain
ed in the following extract:
"Ihc Identification of the Cabinet with tie
Barnburner or Freesoil party Of New York must
work disastrously OIL the party in every Southern
State, so soon as the case is fully understood
there; for it is hardly possible for the South to
abandol such men Us Dickinson and his party,
who in the hour of trial, so noJly and so fear
lessly stood up for the rights of the South, and
hazarded everything in the course they pursued.
Tile result of the election, however, cannot
but be gratifying to the great body Of Southern
Democrats as we'll as Wings; for it can be view
ed there in no other light than as the triumph of
the friends Of the South against their enemies"
Now, in the first place, with all its seeming
fairness of terms, the Intelligcncer is very far
from stating the case fairly. The Administra-
ton is not identified with the Barnbuners, as
such. 1t knows them only as part of the
Democratic party, who aided in elccting the
President, on the platform adopted by the nomi.
mating Convention, and who, in the recent strug-
gle, repeated, in the painest and most emphatic
form, their adhesion to that platform. What
IlSUI vi NHdI power HIS Vic ADMINISTRATION 10
refuse to acknowledge their support?
Again, why are Messrs. Dickinson and Co. en-
titled to the gratitude of the South The whole
claim rests upon their support Of the " Compro-
mise mcasurcs"-1hat settlement of the slavery
question which was accepted as final by the Bal
tmore Convention, in language which constitu-
ted the formal agreement Of the party in the
Presidential election. In Short 1t was the plat
form" itself If Mr. Dickinson had any agency
in making this agreement the ground of har-
mony in the party, and is therefore to be re-
vered for it, is not the Administration equally to
be respected for confirming and seeking to
strengthen and preserve this bond of union 1t
has made the Baltimore agreement the test of
good fellowship, and precisely because it has
done so, it has run atoul of Mr.. Dickinson and
his friends. The latter have brought forward
another test and have thus disavowed and dis
honored the one adopted by the whole party.
What excuse could the Administration find for
forsaking the latter and adopting the former?
But we do not see the bad consequences which
the lntelligencer is benevolent enough to warn
the Administration Of The loss of New York
is the loss Of State eager and dictatoria in
the assertion Of its Importance, and unstable in
the maintenance Of principle. The Democratic
party was far too large for safety II threatened
to become mere congregation of jarring fac
tons. That it should be brought to its senses
by scasonabe check, is anything but a misfor-
rune. The loss of New York will teach it les
son of prudence, union, and the strict manten.
ance of principle. At least it should do so. The
influence Of New York has thus far been iniu-
rious. Divided as the Democratic party were,
into factions secretly at war, the whole influence
of that State could not but be exerted TO secure
the advantages of patronage to one or other of
these E.ctions, because this patronage was the
means of acquiring prcdominance at home Their
support of the Administration assumed charac-
ter Of mere bargaining, and their politics we're
nothing but questions Of Office holding. Tie
whole quarrel with the Administration was about
the distribution Of Offices and this was likely
to be the history of the New York Democracy
for the ncxt four years, if Providence had not
put it into the hearts of the leaders to quarrel
outright, and so sent the whole medley of them
to the hospital. The friends of the Admins
tration have no cause to grieve over the result
But the lntelIgencer seems to suppose that
the actual returns Of the election will be start
ling news to the country, and work out serious
changes. We believe, on the contrary that the
whole force of it was expended beforehand. Who
could have looked for different result? If the
Wings preserved a tolerable union, it was inevi.
table that they should sweep the State The
mere question rs to which of the Democratic
factions could poll the most votes might be
matter Of controversy among gamblers and Of
curiosity to the world, but as an element of poll
tics, it is altogether insignificant That the hos
tile factions have contrived to thresh each other
soundIy, and to place the Wings in power, is the
only aspect of the New York election having
any general or permanent interest. And this
result being, as we said, the natural and indeed
necessary one, there is no reason to suppose it
will have any different effect in future than it
has had heretofore. Does the Intelgencer find
in the result Of the latest elections at the South,
any support for its surmisc that the dissensions
in New York have weakened the Southern con-
tdence in the Administration 1t seems to lis
that Louisiana and Mississippi enforce couclu-
sion directly the reverse. The South was never
more united in the support Of any Administra-
ton.
GENERAL BASxHEAp.--Tranysr of Officers
and 7roops.--1he Norfolk Argus of the llth
instant furnishes the subjoined intelligence:
"The veteran General Bankhead, with his
family, left Fortress Monroe Wednesday even.
ing for his command in Florida Nearly every
officer stationed at this forti6cation has been
ordered to some other post, aud their places
supplied by other officers of the army. The
steamship Pennsylvania, running as a regular
packet between this port and Philadelphia hos
been chartered by the United States Govern.
ment, and was engaged Yesterday at Old Point