The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-06-21
From tile Elgefs1 AdrertiScr.
eEseHbeir Roberts.

Tory, on the SpD)ecC OF tne iAfflcanrGcc, whether
bond or free, has never beeli denied. An ofthe
Northern States have, each for itself, first estab-
lishcd slaverysWhile all of tile Southern States
acting in aiike capacity of Sovereigus, have es-
tablished and sti(l maintain it.. More than half
/. uf the States exclude free negroes from coming
into their territory, while the other fifteen States
allow them the privilege of ingress and egress
New York permits the African to vote and cx-
ercises ali the otler-righs of citizenship, while
all the Southern and most Of the Northern States
scorn giving him such a stdtus. The African
generally in the United, States has an inferior
status to the Indian and both are-tolcrated by
the whites, only for the sake of humanity. Most
of the. Northern States have each for ITSELF de-
.cided that none but fugitive slave, or one that
owes labor at the South, shall be restored to his
master-that the children, Or increase Of fugi-
tive slave shall not be given up, according to the
Southern maxim,r '.partas sequitur ventrem'-
that when Southerner voluntarily carries his
slave into free State, such slave shall immedi-
ately be set at liberty. Georgia will not allow
the slave trader to cross her boundaries, while
South Carolina still goes for free trade in ne
groes; horses and every other kind Of property.
All of this and much more has been done, by
the local Legislatures Of each State, to determine
| the. condition Of the African. > But how long
viii the States continue to exercise this absolute
control over the African race if the Federal
Government be allowed to continue Its usurpa-
tons? -.
Already has Congress again and again enforc-
ed its usurped authority, to exclude slavery from
all acquired territory. Already has Congress
abolished the slave trade and thereby declared
its right to abolish slavery in the District of Co.
lumbia. Already has Congress entertained a
proposition to abolish slaveryMin the Federal
Forts, Dock Yards, &c, situatedfin the slave
States-an asserted right, whose, constitution
alityis quite as we'll founded, as thato right
to abolish the slave trade in.the District of Co.
lunIbia. ; Already, too has Congress debated the
right to abolish the slave trade between the
States and slavery in. the States, and there is q
powerful party who declare even now, that the
Federal Constitution can be 80 amended as to
authorize suchS ,abolishment, whenever the MI.
neerous free States at present so rapidly forming
shall give the required majority which will not
be long. ln'short, the progress Of abolition en-
croachmentin this country is really fightful-
The Bench, the Bar, the Hastings, the Legisla.
ture, the Lyccum, the Pulpit, the School Room,
tie Fire Side and the Press are all devoted to
Abolition, at the North. Massachusetts, the
leading State of New England, New York, the
first State in the Union for population, wealth,
manufactures, commerce and navigation, togeth-
er with Ohio, the largest State in the West, all
have Free Soil, yea, Abolition Senators at Wash
ingtoh, and are almost ready for any attack: on
slavery.
The.policy of the North hasalways controlled
the Federal Governlnent.on the subject of slave
ry. The South is now completely circumscribcd
in her territorial area, and land is as much the
foundation Of a nations wealth. population, and
national strength as morality is the foundation
Of her Constitutions, Laws and social condition.
All Of the public lands, including those given by
'Virginisfo for the common good Of altthe States,
are now appropriated to- suit the whins of the
North, whether for Canal Railway, Navigation,
Charitable or Educational purposes. and perhaps
the dayis at hand, when the "vote Yourself a
farm" Bill will pass to drain the drcgs and scum
of the old world so as to pollute the ocean as it.
crosses and poison our rich soil with vice and
crime. Most of the Southern States get about
Q per cent. ofthe proceeds of their public lands,
while Illinois, Michigan and other free soil States
can build their Railways, cut their Canals, and
educate their children 'free grstis and for MOTH.
ing" out ofthe public lands: The Northern
States have also controlled the Commercial poll
cy Of the country in opposition to slave .institu-
tions, ever since; 1916: They have e'fralned all of
our Tariffs to suit. themselves and have made all
disbursements of tie Revenue in the most odi-
ously Unjust and unequal. manner. They dis
pensc the Offices, honors, salaries and emoluments
ofthe Federal GoyernneDt according to their
Supreme WILL. and the,;Eice Presidency, with
three half abolition members of the Cabinet and
some small legations, are now about,al that the
slave section can claim Of her masters.
At every step of the crusade against slavery
the presence of British gold and British diplo-
macy has been apparent, and we fearlessly as
sumo that ever since England lost these colonies.
she las sought to divide them and overthrow
their institutions. In pursuing this course, she
has perhaps not been, actuatcds SO much by re
ycuge, by the faint hope Of re-establishing her
dominion over part, it not over all of her lost
territory. We;will notsay that she has dreaded
the spread Of Repubeanisms within her own fair
Island, but we do say, that she has trembled and
still trembles for the contasion of our example to
Canada, Jamaica, Guiana, India, Australia and
sher other large colonies. She must have becni
influenced by some such motive as this, since the
French philosophers, and Wilberforce, made but
few converts even in England, till after our Re-
voution, although Black Slavery had existed for
century or two in America and elsewhere, and
had been most vehemently denounced. The
advocates for ,therunisersal freedom and equality
of all the races have failed even till nop to make
any impression on the colonial slave policy of
Holland and Spain. Then why is it that En-
gland should be the most Jealous champion of
the Black Race-and why, that ENGLAND. France