The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-03-07

of that line it should he excluded. Now, had
the North abided by this socaled compact
Had she ever given her sanction to it! lhe
first State that applied for admission after the
enactment of this law, was the State of Ar
kansas, which was south of 36 deg. 30 min.
Who moved to disturb this compact then which
the gentleman from New York said had receiv
ed the sanction of the North for thirty years
Why, NJ. John Quincy Adams, who moved to
amend the constitution of the State thus apply
ing, so as to make it provide that nothing IN
the act should be "construed as an assent ny
Congress to the article in the Constitution OF
the said State relating to slavery and to the
emancipation of slaves" &c, which received
the votes of eighty gentlemen from the N"rth,
among them the gentlemans Mr.. Meachams) s.
predecessor, Heman Allen, of Vermont. The
gentleman had spoken of "contract" and "hon-
Or" Did the South ever thus disturb this
line? Did the South ever propose to touch IT!
Every attempt to disturb 1t came from the
Mott and the gentleman's own State. Hon
or ! 81 thank thee, Jew, for that word.'-
Whenever we heard men from the North rails,
ing their cries for the compact of 1920, and
appealing to Southern men to stand by 1t, he
would tel them that if that compact no longer
existed, it was they themselves that broke 1T;
it had never been disturbed by the South
Notwithstanding Missouri formed her constltu
tion upon the very principle set forth In The
preparatory act Of 1920, every man from the
North except four voted against her admission
The North thus violated this compact within
nine months after its cnactmect
He noticed few weeks since in the Nation
al intelgences, a paper ofIong standing in this
country, an article speaking of this compro-
mise us not much less sacred than the ConstI.
tuition itself 1t WIS enough TO maize the bl3od
run cold in the heart Of every patriot to hear
of any attempt To disturb it! Yet when John
Quincy Adams in 1886, moved to disturb it,
Why did not the InteIigencer sound the alarm
that the constitution and the country were in
danger! When eighty men fr,,.n the North
voted to disturb it, why did net the lnteIIigcn"
Ger speak out When fifty two men record
ed their votes against the admission of Arkan
SOS, because her constitution tolerated slavery
why did not this conservative paper then speak
out! But he must pass on.
Mr. S. then cited various instances, in which
he said that the North refused to abide by the
Missouri act, tn prove that while the South had
stood by that compromise the North had not
done 50. He granted that the Nebraska bill
dd not propose directly t" repeal the Mlsson-
RI C-...,1,r,r,,i-c, ~" o-g"rH to eh0" that the
principles of the compromise of 1920 and that
of 1850 were inconsistent. He eloluemtIy ad'
vocaled the principle upon which the compro.
mise Of 1850 WAS based, and then stated that
he did not agree with those who thought there
would be much excitement upon this question.
He believed that day Was passed, and the c"nn
try understood this question too well, North
and South There mighht be some who. un
der executive patronage, or for the purpose OF
obtaining that patronage, might have given
some kind Of adhesion to the Compromise Of
1850; but the adhesion was but temporary. -
He had never doubted but that time would
come when the same spirit which was so ram
pant in 1850 would break out again. Hydro
phoba was never cure'l; negr"isn was hardly
ever cured.
He referred to the mobs at Boston, at Syra-
cuse, and at Chli>tiana, and rnquired il South.
rrn blood had not been shed to carry out the
compromise Of 1850? Could it be expected
lha, those rren who abetted, who gave aid and
comfort to those who fought against that com
promise, would remain silent when they should
see the great principle established by it vind'
Gated and carried out in the bill for the organ
izalon of Nebraska and Kansas The adder
would continue to hiss, though he doubted
whether us great an excitement couldb be raised
now rs IN, u.