The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-07-03
,rhe Cha,m Before Us.


* The Southern mind has had so often pictured
to it maelstrolns, chasms, abysses and crises,
growing out Of the vexed question at issue be:
tween the two sections of this confederacy, and
the OCCASIONS which have drawn tho pictures
have so often passed Offin smoke or peace, that
oflae years it has become as it were, callous to
thessubject, and seems to have been singularly
indifferent or inattentive to some e'of the events
which have marked the past few months.
That there are in front of us fearful trials, to-
wards which rapid and alarming combination
of transactions are steadily drifting Us, no sane
man who has carefully watched the turn which
Northern politics have taken inrthe last few
months will deny The great fact stands out
it cannot, it ought not to be blinded or eraded-,
that we are. on eve ofanothcr menacing conyul-
sion.,
The scenes in the Philadelphia convention
comprise Il most important chapter in this role
of events. There we have tho spectacle Of a
patty claiming to be national. a,sumingto num-
Der in its bold members from every quarter Of
the Union virtually disbanding on the adoption
BY convention of milk and Water, non-commit-
tai, meaningless resolution, cooked up by polti-
clans in the vain hope Of patching the slavery
patients as necessary step in the great race
after the sweepstakes Of 1855. We repeat, we
find the Northern delegation, or the representa-
tives from twelve Northern States, unwilling 10
make even this concession -disdaining to even
ignoring the subject, as was patriotically propos-
ed BY the ambitious Rayner, and with scornful
altitude telling their Southern associates to their
teeth, that nothing will content them but an ab-
solute surrender on their part.
Following on the heels of this movement we
have the Know Something Convention at Cleve-
land, an account of which we publish below.
This, of course as its platform proves, is nothing
more or less than Northern Know Nottingham,
rid of its allies at the South, out Of whose as.
sociation the recent election in Virginia suffi-
ciently evinces it can make nothing and may
lose a great deal. Planting itself on the one
degree platform of war to the knife on slavery,
popery and foreigners, j, is plain to see that the
Know Something's are simply the Yankee Know
Nothings re-organized under new name, and
that they have determined to look no where for
aid and comfort but tho North. They have
entered for the race Of SO, and that Jonathan
will distance Sam in every State at the North in
which they have trial of speed, nobody who
knows anything of the relative character and
complexion of the two contestants will deny.
The attempt to carry water on both shoulders
has been made at Philadelphia. 1t nas failed
and both pals have fallen and been dashed to
pieces. The attempt has killed Sam and ma de
Jonathan at the North, while it has put out very
ssactually any little vitality Sam might have had
left 1T the South.
We know there are men at the South arerse
to a separation under any circumstances. We
arc aware that there are men in this cty-and
we blush to own it-prcpared for any sacrifice
of right, honor or interest, sooner than give up
tie then empty name of Union. But for such
as these we have but one remark, and it is that
they had their types in other days. There were
men in the Revolution. who were for Union with
Great Britain after the rights of the Colonies
were trampled upon, and after the war had begun
It was the fashion Of the patriots Of those days
Ito teach these men lesson or two, which many
oe their descendants and copyists in this day, we
hope, have not forgotten. They may point the
moral for themselves. We are free to say that
when the day of resistance to Northern aggres.
sion shall come rs events seem to indicate that
one day it must thousand ropes will dangle
from rs many trees, for the necks Of those traitors
who desert the South in the hour of her trial.
Petersburg Democrat.