The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-11-27

master movement IN party tactlcs. UHuer llls
view Of the case, do not see that VIC are I'M
der an insupportable weight Of gratitude to
the Democratic part; certainly the burthen is
not as heavy as Atlas had TO bear on his
shoulders. But fthe Democratic party had
stood up to the Nebraska bill, afterits passage
| could hardly have felt at liberty to have raised
the veil which concealed the secret workings
Of their machinery but after they had perfected
their work, they fled from it in dismay, many
! repudiated their own offspring. In almost
the eutire North with the exception Of three or
four ofthe Northwestern States where Judge
Douglass influence was paramount, she Demo
cratic party dodged the Nebraska bill. or. took
ground against 1t. How then can be asked
to put confidence in party which has no con
fdence in Itself, but falsfes its own action
Lord Chatham said that confidence was plant
of slow growth in an aged bosom, it is never
plant of hasty growth in the bosom of any
wise statesman. The present position Of the
Democratic party is certainly not such as to in.
vite us to quit our own fre>ides and friends,
andtake up bed and board with them.
When We pass beyond the slavery question
and test the Democratic party by its other
actions of the last Congress, we find the great
causes of complaint. How is it on the subject
of the tariff, subject which only touches US
less nearly than the slavery question for, tran
scendenta as We may be supposed to Le in
some of our notions, 1t is by no means very
amusing to US to have our hard earnings flch-
ed from US by indirecton to be transferred to
our Northern traducers. Why, the Democrat
ic party after all their resounding and sono-
rous phrases Of reduction of duties in the Bati.
more resolutions, imply did nothing with the
tariff, though our treasures were full to burst
ing with their precious ore. So again they
had talking at Baltimore in good set phrases,
about strict construction of the Constitution,
and yet they voted prncipality to Insane
Asylums. At Baltimore they were purer than
clustered nuns: absolutely venomous against
every shape and form of corruption yet they
passed such all odous Lii for the Collins
line that their own President had to veto it.
At Baltimore they were absolutely miserly, so
strait laced were their notions of economy;
and what commentary was their practice
on their professions.
But to pass by all this. come at once to
the foreign policy ofthe Democratic party. 1t
is all embraced in few words expansion,
manifest destiny land and war; What it was,
! it is now. We all remember the Oregon
question. Bot for the profound craftsmanship
of Mr.. Calhoun we would in all probability
| have been involved in war with England for
! the extension of free soil. We all remember
Mexican war; We did not rise to the level of
Mr. Cahuun's ideas then The result justified
his wisdom. We all remember how the Dem.
ocratic party appropriated all that was valua.
bic in our conqcsts effected by our valour and
sealed with The best blood of the South. The
foreign policy Of the Democratic Earty is not
our policy, the policy of the Wing party in
this regard is nearer to us. This say cn the
assumption that Mr.. Calhoun denoted us truly
in this respect, for he acted with the Whig
party in this connection.
Upon the whole then must confess myself
not in intimate sympathy with the Democratic
party i have only reasonable degree of con
| fdence in them, no more. | am utterly opposed
to magamatiug with them and think it best
to hold to our cld policy; keep the ship Of
State as nearly as we can on the Calhoun
track, support the nominee Of the Democratic
party if he is acceptable, vote for such mea-
sures as we approve of, and oppose such as we
do not-above all, preserving our individuality
and independence
| Having thus considered the Democratic par
| ty, do not think should pass over their pre-
sent head, the President of the United States.
| have no hesitation in saying that | cherish
him far more than do his party he is a man
Of ability faithful, Just and true to the Con.
sti,uion. His vctoes OF the action of his own
party constitute his best eulogium with which
| | leave him.
There is but one more sub jtct to which
will now allude, Kansas. Since the passage Of
! the Kansas bill have, at all seasons and on
all occasions, preached Kansas Kansas! Kan
sas have not language to convey my sense
of the Importance of this question to the South,
and the necessity Of our aiding our Friends in
Kansas. The policy would recommend is
briefly this: organize associations in every
district in the State, raise men and money, and
colonize Kansas Let US set the South on fire
if possible, and have universal concer. of
action to secure this empire for rhe South |
know some say we stand no chance in Kansas,
but have no patience with these croakers-
If croakers had been counsellors there would
have been no history Salamis and Marathon
would never have been fought. Fellow.cit-
zens, the times are sadly out Of joint; Z" shad
ows, clouds, and darkness rest upon the future" :"
But yet we have no reason to despond.
1t is not half so gloomy now as it was in the
Revolution Then it was fiat despair. South
Carolina was overrun by hostile armies; she
Law PROSTATE, exhausted torn by civil dissen
sions, and crushed by the cxactions of ram,
pant and victorious tyranny. Tarleton with
his rotous and ravenouS crew, so many beasts
of prey, made the circuit of the State, carrying
d. torrh n,,d LII. sunrd inin nverv ncinhhnr |