The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-07-31
The Presidential Election.

The question has often been aSkcd-wlo olthe scy
era candidates now before the people for the Presi
dency of the United States will be elected; ohd in
certain contingencies, what will be the probable
ton of the South? 1t is impossible for one at this
esly day. to prognotcate with any dcgee of certain.
the precise HEzsgSe will throw obt few
| First, then, what'of Mr. BELLS prospects? Judg.
| ing from the doggcd pertiracity exhibited Ly his
friends in his support one would imagine that his
chances Of success were brilliant but how absurd
In the administration Of government gcnerally-but
more particularly Of one like ours-whercin parties
not only exist but control everything, to he success
full; they must stand on living practical Issue of
tile times. This the BELL party do not They repre-
sent particular sentiment nor principle which is
now dstractng the public mind, and of necessity, must
subside. True. they profess to stand on the broad
platform of the Constitution and the Union So do
the other parties in the government ;'bu What docs
this amount to, when in fact each party is putting ia
own construction on the Constitution and ont of this
YER, fact has grown the a-pervading, all.absorbng
question Of the equality Of the States in the Union,
which is racsing the country from center to cir.
cum(crencc.
What shall we say Of Mr.. DOUGLAS and his friends?
Here we are presented with downright absurdity in
popular government Who ever heard of the people
in vast Commonwealth like this voluntarily making
compromise of principle through the ballot box p
No one Besides, Mr.. DOUGLAS and his friends arc
rotten-hcarted party-a mere eXpcdicncy party-a
go-between party-a party struggling for tile "oaves
and fishes" Of Office, representing no scction-no
princplc-no nothing, but growing over the putrd
carcass Of dead abstraction The North has no use
for his PLATFORM it is not vital enough; there is no
thing i'll it. She can accomplish By her numerical
majoritics comparatively in the twinknS Of an eye
moro than he proposes to accomplish for her by his
slow process, in long succession Of years. Nor has
the South any for the DOUGLAS platform; il is not
vital enough; it not only does not propose to accom-
plsh anything for her. but its tendency is rather to
weaken and destroy the South. Thus you perceive
that Mr.. DOUGLAS aud his party must 60 down, be-
meath tile wave Of public opinion
From what VIC have said, the inference naturally
follows that neither BELL nor DOUGLAS can be the
President Of these United States
NJ
BRECKENRIDGE and Mr. LINCOLN, the only remaining
candidates ofany consequence. These gentlemen are
the representative of the two great sections of
the Union, Of the living antagouistic principles and
sentiments Of the times, and every other party must
merge into either one Or the other of these. Mr. |
BRECKENRIDGE represents that party in the govern |
nent who aesert the right Of property in slaves and
demand protection for it such; while on the other
hand, Mr.. LINCOLN represents that party who deny
the right Of property III slaves and demand its over
thrown-who hate section aud our institutions who
hate US individually and collectively with hatred us
ncxorable and malignant as hell ITSELF
Which Of these gentlemen will he elected? We arc
clearly Of the opinion that the mantle Of Chief Magis-
tracy will fall on the shoulders of Mr.. LINCOLN We
think so, because, at the last Presidential election
JOHN c. FREMONT, the standard bearer of the same
party, beat Mr. BUCHANAN his rival badly before the
people Of the North. We think 81, because Mr.. b.
cHASASs election finally secured in the electoral
College, by comparatively small majority and that
not until after all the influence and power of the roy
,mment had been exhausted on the election in the
State Of Pennsylvania. We think So because, the re-
solutions nimical to the institution of slavery, which
nave been proposed and passed by the Legislatures of
several Of the Northern States since the election of
Mr.. BUCHANAN indicate an increase of the anslavcry
sentiment at the North. We think so, because, many
'ther circumstances that we could mention, show con-
usvely that thore has been no change at the North
# public sentiment towards u.s.
What will the South do, in case Mr. LINCOLN is
lected? We believe that the Cotton States will re-
ist his inauguration. If the South remains quiet
rafting for some overt act of his before she does re-
list she will be irresistably drawn within the whir-
lool Of civil war; To prevent this the South ought to
withdraw from the Union Immediately after LIXcoLS's
lection and whilst the government is in the hands Of
Democratic President All will then he we'll the
iod Of battles will be with u2 and ,ictorr must be
ur's.