The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-08-21
received with loud applause I,

was received with loud applause!
Now il the noble lords address to the Amer
lean Minister was meant for pleasantly, must
he permitted TO say that the time, the subject
and the place. were exceedingly unpropitious
to such saIlics\ Ii il was meant for sarcasm
it WAS equally unfortunate III conception and
delivery. If it was meant for insult, it was
mcrcicssly cruel to his lor,lsllips heart. refine
mcnt and dignity, and moral sense. could
readily have found all apology for it in his
Iordsliip's locks and wrinkles If it had not been
so triumphantly a2p.audcd. The European
delegates understood 1.-THE colored gentle
man understood it; and, from the response Of
the latter, We can collect uncrrinsly It's import.
It VIA; meant as boaStiul comparison Of his
lordship's country will. tic Minister'S. 1t was
meant as cutting reflection upon that conn
try, where ncgros are not admitted 10 the conn-
ellis of white Ineli. This is the very least and
best that can be made of it, and the dignity
of the American Ministers character and
office, his entire disconncction with slavery
personally, and his peculiar position in the as
Semblv, were no protection TO his country
from this humating assault; nay, he is scIcc-
ted Ms the vehicle of it before the assembled
wisdom of Europe, who signify openly their
appreciation of it. All the city papers have
seen differ in their report of this matter, but
they all soften its rugged features somewhat
Tie Times is the most correct, but at fault III
making Lord Brorgh#m preface his remarks
to Mr.. Dallas with, 81 hope my friend, Mr.
Dallas, will forgive me for reminding him.,
&c, and in making Dr.. Dclany (thc rolorcd
rcnt!eman) say to Lord Brouslam, "wlio is al
wavs 4 most unfnching friend OF the negro
If one or the other OF these remarks Was made,
did not hear it; the Doctor would hardly
have used the last
Now, take leave to say that Briton was
the last man on Garth who should cast con-
temptuous reflections upon the United States,
and the delegates the last men on earth who
should lave countcnanccd them. Not one oi
them, not .nian on all the broad surface of
Europe, can assail that country without assail-
iun some near home born friend of his own
language and blood, or some kinsnan by short
lineage from common ancestry. She spreads
herself ont from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
from the Gulf to the Lakes, and, through all
her length and breadth, she is one vast asylum
for the poor, the oppressed, the down'troddcn,
tic prosecuted of the world. Her SONS arc a
multtulinouS brotherhood Of all clncS, rellS-
ions, and tongues, living together III harmony,
peace, and equality, so far as these can posi-
DIV prevail within her borders. Say what You
NAV, think us YOU may, snccr as You may mt
her "pcclliir inSit,itDn,' She Is, after all, the
good Samaritan OF nations. DO II people cry
and waste from itlninc! She loads her slips
with supplies, and lays them at tho sufferers
doors without money and without price. do
an oppressed people strike for liberty: You
will find some of her SOILS under their flag
Docs witr's cry come across the water tor
help to find noble, ons-missing husband :
She fits out her ships her volunteers man them,
they search near y TO the Pole, learn the h''S-
bands fate, dsburcn the wiIc'S heart from
suspense, and then lie down and die from the
exposure and tolls Of the search. Does she hId
a nations sloop-ot-war atioat, still sound but
unnamed? She puts her III decent tr''n ahd
sends her to her owner, i'll chargc nt her own
men, and at her own expense. "licar With
me-" If Il am become a fool in gIorynG, yc
have compelled me, for ought to have been
commended TO You"
Such nation is not t2 be taMntcl, certainly
not by Great Britain, Her slavery is hcrit-
age not a creature of her own hcSctting. 1t
was forced on her against her wishes, her pray
crs, and her otcstations-scrcwcd down upon
her, pressed into her, until it has become so
mplcteIy incorporated with her very being
that it is pow impossible TO eradicate it, The
term "slayc property" is borrowed, it is not Of
her couagc. In aIl her slave States there arc