The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-07-31
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BH5 5f0lOWc -ttS ia SA', -
Snthcrn yalor and Southern none.
Ifs;b,ted their full measure to its successes
q iosthe- expenditure which it entallcd' YET
lahe W;Inot Proviso was insutlngly thrown Il.
bur foces, hy which VIC were to &c forever On.
|9ssd from all the Territory which our arms
: assisted to conquer. s.,,
yen the proposition ,nade from the oo:.n :',
4 tend the Missouri line Of SO deg. 30 m'n-
SSlph the Territory acquired from Mexico ~
4 ,;fc was rejected. The North was bent
asn;na all The South 'resolved," but
Ssh;n9 Orenon was first wrcsted from
Z Soytb submitted, because it was North
\ k,r 20 min. What foloweda by an
Sled outrage Squatter Sovereignty was
W military authority IN oa'i'o."'I 10
e niscuous handful Of settlers were "-
( 7aD exclude slavery from its entire borders
e.en of tile Missouri Compromise t:"e.
= admitted California with Const't1-
tiop thus irrcgularly formed, and thus ope"y
7,olut;po ,uhat the North noW so sdnct'nao"'o"S-
In terms "a solemn compact" AT the same
time other measures equally odions to tne
South such as the abolition Of the slave trade
in the District of Commissioning together
the so-caled compromise Measure.were
nassed. South Carolina pow prepared .1or oc'
t;o. She was ready to try the "uit,ma roto
reoumn-athe last argument to when sen''e'
men and kings" and may we not say Jfe'nsen
sresort.n But she found, that IN spite OF res
olutions," the rest of the South was not Se.
ready to move, and our State purely III ueIe,
ence to our Southern sisters, ana as 'na''o
of cxpediency, stopped short IN her m'Se''c"
towards independence. ,,
Rni she is neither asleep nor paralyzed.-
She S as keeuly alive to Southern rights an y!
GuaSeeznsn honor as she has ever been. n SIS
55So can take single step in the detenc
No or the yindeation of the othc
8's& snd;nc South Carolina by her side.-
ia 7 feel of this that it never seems
3 oss,,v TO ostentatiously announce It,
: B8 8r;Il show. But when is that time to a
: & since acouicscence of the South in "tl
.uoyn;se measures" we have had the ha
atruggle and "the John Brown ra'o' . "" .ow
kbe,n sgnigcant indications OF tne 'n!en M
growing spirit Of anti:slavery lana!'c.I Al, =. i,
% North. We have had the split IN u
# + joston and in the Baltimore Convention
of them equally significant; s'gmflcant !,
s ,ct that the Democratic party, once u
or betwaen the South and this tanate's
smoralized and weakened, and unable
- tbe wave of freesoil prejudice. 1t is Il
6 It,o for the calmest and most impartial
Ber to doubt this.
( Bbe Democratic party is now, VIC may s.
g disintegrated. Nor do l regret 1t.
party becomes recre"nt 10 10 :,
rr;nciples upon which it was hascd' II
that It should die out and allow sol
better to spring up'in its place; 70 (,
4 : srime past the Democratic party mas "
r s;plt of its old landmarks. 1t has &C
have any distinctly recognized pr,nclp P
no longer an anti-protective Tariff, or
II internal improvement, or an anticons
* Ell an marty. Tariff men, internal lmprc
rent men-men holding old Federal notl u
the theory of the governments abound II
snks in full fellowship, unrebuked and
Ebalenged. We must purify it-brlng 1t
b its true theory, and make it State ne, n: a.
party, if we desire to preserve II: o.;Do wene. et
Z let It perish; and let the South ceas'ng al
,s.sook to Federal parties for Protect'on,
.5Yely upon herself, and Ia Ike her governn
and destinies into her own hands. She ha
the elements Of wealth, prosperity and siren
70 make her a frst-class power among the
8 IONS of the world Why she should
arful to put her fate to the touch, wherc e ~.
nc sonld lose so little and gain so much, has
w ways been to me matter O simple at
ment' -,.u-n 10 the Charleston and +