The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-09-18
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TO deDlOrc.

to deplore.
At no point of our political history, that We
can remember, has the cry of Disuniopism
been raised against the people Of the South,
louder and with moro accrLity and bitterness,
than it is at present. The tr pie hosts of Lin
coin, Douglas and Bell arc all in unison here,
and dcnouncc the Democrats and others who
support Breckenridge and the Constitutional
rights of the South, as traitors and Disunonists.
And why? Is there a line Of treason or a SELL
timent of disnnon incorporated in the platform
of principles? Not one. The people of the
Southern States, cannot bandage their eyes,
and shut ont the fact, that the past quarter Of
a century, has nearly swept away every right
they hold under the Constitution. Amid the
singing of peans to the Union, and the syren
music of compromises" and friendly concess-
ions, they have witnessed the onward march of
aggression, rohbing them OF their rights, con-
tracing their power, limiting their territory,
stealing their property, and invading their soil
with the torch and the pike. They have wit
messed all this too, noS under Black Republi-
can Administration, bnt under one whose prin-
cpIcs arc opposed to these fendish instru
mputalitrs to crush the institution Of slavery,
and vet to-day, they are couhsclled to submit
to the installation Of a President and Admin
istraton whose avowcd principles for years
past, and whose teachings from the beginning,
have all been directed to, and have for their
object, the entire suLjugation Of the Cotton
States of the South, and the overthrow oftlcir
necessary system of labor. The priests ard dis
ciplcs of this wild falaticism, know well that
such an end cannot bc accomplished, but
through bloody revolution, and the most out
ragcous scenes Of barbarity that every disgraccd
the annals of any people, savage or civilized.
| And vet, VIC must submit or be branded as
disunionists and traitors. God help the people
of the South, when in response to the high
priests of this Juggcrnaut Of the Union, they
arc willing to sacrifice all that is dearer than
| life, and without which life is little value-Lb-
crly and Equal Rights.
Where then is the treason? Surely not
among those who cling to the Constitution and
their rights under it. 1t rests, first, among the
advocates of Il higher law than ritll,r the Bible
orthe Constitutiol-thosc who would willingly
see the torch Of the ipccndiary and the knife
Of the midnight assassin applied TO accomplish
their tiendish ends 1t is, in the second place,
treason to the South, at least, among those
who would wontony deprive her people Of
their Just rights for mere political personal adj
vancc.ncnt; and thirdly, it is 10 less treason in
third mongrcl party, who would, although
Lincoln's election would hc "a grievous mis-
fortune" and dangerous to the peace and
security Of the Southern States" still counsel
acqllicsccncc This party is composed Of the
odds and ends of several dctunct factions, which
never sought any higher end than political
powcr-know Nothingism, Wings and bank
rupt politicians.
This, then, is the position of parties in the
present contest. One party cleaving to the
Constitution of the country, second ignoring
the rights it contcrs upoL the citizens of all
sections and setting up instead of its authority,
the dictum of an unorganizcd community Of
squattcrs; third basing its pretension upon
the love of Union under which the Consti.
tuition may be violated, and rights tramplcd
upon, if that Union can be preserved; and the
fourth an open and avowed enemy of the
Constitution and Equal Rights. The Lattlc la:
to be fought between the first and the las
named and it is easy to determine which il
made up of traitors and Gisunionists, and whicl
is entitled to the support Of every patriot il
the land.-Southern Guardian,