The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-02-07

pie of South Carolina Il Y induced, under
tins degree of excitcment4f Eject the agent Of
Massachusetts, for makingfat he supposcd,o or
. what he intended to be, lamor against the
State, the fault st.iesiiss one of the cti
zcns of South Carolina, ISsul be willing to
carry it to the Supreme but rot that the
State should permit tito sthere. This state
Of things was brought aboias wellas has been
all the subsequent hostility Tween the sections,
by the action Of Massachetls itself. If the
people of any of the Soutlfp States act under
excitement, and transgres4 what may be the
limits of calmncss, who 10 bamel Those
. who make war,upons us. ffas a constitutional
law; and if the agent oslassachusetts was
invited to leave the Stateas he was--ffor he
was not elected, though knigLt we'll have
then prevailing in Charlesfn the people were
induced to that exciteinef the acts Of the
people Of Massachusetts als anterior, which
4 where hostile, presistentt Ii terneddIing and
. dangerous to our rea6se5aalss ssf.tayg
Mr. Wilson. Mr. Prst Esrf, the Senator says
this law grew oft ofag5 issioll. This law was
passetlin 1920.
MIR. Chesnut. Il saasle election of your
messenger grew out oassspfeSious condition
Of excitement and thA sEe degree Of excite
ment there was imposes the people by the
action of Massach settsIp6g before and con-
tinually. -.
MIR. Wilson. .sir.Easidcnt-
Mr.. Hammond .HlkessSenator will allow
me to say one.wo-d HtEg shall have done.
AIR. Wilson,. Cert,Iu.Ms
Mr. Hammond. Isos aappens that was.
Governor of the e,sdsen: Mr.. Hoar came. |
had known him before inEongress, and he had
often avowed to Inc thhtse was not an Aboli-
ZIONIST. He was aplesSiit kind old gentle
man. well informed, .ssaa fksad sort of friend
slip for him during the Short time that sat
near him in Congress. came, and sent me
his commission uDdesEse broad seal of the
State OF Massachusetts nowiBg that perhaps
there might be some yiacnce done, l took.car
that no violence should! be done towards him; {;
and although he was, you may say. elected
from the State, hewas&nly told the situation
and circumstances ofaassrs, and politely asked,
and escorted by some the first gentlemen of
Charleston, to the boat. {Mhy did Massachusetts
send us Commissions4 bnt for an incendiary
purpose? If she wist5 10 try the constitu-
tionality oftLat law, sl could have got lawyers
enough in Charleston.
MIR. Wilson. She 1ed.
Mr.. Hammond. Mi:n, then, if she could
not get lawyer tllare, she ought to have
known that the state Spnblic feeling was such
that sending couimiss ssner there was an act
Of aggression; and wlr}st;rigllt had she to send
commissioner there produce All abolition
excitement in the Cts Charleston!
Mr. Wilson. Mr. garnt, am very glad
of the expose we have Etere to-day from South
Carolina, in regard tGaliiss Law
Mr.. Hammond isaIY not at all aware of the
fact that she could sfSgtt 4 lawyer there. |
doubt very nnchswlE tlics il is so. Size coald
not have tried all Nav yefs. There are law
ycrs enough now would do It, and be-
leye aiwars wcpe.a 81. ~
* lleii,,, s;,oatll Carolina
@ at 4 Counsel III iHsT the i''E
before me. c.'sc. navy
Mr.. Hammond. 80.
Mr.. Wilson. It;S14sat was after lh'S'
Mr.. Hammond. AIS. e:.
Mr.. Wilson. Now, d in consequnce OF IT.
lcrstand each other. .lr. President, let us u',-
Carolina Mr.. Chesnut Thc senator from 4 ooalll
mont in 1914 was owin.says that this excite,
Mr. Chesnnt shalG to the aggrcssions
Mr.. Wilson. Ccrt4I answer!
Mr.. Chcsnut Whiny.
were of the most palp!y sir, the aggrcss, lis
actor l,v the beop!c otblc and continual char
AhoI;tionists Of Siassa{ Massachusetts by the
now Ecnnbl;cau partIhusetts. suppose t'G
,,o,ro It'd not oi,nool under Its rchapt;N'haI
.onnLar ~ wLosafi,nt i.d. hnt Garrison, that
t:aaJ =, lie ;1o.. ofl;I{bc gentleman was IiiP-
'nso - a." rons,;tut;oflc c,tv-a man whose "r-
ION IL u @arne .S with JraA Of the country viii;
hel-tliat very tyacla II and S>,Sm S,Sm the gentle
man, as appearedcc-Sgr Ilg@#ehat was read here
yesterday, had taken w lessons of patriotism,
of devotion to the couA Atrv and to liberty; that
very man, and all his tl,ss, had been eXcl'lng
The people, sending aboliton cmis<arics, dis
trbutlng abolition doctmcnts to us. HAT was
the aggression Of the cttizcns,of Massachusetts,,
which tic people OIL South Carolina had Il
right to protect themst lives against
Mr.. Wilson. WclliM President, the Sena-
tor rose for the pulpokc OF telling me what
aggressions had beed pcrpctratcd upon his
own State, and he stftcs no aggression he
has none to state. Tho people of Massachusetts
never made an aggression on the people of
South Carolina to tis hour and that Senator
canp6t put his finger o i solitary one l defy
him to do it.
Mr. Chesnut. If tic Senator's defiance is
1lrown out, ask him if he considers the dcci-
ded and deliberate acti bn of the Legislature Of
Massachusetts,, which brings to nought con-
stitutiona law passed by the Congress Of the
United States, which law is to carry out the
rights guaranteed by THE Constitution to the
people of South Carolhaa, as well as to the pco-
pie of other Southern States, is no aggression
on the rights of South Carolina! 1fthc Scna-
tor considers Modification OF that act, and the
manner in which IL his been done, as 10 ag-
gression, land lie calls upon ME to point out an
act of aggression to tits day. do not know
what it is. If the 81 dnator thinks that the
Constitution is no bctt$r than it has been de.
scribetl by his teacher, Ny the one from whom
he was proud to receive essons we differ AS to
the nature of the Constitution of this country
and lhe obligations we owe to it. lie asked
me for the aggrcssions | told him knew in,
stances, and everybody knows them. 1t is moi
required that we should put our fingers on them
would poiht him, how Ever, to the transniss
ion through the mails Of the common country
from Massachusetts, er|citizcns and hcrpcopll
constantly attempting 10 fool our country, o
incendiary documents, Intended to stir up scr
vile war, and to the ted Acllings of her orators
and the fnlmiEntions trbm her dcsecrated pnl
pits. Are these 10 aggrrssioHs? They are
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