The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-11-27

and Grcece-Stlll the NSnI anu Sloi Vi "
times were built on domestic slavery. but
it is an experiment to maintain free government
with universal suffrage, and the whole popula-
tion to control the government. population
increases faster than capital, and no prosperity
s can long stave off the dire conflict which must
arise between want and afluence-PopuauoGn
and capital. When the great majority OF the
population have no property, which is the case
With V every nation in Europe, what shall protect
property under the control Of this majority
rom partition or confscafion9 w hat is lioer'
ty worth with starvation, and what is properly
worth with confscation Our Confederaey
must be slaveholding Confcderacy we
have had enough Of Confederacy IN whicn
dissimilar institutions exist.
The next point we should insist on Is that
the power. of taxation should be limited. we
know how this power has been abused by the
nrcsent Confederacy. The North has welded
It for their enrichment aud ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AT
the expense of the Sonth. The taxes should
be Just and to be Just no man should De li'aae
to nav tribute to another, or be taxed for the
benefit of another. No monopolies should
cxists but all should be left to employ their m
dustry in their own way, saving where the
exieencics oftbe Government require revenue
or restriction.
And the third condition which South Caro-,
lima should require is that the forts and fortress
ses in our Bay should never again be surrcn-
dered to any power on earth. We have seen
! fine capuon-placcd in them for our defence
turned against us for our suIugation. When
our fac again floats over. them, let 1t remain
there nntil our cxistence'is bottcd out as a free
people. I'm,
\ With guarantees such as these, what shall
prevent the people of the South from neing d
great and free people! Taught by the bitter
experience. have had, we can frame Con
sttution the best for securing justice and llbcr-
ty the world has cSer-sccn. With suchraSCon-
stitution and our institutions, we aniestabsl
f q Confederacy which shall. endure for ages;
ard our Confederacy will be as powerful as II
will he great. All nations want our agricultu-
raj brosdiuctions and all nations will tender the
friendships their necessities rcqnirc. We will,
!, expand. as our growth and civilization shall
$ demand-over Mexico over the isles OF the
g sra-over tile far off Southern tropics-unt
e We shall establish great Confederation OF ne
n EpuLlicsEitlle greatest, frccst, and most usefn
J. the world has ever seen. :;
i, : Ny friends, the Union is dissolved. 1t ha:
u l1ono since been dissolved, in my sympathy a1e
J shirt. 1t is now about to be dissolved in form
and fact. A few more wceks-a few more
e days, and by the fiat of South Carolina, it wi
e be amongst the wrecks of past things, which
u designed for noble ends. mans folly and WICK
4 edness have destroy ed. Would that the mn
it rcTs of mans hand could come forth an'
d write upon the plaster Of the wall OF the ieSt'y
ni=halls and palaces ofte North, those words 1
Of otI It,error-aMenp, mene trkeksssss.n' -, YIs,ho
. weighed IL y Lals2 ss5on i9p1d wal|i II