The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1861-01-29
VOLUME XXIL 2la JpN,48ell

which are to subduc into slavish submission
any Southern State whose people are oll-fasli-
iened enough to think CONSTITUTIONAL LIBER-
rY has real aud substantial! value.
This delasion on Mcir pert is the real and
only diGeattq in Tie acay ota speedy and sat
iiyiactory. adjustment. And it gricves me, sir,
to know, that instead of the meeting at the
Institute contributing in anywise to dispel the
infatuation Of these people, if it have any prac-
ticabie effect at all, it will be, to strengthen
into conviction their present belief, that the
people Of Maryland are with the North, and
not with the South, and that as against the
latter they are ready to cooperate with the
North in compelling, at the expense of both
blood and treason, submission Of the South
to the. y oke Off Calling servitudc.
A most amentablc fatality appears TO char
acterize, at this time, everything done BY those
in authority in Maryland. 1t was but the
other day, in manifesto issued by the Hon.
Henry Winter Davis to the voters OF the fourth
congressional district, that the ground was ia
ken that Maryland had suffered no wrong AT
the hands Of the North! LAS Mr.. Davis for
gotten tue murder, at the very portals Of the
halls of justice, of DIR. Kennedy, of Washing
ton county, by u Pennsylvania mob, because,
and for no other reason, ho WAS in that State
looking after runaway Had the horrid de-
tails OF tue brutal murder, under Tie uery cyes
Of lhe Gorernor OF Pfuusyl1ania, of Mr.. Cor
such, one of the most venerable of the citizens
+ of Baltimore county, also escaped his rccollec-
tiou2 Orto speak of an event more recent,
has his memory no trace of the case of Mr..
Myers, of Carroll county, who was decoyel over
the boundary line into PENNSYLVANIA, tried for
kidnapping, because he had reclaimed runa-
way, convicted BY an abolition juy, and who
would now be in the penitentiary had not Gov.
Packer granted Aiul pardon9 Such insersi-
bility to the wrongs oi Maryllnlcrs is in fit
keeping with propositions, al Mis time, from
representative of a Suuthetl constituency,
to render their slave property of still less val
lie, by requiring oftheln, after they shall have
incurred the trouble, risk and cost of capture
OF a fugitive slave, to submit to the additional
outlay Ola trial by jury in the place whence
lie shall have escaped and to which lie shall
have been returned. This is demanding South
crn rights with asengeance!
But, sir, myspurpose in addressing you on
this occasion is, to point out III some degree the
similarity of the acts occurring at the dawn OF
the Revolution with those OF tie present day.
And sherc let me- remind yoil sir, that al
though tue first struggein the Revolution was
ON tile soil Of Massachusetts, tAat al iAat Gme
neitLet NafyioNa nor. .Sou:A Gutji,.a were
joinedtin any union with her, nor were they
under any lsyat obligation to assist her III her
difficulties. Their commercial interests were
in no way connected with hers, and: they resi-
ed under no sense Of fayors bestowed by her,
for she had bestowed none on either of them.
Whatever aid, tarefore, they extended to her
in her time of need, proceeded from that gem
erous appreciation Of the corJuct.of those who
were struggling for their rights, which had
been outraged by special lesisIatie,E.of the
Britisl, Parliament The illtcrfcreEccs6f2So 2Soatil
Carolina in behalf of fM,tssachnsrtts. WAS mani.
festly AGAINST all her pscatteiatg interests; her