v.: -v Sljc Com&cn lounxal. VOT JTMB11. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, MAY 24,1850. NUMBER 41 poetical Department. .1 LINES. Tie the midnight of beauty, so deeply intense, The monarch of thought absorbing each sense; As the midnight in splendor encircles the sky, The soul of bright beauty envelopes thine eye. Tis the rock in the desert, afar in tire maze The hope of whose shade holds the traveller's gaze, *Round wfyose summit the lightnings majestically flash, As the intellect thoughts in thine eyes brightly dash; Ti6 the star of yon sky, pointing ever away To a clime where eternity is made up of day; Vims thine eye ever points to the soul richer still, tvijose treasures the light of ecstacy fill. Washington city. CONSTANCY. IT WILL ALL BE RIGHT IN THE MORN ING. When the bounding beat of the heart of love, And the springing step grow slow? When the form of a cloud in the blue above, Lies dark iri the path below? The song that he sings, is lost in a sigh, And he turns where a star is dawning, [eye, And he thinks, as it gladdens his heart and his It will all be right in the morning." When the "strong man armed," in the middle watch. From life's dim deck is gazing, [catch And strives through the wreck of the tempest to The gleam of the day-beam's blazing, Amid the hard storm, there hard by the helm, He heeds not the dark ocean yawning, For that song in his soul, not a sorrow ran whelm? ,rHI all ho ritrlil in th? mornine!" When the battle is done, the heart unstrung, Its music trembling, dying, When his woes are unwept, and his deeds unsung, And he longs in the grave to be lying? Then a voice shall charm, as it charmed before He had wept or waited the dawning, u They do love there for aye?Til thine as of yore u It will all be right in the morning!" Tints all through the world, by ship and by shore? Where the mother bends over The cradle whose tenant has gone before? Where the eyes of the lover, [word, Look at the heart's hidden lore?whatever the A welcome, a wail or a warning? [heard, This is everywhere cherished?this everywhere u It will be all right in the morning." TOE CONSPIRACY OF FANATICISM. I ,^$3 CONCLUUKD. This singular example of the inextricable caprices of fortune, we take to be one of the most dangerous of the more diminutive race of insects that ever buzzed about i i the tainted political atmosphere; for he is held in such utter 1 contempt by all honest men, that no notice is trken of him until his sting is felt. He is barely qualified to play second fiddle in a concert of third-rate demagogues and the only way in which he can acquire distinction is by becoming the'tool of greater demagogues than himself. Some years ago, after disgracing the state as its chief magistrate, he suddenly found his level in the lowest depths of oblivion or insignificance, and was only quoted, jf quoted at all, as one of those empty bladders which fortune sometimes amuses herself with, by tossing to the top of her wheel and laughing to see it tumble down again by. its ow n want of momentum. Bnt though this distinguished representative of the Empire State has a great alacrity in sinking, be has a still greater alacrity in rising, by virtue of his extraordinary lightness. Nor is any spectacle more common in this enlightened country than that of a swindler? provided it be on a great scale?after his ofTences have become a little rusted by time, suddenly emerging from the depths of infamy, to become an object of popular favor or executive patronage. Thus has it happened to our illustrious senator. The mud has lately been stirred at the very bottom of the pool; and he who went down a mutilated tadpole, has come up a full-grown bullfrog, bellowing louder than he did when, as a State senator, he condescended to become the agent of a principal whose claim was to be deckled by himself and his brother members. The wisdom and patriotism of our Legislature have sent him as their peculiar representative in the Senate of the CJuited States, and probably he is fully adequate to that stupendous responsibility. Since then, his only public exploit has been a speech, of which we shall say nothing, except that it would disgrace any man? but himself. The reader, we hope, will pardon as for thus turning aside a moment, to do justice 'o a very small man?so small, that his smallness is unspeakably inexpressible?and who. bv no possibility, can ever Income great in any other sense but that of being stupendously contemptible. It is a received maxim, that the head of any class or profession must ncces sarily be more or less distinguished; and the honorable senator from Africa?we beg pardon, New York?is undoubtedly chief of the illustrious band of dealers in " small potatoes." A s such, he is fairly entitled to a passing notice. But to descend from this high elevation to my L 1-1- x 1. more nuuiuie ui??. Fanaticism, perhaps, never assumed a more dangerous form than that it now presents in the United States. It is waging a direct, inveterate warfare against the Constitution and the Union. It asserts principles which, if carried oat in their full extent, will unquestionably bring about?if not now, at least at no distant period ??a dissolution of that Union, followed by all its fat,;l consequences. Its principles have a direct tendency to civil and servile war?to rapine, murder and pollution. Here they ore. Let the reader pause, refleet, and see to what they inevitably lead. First, " We maintain, that every American , citizen who retains a single human being in involuntary bondage, is, according to Scripture, a man-stealer;" "that the slaves ought to be instantly sot free" that all those laws now in j force, admitting the right of slavery, are, before God, utterly null and void;" " that no compensation should he allowed to the planters for the manumission of their slaves." And they have denounced the Colonization Society as " a cheat and a hypocrite,'* for no other reason j than that it offers a rational and practical plan for doing what they themselves are attempting to do hy means destructive to the Constitution and the Union. Hut they have not stopped here. They have repeatedly, in their conventions, periodicals and pulpits, declared, " We will give the Union for the abolition of slavery, I if nothing else will gain it;" and, to finish their creed, have adopted, as one of their great fundamental dogmas, " that the condition of slavery absolves us from all the obligations of mankind." The practical application of tins principle would be productive of consequences that might make even fanaticism shudder. A being absolved from a'l the obligations of mankind, is a wild beast of prey let loose on society. Freed from all the restraints of morality and religion by the condition of slavery, he holds no fealty to the laws of God or man; he has a natural, inalienable light to do wrong?to set fire to his master's house; plunder his property; pollute his wife and daughters; rob them, and murder them: in short, run a-muck against all mankind. Such are the doctrines of these exclusive " fr'ends of the entire human race." To this condition would our brethren of the South, of our own color and race, whose forefathers had their full share in securing to the people of the North the blessings they enjoy,?to this condition would they be reduced by the practical application of this detestable dogma. I* 1?4 *1*? -/! ??? ?) noirrn PmiccJirV 11 If MUl lilt; lunci ?inj imuv ii .....?...j of the abolitionists, commonly known as "Orator Douglas," was listened to at a meeting at Syracuse, by an assemblage of white men, and unsexed fern ile devotees of amalgamation, : while insolently addressing them as follows:? i " I believe the slaves would be more than a | match for their enslavers, if left to themselves. Let the Union, then, be dissolved. I wish to see it dissolved. I welcome the bolt, be it from heaven or from hell, that shall shiver it to pieces." These are the doctrines with which the speeches, sermons, and writings of the abolitio lists teem. They are taught to our children; t'iey are imbibed with the mother's first nutriI ment, and eirliest lessons; for it is to the woj men of this country such principles are addressed; it is bv the aid of their powerful in1 Alienee, as wives and mothers, that these dangerous incendiaries expect to succeed, in sap J? .1._ ping trie VvOnsUfUllOn, disrupting me uiikjii, and establishing a hierarchy, by substituting their own interpretations of Scripture in place 'of the authority of laws and constitutions, and 1 asserting t'ie superiority of a fanatical dogma over them both. Well aware of the virtues and weaknesses of women; their tenderness of heart; their proneness to bo led away by the feelings of the moment; iheir quick sympathies for human suffering, and the facility with which they may be deceived by artful, designing men; it is among them that they sow their seed, and reap their most exuberant harvests. They have accordingly enticed them from the family fold, and those sacred duties imposed upon them by God and nature, to instil into their hearts and minds principles at war with society, and fatal to the peace of the domestic hearth, as well as the repose of society. A great majority of these rofomierg who sign petitions to Congress insultir>?, ftio fuplinrrs nnrt hbirlVnniiifr flip rtliMrJIC.ter. "'ft ? ? ? of the inhabitants of fifteen States, are females ?wives and daughters, who, with all due respect to the sex, might much better be at home, attending to their domestic duties, and presi ding over the morality of the parental board, than acting the Quixotte in petticoats, and studying the beauties of amalgamation. Among the signers of those petitions to dissolve the Union, presented by men who are sworn to uphold it, are crowds of little children, who are thus betimes imbued with principles directly calculated to undermine our civil and political institutions, and, in fact, to upset the ontiso fro mn nf cn/ntitr lur iiinnvittwtita All flir> long-established principles of social organization. These friends of the entire human race go to the fountain head?they dig nt the root Our children ure taught by their mothers at home, and their teachers abroad, who in the North and East are almost nil tinctured with abolitionism, that they must give the Union for the abolition of slavery?to "welconi the bolt, be it from heaven or from hell, that shall shiver it to pieces," and that the condition of slavery absolves us front all the obligations of mankind." f This is no idle declamation?no shower of arrows shot at random. We appeal to the declarations of fanaticism just quoted ; and we ask whether those by whom they are made, and those by whom they are sanctioned, are not enemies to the laws, the Constitution, and the Union ; and whether in declaring that the condition of slavery absolves ns from all the obligations of mankind, they do not assert a principle, which, if carried out in its consequences, will cut up by the roots the entire system of social organization in one half the States of this Union, and inevitably produce all the multiplied horrors of a servile war? We ask our countrymen ot the North, whether they will condescend to the deep humility of becoming the instruments and abettors of this conspiracy of apostatized freemen, andjgnorant, revengeful slaves ? One of tho worst and most revolting features See Manifesto of the Nntionnl Anti-Slavery Society, at iu firm organization in Philadelphiat It is to thin influence, no doubt that Senator Hale alluded in the debate on Mr. Clay's amendment* to Benton's resolutions. in this conspiracy of fanaticism, is its foreign origin. It was originally imported from England, end is beyond doubt, in a great measure, supported by British influence, if not British money. It was immediately alter the return of the emissaries of the abolitionists from a great meeting in London, where Sir Robert. Peel'figured side by side with Daniel O'Conne!!, that the Colonization Society was denounced as a cheat and a hypocrite. This was shortly followed by the organization of a National AntiSlavery Society, which began its exploits with a declaration of interminable and exterminating war against the people of the South, the recognized rights of projwrty, the lights of the States, and the sanctity of the Constitution. The name the violation of His attributes, and the authority of His sacred word prostituted to purposes equally at war with both. The movements of the abolitionists on either side of the Atlantic, are simultaneous?they are pulled by the same wire; and it is evident a close and intimate union subsists between them. The American fanatics are little better than cats-paws of British state policy.? The cue is taken from the latter; every movement in England is followed here with implicit subserviency, and every sentiment echoed with most abject servility. They handle the same tools, play into each other's hands; and whether aware of it or not, the American fanatics are instruments of the British government, in bringing about a separation of this confederacy, which, if accomplished, will rid England ofher only dangerous rival in commerce and naval Dower: while, at the same time, it removes from the contemplation of her half starved peasant paupers and operatives, an object so dangerous to the permanency of that system, which has made so many millions of industrious, hardworking beggars. That this4 is the key to British Government sympathy for African wrongs, ispfoved by its utter indifference to the devastations of India, and the sufferings of Ireland ; by tolerating in its eastern empire, among the lowest caste of Hindoos, a sjjeeies of slavery far more oppressive and degrading than that of our Southern States; by obstiuatelv resisting all attempts to relax that system of extravagant expenditure, which entails on the people a burden of taxation that robs them of the ver}' necessaries of life; by expelling the negroes of New-Zealand from their country,* and cutting their throats at the Cape of Good Hope for nobody knows what, while redressing their wrings in America, f Can any rational man believe, for a single moment that a government so regardless of the rights and happiness of the human race everywhere else should feel any real sympathy for them in the United State! Assuredly not.? The philanthropy of the British gooemnient is political philanthropy?an engine of state. The direction it has taken of late years is peculiarly leveled at the United States, and has a two-fold object. The result of the o|>eratioii of free institutions, as exhibited in the unexampled growth and prosperity of this great confederation of empires, is the hug-bear of despotism. It makes the old dry bones of superanuutcd abuses rattle in their eoflins, and the spectre of liberty haunts them in their sleep. The example has become contagious, aud nothing can save the crumbling edifices of despotic power from being prostrated by the earthquake of popular indignation, but either to remove such a dangerous spectacle from the contemplation of the people, by dividing and distracting this auspicious Union, or so distorting its features and blackening its character, that it will no longer be the pillar of fire in the great desert of the world, to guide mankind from the house of bondage to the land flowing with milk and honey. Hence the simulated sympathy, not only of tiie British government but ot all cairopeau despots,for the African slave. They well know that the institution of slavery is the weak point of our confederation, and that in which it. may he most successfully assailed. They are aware that it is here the fortress is most vulnerable, and it is here they have pointed their batteries. The British government, as the one most deeply interested in this conspiracy, has exerted all the influence of its position in working on the sympathies of the white slaves of Europe, until they shern almost to have lust sight of their own bondage, in pity for that of the African. The imperial despots of Russia and Austria, while wading knee-deep in the blood of the Hungarians, and crushing the liberties of Europe under the hoofs of their whiskered Patulous and Cossacks, are among the most zealous of abolitionists. There is nothing so pleases them as the doctrine of amalgamation, which, if brought into practical operation, would so debase the free ' r IT i oi .i.. wniie citizens 01 me uiuieu ouues, mat mtj would become unworthy offreedoin, and incapable of its enjoyment. The great bugbear would speedily vanish, and despotism sleep in peace. This, if we do not greatly err, is the true secret of that extraordinary sympathy for African wrongs, in the hearts of those who are callous to the wrongs of the natives of every other country. It is one of the most cunning devices of despotism to enslave one race of mankind, whiie displayed in such zeal for the emancipation of another. England is the heud and front of this communion of hypocrisy. Iler stake in the game is greater than that of any other power; for if the United States retain intact their bond of union a few years longer, tho trident of the ocean will drop from her hand, and tho sceptre depart from Judah for ever. Hence, it is her policy to sow the seeds of disunion, and by means of sectional dissensions, either bring about a separation of the states, or so weaken tho ties that hind them together, that they will never again act in harmonious cou See Darwin'* Journal. t See English Public Despatches. cert. The attempt to arrest the destinies ol the United States by open force has signally failed heretofore, and become hopeless in future. British arms have been tried in vain, ! and British philanthropy is now our most dan| gerqns enemy. The ''protectorate" of the | puissant King of Mosquitoes is a mask for arresting the construction of the canal across the Isthmus, so vitally connected with the interests of this Republic; and sympathy for African wrongs, the pretext for aiming a deadly blow, which menaces its very existence. A comparatively small sum of money, judiciously distribj uted, for the purpose of enabling the abolitionists to pay the expenses of their missionaries to ! London meetings and domestic conventions, ' setting up papers and periodicals, to foment ; sectional prejudices and denounce the Constitution ; and maintaining itinerant lecturers, to j undermine the very fonndations of society, and ; inculcate on our wives and daughters the beau! ties of amalgamation,?all this may be done : at one hundredth part of the expense of a naval ' or militanr expedition. The plan is admirable; "the plot is an excellent plot; and if my Lord j Palmerston, or the pious old ladies of England, could only manage to enlist our transcendental senator, as the Guy Fawkes, to set fire to the | train there can scarcely he a doubt that Senate, ' Congress and Executive, the Capitol and the j White House, would all be blown " sky high," : as my friend John Randolph used to say. But it is feared the senator is too scrupulous and too incorruptible. He may not stickle at undertaking an agency as attorney in a matter on which he is to decide as a legislator; or he may j stretch his conscience so far as to violate his ! oath to support the Constitution. But these j are small matters to a great man, who soars above all legal and constitutional restraints, j and who is accountable to the great tribunal of : his conscience alone. Many people think he : might be bought dog-choap but, for my part, 11 hardly believe he would sell himself, unless he . Antilfl /Irk if vtrifli o cofn nmioninnnii fl???f So in i Ll'Ulll UV ih HiUU ft outv VVIIOVIvIIV/C UlUb lOj ill perfect safety. This imported demon of fanaticism is not, however exclusively employed against the Uiiioii; it has another and still deeper purpose, namely, to crib and circumscribe the freedom of individuals, by substituting its own usurped authority, its own hair-brained will, in place of those civil laws and political institutions originally devised for the protection of their rights, and the direction of their conduct as men and and citizens. It aspires to become, not only the spiritual, but the political dictator; to mould our civil polity; to establish a new system of moral and religious duties; to make what has been heretofore considered innocent an offence against the law of God and man; and brand our forefathers as instruments 111 inflicting on their posterity ' the greatest curse that ever fell 011 the heads of mankind."* It makes them I " men stealers," " dealers in human flesh;" for nearly all the people of New York, in good circumstances, at some time or other field slaves. True, they were very honest people? aye, and read their Bibles too. But though contemporary with, and actors in the glorious drama of the Revolution which established our | freedom, they iiad not the remotest idea of the distinction betwixt right and wrong?they had not the happiness of being the eotemporaries of William Lloyd Garrison, Abby Folsom and our transcendental senator, whose com science is above all laws, except of his own creating. They saw not these burning and shining lights which ditti the lustre of the Saviour of mankind and his Apostles, and show as clearly as the meridian sun, that they were ignorant of their highest duty, or regardless of its performance, when they so studiously abstained from denouncing " the greatest curse that ever fell on the heads of mankind." It was reserved for the inspired abolitionists, to make the astounding discovery, that what iiad been considered innocent from the earliest ages of the world, and practiced by all mankind, without distinction, Jews, Mahometans, Pagans, and Christians, was a crime of so deep a dye, that the stain must be educed at the cost of the sacrifice ofevery temporal blessing. That, in short, it imposed an obligation superior to all others combined, on those who were perfectly innocent of all agency in its commission, to offer up their country as an atonement, and their fellow-citizens as victims. The space allowed in this Review will not permit us to discuss this most important subject thoroughly, in all its bearings, 011 the great universal interests of human society. Had we room, we would trace more distinctly and methodically, the consequences of this deep-laid conspiracy to subjugate one race of mankind, under pretence of emancipating, another; and to render the reason, the experience, the laws, and the great principles of justice and equity, subservient to the freaks and dogmas ot fanaticism, by subjecting the powers of the state to its control, through an alliance with political hvnocrisv and ambition. The union of church 'V I" ^ # juul state will be nothing to this. The state will become the tool of the church, and the despotism of priests a substitute for that of kings. The boasted freedom of action and will, now only restrained by legal and constitutional barriers?the light of reason, and that innate sense of justice, which is implanted in the heart of man, as the condition of his responsibility for his actions, will give place to other mas* ! tors. We shall bo governed in good time?not j by human laws, hut fanatical creeds?not by I x.ll iitiil.irvtimil ct.-ihitnc mid IniKr.ronniniizcil IfVH'llllHl 0 ~ ~ p I principles, hut by tbo dream of Isaiah,! or the Pandects of Leviticus, interpreted by a sellcreated judge, and enlorced by a self-created power. There will bo no personal liberty but * See declarations of abolitionists without number. + The Book of Isaiah, from whence the abolitionists draw their sole Scriptural authority for ostracising the people of the South, commences thus ?" The Dream of lsaiab," &c., &r. what is sanctioned by the Twelve Tables, and no political rights but such as are drawn from inspired writers, interpreted by those who have not a particle of inspiration. The friends of the Union must do something more than cry out?"Thf. Union must be preserved,"if they wisli it to last. They must make war against fanaticism and hypocrisy, instead of with each other; tliev must look to the Constitution which is the sole bond of that Union, instead of fanatical dogmas, as their protector, and watch-light, and guide; they must refrain from all association with the fanatics, but openly and honestly oppose them, even at the hazard of loosing their worthless support, which can only be obtained by sacrificing the Union, and lifl lncs nf U'Kinli mill Kn omnl.. ???~?1?1 ' ?..w .vww v. mmivu urn ux, uill^lJf ICIIIUIitJJ aieU UJ' a rally of all who love their country more than their party. In 6hort, they must cease their aggressions on the equal rights of the constituent members of this magnificent confederation?the admiration of the world?and come back once more to those great principles of justice and equity, which were implanted in the heart of man, as his guides in the great task of self-government ; which are as immutable as their Di- * vine author; and which ordain among other things, that no man, and no body of men, has a right to violate a contract solemnly and voluntarily made, under pretence of benefiting others vrho mere not parties to the instrument. Let them do this, and then " the Union will be preserved." The real foes to the Union are not in the South, but the North. The North is the aggressor, and will justly be held responsible for all the consequences, be they what they may. It is evident that thft efforts nf this i>mjn!r?. cy of fanaticism are systematic and progressive. If they gain their point in the questions now et issue, they will not stop here. They will cut deeper, they will cut to the very bone. They will demand of their tools in Congress, and the State Legislatures, the "instant emancipation of all the slaves in the United States, without compensation to the planters." Nextythnt they shall be instantly admitted, not only to political but social equality; next, they will find some text of Scripture, or invent some fanatical dogma, which will enforce the duty of amalgamation, perhaps on the great principle, that the pride of man being an offence against God. it will be salutary to bring it down by a due mixture of degradation, that will makehim ashame d of himself By becoming less manly and intellectual, he will also be more easily governed, witnout the aid of that dangerous instrument called human reason, which is a sad stumblingblock in the way of fanaticism. When this triumph over the intellect and reason of men is obtained, then all the rest will be perfectly easy. Every law, and 'every institution of society, will become a shuttlecock, and the battledores fanatical dogmas. There will be no other landmarks than these?no other lights to guide us to the haven of rest, but the blue lights of fanaticism. The civil rights of the citizen will consist only in the indulgences vouchsafed him by fanaticism ; and if any man, i i* e .1 rr any community, or any secuon 01 tne union, demurs to its dictation, they will be expelled from the ranks of their fellow creatures, and become Ftr