3 <* . l , t . ,? >?- -t'M' VOLUME 11. ' CAMDEN, SOUTIT-CA ROLIXA, J US E 28, 1850. ~ NUMBER 5T. THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. PUBLISHED BY THO. J. WARREN & C. A. PRICE, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Is published at Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment is delayed for three months. THE WEEKLY JOURNAL Is published at Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in i advance, or Three" Dollars if payment is delayed for three j months. Any person procuring five responsible subscribers slmll be entitled to the sixth copy (of the. edition subscribed for) gratia for one year. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following We: For one square (14 lines or less) in the semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, seventv-five cents per Fquare for the first, ?nd thirty-seven and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions one dollar per square. Tlie nuraner of insertions desired, and the edition to f*? published in. must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will be inserted semi-weekly until ordered to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. Liberal discounts allowed to those who advertise for three, six, or twelve months. fty-All communications by mail must be post-paid to secure attention. Ipocticn! Department. For the Camden Journal. TO TPis street to mourn when stars come out, And moonbeams dance upon the spray, Like mental shafts on beauty's shield, And think of one so far away. ? ti- - . ?1 1 at ..I for at mat gemie nour uie win Can only think of what is bright, And picture to the heart that loves The hopes which earth is soon to blight. Now, too, thy voice I seem to hear, i As coming on the zephyr's wing, In tones like those which angels strike, As round the sun-lit chorus they cling. Now, too, I see thy gentle smiles, As moonbeams, snatch the gems away. And rob me of my angel gifts, To set thein in the crown of day. And still I cannot, cannot feel Thy gentle hand within my own; Tis fancy?thou art far away? Away?and I am all aloae. Camden, S. C. CONSTANCY. Dkbt.?Poverty is a bitter draught, but may, and sometimes with advantage, begulped down. Though die drinker makes wry fuoes, there may, after all, be wholesome goodness in the cup. But debt, however courteously it be offered, ?the cup of a siren, and the wine, spiced ilnd delicious though it be, an eating pojson. The man out of debt, though with a flaw in his jerkin, a'erack hi his shoe-leather, and a hole in bis hat, is still the son of liberty, free as the singing lark above him; but the debtor, though clothed in the^utmost bravery, what is he but a serf upon a holyday?a slave to he reclaimed ? liK nu nor tlm p.rnditnr ( Mv 21IIJ lUOUMit uio " y Mv. | ? - ^ son, if poor, see wine iu the running spring; let thy mouth water at ti.e last week's roll; think a thread-bare coat the "only wear," and acknowledge a white-washed garret the fittest housing place for a gentleman; do this, and flee debt So shall thy heait be at peacp, and the sheriff bo confounded.?Jerrohi. The troths that are comprehended in this email paragraph, if conned properly by a large portion of the world, would save many a heart from contempt, and many an individual from prime. To the young more especially do they eoramend themselves, for youth is the period when habits are formed, and a prudent economy then cultivated will remain through life as a principle opposed to extravagauce. inter which conventional usages and opinions so often lead the weak, irresolute, and the ambitious. Some people stigmatize economy as parsimony, estimating peenniary means more by notions of what is deemed needful to a certain social position, than by positive income. Parsimony is not, however, the voice of society. Extravagance jeads more people into acts of injustice towards others than the most penurious saving; and- hundreds of individuals are annually irre4?*v' ^ aL/? AwdArtoAoin onnhniiia /tnr HWTKDiy TUIIUfU My UIU Clium> wi IU Du|yui I,a i/ci tain style Of living unwarranted by their means. Doings in thb Canaua Parliament.-^ Toronto June 18.?Mr. Boulton, last night, in the Legislative Assembly, introduced resolutions for amending the Constitution, by separating Legislative and Executive powers, extending the elective principle, and assimilating the whole system of Government to the American model. The House was pounted out for want .of a quorum. Commkncino Early.?The Poyou S#ra (La.) Journal nominates Lewis Cass for President. and Daniel S. Dickinson of New York, for Vice President, in J8$2. Easlon, Hid.?The Star, published at Eaeton, says that there is more business done there than in any other town on tfte Eastern Shore, particularly in the mercantile lino. CunvA Bkrriks.?It is stated that the berries or halls of tbo China tree, if spread on the garden in great profusion in the spring-time of planting, will drive outtbo insects and cutworms ...I.:..'. ..M cn ru>rni#>trma tsi nil roirdpns. WUIV.V Ito OV |/V>imvivww W? .... r "}>> ! >/nu ever fenoro an}' body to bo killed by lig!.- ling!" "Never by lightning," replied Pat ;? mi midop tone. "It's thunder, shure, qs knocks 'cm fo pieces in the quid country!" Two men making lovo to the daughter of Themistocles, he preferred tfre virtuous /nan beforo the rich one, saying: " I would rathei have a man without riches, than riches without a man/* Political Dqmrtmcut. LETTER OF DANIEL WALLACE, OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Tj the People of the 1st Congressional District of So ith Carolina : Fellow-Citizens: I deem it my duty, during the present important session, to give you all the information in my power, in reference to the great questions now at issue before Congress. And as I cannot consistently with my duty, leave my seat to do this in person, I am constrained to address you through the press, as the only mode open to me. The abolition of slaver}' is not an idea of American origin. It had its origin in the European mind, and its first inception was long before the end of the eighteenth century. Win. Wilberforce, an enthusiast and fanatic of England, was the founder of a sect of fanatics whose Utopian creed i3 predicated upon the idea of the perfectibility and equality of the human races. The fundamental article of the creed taught by Wilberforce is universal email cipation. wis touowers, according 10 an invariable principle of ti e human mind, have extended their creed so as to include it in a wide range of subjects, of which the founder of the Beet perhaps never dreamed in the wildest vagary of his fancy. This sect have constituted a new school of political and social phi|osophj\ They claim to be guided by the pure religion of theBjble. They have inscribed upon their banner the motto of Voltaire, the greatest infidel. and blasphemer of the world, who, after he had his writings, precipitated the French revolution, in which six millions of men were massacreed or slaughtered upon the battle-fields of Europe, and which endeu where it began, in despotism, built a temple and dedicated it to "Deo optima Miximo." The sect founded by Wilberfnrcc have adopted this motto, and proclaimed that their,mission is sanctioned and commanded by flio riiiino Inxv Vlilinmrtf .r!i subdue America by her arms, resorted to a far deeper and jnoro dangerous plan. 'I he standard of abolition was rajsed, and tho human mind excited by n gloomy superstition. When Itomp fejlf crushed under the feet of the war steeds of Attila and Alaric, slie too raised the standard of this same gloomy snperstitution, and Europe was again made subject to the darkest despotism the world oversaw, for the Popes held the mind as well as the body, in the chains of sen ile bondage. The Southern States of this Union, by means of their great agricultural staples, now control the commerce of the world. England on seeing that this mast be so, resolved if possible to i.?. !..t u.. ~i. iii.tiuuuii lit'i 11rumii'i ui Liiu auolition of slavery in her own colonies, as an act which, in the judgment of her statesmen, would he inevitably followed by the abolition of slavery in the United States. The experiment thus made by England is thus far an acknowledged failure. Iler West India Colonies, in which slavery was abolished, are covered with ruin? widespread, disastrous, and complete. The negroes there, instead of being improved in their condition, are brutalized, ami are rapidly going back to the unmitigated barbarism of their native land. England sees now that the terrible experiment she made ie a failure. Commercial bankruptcy overspread her dominions as the result of her West India polic}', and as slavery ctill nvicfc in tltn Sftntlmni Sstntnc nf flio TTninn the United States still control the commence of the world. The error into which England has fallen was shown to her and to Europe by the letter which Mr. Calhoun addressed to Mr. King our Minister to France, during the administration of Mr. Tyler, Soon after that despatch was published in London and Paris, Sir Robert Peel, then Prmio Minister, announced to the British Parliament his intention of moving for free trade. This too, was an effort to recover from the effects of the abolition policy. The commercial policy of England was immediately changed from the restrictive system which had prevailed for centuries to that of free trade, and the British Empire thus took the lead out of the hands of the United States in this enlightened policy. England would now gladly retrace her steps in reference to abolition. It is clear to the minds of her statesmen now, that they have transgressed .Nature's law, and that the effects of this transgression have recoiled, not upon America, but themselves. They see now the [ folly of supposing that the negro race will labor ; without being compelled, and that acts of Par-1 liament cannot redeem the African from the; sentence of the Divine Law, whose dictum is, I " by the sweat of thv brow shalt thou earn thy ! bread.'' Hut how is England to retrace her j steps { The ruin sue has caused is deep, widespread, and complete. To re-establish slavery would be a humiliating acknowledgment of her past folly. The superstitious feelings which siie has fostered in her midst would be sufficient, perhaps, to control any attempt her Parliament might make to recover the ground she lias lost. If slavery wasaholished in the Southern States of tiie tiiiiou, the trident of the sea would again he placed in tiie hands of the commanders of her merchant ships, and she would again control the commerce of tiie world. You of the South alone, of all people, can prevent this.? This power is in your hands, if you are only true to yourselves. Tnis is toe point to which all should turn their eyes. You possess advantages now?events aie within your power, and which in) penj le but yuU can control ? wliicli j will maito you tlio mistress of tin.1 seas and ol'j the world, by the peaceful arts of agriculture, | manufactures, and commerce. ^ on cannot be i control ed by tiieait of war. The South con-1 tains nine millions of men, and cannot be subdued by arms. Abolition alone can arrest your progress, for the African race can cultivate the taints upon the Atlantic border, so as to produce successfully the great staples upon which the manufactures and commerce of the civilized j world depend. lAigiand and lite Northern States of this Union see the great advantage oi' your position, which the Creator has given you, ami lieiico the war that is so unrelentingly waged against v" ? - ii I you. i ou can urave 11 an, aim uium^i u?v.i i it all, if you will. The work is yours. You J have the power to he the mistress of the world; j to control its commerce, its arts, ami its manu- j ulaclures; ami to go on to a prosperity and re* j iiowii unequalled by the nations of the earth. j The Abolition spirit has now been in active j operation seventy-seven years, in which time it; has made considerable progress. It looks now j to the Southern Slates of this Union, and socks i to achieve there its crowning victory, for in no other part of the world would Abolition produce such mighty results upon social order, government, civilization and commercial supremacy. The disciples of Wilbertorce crossed over into America, and brought with them their disorganizing ideas, and engrafted them upon the .Northern portion of the American mind. And here now this Abolition spirit pursues its way witii a step as steady as time, with an appetite as keen as death?insatiable as pestilence or the grave. A thousand presses are its willing and servile propagators. The sect has spread all over Europe aud a large portion of Ameri* ca. A union between the two continents, as illustrated by the World's Convention in Loudon, is established. Nearly halt' a million of immigrants from Europe, land annually upon our shores, and swell the hosts which throng into the great abolition I'ohl; and a motion has been made during the present session of Congress to give each immigrant, upon his arrival, a quarter section of laud. Our public domain, purchased by the blood and treasure of our people, to which the South has contributed far more than an equal share, is to be portioned out to feed the llame that has been kindled to consume you. A great struggle is now going on to force the people of the South to adopt the creed of the i universal equality of the human race, and to carry the idea into practical effect by placing three million of African negroes at the South upon a touting of social ami political equality! with the white man; a:id this is sought to bo ' done, too, when all must see, that it' it be done, an exterminating war between the two races must follow, as in St. Domingo, which war must continue?unless foreign aid should interpose ?until one of the races is exterminated. It now devolves upon you to arrest this storm that is gathering for your overthrow. All see the advantage of your position?the greatness, as a people, which awaits you, and hence the combined efforts to stop your progress. The States of the Union are distinct, aid ought to be in fact, as they are in theory independent. sovereignties. Each of these States where slavery now exists is unwilling to abolish it. It is therefore demanded by the Abolitionists that General Government shall assume ju]'i?fii-in over tlm mipstion of slaverv. that this ' impediment may be removed. Upon this question the North have consolidated against the South, one section against the other, the most dangerous mode of consolidation that can pos- ! sibly be effected. The Congress has been ' flooded for the last twenty years with abolition petitions demanding that supreme jurisdiction over slavery shall be assumed, and the majority, thus united, concede to the General Government plenary powers over the question. Congress has granted the prayer of the petitioners, and assumed jurisdiction over the question in a variety of forms, and to a perilous extent, and the Southern States now occupy a position, as j far as this Government is concerned, but little more favorable than that in which the British | R.:u^ UoJin i VvUHHIICa MUlJU HI ICiclllUll IV tiiv Asiliisit i ai uainent. All the northern States, constituting a large majority of the people of these States, have united to abolish slavery, the only question upon which they ever could unite. Abolition has ceased to bo a party question in Congress. The same thing occurred, upon the same subject, in the British Parliament Wilberforce exerted all his influence to accomplish this union of parties. He urged the necessity of it upon j the Abolition question, himself, in the House of rs : t i /i !11_ iL? u commons, am: Lioru virenviue in uie uuusc ui i Peers. The cfibrt succeeded. It was solemnly agreed that Abolition should not bo a party question, and the agreement was called "the truce of Clod." How striking the parallel now j presented by the present condition of parties in ! Congress! The Abolition party in America have now got undisputed control of the General Government, and the American parliament has assumed jurisdiction over the question of slavery. One' object and design of the scheme, is that the North shall give laws to the South, and that these bin's shiilI !hi framed imon flip idea of the UQ1 versal equality of ttiu human races, of which the North are now the propagandists in America. This creed must bo practically enforced by the military power of the Union, if necessary, tlnifc the white man may be pulled down to the level of the lowest negro. Seward, of New York, presented a petition in the Senate a few days ago, praying Congress to pass a law to have all tiie negroes in the South between the ages of eighteen and forty-live years, enrolled in t!|e militia. What do you think of black drill Sergeants, ' Majors, Colonels, ic.i A negro lawyer is now : practicing law in Boston, and another acting j us Justice of the l'eace. The European idea of "liberty, fraternity and equality,"is still pro- ! grossing. Where will it end! ? D i By the Into treaty with Mexico, a vast a- ! mount of tenitory was acquired i>v the United States, 'i'iie General Government which is now to all practical purposes an abolition o0y. eminent, assumes jiuisdiction over the question of slavery within the limits of this territory, and j the abolition party have resolved that slavery | shall ho excluded from it alt. The South, bv t lie authoritative acts of their Legislatures, have ! entered their solemn protest against this unjust and unequal discrimination between different sections ol'the Union, which by indirection is a war upon the most sacred rights of the South, ami involves the existence of her social and political institutions. The agitation of the questions involved in toe great controversy has produced much excitement, both in and out of Congress, a resolution was introduced into the Senate referring | the whole matter to a Select Committee of Thirteen, to report a plan for the settlement of the question. Of this Committee, Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, was made Chairman ; and he has reported to " "I ^ 11 ?!. * the; Senate tlis plan <>: souieuioni. aihi wnai is the plan by which this great question is to be ! settled, and peace and harmony restored to the Confederacy. I will proceed to show. The propositions are, llj-st, to admit California into the Union with the boundaries she has thought proper to adopt. Second, to provide I mimiMiinnnlj llf.ili nnfi VrtU' M??V. ( . .UIMIIqWIV l"4 V ico, without the Wilinot Proviso. Third, to purchase of the State of Texas, a portion of her territory containing a geographical area of 71),000,000 of acres, for the sum of millions of dollars, the blank to he filled, so as to read fifteen millions. Fourth, the slave trade to be abolished in the District of Columbia. Fifth, that the lawot 17DH, for the extradtion of fugitives, to be amended so us to give the runaway negro the right of trial by jury at the resilience of bis master, to decide the question of his freedom. Now, the first inquiry which pres cuts itself to the mind is. what does this plan ol'scttlement concede to the just demands of the South( The South will be astonished porhaps to bear the only answer that eau be truly given, r. ?t ....i i..? w.oiti. n..? i 11 lint 1HIIY UMllUl'Ui'O II win ii 11; tw 111 u fUUUi uui goes far beyond any step ever before made in jsoneession to tlio North. It concedes more Pian the North have af any time before demanded. It proposes to abolish slavery over a large front nl'tnrritnrv \v'iori? sbivprv HOW IM'.tll.'lllv exists. It admits California into tlio Union with the Wilmot proviso in her Constitution, pud therefore abolishes slavery in California, for there are slaves there now. It provides teri ritoiial governments for Utah and New Mexi. co without the YVilmot proviso. But why? Is this a concession to the South? Every leading statesman of the North, and Mr. Clay, and those who act with him in the South, declare that slavery is already excluded from these ter. ritoiies by the laws abolishing slavery in Mexico. Mr. Clay says in his report, that these territories most soon come into the Union as tree states, and that slavery will be exclu- * ded from them. Indeed all the inhabitants of territorial district have been given to understand distinctly that they need not apply for admission into the Union, unless they do exclude slavery. According therefore to Mr. 8 UU1I UUlinii UWUV1J Ul I1IO piiUi Ui UVIJUDt* ment slavery will be excluded from all our Mexican conquests, and he urges this as a reason why his plan should be adopted. If this bo done, does it matter to us how? Is it not more , manly, more magnanimous, more becoming the dignity and character of a great people, for rrnuornmnnf fn i/?f nnnnli* rofIiop flion fa i.111711 iiiuuiib iv awn vj/v mjf j latiivi i/iidti iu accomplish its measures by fraud and knavery? So far therefore, nothing is conceded to the South. We are not defeated in a manly bold, and open conflict, but cheated out of our rights on every point in controversy, Next in order is the purchase frot\ Testae, a slave State, of70,000,000 of acres. 11 this territory be purchased, it will thereby be taken out of the compact of annexation, aud placed under the jurisdiction of the Abolition Government of the United States, and who can doubt for a moment slavery will be abolished in it, and that it will be formed into at least three free States, and brought into the Union, for they can get into the Union no other way, This A ^ is one design of the scheme. That is, to taho the Texas territory, abolish slavery in it, and dupe the South by making them contribute their share out of the public treasury to pay for it Mr Clay holds to the doctrine, that if it be purchased, slavery will be excluded by Mexican laws, This proposed purchase .in other respects, the most dangerous proposition which this Government has ever made in reference to slavery. If thispurchas he made, the precedent will be made also that the Treasury of the United States may be subsidized to abolished slavery wherever it exist, or to bribe a State to give up the institution, as was done in the case of Portugal and Spain, by the abolitionists ot England, It is an effort to enlarge the jurisdiction of (Jongress over the question of slavery. 'The British Parliament exercised the same jurisdiction, and emancipated the slaves in the British Colonies at the hundred million of dollars, wrung from the hard earnings of a down-troddeq rape of white people at home. This is a step of the * .... * _ American rarnameni in i.uu same uwuruuu.?? It is among possible things, that the Sooth in twenty or thirty years to conje, will be taxed to the amount of untold millions, to emancipate her own slaves; for it must be borne in mind that the leveling system, of which I have spoken _ . recognizes no constitutional restraints. The wjll of the majority is the law. The abolitionists have long since ceased to reason, and he who supposes they can be restrairied.by conscientious scruples or notions of justice, knows nothing of the delusion into which fanaticism plunges the human mind. What-is deemed an extreme measure now, will bo so common in ten years more, as to cease to attract attention. There is another feature of this proposition which I will now bring to your notice. When Texas was admitted into the Union see owed a national debt of about ten millions of dollars, She reserved her unappropriated lands to pay this debu The bill proposing to purohasc these lands ot Texas provides that trie purchase money shall he 1irst applied to the payment of this same debt. This proposition, which is in fact a gross insult to Texas as il clearly implies that she cannot be trusted with the fund, to dispose of it as national faith shall demand, has in it another secret object. The evidence of the national debt of Texas is in bonds, These bonds are held by many persons other than the citizens of Texas. They have been bought up perhaps by adventurous speculators, at great sacrifice, below their par value. The proposition to pay the money for these lands would, under any circumstances, involve a design of bribery and corruption. To propose to pay it directly to these bond holders at. the public treasury, is a direct attempt to bribe every Texas bond liolder in the United States to the suppoit of the whole scheme of adjustment ns a unit. Who are these bond lioidei s i Are any of the high functionaries of Covermuent stockholders in tiiese bonds i Who will answer this grnv? inquiry ? liow many agents of these bond holders are lobby 4 . members, [and who throng the purlieus of the capitol, ready o grasp the promised spoils if? Tons of silvo and gold are at stake upon the issue made upon Mr. Clay's writ in partition of the public trouury. All of a sudden the productions of a numerous list of letter writers crowd the pages of the "Union" who discourse eloquently about the proposed plan of capitulaiion, and the South effect gravely told, that inasmuch as defeat is certain, they had better accept Mr. Clay's plan of settlement, as it is framed to enable the South tq surrender with the best possible grace. ri iiey in effect admit that it is an undisguised capitulation, but Mr. Clay, who is now the great free soil lejuJ