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Letter Iran) Senator Butler to the Hamburg Meeting. Sternlauds,'. Hear l$dg;cfit:ld Court House, .May. 28, 1851. To C. YV. Styles, Levi Hill^nd A. Wray, Esqs., Hamburg, S. C. Gentlfjirn:?You did me the honor yesterday, to call oil me ?n conformity with the'following resolution adopted by numerous subscriber8 for the call of a public meeting in Hamburg on the 31st.inst. to-wit: "That, C. W. 1? * A*" IT*11 on/] A XK wiv P.sna lio nn divies, ijcvi uui tiuii ?. ii .v ?j. pointed a committee to wait on Judge Butler, and deliver the public invitation to hint tt attend and address the people on the day named" ?the object of the meeting being to consider the question of separate secession of South Carolina from all the oth^r States in the present Confederacy. Allow me, gentlemen, to thank you personally, for the acceptable and polite manner in which you acquitted yourselves of the duty imposed upon you,?and to return mv cordial acknowledgments to my fellow-citizens for the flattering compliment implied in their call on me to address them on the occasion indicated. From intimations which I have received, it is probable, I may be called on to address other meetings of a similar character, from the best view which 1 can take of my duty, having a regard for my official relations to all thefpeople of South Caroliaa. I have come to the conclusion that it'would be better that 1 should not mingle in such public meetings just at thi s time. ; The subject of your meeting is one of great .magnitude; and one which will be discussed j bv the people. I sincerely hope that it may ' be so discussed and considered, as to lead to J no intestine or party contentions in tlie State | itself. The crisis is one which give3 to your meeting great dignity and solemnity. 1 have every reason to conclude that the result of vour proceedings will justify a high opinion of your intelligence and patriotism. I cannot conclude this communication without making a remark or two, on the great subject, which has occasioned your meeting. No one who looks at the certainties cf the past, and the tendencies of the future, but must regard the crisis in which we are involved with anxious concern and solicitude. A large proportion of Southern representatives?and several State Legislatures, hy sol eran Resolutions, have declared that Southern Institutions are not safe in the hands of the present Federal Government. The}' have received too uiany stabs under the deceptive masks of Compromises and party organizations, to look for future security. Another question has presented itself for consideration,?would the -non-slaveholding States, by an adequate amendment of the constitution, give additional, or any guarantees, for the protection of Southern rights, and sectional equality!?The manner in which Mr..Calhoun's intimations to prepare an amendment of the Constitution, was received.in Congress, is a pregnant commentary on this new subject Mr. Calhoun commenced his last speech with the following passage: "I have, senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery, would if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention of both of the two great parties which divide, the country to adopt some measure to prevent so great a disaster, but without success. The agitation has been permitted to proceed with almost no attempt to resist it, until it has reached a period when it can no ? ? t-s I* longer be disguised or uenieu mat me u mon us in danger. ? You have thus had toreed upon you the greatest and gravest that can ever come under your consideration?How can the Union be preserved t" The mode of securing the Union as indicated by that experienced Statesman met with nothing but the denunciations of an impatient majority. ; What alternative then is left to the Southern States?Nothing but the province of taking eare of themselves,?how is that to be done * .l. e. ?:? ,.r cnv_ j 1 answer ?y me ivruianuu ui un ~? , ernment, sach a Government ns could invest itself with the powers, and discharge the duties of a political sovereignty, among the nations of the Earth;?Boundless in resources, commercial, agricultural, and manufactories with a numerous and intellegcnt population, with States- j men of wisdom and experience, and with a model of the best Constitution that ever was devised. The Southern States have all the elements of a great Political Commonwealth,?some think that South Carolina, by separate secession, could exclusively assume thu p nation of an ample government for all the purposes of national existence, there are comparatively very few who would act on such an opinion. It wonld be to sever the State notnlone, from the Northern States, but from Soutlrcrn allies and associates, and in its operation, would certainly require great -and .destructive sacrifice. To speak of no other it would require the sacrifice of the only great Sea Port City of tho State, what Statesman could give such advice under such a juncture of affairs as exists at the ureseut time. Those who are for South Carolina moving, lone, have, I suppose, objects beyond her separate existence. How aud when she is to move requires the profoundest judgment that ever has been exerted on her destinies. As a distinguished Georgian has remarked, "South Carolina has taken a proud position ; but she should not so occupy it, as to exclude others from occupying it with her." The Southern people are beginning to see their true condition. Issues have been made, and arc now pending in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, that were nevei distinctly presented before, and, as certainly as I am writing, these issues will come to judgment, they will be forced to judgment. The next Presidential contest will leave many offfhe great political aspirants of the n .1 .1 I ) i i ?!._ nf Pmi OOUlIi birauut'U. .-VI IIIU hcal Otwiuu vi V/Viigress Southern Representatives who have been so hopeful, will have as much insult as their stomachs can bear. What was the state of public feeling among the people three years ago ? what will it be three years hence under the certain tendency of events ? under the divine right of usurpation and sanctions of a blind majority, the conviction wj|J be forced on the people of the South r i that they must take common councils to avert common dangers. The attempt -to face other Southern States to follow our lead would be a dangerous experiment, and in my opinion would result in failure and disaster. One move by South Carolina, is to bring about hopeless Isolation or civil war. I hope it will not be regarded as egotism in me, when 1 say that 1 have morn firmness in a crisis, than boldness to make ono. When South Carolina Joes move she must be prepared lor its consequences; I shall help her! 1 believe that tho great State Rights cause and principles arc stronger in the Southern States than they have ever been. There is less jealousy between neighboring States than formerly, when Federal preferments gave character to party. God hath joined South Carolina and Georgia together, and let no man or men put-them asunder! Those who sow the seed of discord between them have much to answer for before the tribunal of their common history. Georgia has had the destinies of the South in her hands?she will have Statesmen who will sec her interests and will pursue them. There is a spirit in that State that would animate any Commonwealth on Earth. The River on which you deliberate, is a nominal boundary, but a real bond of Union between the States Gentlemen, in your Resolutions be calm and fi rm. Yours, with true Respect \ 1> UIJTr.F.R AKK THERE DIVISIONS AMONG US? It is our province to watch closely the workings of public sentiment, the influences that direct it, anil to distinguish the genuine from the spurious. Beyond question there are strenuous efforts now being made in various sections of the State to palm off* on the superficial ob servor, both here and abroad, a counterfeit currency in this respect We are convinced, however, that the public sentiment of South Carolina cannot be thwarted from its ligitimate results by such efforts. In new papers north of us we read congratulatory notices of a widespread reaction of public sentiment pervading the whole State ?that Time has brought healing on its wings, and the genial workings of reflection have produced a wonderful change in the minds of our people in relation to the issue now before them. In some of them we read that all the resolutions of public sentiment heretofore made, have been merely the empty declamation ol a gasconading people, ami that the result will demonstrate the oft-repeated prediction of the Northern journals?that South Garplin will recede from the position she wasjitleast understood to occupy on the prominent questions tlin uniinh'V. WCIUi V HIV Is this change real or ficticious? Is it that tho people of South Carolina are more inclined to acquiesce in the unjust legislation of Congress now then they were last year? Is it true that the people, who for years past have presented the most striking example of uuion against federal wrongs ever witnessed in the country, have ceinc to the conclusion now, when everything they hold sacred and dear demands that union and its influence to be exercised to save them, to allow internal divisions to prostrate their energies,J and to render cither present or future efforts <11 defence of their rights utterly futile? We cannot believe it. There is nothing in the past history of our jieople to justify the- apprehension, and there are but few indications at the present time to cause any serious alarm as to tho future. That there may be a difference as to the time and modo of seeking safety for the institutions with which we are connected no one pretends to doubt; but the desire to remain in the present Confederacy is so seldom and so feebly expressed in a few quarters of the State, that its utenure? causes not a ripple 011 the calm surface of a settled determination to dissolve the Union. All the coadjutors of the Southern Patriot in ttie country can Drmsj no proof to the contrary. Are there, then, divisions among us? We assert that there are none now of such magnitude as toendange. the great cause in which %ve are engaged. iSuL let us beware of the future. We appeal to Carolinians who love their State, who desire that she should not falter in the discharge of the trust committed to her, to crush, and to crush when they have the power, the lemon of discord among them. And we must be understood on this point. It is not any acts of proscription, nor attemps to ostracize those who differ from ns?not the use of offensive epithets, nor the infliction of injuries to any man's business or reputation on account of the opinions he holds on the issue of separate secession, that we enjoin. In our opinion this is jflie very way to create the divisions we dread and deprecate. But we do appeal to all who *1?.?L- tun nrn ti'rnnfrflil 1VH (tpsire to see a dissolution of a Union that promises nothing but a continuance of these wrongs to the end, not to let pride of opinion so operate on their feelings as to drive them into a position tbcj honestly abhor. In Greenville we have a press opposed to secession, either by this State or all the Southern States; yet its adroit managers succeed in bringto its support many who profess a Southern Confederacy to be the deareast political object they seek or desire. But the Patriot is a Union paper, a champion of federalism, and those disunion co-flperationists will have to be chary of its insidious teachings to keep ther garment8 unspotted. In Charleston the Southern Standard is announced as seeking to obtain the union of Southean States, for the avowed purpose of establishing a Southern Confederacy. Bat the Standard, however laudable the original purpose of its establishment, may imperceptibly glide into the same current o( unionism auu consolidaticnism on whMi the Patriot swims now solitary and alone. The Evening -Veers is in the same position. Now, the'dan ger in these movements is that parties, party strife and bickerings, will be introduced among us. and a fearful contest between those who originally sought the same end will produco an estrangement and alienation of feeling fatal to present action, and not less fatal to future action, even when co-operation is no longer doubtful. The nucleus of a Union party once formed within our borders will be fraught with the utmost danger to the cause of the south. Around that nucleus will gather those who are not only opposed to State secession, but to any Southern action whatever. Its members will be baited and tempted with federal gold and federal honors, and at last it may gather strength enough to control even our State policy. There is no< thing either presumptuous or timid in the entertaining such suspicions. The history of public affairs in other States testifies to the correctness of the position, that the vision of public men can be obscured, and that gold and promises can revive a love of the Union where it had become nearly extinct. Let South Carolinians beware lest they aid the enemies of our institu tions to divide a people, who, without such divison, must triumph at last. The men who advocate State action desire to avoid the difficulties alluded to. Their aim is to secure the union of our people, and for this purpose they have spared 110 efforts to enlighten them. The arguments for and against the course they believe right have been given with 110 sparing hand, and the course of the journals that represent their views has almost precluded the necessity of the establishmentof special organs by those who differ from them. They deprecate and repudiate all vituperation, and ought not to be held responsible for the heated expressions of individuals exercising more zeal than wisdom. Such, we believe, is the policy of what some may call the separate State action party, and we submit that it is one which patriotism dictates, and which Carolinians cannot err in sustaining. The bitter feuds ?f '30 and '32 aro well remembered, and the lessons then taught should prevent a reorganization of parties that must be even more disastrous than that of those days. Butler, Cheves, Chesnut, Preston, Hampton, and other prominent names, are cited to us as opposed to i separate State action; but we have yet to learn that they will be found giving distracting counsels to the State. Let those who think with them abstain from seeking distinction by running ahead of such leaders.-? Soulh Carolinian. THE CAMDMlOURNAL, THO. J. WARREN, Editor. FRIDAY EVENING) JUNE 13, P'1. ^ Our Market. Our Cottoii quotations to-day, are .only nominal. JThereds little coming in?aud prices remain from $ to 9 cta. "j^ ' 4 : ? ; ? Wateree House, We dined at this excellent House on Wednesday last, and we express the opinions we are sure, of all who were present, in pronouncing flie dinner given on the occasion, as hard to beaftm every respect, both in quality and quantity. We have no doubt, Mr. Hollevman, the obliging and attentive host, will make his House in ievery respect, worthy the confidence aud support of the Public. ueoows uuaunuuici SWTW? 0/ the Southern and Western Stales. Mr. Barnwell, who has recently'become connected with this valuable and able Periodical, is on a visit to Camden, where he will remain for a day or two. The deservedly high reputation which the Review enjoys, renders it unnecessary that we should say anything in its favor?it is a Southern enterprise, and deserves Southern sup. port. Mr. Barnwell may be found at the Tetnperauce Hotel We have been readers of DeBow's Commer cial Review, since its establishment, are famil inr with its course, and take great pleasure in recommending it to our fellow citizens, as a most valuable Commercial; Agricultural and Statistical Periodical; devoted to the Interest* of the South, and in evety respect worthy of the zealous support of true Southern men. THO. SALMOND, W. E. JOHNSON, C. J. SHANNON, W. M.SHANNON. Camden, S. C., Juno 13th, 1851. ??Irregularity of the Mails, A subscriber writing Irom Marshall Co., Mrs?., complains of not receiving his paper regularly? always from one to three weeks benind the time. Another writing from Camden Miss.,says: "Iget the Camden paper sometimes, but not regularly. Though I do not wish you to understand that I attach any blame to any one except''Uncle Sam." The Mails have been very irregular ever since I arrived, and without any hope of improvement. The fact is the whole machinery of the Government is about four-fifths worn out, and the sooner the whole affair is "knocked into a cocked hat" the better, for us at least. You wlff probably infer from this that I .am a "Secessionist," and you will infer right." How to remedy these growing evils is more than we can tell. They are only a few ofthe many that we endure under the present Government, which we think ought to be knocked into pi. Hydraulic and Fores Pump, Emanual Parker, Esq., of this District, has purchased the Right for these Puinps in Kershaw n.i iMffinU nictrintj Therenresentations made to ue, by the Agent selling the Right, induces us to believe that they may. be usefully employed by those who may need them. Mr. Parker being an ingenious and practical man, will be able shortly to give us information relative to their operations, and we will then be able better to judge, of their merits, Correapondenre of i!ie Camden Journal. Camdkn, Miss., May 31st, 1851. According to tho promise already given, I proceed to give you some account of tho pro- ! ceedings of the Political Meeting held here to-1 /cnlnit.lnv \ | UHjr, \uu..u.u,vv .. A large concourse was present, and addressed by Judgo Smith, and Hon. Wm, McWillie of the Southern Rights Party, and by the Hon. (?) H. S. Foote.nnd Gen. Freeman. Submissionists. . The Bali was opened by Smith, who delivered an able defence and explanation of the prin- 1 ciples of the Southern Rights Party, and administered a most scathing rebuke to Foote, ^ for his traitorous conduct during the last two years. I never before heard or read a speech n which contained a tithe of the severity Which ^ characterized his. The letter of the Hon. D. 1 Wallace, addressed to Houston, of Texas, i3 u r mild, iu comparison to it Foote's turn came c next, and I cannot give you a better idea of his r speech than by saying that it was a lame apolo gy for past treachery. He justified to his own satisfaction at least?his whole political course ^ asserting that the admission of California as a Stato ?the purchase of the portion of Texan territory for the ten millions?the abolition of ^ the slave trade iu the District of Columbia?and in fact that the Compromise measures uin toto" j were the very best things which could have been done for the South, and that as they all emana- ' ted from his mighty self h? deserves a chief share of the Glory?he is welcome to all of it# 31 He affirmed without qualification, that all Cl who disapproved of the compromise measures, 31 and who were now producing agitation throughout the South, were traitors?thus endeavoring fcliift tli.j rwliiim which attaches itself to him. w~ ' r to the shoulders of others. The language of the Roman Historian, "Satis cloquenticc sapi- ^ entite paruni," which occurs in his description of ^ the character of Cataline, applies equally well t ^ to that of the Hun. Senator now in question. There are other points of striking similitude ^ between the two. The oue sought his own ^ aggrandizement in the ruin of his couutry, the , 4 other is now seeking the same thing, and is like-j n ly to obtain his end uuless some modern Cicero j * spring np among us to subvert the efforts of the j modern Catalinc. It must be confessed that he possesses great tact for making?in the minds of die ignorant? "the worse appear the better reason.'' After having heard his speech, I was forcibly struck with the truth of the did and somewhat vulgar adage, "it takes st smart man to'be a rascal." j The meetjjrg was next addressed by Col. ( McWillier<vhose arguments were able aud in- ( controvertible, because sustained by truth and f justice, and whose speech throughout was des- f titute of that harshness of expression and want ^ of courteous respect which characterized those ( of his opponents. I He was followed by Freeman, whom I did not'hear out, having become thoroughly dis- j gusted and sickened with his fulsome lauda j tion of this Great and Ulorious Union, attains ( violent abuse and furious denunciation of those j who do not side with him in opiniou. , For the Cunilen Journal. SYMPATHY. ! BV LtZZtR CLARKXDON. | I saw two rills at morning tide Stsrt on their winding way, A down the mossy hillock's side, Across the meadows gay ; I With rippling, sparkling, gutgling light, 1 That made their beds and borders bright. t And as they went Where willows bent. f Like heart of mail to kindred brother < The silver streams leaned to each other, Until they met, and then as one Willi gentle murmurs glided on. < I saw a flower of azure hue Hid in a bed of green, And trembling on its peta!s bluo Two dewdrops glistening sheen; ( Like pearly tears they sparkling lay j Beneath the morning's golden ray. I A gentle breeze ' Swept through the trees, J And quick they glided to each other I Like soul of man to kindred brother,? And rested in the floweret's heart As if they ne'er had dwelt apart. I saw two clouds o'er heaven's breast On snowy wings float by, Like spirits to the golden west From portals of the sky; With peaceful motion, calm and free, (Such may m\j flight thro' heaven be!) They gently flew Along the blur, Yet ever bending to each other, Like heart of man to kindred brother, Until they melted into one t. And as a dream of peace moved on. c IIow pine we for a kindred soul Through life's long, changing way,? When clouds and storms in darkness roll, s Or beams a cheering ray! j( When whispers hope with music-tone, j( Or joy and happiness are gone! Oh! then how sweet i ti To fondly meet w The kindly face of kindred brother, si And fond hearts clinging to each other; tl To feel beneath the storm or sun rt Soul unto soul is knit as one! n The ocean-shell when borne awav From its dear, native bed, *s1 Where waves and winds in laughing play to Breathed o'er its lips so red. C ctinnv waters danced in alee, a ?J - - v Forever murmurs of tho sea. Thus will the heart j( If doomed to part c When once it leaneth on another, a Or clingeth to a kindred brother,? " In low, and sad, and mournful strain ti Its ceaseless loneliness complain. !' r the (.'aniiien Journal' ^ . M it. Euitok : The oniing, and as it purportiutto fro Edited J uhlUhed in my native State?South C5rorott> ^ imagined its principles were-somewhat lir lison with its name, but I was sadly mistaken, J >r upon examination, I found that the Editor om its proximity to Augusta, had caught ther Georgia Fever," and was to ail intents and urposes, a bona fr.le advocate of submission. "Glorious News! The Ball in M'iion!"U le title of his leader, and what do you suppose lis "glorious news" is? Why, that the spirit f 1812 had retired and another Hartford t(invention had been held in South Carolina..s to the Bali that had been set in motion, I ave no idea what it is, unless it is a bonnet niche of Executive patronage first thrown into leorgia by His Majesty King Millard the first, tid passed from hand to hand until it actually ro3sed the Bridge and found a hearty welcomw niong the inhabitants of the ' littlo Cottof# lepot," who will doubtless be so tickled at the lea that they will endeavor to send-it forward ither by Telegraph or Rail Road to Charleston, lolumbia and Camden. Such a Ball ma/ nd a lodging in Charleston,for like Hamburg, tore are a large number of Yankees there.?' luch is the "glorious news," such is the Ball ** >?? i? no-.v 111 motion, and such is the language eld hymen professing to Kdit a Repuhljeai<(.) Mut in the State that gave birth to Jackson, larion, Moultrie, Sumter, lljyne, Calhoun nd Klmore, and a host of Heroes and Sages, vho, if the}' could revisit thi< Earth, would lush for such degeneracy in South Carolina. -Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night? Comets importing change of time and State, Brandish your crystal tresres in the sky, * ? And ecourge the base ' Submissive" elavp?, . Who will not dare resist. * * * J9 This a I a Hartford Convention, Submissioa Editorial, would probably have passed uhiildl* iced had the Author not presumed to speak Irspantgiiigiy of our Town, and that too iu erms of contempt, mingled with downright nisrrpresent at ion ?to use no harsher language ? 111 > __ which he deserves. i woum ucg ui yvu, as ;hc Conductor of the Journal, to enlighten tho jenighted mind of this pedantic Editor as to . * ... jar Town, its locution, population; business acilities and operations, were it not that we iave l?cen advised not to " answer a fool according tohis foHy,"or "throw pearls toswme;" . - iet it suffice to inform him that tho gentlemen * ,. '' who represented Kershaw in the late Convog* ;ion, will compare in point t)f respectability antf talent, equally to the getters-up of the Hamburg ' f VVatch-and-wait-Subinission meeting, including >' the sapiout Editors oftho Republican, Sou'b'TH , Patriot and Commercial Transcript, all of * whom, as far as a spirit of manly resistance to ' wrong und outrage is concerned, seem to have t>een "sent before their time into thist?reathing world,H merely to echo the' sentiments of the Xalianal Intelligence ami New York Tribune. Call you such men Southron's? "1 had nther be a dog and bay the moon, than such" Southron's. George the third had- his Tory illies in our beloved State duriug the Revolaion: 1851 finds the line not yet extinct. But i mnugh. Yours, Truly, X, D. X'. Camdkx, June 13th, 1851. Railroad Accident.?The Express traiu in coming down from Hamburg, yesterday, and immediately on crossiug the Bridge over Edis:o river, above Branchville, came in contact with what is tenned a snake head. The eugine passed over it safely, hut slowly?tho passenger car was smashed all to pieces?injuringslightly one oftho palsengers, Mr. Doug? -< i' c.irfnunfwlv no lives were Jl5>Sj U1 UVUlgldi ?. wivwitM*** t -? ost. The Engineer deserves much praise for .lie cool and intrepid manner in which he acted ?never for a moment forsaking his post, and nuking good his time into the city with a hagjnge car of live lumber. About fifty yards of ho track were torn nj?, but plenty of hands >eing in the neighborhood it will be repared in itne for the next train to pass. Conductor whose name our informant could not remcni>cr) also acted with the greatest promtitude, uid had every inn 11 at the breaks us soon ;rs the " langer was discovered?and to this and the ' " ? ? >? Ko i an m h/vl (||A :ooIness ol toe miguted, mn; ?. ? ittJe injury wliich was sustained. Tliere was lut seven or eight passengers on board. Charleston Sun. The Sun?Horace Greely, after a long tring of advice to those who are going to fob -m )\v him across the Atlantic, winds up as fol. >ws: "If the dav of vour embarkation be fair, " _ V w ike a long earnest gaze at the sun, that yu* rill know him when you return. They have smething they call the sun over here, which ley show occasionally; hut it looks more liko hoiled turnip than it docs like its American amesake.*' ^ The H.iMnuRG Platform.?Is it not a littjo trange, that Hamburg and Graniteville iu?t* ?mpting to lay down a platform for the State, ~..i.i finrl nn? of their own citizens to taka " UU1U nut UIIW V... hand ? Is it not a littio strange, too, that it ras announced so confidently that Messrs* fuller and Hammond would address the meetig ? General Hammond has positively dts lined to take any part in the movement, nd tho gallant Brooks, the Captain of the 96 boys" also declined to have any connecon with the Hamburg platform. Columbia Telegraphy in ii ii urn