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| ' VOLUME 2. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAKOLINA OCTOBER 10, 1851. JN1 MBKK-O. , " THE CAMDEN JOURNAL PUBI.ISni.D HV TUSMXS .J. WARRED THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Is published at Tbrse Dollars and Fifty C onts. if pa id i idVanoe. or Four Dollars if paymenl is dclavcd for thrt : itnonths. ? THE WEEKLY JOURNAL In published at Two Dollars if raid in idvance, orT? (Dollars and Fifty Cents, if p.- ym nt |s?!elayed for Si months, and Three Dollars, if no: paid until the end of tl year. ADVERTlSEMEMTS will be inserted at the followin mates: For one square (14 lines or less) in the semi-weekl; ?one dollar for the first, and twenty-five cents for car (subsequent insertion. In the weekly, seventy-five rents per square for the firs <and thirty-seven and a half cents for each subsequent it sertion Single insertions one dollar per square. The nnmner of insertions desired, and the edition t be publislied in, must be noted on tie* margin of all advci tisementx. or they will be inserted semi-weekly until 01 dered to be discontinued, ano charged accordingly. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisement charged the same as for a single insertion. All communications by mail must lie post-paid t secure attention. ???W?HP?OBKMmJL'llBBBiMlOBPBBMagW ^ WATESEE IIOUSE. W (LATE PLANTERS' HOTEL,) ; Wf CAMDEN. S. C. THE Subscriber having .purchased this x tensive and ft oil known Establishment, am having added largely to its convenience and com fort, by a new addition of Furniture and thoroug! | and complete repairs, begs leave to inform tb Public, that e: ? prepared to Enterfaki all wh may favor hire ith a call, in a manner hithert unknown in tire town of Camden. He deems it unnecessary to make any pledge? only so farae to say that his Table wili be slip plied daily as well as any in the State ; atlende .by polite and attentive Servants. His Stables, will be bonntituUv supplied will Provender and attended by the very best Hostleri No pains will be spared to keep a quiet and or dcrlv House. '? *ta r r DiMf * V II. in >i.L.ri i .unii. Camden, Jot e 4,1851. 45 tf CAMDEN HOTEL IS NOW OPEN FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF THE TRAVELING PUBLIC. TT ip an excellent and commodious building-, i j v and well fitted up, and lately put in a staien complete repair. The rooms are large, openi J airy ; tine Family parlors well furnished. The Table will be supplied with every thin] which an excellent country market will affori attended by the best servants. The B \R will be supplied with the choices *W ines and Liquors. Tiie STABLES are well fitted up ; attended b .careful and experienced Hostlers, and well sup plied with Provender. ^llso Lots preparer! forth" accommodation c Drovers, with excellent water conveniences. There will at all times, be an Omnibus in attend ance to convey passengers to and from the Depol The Subscriber hiving had several years expe rience in the above business, feels confident in say ing that he will be able to give <rener.il satisfartio to all, who may favor iiim with their patronage, a die is determined to use every exertion on ins pai to please. ' .11. J WILSON. MANSION H0USE7 CAM DEX, S. C. csa THE undersigned l>egs leave to return his urat'-fi thanks to Ins friends, and tfie travelling Puhlie?J? the liberal support which lie has received since he has be-opened, (four mont;is;and lias entered.up hi his dudes f< 1851, with renewed energy to endeavor to r>leu*e all thf may call upon him. hoth rich and poor, llis House wi be found one of the roost desirabl", situated, and best fu nished Hotels in Cainden. iiis servants also tvill r found respectful and attentive, end the table will be I plied with the best (lie market adbrds. His Stables and ferriage Houses are roomy and alwa-j fully supplied with Provender, and cn experienced Hostle An Omnibus calls at tlie House every morning for pa sengers for the Railroad. Give nie a call and test my mott As you find me. So recommend ine. k E.G.ROBINSON. A Proprietor. Camden, February 7tb, 1851. li tf : Temperance Hotel. THE undersigned would respectfully inform h friends and the travelling public in genera llinl ho has nonin rooted the aiiOVP Hotel for p? short time and would respectfully solicit a portiu of the patronage so liberally bestowed upon hit heretofore, as no pains will be spared to tnake tf traveller comfortable and ath- me. The Stages, and Omnibuses will call regular! at the House for passengers, going by Railroad. Also, Horses, and Buggies, can be had front hii on reasonable terms, to go in the country. J. 13. F. BOOXE. Feb. 11, 12 tf P Darlington Hotel, I DARLINGTON COURT-HOUSE, TIIE above House having been purchased ar fitted up anew by John Dothn, is again opei ed for the accommodation of the Public. Strf attention to the wants and comforts ol gues i will be given, and no effort, calculated to mer the patronage of ali who may favor the establisl ment with a visit, shall be spared. All that the market and surrounding coui.lt afford will he found upon the table. Comfortable rooms, for families or individual are prepared. The Stables will be attended by careful ar .attentive hostlers. Drovers can bo well accommodated, as ar .number of horses and mules can be ept iti tl .stables and lots expressly prepared for them. Nov. 1, 1850. 66 tf r Bounty Land. rJ"MlK undersigned having associated hinisc with Air. I,, lsiancnara i rue, who is pcim uenlly locatc-l at tlio City of Washington; wl possesses a thorough and familiar ncquaintanc with the requirements of the Government Office will attend to the procuring1 of ISouruy Land VVa rants, and the adjustment of all other clain against the Government, without jeopardy or d lay?and at but little expense to claimants. tand Warrants located, and the Land so d o'cfircd. on the most advantageous terms. M. XAUDJN. July 8, i*wL ?>? tf BPBBiWBfgnf uww I ? . I [CV KEQUEST.] . SPEECH OF EX-GOV. JOHXSC X, AT ! THE SPARTANBURG MEETING. | Fellow Citizens: Having been unexpectedly called t) preside n over this vast assembly, it is, of course, expec:e ' ted that 1 should attempt to explain tl e object lofour meeting here, and, although it has der; anged, in some degree, the course vvhi -h I had ? prescribed for myself, it is, perhaps, as well ie that I should say now what I had pro josed, if .'left to follow out my own plans. On an occasion, not long past, which, I suph i pose, will be remembered by some, I avowed t my intention of retiring forever from the turi moils of public life, conteiu to spend the remaintier orf my time liere in the quietude of my own r. fireside, and in the interchange gf kimliy oliiecs r- with my lneiKJS ana ueignuors , my ngv, um infirmities, and inclination, ail conspire to render this desirable ; hut I had not then foreseen | 0 that, in so short a lime, we should he involved ( in a controversy with our sister Stales, and indeed amorigct ourselves, presenting c uestions J of as great delicacy and magnitude i s ever a : people w re called on to decide. And, 1 owover, conscionsly incapable of riding upon and direc- j ting the storm, I should feel myself u iworthy j -the claims of a citizen, and degraded a s a man, j if I should shrink from sharing with you the! h 1 responsibilities that are involved in tlje issue, i e Ifl had but a day to live, that is due t<p South- ; o Carolina. 0 No one has over yet questioned that in the 1 frame and substance of the Federal constitution, its authors had in view perfect ,equality ! j amongst the States and individual citizensequality of burthens and responsibilities?equal- i h ity or rights, privileges ana immunities, ami i i. until within the last four years, we (yes, we j - ourselves) supposed it the work of holy inspi- : j ration, and regarded it as the palladium of our lliber'ies. Now, it is denounced as a scourge j . and a curse. How is thi&f Holy wHt itself ; is ot secure against the assaults of perverse j i and wicked men. Some deny its authenticity, ( others per.ert its meaning so as to innke it j I subservient to the vilest purposes. Snj it has | fared with the ronsti'ution?some hold that j there is a law paramount to it, and under color j f of it, would fire our dwellings and butcher our , wives and children ?others admitting its authority, use it as a pretext for plundering us of j* our wealth. In this spirit the Congress of the , United States, governed of necessity by a mail jori'y, has levied contributions on us in the j j form of impost duties to construct public works y , at immense expense, professedly national, but - in truth merely local, and in which the Southj, ! eru Atlantic States have no participation, and 1 to build up aiKi protect the manufactories ol the noii-slavehuhling States. The light ol t, property in our slaves, which is rendered iodis - : pensable to us by our climate, our productions if) .fiur iitfiinic !irn trim rn lit I liv till* I'M I ? provisions of the constitution, ;in<l these have s been undermined. In tlic spirit of fanaticism 1 I and a diseased humanity they have been pur- ; loined from us, and are encouraged to escape j ; from r.s- The thief and the fugitive find pro- j ! tection in the ioca!-laws of some of the tilatos, jtrnd in others a more potent sei-mity in a wild j and fanatical public opinion. This might be ; borne, if we were free to light ourselves. \\ e ,r are restrained by the constitution by which we n ought to be bound, unless we can shake off its " trammels Ibit litis is not all. The (Govern H menl itself has laid a train that will blow up the r* very foundations of the -institution of slavery, ? unless we can eul it otT. It is already laid around the whole extent of the Eastern, Northern and Northwes'ern boundaries, and have s. manifested by various overt nets the will to exo I tend to the (lull* of Mexico. Slavery is excluded from California, ostensibly by the act of ; California herself, hut does any rational man j believe that it was not done upon the suggesi lion and procurement of the Government, to shield itself against the odium and responsibility of interdicting it. New .Mexico is destined is to the same course. Indeed, the ablest, and I > ] believe the wisest and most considerate polilia ! vians of the iiosi -slavohnlding .States insist on it) 1 i , n | the necessity, of confining slavery to its present 10 | territorial limits where it can no more exist than an oyster on dry land, anil they know it. |y They do not even disguise the purpose of final* ! ly extirpating it. Hut we madden ourselves, in when we speak of the wrongs we have suffered at the hands of the Government, and those that we know are in store for -tis, and may _ blindly adopt measures that may not only be unwise in themselves, but subversive of the j ends we all have in view. It is not to be expected, that we can obtain d j reparation for the injuries already inflicted on j us, but we all agree that we owe it to ourselves ^ i and to posterity, to endeavor by all passible means, to protect ourselves against the wrongs which are in store for us. Unhappily, we differ amongst ourselves, as to what these should y be. Judging from what I can collect of the ofti6' ; cial and aulhoritativo acts of this Slate, she is pledged to Co-operate with all or even a portion 1 j of the oilier slave-holding Slates, to oppose and | resist to the last extremity a continuance of the ,c i wrongs and oppression of" the Federal Govern| meat; and with that view the Legislature at i its last session provided for the election of Del; cgates to a Southern Congress, in which it was 1/ ' supposed all the non-siavelioldintr States would Ill . - C, a. j unite. Lp to that time \vc all worked liarmo10 ! niously in the same harness. But unmistakeae, bio indications ot the disinclination of the other h"? j States to unite with us, gave rise to a party r- | which have gone off at a tangent, and insist 18 j that we must all follow at the peril of proscrip. c" j tion, and maintains that South Carolina owes U i it to herself and is able "solitary and alone" to ! protect herself against the dangers with which she is threatened by the Federal (Jovcrnment | and 1 pay this party no compliment in saying i that they are formidable in numbers, sincort pntiiotic in tlieir views and highly respect* i for their intelligence and wisdom. Anothi party deserving as I believe, the same conside ntion and respect, and as I suppose equally, not more numerous, held on to the old pla form and insist that any attempt of Sou'h C ; rolina to resist the action of the Federal Go ernmeiit and the machinations of the Abolitioi istsofthe non-slaveholding States, without tl aid of the other slave States or at least a fo tuidahle portion of them, will be fruitless, an i retard rather than forward the ends we all hat 1 in view. There are a few, and I believe very fev I amongst us who suppose that in the end, ov I.oct intnruclc ivnn lit tin nnitvnl ti>d. hv hnnrin as well as we may, the wrongs done to lis h the Federal Government, and to submit t those that are in store for us. They reaso that all the slaveliolding States united, woul be unable to resist the power of the Kedeu Government ?that all the civilized world ar united against us on the question of slavery, an that the protection of this Government is tl only security we have, against a universa combination against ns. With these, I have n right, and there is no one so visionary as l suppose that she will consent to separate froi us in peace. The example alone would 1 ruinous?each State, in its turn, might take o< ension to qnariel with-and separate from he and thus break up all her foundations. Th revenue she levies upon us, is necessary t pamper the more favored portions of the Nortl How are we to meet this state of things ? Ar we prepared and ready, and have we tin* mear of successfully opposing the force she can hrin to bear upon us? I pray you to ln-Heve that run not addressing myself to your fears, but t your good sense and sound impartial ju-lgmen I know that I am addressing a people as patr otic and brave as .any the light of heaven eve shone upon; and I al.-o know that there ar many who hear ine now, and thousands witl in the borders of the Statu who would ofle their lives a .viiiing sacrifice in defence of thei rights if it would avail any thing Would thi lie wise and prudent in a contest so Imputes and unequal? The war of the llevolutioi that of lSl'J, and the more recent war wit Mexico, attest the power of the Federal Got eminent in arms and resources. Our numeri eal force as compared with hers would be ovei rated at one to fifty. She has an army and navy?we have none. She has a treasury in to which money flows through a hundred char nels. Comparatively we have none. She ha credit at home ami abroad?ocr means of boi rowing will depend on our prospect of succes in the most unequal contest that the world cv er witnessed. Individual distress will follow i the train. The millions invested in Railroad will be lost, and the wc rk consigned to decaj Rank and commercial capital will fly our boi dors and seel-: profitable investments t'lsewher ?our productions left to rot on our hands. Debtors utterly ruined and creditors unpaid. This view supposes a conflict of arms, and would be a source of some consolation to strik .. liliuv if ft clmnlil lir> returned eve ; with interest. Hut the United States, will hrv i <" motive to hutcher us, or demolish ourcitie i \ hlo"kade of our sea coast, and an iulerdii ; tiou of our intercourse with the iicighboriii States, will iuovi:;i!i?y accomplish all that sh can desire. There 'A ill bo no necessity for lie coming within the range of our longest gum ; An injured man chained to a stake may shoi defiance, rave and thresh the air, but the o?< | my remain unscathed. But it has been said, that we have but to rais i the standard and tne other -law-holding Stati 1 w ill rally around us This under other eircun I stances would be imposing, and might be re; ' suitably calculated on. They have the sani interest, suffered the same wrong?, arc expose j to the same dangers which threaten us, and ei j teitain the same principles; but all who liav I officially acted on the question, tell us, no! th; ' there is no cause of complaint which would jus ; tify the extremity to which our course is tendinj arising out of the rceent action of Congress | that precedents for the abolition of the slav I trade, of which we complain, is found in th ' statute book of all the slavelmlding States: o | precedents are found in the history of the (w - ' i-.- - -* ,i.? I vernmcnt lor admitting t,aiiinrma mw v. nion with a cci istitulion forbidding the intrc dilution of slavery, and so for the purchas of new Mexico from Texas. You arc wronj therefore, in seizing this occasion to quarri with the GoAcrumcnt. and we will not unit j with you. The tendency of the course of tli i Government, will lead to an attempt to ove ! throw the institution ef slavery, and we belicv ; with you that the time is not distant when j will be more clearly manifested in overt act I In that event you may depend on our heart Co operation. We may question the propriet and wisdom of this determination, but I canrn command a confidence in their change of opii ion. and their coming to our relief now. 1 blu< for the ignorance of any one who hopes or e: pects aid from anv of the Governments of Ei rope. Is it not known that every civilized initio on the earth (and we must speak of things ; they arc) are opposed?o Involuntary slavery, ar will any one helii^c that any of the nations < j Europe will forego the advantages of common ! community of feeling or sentiment. Hut thei I ?>nfirolv that. tlu> sl-iv holding States, united by ft common interest fti ! actuated by ft cr.mmon principle, would be fo j iniduhle in numbers, and from the richness i ! our soil, and the value of her products, wou j command resources adequate to almost at : demand, that patriotism would require. Th i she wouhl have the power of retaliating any i i terferenco of our neighbors with our slave po j ulalion?that the groat motive power of all tl i nations of the earth is wealth as the means attaining power and glory--that our slap ly productions are not only indispensable to all ?il Buropc, but to tlie neighboring States; and ici is not likely that any of -them would forego r- these advantages to pursue a phantom emanajl ting from a di.-tempered abstract sentiment.? t- Be this as it may, J, for one, am willing to haz a- aid the consequences, if the slave States will v. j-iin us in jetting up lor ourselves. I have no a- f-ais of tli interference of any foreign Govern ie ment, and no dread of a contest with our .neighr bors. d Amongst ourselves our right to secede from e j the United States, if the Government shall violate the conditions contained in the bond ol v, 1 our union, is admitted by both of the great par ir 1 tics that have unhappily sprung up amongst us, g ; and first and last bv, 1 believe, all the slavey J holding States and some others; and it would o be unprofitable to discuss it here where we all n agree. The light of the citizen 1o resist injusd lice and oppression at the hands of the Govern tl ment,-is universally conceded, and with that If I" rA% / nnconnAiipo hi' Vlllilf C | CUIIl'l'SdlUlly II ??l irr/ VVII?I|UVMVC d ! term the light is designated. Csi{J it -rebellion, ic I revolution, insurrection?what you' will, it is il the same in its results?and Secession hut exo presses the same idea?emancipation from op;o pression. Both parties agree, als", that theinn j juries we have suffered, and the clangers with ie which we are threatened by the obvious ten; dency of the course of the Federal Government, r, and .the avowed purposes of the dominant par0 kty in Congress, demands of us, as a means of ,o self preservation, prompt, decided, and uucoml. promising resistance. They differ only as to e the necessity of waiting for the Co-operation is of the other slave State3. The party which g is designated by the term Secessionists, main1 tain that, having the right to secede, the Govo ! eminent of the United States will not dare, in f. ! the face of the world, to oppose us, if we think i-. proper to exercise il; and in any event, South t | Carolina will be aide to su-tain herself against e nil the power she can bring to bear upon us. i-! These positions present the alternative of a r' peaceful, bloodless separation, or one of force, ir ' Let us suppose first, that the United States bid i < I r I, a US gO I!) peace ; ailil, IICCU iry:n me 11 auuti?.-ia ,s ! of the federal compact, we take our station i, among the other nations of the earth. HJan h ' we sustain ourselves, surrounded, as we shall - lie. by all the otiier Stales, united as one body, i- and under the control of a majority, who, with the civilized portions of all Europe, are coma ' biued against us, on tbe very point on which i-; we dill'er with the United Stales? Does hisi. : t?ry furnish no examples of the utter impoten,s! cy of small and feeble States to resist the en I cmaciiment of their more powerful neighbors? ;s j Is there no warning voice in the suffering cries ;- ' of Poland and Hungary still ringing in our n ' ears ? "We, nevertheless, take our position, conIs fiilent in our own strength and lesourees. Our ,*.; own government mu?t be re-modeled to suit r- j this new state ol tilings; and, without descents I ding to minutia;, we must have all the para pliernalia of a sovereign, independent govern ment. Ministers, or other agents, to represent it us abroad; a Navy to protect our commerce, c if we would have any; an Army, to piotect us n against the petty insults and lawless violence < ; of our neighbors, and both might he necessary s. | to secure us against the crusades of the fanat: ics of every poition of the globe, made with a it i view to liberate our slaves. 1 will not suppose ? ? . " . . " e our immediate neighbors capable of it, but it ;r is not without the range of possibilities to con?. jectuio, tb.it individuals might be found who it would be inclined to strengthen their plantation force" by occasional drafts from our sable population. Til ere is no data from which to es[(i ti nate the necessary expenses of tliis new order of things, but to put it down at live times the amount of our present expenditures would, j in my judgment, fall greatly short of our actual wants. Will our people, can they, bear this i in the form <>f a direct tax ? Who of us has f j not heard a buzz of discontent run throughout e the Stale, on account of the addition of a tax of ^ ! a few cents on each hundred acres of land or slave ? Can impost dut'es be relied on to supply any deficiency ? The most sanguine can'' not hope tint the United States will allow ns lo ^ import for them, and uidess we become a nil^ I tion of swindlers and smugglers, our imports (J ! inusl be limited to our own necessities, and if i the duties on them is limited to what would be [ j bearable, the amount must fall gpea'ly below i the demands upon our treasury. Men have, c j and may agiin offer up their lives on tho altar r j of patriotism, but they cannot subsist on that 'j alone. Want alone will drive thousands and j tens of thousands of the most wortl y of our i citizens to seek a refuse in the neighboring 10 ' | States from these burthens. We say, let them e I ? they are unworthy of the blessings of free.. dom. Will that help us ? Will not that in). pose still greater burthens on those of us who ' remain, and drive off another colony, and then another? Let us look at all the consciences ^ . before we take another step in the progress of } reform. >h Even this state of things, gloomy and forebox ding as I verilv believe them to lie, is merely n- suppositions. By the same rule under which in we claim the right to secede because the Uniis tod States have violated the stipulation and could dition of the Constitution, the other Slates, colof iectively or individually, have the same right to te determine whether we have not violated them se on our part; and if we differ, as in the construee tion of a treaty^ between indepetident'nations, id the party really injured, would, in the absence r j of any common and impartial umpire, havmg of' the power to give redress, be justified in maId I kinir war upon tho aggressor. No one will iv question, that the United States will claim the at with all the other States or that all or any ono n- of them would involve themselves in a war p- with tlu- United States on the score of more 10 J sympathy. of: \rr> we to remain passive, and suffer ourselves lo Jo he plundered, insulted, and degraded? Would it not lie more honorable and becoming in us to perish in .'in attempt to right ourselves? This is passion, not reason. There is work enough for us all tending to the desired ends. We differ among ourselves?<L*t us heal that breach first, not by heaping on each other the most offensive and odious epithets known to our language, hut bv forbearance an J conciliation; and 1 would willingly consecrate the remainder of my life to this "work of love," hoping and trusting that it may not be in vain. W'e are all on the same line of inarch; and, if the ('o-operationists are slow of foot, and cannot keep peace with the Secessionists, they must wait until the rear conies tip, and then move on in solid phalanx, as they were wont a year ago. : This is not all. It has been already shown I that the aid and co-opera .ion of the other slave States is indispensable to h successful opposition t" the -government. Let ns send messen gers to tlicir doors, to teiltncm oitticir common dangers, and to sound the alarm in their ears, until they shall awake from their slumbers. If all this shall fail, who can doubt that the inf?tuated and corrupt majority in Congress will, . at no distant day, strike a blow that will sound throughout the land, so loud as to awake the dead, if that were possible; then, at least, we 1 may depend on their aid and co-operation. In determining on our course towards the ' General Government we ought to consider rather what is becoming and due to ourselvs, than what is due to it. The Constitution of the United States was the result of mutual concessions of the several parties to it and rt wiU I not be for{. otton that for more than half a cenr ! turv we at least were contented and happy un* j der its operation. Certainly no portion oTtf$ I globe were more prosperous. Our soil gave i forth its fruits in abundance? streams of wealth ; poured in upon us tiu cugli a.thousand channels, and some of us will remember with what horror we heard for the first time, and within the last twenty years, the declaration of a di-ciple j of the Revolutionary Jacobin <JJub of Pari$. I that it was lime we should begin to calculate I the value of (lie (fiiion. It may be, and our | own experience would seem to deuioustrate : that ihe wisdom of man is incapable of framing j a constitution and government that would e: qualize and harmonize the varied and conflict* | ing interests that are found, and must necessaj rily exist, in an almost limitless extent of terriI tory, such as ours. That which may be most j desirable and beneficial to one portion, may be i ruinous and oppressive to another. Nothing j but the strong arm of power, can, under these circumstances, keep them together, an3 it .is I not impossible that in the end n'H may realize I that it would be more beneficial for all concern' ed-to separate in such a manner as to unite onj l v those sections which have a common -iiuerI est, and tiius avoid the perpetual broils and , bloodshed that must and will result from bindi ing these hetereogemous and hostile materials ! in a common bond. 1 would propose, therefore, that if a Southern Convention should fail, as it probably will, the State Convention which is to meet in January, should send delegates to all the Slave States, and endeavor- to arouse them to a sense of our common danger, and the necessity of acting promptly, decidedly and in concert, and prevail on them, if we can, ; to unite with us, in the approaching Congress, not as supplicants, hut as an injured people, demanding tiieir rights, charge her with i having violated in the grossest manner, In rei O 3 ' t i spect to us, the most sacred and solemn guaran tees of the constitution, and demand a portion of the territory which has been acquired at 1 the common expense of our blond and treasure upon the principle of the compromise, by which i we consented that slavery might tie excluded North of the degree 3(> 30 North latitude, and avow our unalterable determination to separate from the noil slave holding States forever. It may be, and I am prepared to expect that this will avail nothing with Congress, and that onr messengers will he 6pnrned with contempt ' an unprincipled majority, or our memorial, if it should assume thai form, be trodden under foot, or kicked out of the halls?so be it. But ! it will force Congress to decide on the right of : Secession, and '1 have a confident hope that when the other slaveholding States shall see that the majority have resolved to chain us te | their car, ami drag us after them in triumph, j they will join us heart and hand, in the holy ! cause of eoual rights. privileges and immuni ! ties When I have boon silently recalling to mind, and musing over the wrongs and indignities w.e ; have suffered at the hands of the government, : 1 have felt a thrill of sham? and indignation I coursing like a spark of electricity, .through ! every n*rve in my body, and vainly thought, for the instant, that this arm, though enfeebled as it is with age, could strike a giant's blow to avenge them. Others have, no doubt, felt the same influences; and the practiced orator well knows how to call forth the shout of defiance, : and the battle crv, although the danger is not i at hand, or the enemy in hearing. 1 have before remarked that the subject we are considering, is of the gravest import, and I have brought to it the best judgment I have been able to form after the maturest consideration, ! and 1 am brought to the conclusion: that any j attempt by South .Carolina, unaided, to resik *1 nmlor nrucnnf nirniimofannau : l 11 tr V * UVCI llMlvllt VillViVt ['".WVIIV VUV-MHIOlftUtUO, will Tail, and lin t it will retard, to an indefinite period, the attainment of what we oesire, ic alienating the other States from us, by moving t in this matter against their opinions and wish.j es, and without waiting for their aid and cooperation. However mortifying and humiliating may he the view which 1 have presented of our own feelings, wo know it is true, and ! w must look the facts in the face, as they are, | and not suffer our fancies to discolor tbcm, sp ! as to make th.'in what we would desire. OCrXever promise vbaf you cannot perform V/'