The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-04-18

an ansoccssionioy throw enbarra ssme ptt
or difficulty In thesway ofits prosecution,
will.hardly be suffered to pass. Capt.
Hale has entered his protest against the
unjuslifable detention, and measures will
be taken to secure reparation for the da-
images incurred.-Balt. Amer.
In the midst of the difficulties and en-
barrassments, by which the country is
surrounded and of which every body is
complaining, we cannot, perhaps, render
to our readers a more accepting service
than to turn away for season from the
unpleasant political strifes of the day. and
10 commune with them upon the means
bv which we can best relieve ourselves
from our present condition.
A few years ago we were out of debt
and surrounded by an abundance of all
the comforts of life. How different our
condition now! Ask one nan what wrought
this change and he tells you he has been
ruined by securityship; another tells you,
it is because there is no United States
Bank, another tells you, Van Buren and
the Sub-Treasury are to blame. But tins
is all mistake. 1t is because having an
abundance Of the good things of life, eve
ry body quit work and wasted in prodigal
profusion, The means they had accumula.
lated by years of industrious toll. The
farmer quit his country residence, where
he was surrounded by an abundance OF
every thing which might constitute the
happiness of reasonable man, and NOV.
ed to town, to enjoy society. The conse'
quence was, that, what with carriages,
and horses, and servants, and balls, and
parties, and the neglect of his farm, his
expenses far exceeded his income. Moved
bv pride he continued this mode Of living
upon credit, until his credit was also
gone. The mechanic laid aside his tools;
the merchant built palaces and went into
grand speculalion-in short the whole
creation seemed to think the Halcyon
days were come, when the malediclion of
Heaven was repealed, and man should no
longer eat bread sin the sweat Of his
face"
Perhaps there is not one Of my readers
who cannot call to mindsome exception to
this wild extravaganza. He knows some
plain honest man, who was cnltivating his
farm, and thought he was living well
enough and getting rich fast enough; who
made his own provisions and lived upon
them, and with the proceeds of his cotton
purchased such property as he wanted;
who regularly at the end OF the year,
when he sold his crop. paid his merchants,
blacksmith's and physicians bills, instead
of leaving them to accumulate for yeass,
and spending the proceeds OF his crop in
new and costly furniture, in new carriages
and trips to the Springs.
In any Of our readers can point to such
mar. they will find that he has been stea-
diIy growing rich; that he has suffered no
injury from the want Of National Bank,
nor from the Sub Treasury. He lives as
we'll now as he ever did; he makes as
much cotton, and though it will not bring
as much money, it will buy as much corn.
There is no difference in the times with
him.
What then, is the remedy for the ex-
isting state of things? Let US all 60 to
work-lct us produce what we can and
consume only what is necessary to our
comfort. He that can find employment
in nothing else, can find land on which to
raise his bread. Let every man pay up,
as fast as he can, the debts he now owes,
and contract no more. Let frugality and
industry pervade all classes and depart
ments in life, and plenty and contentment
will again smile upon our land.
1t is ouly this way that we can hope for
relief A thousand Banks will not make
for us bread or meat-and if gold were
scattered in this state, the man who should
sit down and fold his arms in illcncss,
would get none OF it.
lr,Oington Ncpcthes.