The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-09-07

to face-feceived your flight of poisoned aTrowssj
and laid them harmless at my feet, pick them
up and hurl them back--no! You share much
TO say'-I'n hear you-the truth lies right before
you-dare you utter tl We shall see. Say on
Now to the whole pack-blood- hounds, ours,
and all the little pups-teaze, worry, lacerate--
"overawe the weak-subsIdlze the mercenary-s,
trapple down the free"-crush, if you can, the
humble advocates of truth, but remember that,
TRUTH herself is vital, immortal-"often cast
down, but never destroyed"
Remember; no motiyes-no demerlts-no SIM
lister purposes of her advocates, can affect her
immutable consistency Tocsin may he lmmola-
tedon the altar of the Bank Mooch-but Will the
truth Of single assertion OF his be lnvalldated-a
single question anspered or single position sila-
ken by his fall!
Come out then, into the open plain; no skulk-s
inr; no bush-fqhting; no lodging Of The issues
plainly rendered. Scorn this miserable bye-Play
sensible men understand and despise it.
OfPhilo Tocsin have said but little; because
the point and force of all his sarcasns and irony
manifesty rested upon his assertion, "a gross per-
version,) that had proposed the immediate aboIt-
tion ofthe Bank of the State; upon his assumption
of the affirmative of your interrogatorles, and his
inference therefrom that the motives and objects
of Tocsn were selfish and sinister. Having an
initiated these assumptions, the differences iai;
I the platform from which he fired is struck down
and his guns disnonnted Il have not turned
upon him and "carried the war into Africa," it is
because my battery has higher range. strike
at the citadel-not the parasites and vermIn that
hang and creep about its walls
To your readers, beg to say, that this reply
was written under circumstances OF great physl-
cal inconvenience-general ill-hcalth, with a
state of the eyes forbiddng any continued apPiiI-
cation, rendering it necessary to write by catch-
es, and the occasional aid OF an amanuensis-oe.
sides, "Tocsn" has no literary pretcnslons, and
is an unpractised writer. ltlacks, therefore, tnal
condensation and force, which might otherwise
have. been given to the truth. But the thinking q
unpreiudiced and candid reader, recurring 10 the
1 personal issues made, and the presumpiions a..
tempted to be raised against his motives, end
withthese alone he is now dea lingo will see that
his vindication is full and complete.
As to the tone of "Tocsin," it may here be ob.
served that "the times are evil" the moral sus
cep,blty of the public mind blunted, and thai
nothing but highly seasoned dishes would rbe
touched. 1t is therefore, strongly spiced, but no
with malice. The sagacous reader will perceive
the object The design was to arrest the pnbilt
attention.
One word more: "Tocsin" would oppress NJ
Bank debtor, whatever his merits or demerits -
The Banks Estate as well as Private0 have sedu
ced the whole country into a false position lie
new terms be given on all Bank debts-the
most liberal that may be necessary and proper
Let every man who is not altogether beyond
hope, be put upon his legs once more-give then
new point of departure. This is "TocsIn's'
sentiment Such is The course he advocates a
the Bank of Camden, as his colleagues there vii
testify. He deprecates and dcplores the humll
ating dependence of the whole country upor
Banks and Bank directors, and would deliver
Ereemcn from it.
Now, in conslusion, word to all the indepen
dent planters and farmers every where-he
cause is yours and truths. 2Fpen vonr substance
upon the honest fruits of your labour and you
land-the benefciaries of the paper system, Ii
all its affiliated forms, gorge and grow, "getting
increase of appetite by what they feed on, ever
CRYING with the daughters of the horse-leech
"sve, give" Awake! A feeble hand has touch.
ed the spring-wire of the TOCSIN, and (if the
press is not already subsidized and muzzed,) )'its
reverberating tones may yet be heard, from east
to west from 'the mountains to the great sea, u
causing mighty shaking Of the dry bones OF the
valley.
Finally: Voters of Kershaw, Sumter and Lam
caster-my name is an humble one; it carries nc
extraneous influence; but truth is mighty. "Toc-
sin" is well known to you-he wears no mask
"the more anonymous the better" is not bis "sen-
timent" Who is he! Your humble, misrepre-
scented, much abused, but unterrfed fellow-ciL-
zen, ~ E:s sJOfiNSON.
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