The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-01-26
From the Aueustv Consti:uiiionalisG

From the Augustp Consii;uiionaliSE -
The following extracts from, a letter received
By US the ether day from en- intelligent gentle
man residing in the upper part Of our State
The letter was not intended for publication; bu
rs there are in it views which are OF the hlghes
interest, and which evince much reflection or
the present condition of the country. and e
Europe, We thought that the writer weult no,
be dispIeased at our making them public, as
they may lead others to give to the subject tha:
consideration which it's Importance demap2s.-
The writer censlres the manner th, pubic
press is now conducted, and condemns the spirit
of envy and rivalry which appeai: to exist be.
tween different sections Of tie Union: he then
proceeds:
'Tnplace Of this quarreliing and abusing each
other, and like school boys, fighting about nick
names, had we not better look around us, and
+ see how pleased those bigger-boys, in England,
and their abolition allies in this country, are,
whilst laughing at and urging on these southern
annually reproducing cotton and wealthy States,
which are tearing to nakedncss each others en-.
viable garments, and destroying their reputation
and strength! *** For depend on it, there is
an Oceola in our Congress as well as there was
one in Florida; and believe England is not
very ignoraneBf the fact: else whence this plea
sing hope, this fond desire, this longing after
our destruction, so often petitioned for, and the
right of petition, for the destruction of one
portioni of the union, 80 pertinacously insisted
ON!
1t is time to look around us, and see the pre-
parations England is making to renew towards
this country, the black friendship she INDUCED
in towards that now ruined paradise, st. Do
mingo. We at one time her colonies, have be.
Iv,r ob,n IL
defeats of her navy and army by ours, during the
last war: these and other causes of envy and
hatred, provoke her arrogant and beliigerent
feelings, and she will, if she can, carry out
her policy in this country, such as size has prac-
tised towards France for twenty years. Spain,
Turkey and all other nations within her reach;
make the enemy fight and destroy itself by civil
war: very cheap and convenient system. The
scenes exhibited in ST Domingo by her then
allies, now sable friends, subjects and fellow
citizens, she has been long time preparing for
US, in these cotton growing States, whose agri-
cultural. l.annihilation will be the signal for her
occupying with her colonial produce the position
we now do with Cotton, Rice, &c. all over the
world, and which she cannot otherwise do sue
cessfully and securely, from the ignorance and
debasement of her worse than slave population
who cultivate these valuable articles. And
what is more irremediable, the great distance
and risk, before she can bring her rival produce
to market, which we can always forestall by
superior quality, and skill in cultivation and
preparation, and by contiguity and less risk in
sendingit to market.
=, If you require proofs of England's hostile
feelings towards the United States, refer to the
protracted Northeastern Boundary Questions;
her dctatorial advances in the Amistead and
Mcleod cases, besides searching our ves-
sells at sea; Arab-like robbers of our property
when stranded, or forced into her ports for self
preservation; her movements towards Cuba, the
Gibraltar of our Cotton trade; extending her
possessions in Central America, silent alliance
with Mexico, occupying and interfering with
our northwestern coast; her importing and train
inp Africans, to swell her West India army,
ayowedly kept up for the purpose of invading
and revolutionizing the cotton growing section
of this Union, whilst her white army is engaged
with the northern and eastern States: And last,
not least, the successful employment and ex-
pericnce of steam vessels of war on our coast,
in the disguise of merchant steamers, comman-
ded by officers from her navy. To avoid war
with England, the most safe way is to be pre-
pared for it, for depend on ii, whenever she is
ready to strike the blow, with her present steam
experience and ability, it will be such one as
Macbeth gave to similar too confding friend:
"'Twere we'll done, if 'twere done quickly"
And we shall be served as old King Duncan
was. by reposng too much confidence in the
professions and friendship of our destroyer
She will use another and darker weapon thar
the opium cup offered to the Chinese"