The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-03-21
From The Columbia Telegraph.


command public attention by the bold and mas.
terly manner in which the Great Question is
grappled with and discussed. The action re.
commended in that Report is more specific.
strong, and effeciual, than any yet suggested
it indicates the mode and measure of redress for
the insults, wrongs and injuries heaped upon
us by the North, adapted to the crisis; and we
commend it heartily TO the consideration
of the Special Committee, TO whom it
has been so properly referred. The sug
gesion has been thrown out by the Editor
OF this paper in numberless instances indirect.
ly, though never so distinctly proposed, as the
| files Of the Telegraph will show-but to the
ADLER author Of the Kershaw Report is Justly
due the honor of having specifically proposed
this remedy, which must &C, as The application
of the actual cautery does upon the raw and
9uiverng wound-a certain cure though Sc.
rero one. The application is stern one-but
no skilful surgeon hesilates TO apply it to save
| life or lmh-nor should the Southern people
fear 10 resort to the rghfIl remedy which God
and nature have placed in their hands, If driven
| TO it.
As we have always urged, the evil conse.
quences of rupture between the North and
South must inevitably fall most heavily upon
the heads of those who have provoked and
pressed it on. We repeat the simple statement
of the fact, which we have so often proclaimed,
that The South can do nrihout The North, possess.
ing ui'hin herself all The requisites for separate
eristence-to The North separation and ruin are
synonymous. demired at the same time Of the
raD material for manufactures and a market
for their consumption which condenses in
nut shell the whole argument in favor of the
remedy proposed by the freemen of kershaw;
The adoption of the stringen; measures pro-
posed by them will speedily test the truth of this
asserton--if it be not already plain and pal pa
bic as the light of noonday-and ,hc eloquent
words Of the report referred to give but mere
outline of the advantages to accrue TO the South
hy using her own capital to enrich her Southern
Seaports. instead of swelling the boards Of the
b'o,ted Capitalists Of the North, who revile
while they puntlcr us Of our hard earned
profIa. 1856 - 80 u '-'
Hmay he said that the scheme is impractica
ble-a mere theory that cannot he practically
ca rried ont-and we doubt not that many wise.
acres will be found to chucklc heartily over il as
an abarociion before examining it in any Of
/ = hearings. So has il ever been with all pat.
rio,ic struggles which the timid and trcachcr-
Gus have always sigmatized in advance MS
treason. Sn was it when "the rebels" refused
the tea-when they resisted tyrannons taxation
nv the bavonet-and So will it ever br in the
struggle between might and right. We pre-.
tend not to prc,,dge the decision of our "selecl-
men" to whom the matter has properly been re.
ferred-lmt we doubt not that this pcaccable
remedy will be adopted by acclamalion by the
Southern people ir properly presented to them
and Iisentansle the eordan knot now press.
ing ON their ,troa,s, which otherwise may have
10 he severed by the sword.
This measure is strictly defcnsire, and pro.
cecds on the old principle "f our Republican
ancestors, in the old "time that tried mems
souls" when tribute was claimed OF them, as
now of us .
| "M1LL1oSs FOR Defence, NOT CENT FOR
n r. TRIBUTE..'
Let the conference then he held here in May.
tn consult IN the feasibility of this proposition; ;
that this, or some other Gction may be determin-
ed urnn aud carried into effeclual operation,
else all our preliminary proceedings be deemed
but a sorry far and the professions Of resolve
50 londly uttered, he regarded 10y our assailanls
az all sound fury, signifying nothing!
Action! Action, Action! is what the times
imppratvely demand; it is for the Committees
appointed Tor that special purpose to detcrmin"
what that action shall be.
The London correspondent Of the n. Y.
Commercial Advertiser, under date Of the 9th
inst, writes as follows:
The grant of Vancouvcr's Island to the Hud.
son Bay Company has been completed, and the
company have advertised the terms upon which
they invite emigrants. According to the stip.
ulations Of the grant, all profits from sales Of
land or the working Of minerals, beyond ten
per cent, are to be applied to the colonization
and improvement Of the island. The price Of
the land is fixed ny the company at E. per acre,
and it may be purchased in lots as small as
twenty acres. Little al present is known of
the island, but the company have had for the
last two or three years, station at The Southern
end of it, and the reports Of the harbors, soil,
climate and productions obtained from this spot
are extremely promising. The coal is al the
northern part, and exists apparently in the most
accessible form and in unlimited abundance.
Under these circumstances, looking at the
California movement and certainty of an ex.
tension, almost magical in its suddenncss, of
steam navigation over the Pacific, it is impossi.
ble not to anticipate that Fancover's Island may
rise into singular Importance.
The plan long advocated hy Mr.. Enderby, TO
ahom Government some years back made
grant of the Auckland Island, discovered by a
vessel belonging to his firm, for rc.cstablishing
the southern whale fishery, with those islands
as station, is also is about to be carried out
forthwith During the railway mania it was
impossible to obtain attention to the scheme,
but it has a, length received the attention it de.
served, and company is now in process of
completion with the requisite capital. MIR. En-.
derby will himself proceed forthwith TO the