The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-08-08
ANTI.SLAVERY PRESSES IN THE
SOUTH.


ANTLSLAVERY PRESSES IN THE
SOUTH.
Emboldened by the success Of the Washing
ten New Era, the Aboilioniss are thinking o
establishing other presses in the South. We
suggest to them that their work may be he'tc'
accomplished in another form. Anti 'savr'
presses, under that name, can accomplish lltlf
for their cause. TO say nothing of the peril o
those engaged in the enterprise, the Southern
peap!e "forcwarned," would he ''forearmed.'
Knowing the Purpose designed, they would be
prepared to resist its execution.
The wiscst policy these fanatics can adopt, l.
to send ont their Emssarics, who may, by dis
guising their purposes, succeed in placing them
selves in charge Of Southern political presses.
4 little caution and circumspection is all that
is necessary for the success OF the plan. lhe
agents selected for the work should be able 10
disavow membership with an Ani.Slavcry So.
ciety. whenever interrogated. (And many oI
the most uncompromising Free Sellers could do
this with trnth,) Once in the editorial chair, let
them show the warmcst political zeal, and most
unscrupulous parlzans devotion; thus will be
established a claim upon party sympalhes and
gratitude, upon which strong reliance must be
placed in case Of an emergency, during sub'r'
quent operations. In turthcrance of their
great object, such gentlemen will probably he.
gin with the manifestation ofgrcat National
patriotism, followed by ardent love olthr Union,
exhibited in frequent quotations from Washing
toms Farew well Address. They will Of course
assail with fendish maligniiy, under the odlous
names of "Agitators" and "Dsunionisls," all
who take firm and prominent stand in behalf
of Southern righ,s-wel knowing that the Abo.
Iitonsis will have accomplished halfthei work,
when they can induce the Southern people to
to withdraw their confidence from their true
friends, their wisest and most vigilant counsel.
lors They will scent with the keenest smell
any thing making its appearance in Southern
presses, or coming from the Southern men, ten.
ding to invalidatc .he claims Of the South, and
to discourage her in the maintainance OF them.
Such expressions of sentiment will he eagerly
repuhlished. as an indication of feeling among
slave .hoers. BY freely quoting from each
other, quite an impression may, in this way be
made. and the opinion conveyed to the North
tha, there is a vrry powerful minority in the
South who are oppnsedto the extension OF slave
ry. They will not advocate Abolition. they
will only prove to US how much better of
the free than the slave States. They can new.
cr find room in their colums for vindcatIon
Of the South, however temperate. when call
ed upon by unsuspec,ing patrons to republIsh
such production as ElwooI Fishcrs's they
will be able TO discern in it Tariff or anti lar.
iff' views, which their political views will not
allow them to circulate On the other hand
speech from Benton will hn hailed as per-
feet God. send its attacks upon Southern
men eloted over with cannl'al apPctitcs, and
its arguments against the South landed aul re.
published as the perfect logic Propose TO them
any plain by which the South may become uni
ted and powerful, and you are met with mum.
bcrless objections are told that The time
for action has not come-lhat there Is no
danrer-,hat this or that man having been elect
cd President, trust him and all will 60 we'll.
Peace, peace. is their cry. The South il ln!!ed
into E,ncied security, and any who would
arouse her are denounced rs traitors to the
Union
Ercmp7i Graft. We refer to the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel. Our portrait is per-
haps not we'll executed, but we are sure no one
acquainted with the nrginal would fail t" rccog.
Mise it. Tha, paper is said to he edited by DR..
Lee, late from Western New York-a writer
of fine talents. 1t is truly Model Anti South
ern papers, published in the South We have
pursued /, re gularly for months with startling
interest We hesitate not to say, what we con-
scientiously believe, that the abolition paper
undcr that name in every town in Georgia,
would not accomplish so much, for the ruin OF
N. South as this one sheet. The reader OF
avowed Abolition papers know wha, they are
pcrsuing, and are prepared to question its sound,
ness hut the multitude, suspccting nothing,
swallow Aboliionisn,, disguised as it is in a
Southern paper, never dreaming that its effects
will he to destroy their anlipathy to Northern
Eana,csm, and soo,h them into the most istless
Indifference as to their vial interests.
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