The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-04-25
From the Savannah Georgian S@
SOUTH CAROLINA AND MASSACHU.
SET~CS aES

Messrs Ediors:-The citizens of many Of
the Districts in South Carolina have thought
proper To hold primary meetings, for the pur:
pose. ef,aking into consideration the Address
put forth by aportion of the southern Members
af~ Congress. And tor this great offence the
colums of the Republican have been filled with
a parcel OF trash, which it calls ridtcule.-
Whether the pieces referred to were written toy
It's Northern or Native Editor ! am unable to
to say: neither do I care. 1t has become so
much habit with them TO decry South Carroll.
nu and uphold Massachusetts, that they have
either forgn,ten The history of the two States, or
else they have mover known it. For their own
information, therefore, as you will publish the
following extracts, hoping they may Proh'
thereby.
,,,a Boston, the capital ofthe State which has
sent Daniel Webster to the Senate OF the Union
uses these strong terms in a memorial 10 the
Legislature Of Massachusetts, 29ih January,
1909. !, q, r-a..v.sef
a The inhabitants of the town Of Boston, IN
town meeting assembled, respectfully represent:
That they are constrained to apply to your hon.
orable body. as the Immediate guardians OF
their rights and liberties for the interposaton to
procure for them relief from the operation OF the
LAWS of the general Government. abolishins
foreign commerce, and subIecting the coasting
trade TO embarrassments which threaten its an
pihilation. 0nr hope and consolation rest
Nth the Legislature of our Slate. to whom 1t is
competent to devise means of rret against TN.
constitutional measure, of the General Govern
noent: that your power is adequate to this OBJ.
-iect, is evideut from the organization of the
Confederacy." -GIE
But another town Of this National State, New.
= .buryport, January 3lst, 1914, in her memorl.
alto the Legislature OF Massachusetts,, adds her
authority in this language: :" In this alarming
state Of things we can no longer be SILENT
When our unauestionable rights are invaded.
we will not sit down and coo'ly calculate what
Il may cost to defend them. We will not bar
ter the liberties Of our children for slavsh re.
pose, nor surrender our birthrisht but with our
lives. We remember the resistance OF our
fathers to expressions, which dwind!ed into in
Significance when compared with those we are
called upon to endure. The rights which we
have received from God we will never yield to
man." ssWe call upon our State Legislature
to protect us in the enjoyment of the privileges,
10 assert which our fathers died, and to defend
which we profess ourselves ready to resist unto
blood. We pray your honorable body to adopt
measures Immediately 10 secure 10 US especial.
Iy, our -undoub,ed right TO trade within our own
State. We are ourselves ready to aid You in
securing il to us, TO the utmost of our power,
.peaceably il you can. forcib!y If we must"
Where then was Mr.. Webster? In Con.
o,s.s abettino these proceeding, endeavoring to
make il appear that Mr.. Madison was but all
imbeciss menial of France, and strenuously en-.
gagged in embarrassing the council, and pal.
sying the energies Of the General Government
Where was Lowndes, Cheves, Calhoun and
Williams, Of South Carolina7 They were also
in Congress, but resisting Daniel Webster and
and supporting the Federal authorities. How
then was the Legislature of slandered South
Carolina engaged! Not in arraigning herself
against the Unon but in opening to ii h'r treas.
ury, in pledgins to it her support. in anmatlng
her own citizens to preserve in their holy De
yotion to the Republic. At this crisis when
she is SO infamously decried, examine her an-
mails, and those Of other members of the conted.
GRADY, and then answer the question, by whom
is she TO be rebuked! Let not Massachusetts
appeal in triumph TO her practical notification
= Of the tea Mr Of Great Britain, in December,
I773. for Soulh Carolina can, in prouder tri
umph, appeal to her resistance to the stamp tar
and her seizure Of the stamps at Fort Johnson,
IN 1865, as we'll as to her subsequent formation
II" March I776, Of the first Constitution in
America.
81 On the god December 1914 the Governor
cf South Carolina addressed the following let.
;fer to the Secretary Of the Treasury of the
-United States.
I 4A.ss. as,. o. DECEMBER %, 1914:
SIR - On the 2lst instant, received & letter
from Major General PInckncy. covering several
othsss, the purport Of which was TO inform me
that the funds Of the General Government at
his disposal cere exhausted, and that the troops
now in service for the defence OF this State,
could not he subsisted without money, and sug-
gesting the property of my recommending to
the Legislature the expediency of an appropr-
alton in relief of the finances of the Unted STATES
at this moment. have the pleasure to inform
YOU that two hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars have been put at the disposition of the
Government by the Legislature last evening.
..s-. D.R. VILLAINS.
. Thus it is an Historical fact that in one Of
the darkest periods (Hart(ord Convention in
session at this ,ime) Of onr conntry's existence,
the embarrassment, of the Union was commu.
nica,ed to her Legislature in the morning, and
before their adjournment in the evening, the
the Representatives Of the people Of S"ub
Carolina freely, and a, great sacrifices, opened
their treasury to relieve and sustain the Union.
To a man Of plain understanding, it would aP.
pear that one such act in the hour Of need, would
outweigh ten thousand PROFESSIONS of patriotism
at thr present moment ofosr Governments ut.
most peace and power.
#l JOHN NJ. BOTTS.