The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-07-11
From the kentucky.

MIR. Editor :--Some two or three weeks ago
YOU gave us a fancy sketch. in which you repre-.
sent the sisters of our confederacy az rural
pymphs, and describe our own honored State rs
a beautiful, young and lovely girl, walking
about over the greensward with the Goddess of
| have been waiting with great impatiencc
for you to finish The picture, and give us view,
through fancy's glasses, Of the whole Sterl'ood
-parlicularly some of our little sorc-eyed
sisters Of The northwest. Although DO not
enjoy your eligible position mot far above the
earth ; vet from my terrestrial footing | am
enabled to get glimpse of the group, who, 1t
seems, were to fill up the back ground.
Ohio stands next to Kentucky, well dressed,
with brazen face like a grocery girl, who runs
about amidst her noisy customers and nests OF
wooden pals, and lunches OF hrooms, and
lodges her head under whitewash brushes ana
bacon hams that hang overhead. Sho seems
70 think herself one of the richest and happest
of beings; and when she sells box oi soap or
candles never fails to tell how many more she
has, and how much cheese she makes upon
her farm. Ever and anon she casts look
upon kentucky which she intends the by.slan.
tlers shall think is contemptuous, but as looks
are more easily interpreted than words, they
see il is envious. Next stands Indiana, precisely
at the age when girls move and wear their
clothes mos, awkwardy. She is modest any
unassuming; and as she twists her solt, we'll
rounded youthful form and bushes to the next at
every word, we exclaim, ''She'd make gorl'
GUS country wife, She feeds her saucy pigs and
miIks her well.fed cows, contented; nor envles
any one their useless ornaments.
Illinois, an athletic, swarthy thing boasts not,
but wants to have it understood she's brave and
Intellectual She speaks not but gazes on the
monument tha, tells Of Hardin's deeds, and drops
tear, then locks approvingy on Doug las,
Breese and others.
Wisconsin peeps around the corner OF the
lake. A huge free negro standing by, bellows
.let me cote" The stripping girl with matted
hair, Just entered her teens, seems awed by such
beast, and stands, with one red scaly foot upon
the other, shivering in doubt and dread. She
changes feet and her copras.strp'd insry irocli,
| made year ago now shows where stockings
ought to be. The negro says. "ook at York
State: she let US vote" Walker says New
York no, worthy to be imitaed-she is, po.
lilcaly more corrupt than all the other States
together. The negro addressing Walker) says,
"Shu you mouf. Young Misses done Said she
had muffin to do wild YOU Walker looks at
the holden wishiully and she casts down her eye
in shame.
Pennsylvania, straight, laced, s,archcd to
hide her wrinkles, frowns at naughty South
Carolina. Van Buren, in the rear pats David
Wilrnot on the back, and David smacks his fists
at all who deal in slaves-swearing that ne.
grocs are the greatest folks alive. Quaker
nynph keeps her face steadily fixed due South
and frowns with the left side of it while the
right eye looks round kecnly and laughngly,
and her right hand pockets the change efthe
travellers from Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and
Missouri.
Virginia, like stately matron stands erect,
pointing to Vernon; her eye fixed on vacancy,
and thinks the eyes Of the world are fixed on
her. When she is asked to build railroad,
or improve her agriculture, or TO coonizc her
free negroes, or do any other practical thing,
she repeats latin sentence, and says, 'consol.
idation is encroaching there--see its talons
fasten on that little State" She regards the
younger States as daughters not sisters. She
pays no attention to the present or the future,
but dreams Of 'he glorious past.
North Carolina seems not to care much for
any thing but catching fish.
Dressed in a flowing robe Of purest white
stands South Carolina. Upon her ample fore.
head dignity's enlhroned, and all her face is
faultIess save her lip-this wants the plump
ness and the genial warmth Of mutual friend.
ship, and in their stead is high resolve and
Queenly condescsnsion. Her hospitality is
generous and noble yet forget not that it is hos.
pitaily. Her face is Northern turned in min
aed scorn and Eear-scorn for the baseness of
her foes attack, and fear Of his nsidious means.
Excuse the rough pcncilings ofa
STUDENT.