The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-06-07
Stay at Home,

Is the title of an article upon very important
subject. from the pen of our old friend asd cotein-
porary, the Editor OF the South Carolnan. We
commend it to the especial and particular atten-
ton Of all our readers, as we'll worthy their serious
and careful consideration. A close perusal will
satisfy them that there is more truth than poetry
in the artcle-the very doctrine that we have been
preaching up.
The usual season for summer travelling and
pleasure migration is at hand and already are the
Northern papers anticipating golden harvests for
their hotel keepers and hosts OF watering places.
One says, "Southern families, like the birds, must
make their annual migration North when the time
comes" Our advice to Southern families would
be to stay at home the present summer-just to
try it for once. Let them tashionize their own
"sprnss" and watering places just for this "one
:eason and in allprobability they will be inclined
to do so again.
We are all crying out,for equality ofindepen-
dence." There are thousand ways III which wa
can secure the latter att events. Beiudependent
of the North in bull ling up places Of summer re-
sort at home-gite madam fashion the mitten ra-
ther than allow her to lead you off from your own
delightful cline, it's green shades and charming
scenery-to introduce your daughters to the dis
sipation and trivoty which reign in the saloons of
Saratoga, where whskered and moustachoed wea-
ther-beaten roueS and fortune-hunters make it
business to lead silly women captive-where your
sons are decoyed to the gaming tabe-and where
host, hostess, man servant and maid servant from
the obSequious master to menal sboots," are all
engaged in tleecng you out of your dollars, not
stopping to inquire whether they are the apro-
ducts of slave labor" or not-where you are plas-
tered with "barney"-imported, improved, and
patented by yankee enterprise and ingenuty-to
your faces, and laughed at as fools when your
backs are turned-where your sons are admired
as the flower of chivary, and your daughters
adored as "lovely Southern bellies" when the ev
idence is conclusive that the plantation and ne
cry species Of dissipation, profigacy, fraud and
humbugsery, keep time to the music of the orches-
ira in the ball rom, andyour character. the length
of yom purse, and the charms of the ladies, dis
cussed over iced mint juleps and brandy toddies
in the basement, We say throw fashion to the
dogs rather than commit such teolery, a
The money spent in one summer at such places
by the visitors from our own State, would make
Sulivan's Island paradise-Moultrie House a
fairy residence, and throw Cape May in the shade.
would make Glenn Springs an enchanting re-
treat, and the waters of Limestone far superior TO-
the Seltzer Springs of Germany; but, above all,
it would be kept here among US, add to the wealth
ofthe State, develop her resources, and fill the cup,
Of social enjoyment with pure water drawn from
our own fountains, unpolluted by the nauseous
mixture of pride, folly, and vice, drank with so
much gusto at the haunts of fashion alluded to,
but which invariably sicken when the draught is
swallowed and paid for. CaroIinians would know
each other better, and consequently every tie Of
friendship and mutual interest would be strength
ened. Inwhatevcr light it can be viewed, the ad.
vice we give at the head of this article carries with
it its own recommendations al home! ..,a..