The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-09-13
Political Department.
POSITION OF GEORGIA.

POSITION OF GEORGIA.
We copy from the Gorgia Sentinel an ariici4.
on the position of one ofihe glorious old 'f'hit.
teen In The times that tried mems souIas
Georgia was as true to the honor and interest
of the infant colonies as the needle to the pole:
and now, when Northern aggression and usur.:
patton is forcing the Southto show tiertrde;
coora. this noble old State is still found on the
side cf jnstice and equality. Were every State
to take this position the fanaticisn which has
ragged SO violently in the Northnn parts Of ihs
Union would soon he quelle3, and the proceed.
ings Of Congress assume a more liberat shade
We commend the article TO the careful alien.
ton of our readers that they may read and un-
derstand their duties 3 Wilmington aurora. :
"The eyes Of public menin every section sf.
the Union are turned to the position which orr
State is to assume nIhe present crisis. Tho
action Of her las, Legislature has placed her ia
the van Of the movement, and such is the reia-
ton which she now sustains 10 the other South
ern States and to the Union, that it may very
certainly be predicted, '.as goes Georgia, 30
goes ihe South" The position is a proud. one;
it is an unenviable one, because il is the most
responsible which has ever yet daEolyed upo1
any State in the can6ederacy. WHaS sHAEE
GEonorA DO? The question comes home-.a
every man whose Vdre hfarI.eln TO decide our
course at the ballot box. Iiis, one. he should.
weigh we'll, and having determined The path ;sf
duty he should firmly plant his feet there nucaf--
ing forconsequences. Itistimethe people should
make up their minds on this question. lf we
have not misn,erpreted the import of the times,
the crisis is fast approaching and &e sho,ld be-
prepared for il. There is very little doubt now
that we shall soon witness the happening ofone
of these contingencies upon which il is made
the duty ofthe Governor to assemble con. :
venton of the people Of Georgia for the purpose
Of fdetermining the mode and measure of redress.
There is but one mode of redress whenihat
contingency shall have happened, and thai is
SECESSION FROM THE UNroN. The question
for the people,o derermine is, shall Georgia Sc.
cede, if California is admitted as State with
her present boundaries and constitutions For
our own part, we have considered This matter
we'll we have endeavored 10 diyest its con-
sideration of everything like passion or ptedd.
dice, and have determinedou position solely
with honest references TO the honor, the inter.
ests and the duty ofthe South. We have taken
this position, and we intend 10 maintain it until
the South has honored her cause in pictory,or
disgraced her name in submission. We know
that those whom we regret to call opponents,s
have panteda gloomy future % secession: We
believe they have permitted their fears rather
than Judgment to sketch the picture, but what
if their predictions be true? Are mea to ba !
driven from position assumed in honest obedl.
ence to principIe, from servile fear ofthe con-
sequencesl 1t may be high-minded conserpa.
tism in politics to do so, but he who acis upon
this plan in every day life. deservedly wears J
the brand oT COWARD. But the horrors of dis.
union Is = miserable beg.,sar:S -fs aI1g.;
to make war upon the South for seeding from
the Union? The North What would she !.
gain. nay, what would she lose by,il!, Would
she attempt to coercs the South back into the
Union? We do not believe there is a sensible
man in the Union who would answer this qaes.
ton affiru,atively. Then who issgoing to make
war upon us? Whose throats would shed the
"ocpan of blood" through which we are told we
will have 10 wade to dsunion?
Bu, we are appealed to by our love of the.
Union, by our vsneration for the good aud great,
names of better days, and our devotion to the
.sstars and Stripes" not to dissolve the GoVern.
ment. The appeal should be made to our op-
pressors andnol to US. The same appeal, with
as much propriety, might have heen made I'm N
l776. to the memorable SIR usg les Of he people.
Of England for their rights. Our own more
receu, contests for freedom, speaks in, thunder
tones, in reprobaton ofthe verycourseto which
we are now invited. How ,nuch more intoler.
able are the outrages now imposed by the.
North upon the South, than we're the grievan.
ces for which our torefahers then went to war'
1t has been said lhatthey took up arms fur q
preamble certainly it was a contest for princi.
Piles moi more sacred than are those involved in
the present sectional controversy, aud are wo
10 be told that Georgia will lnlter in her devo.
ton 10 those principles? We canno. believe
it, nor will we, until we are compelled TO hang
our head in hu'niliating acknowledgment Of ths
/ fact '''''