The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-07-30
THE GREATEST EVIL.

The greatest evil that the South has to en-
dure is the recreancy of some of her presses at
this critical juncture. These papers profess to
be, in their respective localities, exponents of
public opionion, whilst they are but the mouth
pieces of a few individuals, who, from timidity,
or some baser motive, have made the Union of
these States an idol, and discard as heretics and
fools all those who do not bow down and wor.
ship the brazen image. ...
The South is cursed by these l-worshipers,
scattered throughout her domain aud wheney.
er the hour comes for her to act in her defence,
they will have to be rendered pewerless byany
and every means the necessity of the case may
Justify. We may be called "ultraists,' 4daisuff-
ionists," or what else may be most convenient
in Free Soil nomenclature; but every man of
common sense knows that the South cannot
permit her enemies to have their organs in full
blastthroughout her borders, exposing he weak
points, inviting the attacks of the outside &C.
completes on these points, and giving by every
means in their power traitorous aid and GEM
fort to her assailants and despoiers.
There are unfortunately too many of those
papers among US, and it is the duty of every
true and independent press to mark them, and
have an eye upon them. The time may come,
and is probably nigh at hand. when the urgency
of the day will demand their silence or removal.
There are few fortunately, in this section of
the South, which are working for the unenyia-
BILE notoriety that awaits these false lights and
lying exponents of Southern sentiment; but
further of, in Louisiana especially, there are
many, be their motives now what they may,
which must change their mad and tratorous
course, or sink under the crushing weight of an
outraged, though patient public opinion. The
strength of the South is in the fidelity of her
sons she will have no room for traitors under
the guise of allies, or foes under the mask Of
friendship.
There is not paper in New Orleans, with
the exception of the Delta that is true to the
South at this iunoture Aud whyl In reply
to charge of this kind, one Of them says the
charge is susceptible of easy proof, as its adver.
tising columns show; for without the subsidies
of the Northern men in this respect, it reckons
there would be precious tew papers either to
to support or injure the South in that CITY,
Such an avowal is degrading in the extreme,
and shows how utterly regardless of anything
save dollars these journalists are.
Another instance in the same quarter. DE
Bop's Commercial ReOieao has caught this Un.
ion.loving infection and as We observed in a
brief notice of the publication few days since,
in all the semblanoe of wisdom, and with all
the air of Solon, is editor pronouuces the
efforts of the South to secure her rights failures.
Of the Nashville Convention he saws:
GA few men have met; but to call that a
Southern Convention or to say that the
South had any active participation in it-pre.
posterous! The address and the Convention
were alike failures"
In the same issue OF this Review came a
prospectus and circular. In his appeal, the
editor says:
cat period like this, it becomes every citi-
zen of the Southern and Western States to en-
courage aud support n work devoted SO widely
to the development of Our resources and progress
and to- remove the mortifyng dependence upon
Other sections Of the Union for the knowledge
we. got of our own operations and movements,
We doubt very much the propriety OF fos-
tering work, which, however acceptable in
, other respects, strikes in harmony with the
Northern aggressionists The "mortiyylng de-
pendence on other sections mentioned by the
editor, will never be removed by such articles
as that which ushers in the present enlarged
number of the Review, :,