The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-05-14

total nen.intertourse should take place between
the s8Hth, it Would be sBoh BE perceived which
Section was most self reliant and independent
of the other TheSouth is perfectly competent
how to clothe itself, and furnish all the necessa.
ry fabrications of iron essential to plantation
industry. Such non-intercourse would at
once treble the value of slave labor at the
South. 1t would necessarily divert much of it
froh, the oyefproduction of Cotton, and directit
to other pursuits The demand for the labor
of the South being stimulated there, it Would
be, at the same time, and from the SAME cause,
paraly lyzed at the North. The Northern manu-
facturer of cotton, being deprived of the raw
material, would have to close his factory: All
the various. classes Of industry; hot excepting
those engaged in Connierce and navigation,
would be equally paralyzed: There would at
once arise necessity for emigration to the
South, to escape starvation at home: The ef-
icieut demand fir skilful artizans ad Operatives
at the South would naturally direct the atten.
ton of the unemployed there: But if any such
thing us dissolution of the Union should ever
take place.. produced by anti.slavery aggres;
sions of the North, It may we'll be questioned
whether the state of feeling at the South would
tolerate the importation of shoals of Northern
cheap labo., which would not only have ten
dency to diminish the value of slave labor, but
might be dangerous when brought in contact
! with the slaves.
Now, in case of a rupture Of the Union the
most rigidnon-intercourse with the North would
be the obvious policy and interest of the South,
as well as the dictate of enraged feelings. 1t
! is, therefore no chmera, of imagination 1t is
an event not only probable, but certain to fol-
low the dissolution of the Union, produced by
anti-slavery agitation Whether produced by
war, or voluntary enactments of tariff laws, the
effects on the industry and welfare ofthe North
would be equally fatal.
1t only takes about fifteen years of aggres.
! sion, OH the part of Great Britain, and remon-
STRANGE on the part of the thirteen Colonies,
to bring about warlike collision between the
two 1t was less than twenty-five years of
complaints, unjust laws, and mutual elimination
and recrimination and war, which suficed to
produce a separation between America and
Great Britain. 1t will be soon twenty five years
since the anti-slavery aggressons Of the North
have been Systematically directed against the
rights of the South and the guarantees of the
| Constitution.
It'll time that the people of all classes at the
North should be made to look calmly to the
ultimate and inevitable result of the ant.slavery
excitement, The alienation between the two
sections is increasing, and has increased to al
alarming extent 1t is folly and madness to
| close our eyes to the tendency of such aliena-
ton. If dissolution of the Union be desired
by the North, then measures should be adopted
(Which will
and admit of the continuance of peaceful rela.
tons. But if, as we know, three.fourths Of the
people Of the North are disposed to do justice
to the South-to discountenance the treasona.
BILE Vaccinations of the free.soil agitation-for
Gods sake let them take steps to put down, at
once and for ever, the miscreants whose incen-
diarv designs threaten tie safety of the Union,
the happiness of the people, and the prosperity
of the States. The madmen are brandishing
the firebrands which, if not extinguished, must
enyelop their own habitations with the fumes
to which they would consign those of their
ueishbors The Union cannot last, if this per-
petual war is waged OH the South. We must
make up our minds to let the South deal with
her negroes as we have done with ours. We
must not only respect the letter of the compro-
mises of the Constitution, but their spirit also.
We must not attempt to interpolate in the Con.
stitution, restriction and powers which are not
to be found there. We must not calculate, by
a sectional majority, to euforce the assertion of
doubtful powers. If we cannot agree on alb.
stinence from this eternal irritating intermed-
ding with the subject of slavery in the sister
States, then the sooner we anticipate the con-.
sequences of it, the better. The sooner we
provide for those fatal consequences, the better
it will be for US hereafter. We ought not to
suffer ourselves to be borne onward by an lrre-
sistible fanatic torrent to civil war, dissolution
and ruin. If the anti.slavery agaitaton cannot
be arrested, then a violent rupture Of the Union,
and an utter prostration of Northern industry,
commerce and prosperity, is inevitable. If we
make up our minds that the anti-slavery agta.
ton must proceed-that it cannot be quelled.-
that no moral, religious, social, political Or con.
stitutional barriers can resist it-then, as saga
cious, prudent people, the sooner we devise
measures for mitigating the effects of that aw-
full catastrophe which must ensue the better it
will be for us and for our children. Then the
sooner we take steps for peaceable separation,
securing to us the benefits we now derive from
slave labor, the more tolcrabe will be our con-