Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-03-21

knocking fora re.adlnittance.' E X
eve have doneno such thing, whatever we
may have thongiit Of it, and misst have said. if
we had not carefully abstained iram saving any
thing that woald wound the pride of the State.
Since however, nar den flIeHfIs Rave them
selves placed theiryShtesia that position, we
will only say, thatit would be xihr easier and
wiser task to remain IL t Ws'ilst there pc
But we are surprised tina, he sh Ad deny the
truth of the following: aln IN ,assfins ruins; he
has painted our noble Stale, in sackclosh Stand
no at the door of the Union, a.i Knocking for a
readmttance." Now we assert that the National
ntcli .encer did contain this identical idea, in the
article to which We both have reference, and that
the only difference is, that he took two columns
and half or thereab'ut TO express the substance
of the above four lines-and he whose very name
is SO potent, that Editors trem5le to insert it in
th,r columns, sh ou:d, we think, scoru to deny the
authorship of any paragraph, the only Incorrect
ness Of which, was writing tweedlc dunn, instead
of tweedle dee, when both meant precisely the
same. Nor did we put our STATE in the condition
of "mouldcring ruin'-n case OF secession ;
but on the other hand the Bannered Republic Of
Liberty-The Sparta, for Western Persia.
"He has wasted world of argument to
show that South Carolina has received full
share of the Federal honors."
Not word of argument; bat fac's, the
force of which even the Camden Journal stag
gers under. That paper seems to understand
us, further, as supposing the honors conferred
on South Carolina to have been undeservcd.
and rs therefore objccting to them. We said
no such thing. We have no doubt the honors
conferred upon her citiz,ns were well-carned
and well-deserved.'
Nor were we sensible of any staggering sensa-
tions beneath the weight of facts, adduced By the
National Tntelligencer. We only asked if those
honors were deserved, and conferred where they
were besl deserved. why should the fact have
been noticed as all nducement to remain in the
Union?
" But, then, we are to be coerced. The M.
fiouat Intciiigcncer says that there eau he no
doubt but what the General Government will
eniosce its authority by arms SO, Car"lu-
mans, tremble for your doom---and, ike fright
ened hares, fly beneath the flag of Uncle Sam
for shelter. Why, is it possible that the Ma
tionoi M'rUigencer supposes the General Gov.
ernment can frighten South Carolina into sub
mis,ioU?"
: II the Camden Journal can find no more
respectable way ofnesting our arguments. snch
as they are, than by putting into the mouth OF
the National lntelgencer words which it has
never used, and threats it has never uttered, it
had better trv It's hand at something else. .g
And it possible that the National Inteliigencer,
denies threatening coercion; all we have TO do
then, is to ask you to re-read your article, and
you cannot deny it ttea, without b.ushing.
"You ask, what would we gain by seces-
sion! We answer, every thing. There is no
single point from which you can view our pc.
stion but what we will have gained. You hold
ont the bughear of having an army and navy to
support. All the army we would need would
be sue. :. one rs we have nOw-..a skeleton ar.
my. Why, every citizen is citizen soldier,
and at the tap OF the drum would be ready to
march. Aud about the time your Federal ar.
my comes to coeree us, an Independent Power,
YOU will find where our army is You mold ont
the weighty expense of our Government. We
are prepared to prove that, at the highest mark,
our expenses would not overgo five millions:
and also that, without any iurtncr oppression
by taxation, our income would he upwa Of
seven millions, and constantly increasing"
".Aftcr reading this long passage, the reader
wonld perceive, that, whatever the intention Of
the writer, he has in fact adm;ted the force of
the strongest points of our hypothesis Of the
condition of South Carolina, seeded
He admits that the State will have to be sad
died with the expense of an Army Of some sort
and a .TnrE; and he admits the necessity OLA
revenue to support the army and Navy and its
Civil List, the annual amount ofwhich he him.
self rates rs high as five millions Of dollars
year, whilst he calculates upon 2n income Of
seven mliens of dollars! An income how to
be raised! By a thirty per cent duty upon ex-
ports, and by taxes on lands which grow the
produce exported, and on the slaves by whose
labor those lands are made productive.
How long do the Editors of the Camden
Journal suppose that the planters of South
Carolina would or could stand such crushing
pressure rs this
Do you really perceive it rcader' Well we
thought you could not, and We expect our vener-
able friend must have had on pair of compro-
mise spectacles, or he could never have perceived
it. We distinctly state. that we will need no fur
ther army, than we have nov-and has South
Carolina any army nor !-and then he construes
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