The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1851-01-17
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Go whore we WILL we find people iadnlging
in rXprC -siniis. which display. sometimes, gross
ignorance o;' the sentiment II! South Caroln-
an., sometimes ii great desire TO misreprcsrmt
and SANDER The more reckless use towards
our State the most coutempuous aud unwor-
thy cpithcts. while the more ignora"t are con-
tent TO express wonder at what is called our
Naring up Why. these say, are YOU ever Ill
such excitement! You were excited in nniiii-
cation ,inrs-you are excited now--othcr
States make no such ouhIraks-- why this. II
is very easy to answer these inauirirs--Sout:i
Carolina is perhaps theNonlv one of the States,
whose patriotism is not gradually becoming
corrupted b. foreign sentiment, and national
patronage. she has never gone very heartily
into the NATIONAL political arrangements OF the
Union--most generally opposed them. She
has been led to this course, because unwilling
to sacrifice principles, for party success. She
has been therefore, usually, in opposition. The
position of opposition is safe onc--that Of
maintaining an administration, never so. Office
and patronage welded by successful party,
luIls the scn>es Of the mos; patriotic, and co-
ses the eyes even Of the Argu>os OF jealousy.
Those VINO arc independent Of these uiluen-
ccs, the on y true gr;:.r,ii*, Of liberty the
umlv courage Du, a-seilrrs oi he" cause. From
the time when .Inpitor sacrificed tn" chastity
of the wunan, whose chastity nothing else
would crcunvcut, with gold, down To the
Present moment, gold is the great corruptcr oi
men and manners. Politicians know this. and
profit by the fact. people allow the slight
est considerations of interest 10 govern them,
they are gone In the new States we will find
political contests raging 10 m cNtcut unknown
IN the old. The sparsencss OF populatlon--thc
number of acres of land to be dispensrd--l!c
new Offices to ill--nlake these fields for the
speculation Of other communities. lii" town
ana ,ilagcsarc soon dllcd bycntcrprisrrsin land
trades, emterprisers in mercantile a!ilirs--cn.
tcrp'isers in medicine, law and politics. In all
of tnrn The party that lives on treasury pap,
the abolitonSts, are largely represented. The
late atti-slarcrv report boastcd its abolition a.
gcucics in every city, town, hamlet aud village
in the South. it expressed i'll notes Of triumph
the fact, that the National Era, was constant.
ly increasing its circulation in the slave States,
aud that Southern puI pits were filled with abo-
lition agents of that society, who taught their
covert doctrines, even while being paid with
the money Of shareholders.
! In States, not vgilant, these things pass un-
noticed. In South Carolina they rarely do
The number of opportunities afforded for these
! spccuiations in tue New States, have caused
South and NortI: Carolina, and Virginia, to
bc neglected by their promoters. If South
Carolina had been participant i'll the exten
sive official dispensatons OF the several admin
istrations OF the last thirty years, it is probable
some of tic herescs which have taken sucl
deep root in other States, may have grown ~
/ here. But as she has had none of the goldc,
idols, she has encouraged none of the corup
ting doctrines of the times. She has ioincC
none Of the parties of the day, because the olt
faith which she learned in the Revolution j.
good enough for her, Content to make pro
gress in civil aud commercial; on this founda
ton, she has desiredho new speculation in pat
riotism, for the reason that none coald b