Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-07-15

tackS against Speclnc parts OF the slave system,
they have never made any secret Of what indeed
was perfectly apparent, that from the first their
object was the entire emancipation Of all the
African race in the United States, without re
moval or compensation, since removal or com.
pensation are known to be utterly impossible"
Having succeeded so far in their designs as to
hem in the Slave States, and to exclude them
from all the territories, allowing them no room
for extension; they now boast, that in FIVE, or
ten years at most, they will, If the Union lasts,
emancipate our slaves. The South has SUBJ
mitted to so many encroachments since the
Missouri Compromise, that they conclude she
will never resist, and thus they anticipate the
fnll Accomplishment Of their purposes in few
years; their object will be shortly realized if
this Union remains unbroken; they know it
WELL and we shall soon see it if we fail of being
true to ourselves. 1.-The Slaveholding States
have become emphatically the Provinces of a
Great Empire, ruled by a permanent sectional
majority. unrelentingly hostile to them, and
daring as it is despotic. If they submit to con-
tinue thus, their history is already written in
the chronicles of Poland, Of Hungary, and of
Ireland, perhaps Of st. Domingo and Jamaica.
And now, fellow.citizens, the alternative is up
on US, and we have to choose between eman-
cipation and secession"
Does it not seem strange that some of our
prominent men who are now opposed to sepa.
rate State action, were strong supporters of the
Ordinance of Notification which had a seces-
sion clause in it, to take effect Immediately on
any attempt at coercion by the government.
These men have no right to expect US to fol-
low them in their Inconsistencies, they who
would have (years ago) acted for less cause,
have no reason to ask for our confidence now,
when their counsels if carried out would lead
to submission. Our politicians have for years
past warned us of approaching danger, and
urged US to resistance, and now forsooth, when
they think we ale in earnest and intend to DO
something, some Of them tell US to pause wait
say they we'll have we not waited for years,
and are we not waiting now! there was a
prospect of cooperation, but we waited until
politicians in the other States have managed to
keep the people quiet, and the most desperate
efforts are now used and will be continued to
produce the same effort in South Carolina. If
South Carolina seeedes, there will not be many
fat Offices to be filed, and some who now en-
| Joy such may not hope in that event, to occupy
| as comfortable places as at present. Our ene-i
mics say that secession will ruin US, those who
| advise waiting say the same thing; this is
strange coincidence of opinion! If our ene-
mics thought as they say, they hate US too cor
daily to put straw in our way to prevent it
Let those who can, reconcile these discrepan.
cies.
A little more of this waiting policy, and we
shall find ourselves shorn of our strength, and
like Sampson, when told for the last time that
the Fhilistnes were upon him, we shall find
ourselves powerless. Those who talk of wait
ing to resist ct some future day, either deceive
themselves or are endeavoring to deceive 9TH
ers; past experience refutes their arguments,
and demonstrates the folly of their assumptions.
A few months fear will find some of our
men engaged in President making, which would
not be profitable game if South Carolina re.
sumes her independence.
We are told from high authority that gold is
now here to bribe those who may be reached.
Let Us keep our eyes about and we shall see
where influences are at work, and who are
counselling in way to paralize resistance.
It would appear that there are some, who are
trying to Invent plausible mode by which the
State may submit; they advocate cooperation
previous to secession, and when lat some future
day, mind) it is found that it cannot be obtain.
ed, why--"we will have done all we can do,
and therefore, it will be no disgrace to yield to
the force of circumstances"
Yes, indeed, the very circumstances into which
we have brought ourselves! This device will
not do, dishonor and disgrace cannot be wiped
out, nor ruin averted in this way. As scare
crov, much has been said about the effect OF
secession upon Charleston like all changes, it
would perhaps, for time, produce some EN-.
barrassment, but in little time it would recover
from this, and its prosperity be greater than
ever. Perhaps many Of the present merchants
might leave the city to have their places sup.
plied by others. A large part of the mercan.
tile houses are merely Northern agencies, or
Northern men, ,ohose feelings haue nener been
vah the Slate. If they should all leave, the
city and harbour would yet remain, and our
cotton and rice fields would be no less produc.
tive than they have hitherto been. Those sta.
pies would still invite capital from abroad, and
Carolina products and trade would be anxious
ly sought after by somebody.
1t is our productions which constitute and
create the wealth of the State, not the goods
brought into it by merchants, we make nothing
out Of them, it is they that make fortunes out OF
US. This fact would soon refill Charleston with
goods and capital if every merchant, whose
heart is elsewhere, should leave the city, and
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