The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1851-01-21
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We should prepare for the crisis; we should
prepare in mind and materials. l will first
state what some OF Us have done which We
should not have done, and then what we should
do. Some OF us have been iu the habit of ex.
pressing despondency; we say TO each other,
the State has caved in; she has let down; size
will do nothing; she has submitted-and we
sometimes tell this rs a secret, and it pervades
the masses. Now this should not be DONE
Let us imagine talking picture of every man
in the State, with u down.cast countenance and
shrugged shoulders, instead of heads up, sol.
der ike,-saying, The Stole eiI do nothing;
she has submitted; she has cuued in !; ii is all
uind. How would it appear, for people con.
tending for their dearest rights7 What should
you think of IN army, That wonld do so OH the
eve Of battle l-aad what Of general that
would talk thus to his soldiers! We should
bear in mind. that submission is contagious;
and we should bear in mind, that we may re.
peat talsehood SO often, until we believe it at
last to be truth. The State has not submitted;
she has mol cared in but she has appropriated
means 10 go to uork for her rights; she has
done all that, in wisdom, she could do at this
time. Now, we should speak hopefully
courageously-- hope, begets hope courage, be.
gets courage-it breeds soldiers; we should
lay aside dcspondency; the outer man reflects
upon the inner man; we should give conf
dence to the distrustiul-the wave,ing, by dis
playing it ourselves; we should persuade those,
that are not quite with us-tiat are still fear.
ful-confdence is the strength Of the soldiers
arm, hope is 4 light to him in utter darkness.
Let US say, then, to each other, tle State cda
act and conquer; the State Hili act and conquer;
the State must nt aud c"nquer. The game is
in her own hand, the Federal Government must
submit in The las. rcsort, 10 Sprcreign Siate dr.
m ,ndiMg her rights. The State uW act,-ne.
ceSsity, which makes even tie timid, if honor.
able, brave, is at her back. 1t is so, Caroln-
inns for what greater necessity could there
be, to those taught TO be free, than that, by i'll
action, they shall be saves--the poorest and
mcanest Of slavrsS The State must act, for
tie enemy will. in short time, assail us in our
household Carolinian. not long since, under
the voice of our great champion, we were
b,!d--yes we were oil very boil--decl claratory
Of high resolves, is the i,n now willing to be.
come Lamb! Behold what pictures our enc.
mics may form o. US. Not long since Caro-.
linians you krow we were, Ike. lions, ram.
paut--all rampant, and should we Become, Ike
sheep, sui missive--our Governor ight be
drawn with blazing tLunderbolt in each red
hand with one more than Jovehirselfis drawn)
riding in whrlwind, and, like the chi,nera OF
old, breathing forth flames of fire, and the State,
one great army of winged lions, each colossal,
and each, with battalion of Yankees in his
clenchcd claws, apd roaring aloud for more
Sempcr para'us" waving over half the baletul
heavens, fraught with the dire elements of war
and beneath, Il tall Palmetto waving its rerdant
branches wide extending and our great dead
gigantic spectators, in ecstasy OF the sublime
parade But behold the scene changes! We
behold another sight! A hyperbocal farce
follows this hyperbolical tragedy. Our great
Governor now appears Lilliputian mounted on
Il small de.r exhorting his diminished soldiers
m ,nnt,d on gentle lambs .crouchan', bleating
forth, we can submit! ue tr;H submit ! pe must
su5mh! !-an "sic semper erit:Hs" waving
over them. canopied with u mellov, clear sky;
and behold Yankee with stentorian voice,
harsh rs the sound of coffee mill, describing
with long pole! This, ladies and gentlemen!
is the African lion, The king of beasts aid this
is the harmless lamb, his submissive victim -
and by way Of episode, for mere salt, he might
throw in few hyenas.-Are We, Carolinians!
Grecian women, no longer Grecian men Z"
Rather let each man make battlefield, and
"bite the EARTH" than justly cut d figure" in
such a picture that, in after times. the admir-:
ing traveller may exclaim, This scas land Of
heroes! Here lived people ,0ho died to be-
free!
Letus, then. prepare for the crisis; let Us
prepare with materials all the means
within our power Let every man, who is able.
furnish himself with plenty of weapons of war
ind ammunition let his house be an arsenal
and fortress. Let us make more provisions
and less cotton-we may be required to furnish
our allies; let US prepare our State as au
Egypt, for a time; let us 60 to work and be-
come an independent people-rase our own
,ork and beef and other necessary provisions;
ct US patronize our own mechanics they are,
necessary in war aud useful in peace-ii briet
hey are the great practical powers Of acoua. y
ry; the practical mind Of State. Behold
he queen Of the ocean! Mechanism has made
lerso. Behold the commerce she bears around
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