Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-08-22

this spirit will doubtless perpetrate the inIquit-
GUS villaiuy Of freeing tho slaves inthe States.
though to the pecuniary loss of the North for
at IS the charlottesville of despotism To- cal dozen
the tree to get al the fruit ~ but when the de-
lusions of power are once dispelled BY the call
to arms-when the ways and means are to be
devised, the men and money to be raisedto
carry out the fatal scheme at the point Of the.
bayonet the old spirit of auarice, ,true to its In
stincts, will shrink back in cowardly timidity
from, the threatening storm Of wal, brought!to
dead pause on the banks of the Rnbicon,--
Under government, in which the majority
rules. the Northern horde rarely move ia arms
except to pluader and to rob. Subsistence or
money-the prospect of some glorious El Do.
rado has prompted all their grand military Iex-
peditions.ssa @atsa..< 4it zs
f1dWhnt is thefeiinithe South to tempt their!cu-
pidity? We have mo magnificent cities for
them to sack-no public wealth to charm their
coyetous. eye- Would they take our slavesEL
Forwhat2is ofeed then? This; ;they would
certainly have to do, or make them feed them
selves, and hence they would be slaves still.
To transport them would require immense
means, and they will snotallow them .to enter
the free States. Can any one, for q moment,
think that the Northern people, without any
prospect of remuneration, without any hope of
gain whatever, would incur the hazard and
heavy expenses of so pro6tless an expeditiona
1t is past all belief So long as they are am.
ted with the other Southern States they woule
not attempt such a thing, for fear of driving off
these States intoa Southern Confed edsracE Left
to themselves they would not afeanf Of y for,
deprived of the rich spoils of the South they
would be placed under the necessitFp prac-
Using little economy; of hnsbaadfhg heir
resources to- meet the taxes that would faH
| upon them, which they have been so Hle ac.
customed to bear, and ON the least appearance
|5of which they have always attempted 70 kick
against the government. -
- This conclusion is almost manifest: $50
g SLAVERY, IN ANY SLAVE STATE ouToF THE
UNION, mas NOTHING TO FEAR PROM A NoRTH.
ERN 1RMY, OR FROM NoRTnERS FASArIcAL
1 AGITATION, Z = ,, -s,s5E = ssss 80
The sole danger i; ;whilew arsin the Union.
so long as this ,Confederacy lasts, we viii be
perpetualiy beset by the snares and machine
tons Of Northern aboltionism. Incindiary
documents will be flooded among US; the seeds
/ of discord and dissension win berapidly sown
among our people, By means Of Federal gold
and Office; and soon host of enemies win
spring up in the very midst Of Us, that win
more endanger our institutions than all Our
enemies from abroad. In this way, Northern
fanatacism, under the triumphant career Of m
absolute, despotic government will continue
its aggressions, TILL ripe for the last act Of the
political tragedy, it viii oyerturn BY Legisla.
tive enactment, to be enforced by the FEDERAL
ARMY, the Institution Of slavery in the States
Then indeed will come the so much dresde6
horrors of civil war, in which our citizens VIII
drink the blood Of each other, and riot 10 alb
the excesses of anarchy and confusion. The
only safeguard for slavery in the Southern
States is in dissolution ofthis Confederacy.
Let it then be dissolved, If possible, BY all
the Southern states;-if not BY ALL By one
State; and if needs be, let that State be SosrB
CAROLINA. ~ G1sits
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