Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-07-08

liz the name of the people. 1t is notorious that
at the late meetings of those Associations. for
appointing delegate. to the late Convention in
Charleston, were in many places but thinly at.
tended, and in an adjoining District containing
near two thousand voters, was informed by
an eyewitness there were not more than TWEEN.
ty-fve present in the meeting, notwithstanding
it was public day and several hundred people
were in the street"
1t is customary in articles like the above,
when referring to such movement, 10 locate
the meeting, thai is, to say, where it was
held, for if he had not said the small number
of twenty-five, met in an adjoining District Ito
Charleston) most people would have thought
he alluded to that Hamburg Meeting: the Lam
guage Of the above quotation needs no com.
ment.
By some novel process Of Alchemy, he has
made the astounding discovery that Gen. Ham.
ilton said that, Mr. Calhoun "gith all his South
ern principles and his antipathy to Northern
aggression, never contemplated separate State
action, but was only for the united action and
harmony of the whole South" Mr.. Calhoun
died in March, before the Bills for the admis-
sion of California, the dismemberment of Tex
as, and the Abolition OF the Slave Trade in the
District of Columbia were passed What thinks
zone Of the People, would have been Mr..
Calhoun's opinions had he lived till then, ef
even now! Let his conduct in 1882 auds33
answer. In conclusion the writer says:
Heavy taxationwould inevitably ensue, and
prostration ftrade with our neighborng States.
Our foreign trade would be but a cipher
Charleston, the emporium of the Southern At
lantic coast, would 20 at once to ruin the
trade now transacted there, being diverted to
other cities, except our own internal trade, for
North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee would
not trade here when they could obtain better
bargains in other States, and when the goods
purchased in South Carolina would be subject
to the revenue laws of the General Government.
South Carolina would be isolated for her cot
ton and rice are inconsiderable in the commerce
Of the world, and no government would trouble
itself with burdensome and empty alliance
with the lille nation of Souh Carolina. Our
mercantile einterests destroyed, the people ground
down by heavy taxes, would, with their capital,
seek an asylum under the ''stripes and stars"
leaving the homestead endeared by thousand
ties, seek repose and prosperity in the west and
southwest. Agriculture would be paralyzed
and forsaken, for the farmer being disheartened
would fly to a more congenial cline; the grass
would grow where now annually wave the
golden rice, and wild beasts would rove where
corn and cotton now plentifully reward the Ia
bors of the planter Desolation would over.
spread our now prosperous and happy State,
and she would be forced by necessity to seek
admittance into that Union from which she
shall have 50 rasl v withdrawn herself.
"'rhese things should be considered well by
the whole people, who should hrstata long be-
fore they are drawn into the support of mea-
sures of such mo aentous interest as that of Sc
ces>ion.
81 feel confident tl,lt speak the sentiments
of Il majority of the whole people, as future
events will soon conclasivel.y prove
This is frighttnl picture indeed; but fan.
cy it looks more hileous on paper, over the
signature OF those ho, either do not know
their rights, or knowing, have not the moral
courage to defend them, than secession itself is
likely to draw Wien the time for action comes.
The subject OF State Rights and State Seces-
sign is one not easily exhausted, and it IS time
Tor us to hear something n.w if any new ar
gumenl in faror Of submission can be adduced.
Yours, &c. y. d. y.
TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.