Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-07-18

they would tell You that these things were tried
in their day, and were the most important OF
all the measures Of British retaliation; that in
the very initiative Of the revolution, Boston
was blockaded. and Salem made sport of ell
try" for the very purpose Of destroying her
commerce. How DO they stand now! On,
themost elegant aud magnificent Of American
cities; and the other still in considerable and
unexpandng village seaport. Would they lis.
ten with patience while you recounted the cost
or suggested the inquiry whether State could
maintain the expense ofa separate Independence!
Would they not interrupt you with the reply,
that South Carolina was once free, separate and
independent, and far more prosperc u.s. and per-
haps more patriotic than now! That even after
Tie adoption Of the Constitution, two Of the So
vercigns of this Union refused to concur i'll it,
and continued in their state of voluntary exclu-
sion to enjoy the same peace, rights and tran
! guilty as nUs That even Texas, Young and
inIante as she was, lived for more that ten years
without this Union. free, happy and independent
(and perhaps less corrupted than she has bern;)
associating on terms of equality with foreign
nations; negotiating treaties with England; die.
! tatng terms 70 Mexico aud instead Of being
coerced by blockades and the collection of du-
| ties in the port Of Galveston, this Federal I'm
ion was supplicating her with bribc Of fifteen
millions il one hand, and Ga since voated)
pledge to guarantee her territory TO the fail ex
tcrt Of her alleged limits in the other.
They would tell you, fellow-' itizens, that
! there WAS no blockade that could be Instituted
that would not in every aspect Of it be an act
OF beliigerency, TO which the constitutional
sanction" of Congress had TO be obtained,
whether as applied lc pert OF this Union or
Of any other country; that no such measure to
crush the institutions of a Southern State could
be introduced in the United States, without
awakening the very instincts Of sovereignty, i'll
every Southern State at least, to repel and re.
bukc it; that if 4 blockade is incident to separ-
ate secession, it is no less SO to cooperate
with this difference only, that the whole South
ern coast would then be bescged and beleagured,
without one friendly port like that of Savan-
nah for the escape of our produce or the intro-
duction of our supplies; and that if State inde-
pendence would indeed circunscrbe slavery
and the slavetrade for Il single State. that a
Southern Conederacy would do no less for
those united under its government and its insti.
tutons.
Would YOU tell them Of your weakness, ofthe
limited extent Of your territorial limits of-yonr
trade to be blighted, your produce depressed,
and your citizens ovcrbnrdcned with taXatisu to
support a separate State government! They
would answer you. that South Carolina occn
pied q wider space upon this contncGt than the
conioined territories OF three of the most tanat-
ical OF her eastern opprcssors--that these were
the arguments exclusively Of fear and not OF
prime. .,le-that they Would tic AS conclusive
against resistance, ii abolition were Knocking at
our DOORS or arming our households for Our
destruction that they were reasons, mol against
secession. bot for submission; and would he just
! rs true and as potent when the slave trade was
abolished between the STATES, aS now, when it
has been abolished in the District Of Columbia
No, tcl!Ow-cltlzcUs, from the v!rtuous and un.
calculating enthusiasm OF that age, from the
| iliSterloned patriotism of the men Of that gen
era;ion you would, hear no suggestion. of fear,
oi dangeT OF difficulties, o! expense or of sub.
mission. They would point YOU to Lexington,
and bill you 60 and fight its battle, If needs he;
nor ask il von have any trembling or federal.
broush! allies b. your side They wonii point
YOU to Fort Moulrie, and tell You that, against
odds innumerable, a lew crippled guns and .
haml.ull ofbravc Carolinians, they were enable
t. repui<c EngIaMd's choicest veterans. They
will bil you ias they Gidl 10 do your duty, and
; trust Your cause to Hin who rules the destnes
of nations. is well as the hearts of men And
if this should ia, they will tell you to learn then
wisdom and experience from your adversaries.
| That while YOU arc tamely and trcmbngly
talking of submission. the Northern fanatic has
scorncd the compromise, abrogaied the fu. tive
slave law, and hurled back defiance and denun.
citation on the government, and spurned the
fa'teries anu the sycnphancy of those who have
invoked them to sacrifice great and sacred prn.
ciples to expendiency.
Brt should all these shame. recurring consid.
! eratnns not avail, the invoking shades of our
ancestors have one resource, at least that has
failed to resrondto the appeals oI oppressed and
prosecuted humanity. They will commit ca.
rolinia:.s destiny into the hands and to the
courage Other daughters What man fears to
do. women shall achieve. Even her meek and
gentle spirit cannot and will not bear our ac.
cumuia,ing wrongs. 1t shall wall them in the
cottage, it shall bemoan them in the place, it
shall echo them in the saloons, until all that
there is in Carolina manhood shall be rouscd to
shame, indignation and resistance. Nav, SO
easy the triumph, anI so bloodncss the victory,
that we fear not that even Il bodkin in her soul.
determined grasp might achieve it against a