Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-09-26

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suppose that you would allowit to exist tor n
moment; and had you submitted that card OF
nomination to your fellow citizens OF the state
action party who lately addressed you IN an
swer to tbe interrogatorics they propounde.a'
they would have hailed il with delight as salts
factory evidence that they had not been msta-
ken in "confdng in the soundness Of your prln-
crles, that YOU agreed with them in the main
in your principles, and were prepared to act
with them" They were prepared TO stand by
YOU in defence of the position that the great re-
sistancc party in the State, the people, through
their representatives in the last General Assem-
bly,, bravely marched up allnost in solid phal.
anx; and that platform is faithfully dellneatcd
in the card Of nomination; upon il they were
resolved to stand in triumph or to fall in honor
and upon all the responsibilities of their con.
sciences they now declare that they regarded
you as one Of their banner.bcarers: and in the
iirmcst convictions of their Judgments, after
review Of the whole ground, you have aban-
doncd that glorious standard. which from your
| hands would have kissed the dust, had they
not caught it rs You cast it from you.
1t is now proper to open the inquiry how lar
and in what respects your Barnwell letter,
which gave rise to the late correspondence be-
tween yourself and some of your fellow citzens,
is at war with your previous political faith as
stamped upon the face of your nomination III
! May last, as a deputy to the Southern Congress,
in the closing paragraph Of which, that faith, as
| far rs it relates to the present action and du'
ties OF South Carolina, is pronounced as fol'
! lows:
! Such, then, gentlemen. is my belief, that ,.
Carolina should devote herself now, and pa
/ tently to seek the cooperation of other States
to do this BY the sentiments of the people
expressed in their primary associations, ny the
acts of her Legislature, and most especially by
the solemn ordinance Of the peoples Supreme
organ now existing, in all honor to use all ar
gument and solicitation"
1t is not to be disguised that this is taking
new and totally different groand as TO the ac-
ton OF the "people's supreme organ now eXIs'
ting the convention, from that 50 explicitly
assumed for you, and so undeniably sanctioned
by yourself, in the nominating card Of May
According 70 the latter, the convention was TO
be n body of action Of practical, decided,
complete, and final action. II was to perform
the great business Of taking South Carolina
single handed and alone, out OF this accursed
Union before its final adjournment; and that
you would h. p rs IL !is mortal achievement,
in the event Of your failure to effect any thing
! for the safety and honor oi the South The
{ life Of your nob!c friend stands pied dgcd, and he
stakcd that life on the ground that you were
pledge by ynnr votes Of the last session, by
| vonr known di:uu!on sentiments, If not by yoar
private declarations. Vastly, immcasurabiy
! 4 Ia, lir. {
nestv recommend that that body should pnr-
sue. ion would now strip it of all its ctficien-
ry aud dignity; YOU would now have 1t pass
an ordinance OF so'ic1ion instead OF secession
to register an august, argunentativc decree,
! instead of "taking South Carolina single hand
ed and ALONE, ont OF this accursed Union -
1t is imagined that the style Of the preamble,
and title nI the most imposing decree which
you would have the "pcoplc's supreme organ
to promnlgate might be something like this
Whereas, The other Southern States haze, By Me
sentiments ofthcir people. 'The acts Of their Le-
gislalure," aud ordindncrs Of their conrcnfi6ns,
most solemniy resoired not 10 cooperate wlh 5.
Carolina in Me cfcrinn' measures Of resistance
10 The cncroachments of an abolition Federal
Government, but To submit thereto: BE it there
fore ordained By me Peoples Supreme Organ
of this STATE, ihai 1t becomes her, 10 use NIL ar
gmncnt and solicitation 10 ebect a change in their
opinion, and Mea-to ndjomn. How are the
mighty fallen! How have the injured, iusultcd
brave sue, umbed. Sir, none of your fellow
citizens are ambitions of the glories of martyr.
dom, 'if indeed, glory can be prcdicated of
martyrlom at ALL but there are thousands,
with mo mobility about them except OF heart
and soul, of mind and spirit who are ready now
to meet its bloody or burning tortures, and the
scene of its cruel and revolving death, rather
than be what they are and what they must be
in an early future, to more damn'ng degree
the degraded vassals Of an infurIated, do'nl'
neeIing, and usurpng Central Abolition Gov
crnmcnt. Depend upon it, there are those who
will not permit that Government to "heStrIde
the narrow world" Of their sovereign State,
"-lke CoIossss md they. petty men,
Walk under its huge legs, and peep about
To find themselves dishnnorabe graves
And if they be compelled TO strike your
name from the catalogue Of such glorious sons
of South Carolina, the eve shall be averted at
the inauspcious moment OF the erasIIrc.
1t cannot be said with justice that any por-
ton Of your fellow. citizens of this Stale either
desire or intend, as you seem to imagine: to
give strength to the weakness OF our ioes, to
invite or drive our friends to join them, or by
any means to make glorious, vital cause,
the sport of chances which are all against US. ="
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