Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-02-28
From tie Black River Watcs!mau.
70 3IsHOP CAfERS.
,rc.,J ,,nJ DpGr i2ro'her .

/ on i!aNe tnouSitl ii'pSi w """'e'' 'he 'l'eo
| pie of South Carolina, through the public pres"
in order to deter tlcm. il possible, from carry
ing into effect what now seems to be lneIT ne
termination, viz: q severance OF their pnillca
connection with the Union. Why you shou!C
have deferred this work, 10 this late date, re-
mains with yourself to explain. IT sccms to
me, however, little strange, that You should
have remained profoundly silent, willie matters
have been tending to the present crisis, for SO
long tinc have read your Address with a
great deal of care. mingle, with great deal
of pain and modification. If twcrc TO depend
upon its intrinsic merits would not deem it at
all necessary to notice it. Bat your high rep
utation for pirty, candor and talents-your ex'
ated ecclesiastical position, give yonr bare
opinions, unsupported by the shadow:oi an ar
sument. more weight, in the estimation OF ma
nv. than tie conclusions OF hundreds based up
on the soundest logic. And tis apparent too,
that vou are perfectly conscious of this fact !;
for vou say, my life guarantees my sincerity
and, on Your part, personal good will. But,
strangcto say, while you propose to instruct and
admonish the people OF this State, as to their
duty in this political crisis, you set out by tell
ing them that you know nothing of politics! |
remember too, when some Years since, your
name b. mistake, was mentioned III connection
with <oilt political movement in another State,
you promptly corrected the mistake: and
not only so, but added that yon had not even
gone to the polls for some twenty years !,
Dear Brother, am as much opposed to Ministers
of the Gospel engaging in political strife as you
possibly can be. But it scclns, that YOU too,
can speak, when an occasion, III your jnds-
rent, demands it. Believe me, my. brother,
when | tell you in alI candor, that in view of
your past Indifference to political matters, it is
rather unseemly i'll you n0r, to thrust your
fears and uunings before the public mind. 1t
woulI appear that you have gathered al these
terrific Vaccinations from your five months
tour, IN the performance Of your episcopal du.
ties, in the States named in your AddrcsS.-
And, Dear Brother, you do not seem to have
an opi.lion Of your olcn eilher, III regard to the
wrongs which arc goading this State to the ex-
ercise of the same porer an going out Of the
Union, which she exercised in becoming an in
tegral part of it. AS Sorereign she came in.
to it, and as Sorereign she will SO out of it.
Your Address, | say, affords the evidence that
you have no opinion of your own as to the ex.
tent of our grievances. Speaking of the over
majority in the Southern States op-
posed to secession, you say: the reason OF
this opposition, hare understood to be, they
do not consider the act OF Congress to be Il
violation of the Constitutinn." And then You
20 on to say further, " understand it to be the
opinion of oar people of South Carolina, that
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then YOU arrive at this po:;cntous conclusion
from the above premises at most then II Is
4 mootcd poiat, and not a settled iact'!.. -
80. most lame and impntent conclusion
Nv Dear Brother, have never heard You rea
son after this sort in the pul pit and sure am |,
YOU did not reason thus when yna advocated
dissolution Of the bon.'s wiich held together
the Methodist /; piscopal Church in ti:ese Uni
ted States Why, my Brother, is there the Me
thodist Church North and the Methodist Church
South? Was it small matter that spit in
twain n Christian Church! Are those thou
sands dead at the North VINO iiurled thy;r brc
thren of the South from their bosom;. and de-
spoiled them of their Church property! o., if
alive. arc their arms thrown wide open, and in
accents of brothcrly love, are they cali " hack
their much iajurcd hrclil:cn! Nh! my BROTH
er. the ,rv.l has been ,ijnr--lhe ioni wrong
has bccn Inflicted, End tlcy glory il it, us kav-
nc done God service. hut perhaps yna say,
the whole Southern Church WAS prepared for
the dsmption." Hut ! ask YOU, if all the
Southern Churchhad agreed to the terms Of the
North. but the Conference Of South Carolina,
would YOU have said 70 this Conference, sub
NIL
1t seems, my brother, from the tenor of your
Address, that you have taken counsel of your
fears. You are specially terrified at the great
pscuniary sacrifices to be made in this s,rns
gle for our rights ~ Charleston will he shut
out from the rssf sf6fthe world--her commerce
perish--hesnsfchants leave her in despair,
while from kgssery suburbs, her Rice and Cot.
ton shall be carried TO Savannah aud Augusta
for Il marArtr' lLac WG IachrynR. My
Brother, our brave ioreiathers did not calculate
the value of liberty in dollars and cents!
Alter depicting tic j!crertg entailedupon the
State by secession, vou ask the question, "Can
patriotism dcmand the sacrltirc" :. thou
sand swelling and indignant bosom cry, Yes! |!
Icsw Patriotism demands any sacrifice con-
sistent wn:r honor and religion. Liberty is al
wavs dear commodity vast value is told
in Il lhonsand hood-staincd fields. Oh! Ny
Bro,vr, remember Fort Moulrie, Eutaw aud
Cowpens and no longer talk about dollars aud
cents. Did YOU ever admire the iollowin. sru-
tiu,rn,. " Millions for dcIrncr---nut Il cent for