Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-10-07

pursuit of happiness in every mode in which it
Is sought Is it not singular policy to pur-
sue such paramount! objects. in the face Of
hostility the most intense and formidable, by
quitting an association, solitary and alone,
wherein if we have enemies, we have also
friends, who, if we do not reE ulse them by per-
verse arrogance, must ultimately be bound to
us by something stronger than hooks of steele
Is it not AL incomprehensible sort of logic that
tells US, that we now see, by recent elections,
none Of these friends will cooperate with us,
and in the next breath assures us, that if we
Will still further afIront them, by the act of
Separate Secession, they will fly to our arms2
lhs Is the latest phase of Secession logic that
have observed. 1t has had other phases.
At one time we were told, that we had better
not meet our confederates at all lest their
GOODNESS might render US somewhat trigid
that our true course was to enter alone into the
harvest Of free trade and reap the whole orop:
that If our career should chance to be inter.
rupted by floating Customhouse, foreign
gnns and active prvateering would relieve Us
of that obstarle-that if (after the Spanish
fashion) Il Gordon Of collecting agents should
surround our borders, why then like the British
adventures in the Spanish case, we would re.
sort to smuggling, and tempt our neghbors to
confederate in that. The long and bloody war,
that grew out Of the case recomm.n ended ms our
model, has never been communicated, believe
to enqnirers. do moi know that such consid.
era;ions have been urged upon you of Lancas.
ter; if they have, should be shocked to know,
that a scheme which contains the germ of a
foreign protectorate, especially that of the
British Crown, or one that b..ses national pros.
perity upon national prostitution4 should CON-
maud the favor OF many Of you.
Let any Of your State Action" friends in.
form you, if he can, how Separate Secession
will give you any Of California how it will
help you into New Mexico or Utah-how it
will repeal the law forLidding the Slavetrade
| in the District of Columbia-how it will dull
the edge, or turn away the shafts, of the ma.
lignanI enemies of the Carolina stakeholder
how runaway slave will be captured with
more tactv than he may now be whether he
can then be recovered even in Georgia, Ten
nessee. or North Carolina whether slave
can be carried into either Of those States, or
into any territory new within the limits of the
Union! If he affirms we shall procure a
Southern Conederacy, You may well inquire
Why he now atrrns that cooperation is an OBJ
srIete idea! Beg him to explain hom he will
cor.trive t" drag Georgia, North Carolina. Ten
lessec, Hc. irto his embrace! If finally, he
mounts into the heroics, and prorlaims, that it
is becoming in South Carolina to drive into the
sloIcs of martyrdom to play the part of Samp.
son (who by the bye had only himself to sacri-
trr) by sci2ing, in fit of desperate revenge,
the pillars OF the Temple, and burying in com.
.l,on rlio, he.self and her enemies suggest to
your iirnd that the fury of his indignation may
have dethroned his iudgment that You prefer
to cntr>. tle destinies Of l commonwealth III
the keeping of those who are neither as furious
,as Sampson, nor rs blind; that YOU have de-
gree of apprehension that our Samps"ns may
rlav the rart of him of old, with Il certain va.
riation to.wit: that they may contIve 10 bury
themselves and their friends in ruin, and not
oar enemies. Gentlemen, it is OF the last in-
portAncr not to mistake the question, nor allow
Others t. substitute one that is fictitious. 1t Is
t;ut one of resisting one ora given set OF mea.
srlrrs. 1t is this: How shall slare.owners
provide new guards for their security! All the
NIiil, VHlt'iiHl W stIelIl, - H'"''-''"' "S''~'
them The enemy is formidable indeed, sleep.
less, venomnns, watching every opportunity TO
MAKE Il ilia! attack. All the Slwe-power com.
bned is not too strong for the conteSt and the
whole is, and will comtiaue to be, the object OF
incr$Sant assaults Shall we offer ourselves IN
'drtail to b. cut off us an easy prey! Shall we
weaken our own position and the common
cause, by an act not peculiarly necessary now'
or 1T II given time, rather than at some other,
against which our contrderates protest. as un.
necessary and unwse in their judgments
SLY no. ANA would take every opportunity at
the hr!lot.box to proclaim the sentiment IL
vuu concur with me, you will do likewise
Believing you are right in the cause you advo'
cate, wish You success.
Your obt serv't..
Il J. WITHERS.
To Geo. Med. Witherspoou, Esq, and 9th