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

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party deserving as I.becve, the same consider.
alton and respect, and as | suppose equally, il
not more numerous, held on to the old plat
form and insist that any tempt Of South Ca
rolina to resist the action of the Federal Gov.
ernment and the Vaccinations of the Abolition.
! lists of the non slaveholding States. without the
aid of the other slave States or at least for.
midahe portion Of them, will be fruitless, and
retard rather than forward the ends we all have
! in view.
There are few, and believe very few,
amongst US who suppose that in the end, our
best interests woul Id be consulted, by bearing
as well as we may, the wrongs done to us by
the Federal Government, and to submit to
those that are in store for us. They reason
that all the slaveholding States united would
he unable to resist the power Of the Federal
Governmental all the civilized world are
united against US onthe question Of slavery, and
that the protection of this Government is the
only security we have, against universal
combination against US. With these, | have no
right and there is no one so visionary rs TO
! suppose that she will consent to separate from
US in pence. The example alone. would be
ruinous-each State, in Its turn, might take oc-
casion TO quarrel wth'an separate from her,
and thus break up all her foundations. The
revenue she levies upon US, is necessary TO
pamper the more favored portions of the North.
How are we to meet this state Of tkingss Are
we prepared and ready, and have we the means
of successfully opposing the force she can bring
to bear upon us? pray you to believe that
am not addressing myself to your fears, but to
your good sense and sound impartial Judgment.
know that | am addressing peop lie as patri-
otic and brave as any the light Of heaven ever
shoue upon; aud also know that there are
many who hear me now, and thousands with
in the borders OF the State who would offer
their lives willing sacrifice in defence of their
rights if it would avail any thing Would this
s,e wise and prudent in a contest so hopeless
aud unequa9 The war OF the Revolution,
that of 1912, and the more recent war with
Mexico, attest the power Of the Federal Gov.
| ernment in arms and resources. Our numeri-
cal force as compared with hers would he over
rated at one to tlItv. She has an army and
| navv-we have none She has treasury in
to which money flows through hundred chan.
nels Comparatively we have none. She has
credit at home and abroad-orr means Of bOr-
rowing will depend on our prospect Of success
in the most unequal contest that the world ev-
er witnessed Individual distress will follow in
the train. The millions invested III Railroads
will be lost, and the wc rk consigned to decay
Bank and commercial capital will fly our bor-
ders and seel: profitable investments elsewhere
our productions left to rot on our hands,
Debtors utterly ruined and creditors unpaid. -
/ This view supposes conflict of arms, and 1t
would he Il source Of some consolation to strike
hearty blow, If IT should be returned even
with interest But the United States, will have
40 motive to butcher US, or dcmolish our cities
! , blo"kalc Of cur sen coast and an lmterdic-
ton of our intercourse with the ncighborlng
/ States. will inevitably accomplish all that she
can desire. There will be no necessity for her
coming within the range Of oar longest guns
An injured man chained to 4 stake may shout
defiance, rave and thresh the air but the ene-
my remain unscahed.
But it hasieen said, that we have but to raise
the standard and the other .laveholding States
will rally around us This under other circum
stances would be imposing, and might be rea-
sonably calculated on. They have the same
interest, suffered the same wrongs, are exposed
to the same dangers which threaten us, and en-
tcrtan the same principles; but all who have
officially acted on the question, tell us, no. that
there is no cause of complaint which would JUS
tify the extremity to which our course is tendiny
arising out of the recent action Of Congress-
that precedcnts for the abolition Of the slave
trade, of which we complain, is found IN the
statute book of all the saveholding States: on
preccdents are found in the history OF the Go'
yernment for admitting California into the u
Mon with a co lsltulion iorbidding the INTRO
duction of slavery, and SO for the purchase
Of new Mexico from Texas. You are wrong,
therefore, in seizing this occasion to quarrel
with the GoAerument, and we will not unite
with YOU. The tendency of the course OF the
Government, will lead to m attempt to over
throw the institution ef slavery, and we beheve
with yOu that the time is not distant When II
will be more clearly manifested in overt acts.
In that event you may depend on our hearty
Co. operation. We mag question the propr'ety
and wisdom of this determination, but | cannot
command confidence in their change of opln-
ion, and their coming to urrellet now. blush
for the ignorance of any one who hopes or ex-
poets aid from any Of the Governments OF Eu-
rope Is il not known that every civilized nation
on the earth land we must speak oi things as
they arc) are opposcdto involuntary slavery, and
will any one bcieyc that any of the nations OF
Europe will forego the advantages OF commerce
community of feeling or sentiment. But these
considerations overlook entirely, that the slave.