Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-06-20
Some Reasons for Secession.

| Whatever may be the results Of secession, we
must be prepared to meet them; people not
willing to make sacrifices to maintain their liberty,
are not deserving of, neither will they long enjoy
it. TO shut our eyes when our rights arc at haz-
ard, and suppose all will go right when it has been
going wrong for more than quarter OF century,
betokens folly, stupidity, and cowardicc.
It's the suppositon that we will bear anything
rather than dissolve this Union that has embolden
our oppressors; there is no hope Of retaining
what we now have, but IN separating from them.
To be subject to the will OF one despot, would
be far preferable to tile despoIism cf tic majority
under which we now live: al individual might
die or re put out OF the way, and there might be
4 chance for amendment, not so with majority,
it lives on. perpetrating its measures regardless
OF any responsibility for its acts.
IF South Carolina Dies not secci, from this Cl-
ion, iAe effect uP0n her peculiar population viH lie
disastrous in The ertrcme. They mW hao'c that
there are hose r'om zoe fear, control ou actions;
ka! ton hare a master tai can are as into sub
mission and whD thN master is, and vhere that pow-
er is, they acH 'eeH knop; and 10 Mai same pO'rer
they mW he taught 10 IOok, rken their minds haze
been poisoaedby Cilse representations and deceiyl
hoprs held ont ~ L!em.
Why should we be dcsirous of still living under
political compact with our o7prcssor<, Il people
whose past history has proved them 50 :a,thlcss {!
They bind themselves by promises, by pledges,
by compromises, 10 be broken at their pleasure |;
We have trusted them in times past, only to be
deceived; have they become more honest, pure,
patriotic and just, that we should trust them for
the future. IT'S true, they may make some
show ofjuScc nom, some promise Of fair dealing,
but it will be, only the better to secure the fruits
OF their past i"iquity, which they may suppose to
be endangered by the prospect of disunion. Let
us learn wisdom from the past, and be deceived
no more.
We arc told that if we act separately we will
ALLEVIATE the South from us that we will ALLEVIATE
the political leaders who arc Keeping down the
spirit of resistance is doubtless true, but to sup
pose further than this, would be j libel on human
nature.
Suppose we act alone and succeed, and thus
save ourselves and them. from the future so full
of danger while in the Union, would this take their
sympathy from us! Suppose that we act alone
and fall if we fail, their cause falls with us, and
then they will only regret they did not aid us, as
in so doing they would have saved themselves.
1t is high time that this laIlacy OF driving the
South from US by action, was scattered 10 the
winds. Our mistake has beer in delay. Had S.
Carolina seeded Immediately on the admission
of California, the South would now have been
with us, but we waited for cooperation, and where
is it? and yet in the face of all This, we are yet
asked to wait have we lost our senses? live
act We shall in the end have all the South with
us and ralilornia realizing her true interest will
be one ofus. live do not act, we will lose our
own scIf.raspcct, we will loose confidence in our
scltcs, and the people will turn away in disgust,
when YOU talk of State rights, State sovereignty
State action they will have no confidence in any
thing but the drgcnrracy and corruption OF man.
Ii has been said that South Carolina Will be-
compcrd hv force 20 remain i'll the Union; lad
sl been brouahl into it by force, there would DC
some p!ausibiIity in the idea of compelling her by