Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-08-15
CAMDEN, SOUTH.CAROLINA, AUGUS1x5. 1851.

considerable manufacturing Town, not merely
OF Cotton, but OF various and useful commodi-
ties, especially of imPenieSts and machinery
for mechanical. agricultural and manufacturing
purposes. With her genius and capital pro.
perly directed to this branch of industry, she
might add immensely to her wealth and pros
pcrity. Only few Towns and Cities, whose
natural advantages for Commerce pour the
wealth Of nations into their harbors, become
very prosperous and wealthy without Inanu.
iactures. Charleston should look to this rs a
source ofgrcat prosperity.
What HOW are the prospects Of the State at
large? The increase of its population and
productive industry, the saving of the honest
gains of It's citizens from the plunderers Of the
North, end tie low rates at which the commo-
ditics of other nations would enter ports,
would largely aughieilt the wealti Of the State,
and add infinitely TO the comforts, improve
ments, and rcfnements of civilized life. To this
progressive advancement we can see no limit
within many centuries. Our lands are susccp-
tible of high cultivation, and our products are
of the most valuable character. Our labor, al
SO, whatever the doiuded enthusiasts of Eu-
rope and the North may interpose, is the cheap
est and most productive of any on the globe
In what section of the world, can peasantry
be found that produce equal to our slaves? Is
it not known fact, that the white agricultural
laborers OF most countries, are usually an in
doleut racc9 They labor little more than half
their time-contenting themselves with mod.
crate means of subsistence, and often directing
their labor without capital or Skill And what
is worthy OF note, while the slave labor of the
South, under the control of intelligent planters,
is more productive, tits, also, highly useful and
profitable 1t is directed almost exclusively to
the creation Of utility. All our products are
actually necessGries in every quarter of the
civilized globe-not furnishing luxuries for the
consumption of the rich alone, but comforts
and conveniences, likewise, for the middling
and poorer classes, among whom the great
bulk ofconsumption takes place. Hence, there
is with US little danger Of over production. We
may reckon upon almost perpetuity of our
commerce and trade while our power of pro.
duction, will be limited, centuries to come, only
by the extent of our Territory, after every acre
Of land shall have been highly cultivated and
improved What is to hinder US from rivalling
England in her prodigous accumulation OF
capital!
While we remain i'll the Union, bearing the
burthens which, for the last twenty-five years,
have been imposed on US, we must content our
selves with very moderate advancement in
wealth and prosperity. Charleston will i'm
prove slowly; and 4 heavy drawback will be
felt by the State on account of the immense
drains from her industry, made by the govern
ment and the North. No bright visions of f'-
turc greatness and masn;fcencc will occur to
the minds of her citizens; but, in the gloomy
vista Of the future, they will behold only the
tolls and daagcrs that heset their career. They
will be doomed to wage perpetual warfare with
the wild clements OF fanaticism and oppression,
while the fruits Of their labor will be seized
from before th,ir eyes by the rude hands Of an
arbitrary government, to feed and iatten the
greedy monopolists Of the North.