Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-01-31

Should you also, bow down your once proud
necks to the yoke Of a most calling tyranny,
where is the State toleadin future, in the effort
to throwit off Where IS the State, that would
lead in future, relying upon You to back her,
should you now, after this grand parade OF re.
sistance, signalize and even legalize your sub: q.
mission by the form and decency Of a solemn
act of Convention Of sorsreigns?
People of Carolina let us review in brief our,
acts. We have exhausted the whole vocabu-
larry of Resolutions and held all kinds of meet
ings and Conventions, that have ever perhaps
been adopted by resisting people-and all
with years Of deliheration, aud cla,nor for
war has been raised in every part Of our State,
and this has been gratified with the means Of !
high military preparation, and the old and tne
decrepid, as we'll as the young and the vigorous,
have bounded into ranks with hearts of fire for
the battle-6cld-and behold is it all to become
dream, mere Quixotic prank for tie alnns..
rnent of children! The members of Il ,uhms.
sion Convention with new shining r!''t':rs on.
trot to Columbia. and east in thei. III "a re-
solves-to submit and paid out Of yo1r taxes
their daily wages for their noble services. retn'n
to their constituents, having relieved themselves
of their vast load Of valor amd patriotism.
Shall the figure, so nobiy commenced Years
ago and lately made pregnant with ali tie lofty
elements of liberty and the dire spirit Of war,
the very embodiment Of desperate resistance t"
Federal tyranny, finish with the lowest and
humbest of beasts! And should this take
place, what State. again would ask, could
ever re y OH Us, and, from this signal failure OF
ours take courage to oppose Federal aggres-
sions9 And ye, dear lovers Of the uHion you,
let me ask. how far would this empty parade
this harmless wind serve to quell the spirit of
the Northern fanatic, and tend to preserve the
Union?
But to impress yon, Carolinians! more
forcibly with what is before us, should you he
invited to march undera flag with a picture
with your conduct Tor the last twenty years
your Meetings; your Conventions; your Reso-
lrtions; Military preparations; your Brigade
Encampments on it and on il statue Of yo"r
great champion rih scroll in his hand, and on
IL inscribed 8 The admission Of California is
thr test :; if you adma her, kno'o whot you
n,"-and on tine same flag, inscribed in
large golden !e ters, ''submH Good God! my
b;ood c"rdles in my reins," and then close be.
meath, submbted! signed BY Coprention of
free ~bite men Of Carolina! with this flag over
you, how would Won feel and who would expect
you to cooperate with them in deeds Of noble
daring-in the redress of Southern wrongss
Let those then, who earnestly desire cooper
alton of the other States, vote for men, who are
committed to separate State action, in case the
Southern Congress should not insure a ,c6.hpe.
ration Of the other States. and afford this stimu.
liant to these States, to send delegates to this
Congress.
But there are some, who are afraid to sepa.
rate; they are afraid of Federal arms, should
the State act alone. Let us see how those
tand. They admit that the Federal Govern.
ment, instead Of being the protector of our
rights, as our agent has become an unjust and
se:ere master; but they are afraid to resist,
lest they might be slain. or subdued again.
These individuals acknowledge then, that they
are subjects of a hard master, and, through
fear, they tolerate him. Are they right? Let
US te it Suppose flag should be raised and
on it inscribed, "give me liberty, or give me
DEATH" how many Carolinians on a@p..vade
day, would refuse to march under its How
many would fail to fall in under this motto of
our ancestors. themselves comparatively few,
fighting the most mighty and brutal people IN
the wo.d9 People Of Lancaster district !
what did one of your humblest fellow citizen
do in the war with Mexicos He marched up
voluntarily with Capt. Lilly, of Chester,to aid
Capt. Drum in firing cannon at Mexican
battery, not more than hundred yards OF;
yes! he marched up three times after the body
of one individual was cut in two, close bgSbls
side, and the head Of another was shot oH--he
marched up until Capt. Drum himself was shot!
Now, here was danger braved by one of your
most unprctending fellow citizens, and braved
successful y-here was all the danger braved,
that could, in the worst supposition, he put upon
our case-and braved by James Barr, one of
the most unaspring of our fellow citizens! 10
men of epaulettes! Ye men of houses, and
lands, and negroes Ye men of wives and chill.
den! Ye men! whose fathers graves are be.
fore your eyes! will We be overawed, by pre-.
sent danger, from contending for all these, aud
be surpassed by your humble fellow citizen,
James Barr, fighting in foreign country, not
Immediately for his home and his fire side; not
for wife, or children; not for property! viii
you be surpassed by other individuals, who, in
the same war from this district, stood up against
showers Of bullets! | appeal to those, who
have grown grey in the military service OF