Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-10-21

acquleSce III the gloss GreeHvIlle ana the fed
eral organs will put upon the late contest
The slander must be repelled. or the irresistible
conclusion will br that South Caroliua has wheel
ed into the Submission lne.-Sonh Carolinian.
From the Oreenville Patriot
"a BRAVE HEART, BUT COWARDLY
LEGS"
We have somewhere seen story Of a fellow
who boosted very much ofhs courage, but al.
ways ran away in battle. He was inquired the
reason OF his clustering and cowardice. In re.
ply he said that he had as brave heart as any
man, but nature had given a pair Of ID
cowardly legs, which would always fly from
danger. His heart desired to fight, but Ills legs
would not stand and let him fight.
We think this story might, with great pro-
priety, be applied to goud many poii'icans in
South Carolina. In heart they were as much
opposed to secession and revolution as any
man could be, but they had not the moral cour-
age to stand alone and breast torrent which
was sweeping over their devoted country
They desired to stand aud fight but their c"D-
ardly legs would run away! They knew Sc.
cassion was wrong, ard said SO, but in the slang
of the day, they would "go with the State" !"
or The cro,od, aud with the crowd they went!
Opposition to secession in South Carolina was
as silent as death-not whisper was heard.
1t was said and bell ed that tiere we're not
hundred men in tie State opposed to seces-
sion.
About this time, dark and goomy enough it
was, the Southern Pdt lot made its appearance.
Men who believed every word it contained,
were afraid to be seen reading it, and denied
that they took il! Butsoon a few letters werere.
ceived from different parts of the State tiu,idly
encouraging the editors They were published
Others came in quick succession. Soon it was
discovered that there were disaffected spirits all
over tue State! One man speaking out elnbod.
ened III other to speak, until a multitude had
spokena Every week the columns of the Pai.
riot teemed with letters ofapproval. The Sc.
cessionists began TO be alarmed. They saw
opposition was springing up, an in order to
smother it the Charleston Convention was call.
ing al tie - 5sedi5in Maf cuts ~ South Carolina
Dissensions grew out oft, and the breach wild
eued every day by discussion aud agitation.
The Southern Patriot called on the people ev.
erywhere in South Carolina to hold public
meetings and express their sediments. But
at first they shrank from it. They were afraid
to divide the State uto parties! At length,
however, the people took the bit in their own
mouths. They had studied over this matter
and saw the danger ahead ofthem.
Hamburg set the ball in motion. A public
meeting was called, bat it was thinly attended
The secession papers throughout the State rid
iculed it, laughed at it, and spoke Of it with
contempt
The people of Greenville next determined to
have a meeting and celebrate the fourth Of Ju.
ly. In advance it was denounced as treasona.
ble, the papers everywhere cautioned persons
against attending it, or countenancing it by
writing letters or otherwise! Her own citizens
-ried to break it up! But the meeting came
of, aud glorious one it was. Three or four
thousand persons attended, and letters were
read from twenty or thirty distinguished SONS
of Carolina, expressing their opposition to Sc.
cession!
Now the ice was fairly broken. and opposi.
ton organized, public meetings sprung up in
every part of the State. Every district, and
almost every parish has spoken in opposition
to secession. The Southern Pairiot proposed
that the strength should be tested in every Con-
eressonul District, by running candidates for
the Southern Congress. After much delay the
proposition was adopted, and the battle is ut
hand. This election will seal the fate of seces.
sion in South Carolina. Its death knell is now
ringing! Monday morning, to the polls, free
men, to the polls, and strangle the monster by
voting for lrby and Orr.
Be no longer afraid to say that you love
your country. aud your whole country, the
country of Washington and Franklin, the home
of the free and the land Of the brave; and III
loving your whole country, you show your love
and devotion TO your own South Carolina.-
Be no longer afraid to oppose, though crushe !
by your opposition. tina: wild fauaticism and
madness which seeks to desolate aud dshonor
your beloved State.
Kossutl's wife and three sens are with him