Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-05-27

shall he my destiny. s't E.is8,sstf9s
am, gentlemen, with great respect your
humble and obedient servant. 81 s,ssax
The First Movement. ~ sa
The Commercial Transcript, juvenile sheet
published at Columbia, must have astonished 7he
people of our Capital, with an announcement Ia.
der the head of "GLoRIous News .7Ss Bal Ia
Motion, :" which appeared on Saturday morning.
Its readers mus, have anticipated al least thai the
citizens of Charleston had blown pp FsH Sumter
or taken Fort Moultrie, aud that the 6mt blqWln
defence of the honor, rights and institutio ~
South had been struck. Bit no such shines
merely announced the fact--she Tfsnse1iipk
it the gratifying fact'-that The citizens oF
burg, town just this side Of the Sssasafh nlslfs
and connected With Georgia BY ! toll tfid5s ls
proposed to hold public meeting to 8E6s
ures against the "Sspsrate Secession ~
Carolina from the Federal Compact g And lhis Z
is what the ,ihiest and feebIest;s specimen q
South Corolina press hcralds ioth to its sreadesg
as Glorious News.'- We hope; for the ho6assof
the press Of South Cafoalna. slat she Transcript
has few Northern exchanges. for those 5eatnsls is
that region whic. see the annodncenlehi villas
suredly give il more flaming caption. and haik
/, is The first indication Of the casing II
to-dom Marx the prediction! AMI the Saahsrs
Patriot the sponsors who r,aaed that sheet at its
'bap,ism) will hug The Transcript in its embrace
and will fondle and nurse its youngest bsasher
with such affection as we fear, will resultin serious
consequences to It's nfante powers. and ha ten
the full develoRment Of a disease. with which we
feared it was afflicted on the day Of its birth.
Glorious news! that number Of the people Of
a town, scarcely anything more than q cotton
d:pot, or a block of Offices where commission,
and receiving, and forwarding agents transact
their business should, from interested motives on
the equally unpatriotic ndselfsh counse,s ofear,
should make The first movemeni againsta mea.
sure which looks solely to the saldicstIs ufahe
rights of the people of South Carolina. and the
security of these rights IN the future GIorisus
news, that the inilatory step to bitter and aio-
lent party contest among our people was about to
be taken!: Glorious news, that heseeds of fla
terna strife has again taken root inthe sou of our
beloved State, and are about to exhae their pois-
onous vapors, TO enfeebe and prostratethe arms
about to be raised in defence OF the honorand in
tercsts of Carolinians 3 Giori 'us news, that
brother should be arrayed against brother; that
the pride of opinion should be inHaned 70 the
highest degree; that the step which was dreaded
above all others by oul enemss and idespo.'efs'
might possibly be frustrated that the resolves Of
our people were idle bombast and that the State
of South Carolina should be hurled from heS
proud position, to one of infamy aud disgraee'
and this too, by the hands Of her own sons. Truly
it will be glorious news to the fanatics OF new
England, but oh! how can it be so called by any
true hearted Caroliuian! Such prospect SENDS
a chill through our veins, and its announcement
even coming from the source referred To- brings
with it sad apprehensions and gloomy forebod'nsS
On the men who have planned, and those VINO
aid to execute this organization of actlons wlIhn
our State, should they succeed in their macnll's-
tions will rest the responsibility of bringing staa
ou tlie yet utlIdrlliSneu 'eSCutCuco" W
State, of dishonoring the memory OF shef depaHeo
Statesman and of, we fear, extinguishing Forever
that spirit Of stern resistance to wrong ana oP
preston, which is indigenous to her sols ana
which can only be crushed by the treachery oi hef
professed friends. The organization Of these iac-
,ions does not originate with men who love tne'f
State, for the most energetic and digent advocates
ofseparate State action would sacrifice their cher
ished opinions, rather than bring that Illumination
aud disgrace upon us, which internal ieuos ana
discord must inevitably bring No. rather thah
see the State dragged from her present proud po-
sition of Resistance to the wrongs of the past
and become an easy prey to her despoiers, and a"
object of ridicue to her defamers and standerers-
There are we spprehepd, few separate secsss'on-
;s,s who would not exercise their patience, and
I.bor for two, three, or fve years to keep her
there ......, "A ssszs.-- -
The news heralded to its readers by the Trans
,rpt as glorious" if indicative Of any extended
throughout the State, is the foreruEner
# shame of South Carolina. We exhort our
AZ neither to touch nor handle the uucean
hing