Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-06-13
Yours, with true Respect
A. p. BUTLER.
ARE THERE DIVISIONS AMONG US9

ARE THERE DIVISIONS AMONG US!
1t is our province to watch closely the work.
ings of public sentiment, the influences that
direct it, and to distinguish the genuine from
the spurious. Beyond question there are stren'
uous efforts now being made in various sections
of the State to palm off on the superficial OBJ
server. both here end abroad, counterfeit cur
rency in this respect. We are convinced, how.
ever. that the public sentiment of South Car
olina cannot be thwarted from its legitimate re-
suits by such efforts.
In new papers north of US we read conSrat-
ulatory notices of a widespread reaction OF
public sentiment pervading the whole State
that Time has brought healing on-its wings,
and the genial workings of reflection have pro.
duced a wonderful change in the minds oi our
people in relation to the issue now before
them. In some Of them we read that all the
resolutions of public sentiment heretofore
made, have been merely the empty defamation
Of a gasconading people, and that the result
will demonstrate the oftrepeated prediction OF
the Northern iournais--that South Carolin will
recede from the position she wasIat least an
-derstooa to occupy on the prominent questions
before the country.
Is this change real or ficticious! Is it that the
.people of South Carolina are more .inclinedto
aacquiesce in the unjust legislation OF Congress
now then they were last years% Is it true thatthe
people, who for years past have presented the
most striking example of union against federal
wrongs ever witnessed in the country, have
cemc to the conclusion now, when everything
thew hold sacred and dear demands that union
and ITS influence to be exercised TO save them,
to allow internal divisions to PROSTATE their EN-
| eres. 9 and to render either present or future
efforts IN defence Of their rights utterly futile!
We cannot beleveit. There is nothing in the
mast historyofs our people to Justify the appre
hension. and :here are bat few indications at
the present time to cause any serious alarm as
to the future. That there may be difference
as to the time and mode of seeking safety tor
the institutions with which we are connected
no one pretends to doubt; but the desire to re-.
main in the present Coniederaey is SO seldom
and so feebly expressed in few quarters OF the
State, that its uterance causes not ripple on
the calm surface Of a settled determination to
dissolve the Union. All the coadjutors Of the
Southern Patriot in the country eau bring no
proof to the contrary.
Are there, then, divisions among Us! We as
sert that there are none now OF such niaSnl-
tude MS toendange. the great cause in which we
are engaged But let US 6erare OF he future.
We appeal to Carolinians who love their State,
who desire that she should not falter in the dis
charge of the trust committed to her, to crush.
and to crush when they have the power, the
demon of dscord among them. And we must
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Of prescription, nor attemps to ostracze those
who differ from us--not the use ot offensive
epithets, nor the nfliction of injuries to any
mans business or reputation on account OF the
opinions he holds Oh the issue Of separate Sc
cession, that we enjoin. In our opinion this is
the very way to create the divisions we dread
and deprecate. But we do appeal to all who
think we are wronged, we desire to see a
dissolution of Union that promises nothing
but a continuance Of these wrongs to the end,
not to let pride Of opinion so operate on their
feelings as to drive them iuto position they
honestly abhor. "a,
In Greenvile we have press opposed to Sc
cession, either by this State or all the Southern
States; yet its adroit managers succeedin bring
to its support many who profess Southern
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they seek or DESIRE But tho Patriot is Union
paper, champion of federalism, and those
disunion co.6perationists will have to be chary
of its insidious teachings to keep ther gar.
ments unspotted. In Charleston the Southern
Standard is announced as seeking to obtain the
union of Southean States, for the avowcd pur'
pose of establishing Southern Confederacy.
But the Standard however laudable the origi-
nal purpose of its establishment, may imper-
ceptibly glide into the same current OF union
ism and consoidationism on which the Patriot
swims now solitary and alone. The Erening
Neus is in the same position. Now, the dan.
ger in these movements is that parties, party
strife and chickering's, will be introduced among
u.s. and fearful contest between those who
originally sought the same end will produce an
estrangenent and alienation of feeling fatal to
present action, and not less fatal to future ac-
ton, even when cooperation is longer doubt.
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The nucleus ola Union party once formed
within our borders will be fraught with the ut:
most danger to the cause of the south. Around