Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-08-22

nave no ueaInS Win the IanatcS OF Europe
and the distance is too great for them to exer
else any. influence over our public opinion.
~ But aIstate Of facts is conjurcd up to give
opportunity. to Great Britain to 7interneddle
with our slavery. A war is supposed to break
out between South Carolina and the General
Government We are imagined to be unfor.
tunate enough to secure the aid of Great Bri-
tain. Is it in the bound of reason to suppose,
that after assisting the State to defend her insti
tutions against the fanaticism of the North,
Great Britain would d'ofer to free our slaves, or
to reduce us to a dependent colonyg Ii she
did, what would be her prospect of success!-'
Would we not defend ourselves as stoutlr
against her, as we have done against the Uni-l
ted States9 But such terms would never be
offered There is no reason to suppose SO. In
much less enlightened times, England gave re-
peated assistance to the smaller European
powers in their wars with larger nations; but
we read of her making no such humiliatng
propositions. The idea is positively absurd
What benefit could Great Britain promise her
self by such scheme, if carried into effect !
She certainly could not desire to free the slaves
in South Carolina, without wishing to free them
in the other States. But how could she lend
her hand to this nefarious object9 Would not
the abolition of slavery at once put stop to
the culture of cotton in the United States g
What then would become of the many millions
of British people who depend on cotton for en-
| ployment and the means of subsistence! They
would at once be driven to the point of starva-
lion, and would raise such tumultas to cause
! the English government to shake to its very
centre. A total failure of the cotton crop in the
United States would cause England an amount
of misery and destitutiop, and q degree OF pop
ular outbreak, that would be terrific to contem-.
plate. The English government, exercising
any agency in the matter, could not survive
six months. That government, how great soev.
er might be the clalpor of a small class ofsfa-
natics, could never be so infatuated as to at.
tempt an object so utterly suicidal Besides,
the ghastly picture of ruin, presented ny her
West India possessions, stares her boldly in.
the eyes representing to her, more powerfully
than language or argument the disastrous ef-
fects of her former policy. The English ma
ton, often bad at theorizng, but quick to learn
from experience, has too much practical wis
dom to again attempt like ruinous course.
Under no circumstance can slavery in South
Carolina he endangered by, British influence /;
and If not by this, surely by the influence OF no
other European power. No |! the unholy cru
SADIE against this institution, if it come at all,
must come from the North. 1t can come from
no other quarter. On that side is the certain
danger. This is as clear as any moral propo.
stion, resting on future probabilities, can be-
In that direction, then, we should erect our bull
warks of defence.
Now, whether will slavery in South Carolina
be safer against the Vaccinations of the North,
while tho State is in or out of tho Union e
There can he no doubt-tchle out Of The Union!
For first, by having control of the mails, we
may easily exclude all incediary documents
&c; and by proper system Of police, fully
Justi6abls in tho eye of international law,
we can shut out from our borders all suspicious
and evil disposed persons Free from federal
legislation, also, we need have no fears from
Legislative enactment, which is now so threat
ening The Northern fanatic may then rave,
print, publish, denounce, and pursue the dictates
Of his "higher law to his hearts content; he
will little disturb our quiet. How would it, in
deed, be possible for Northern fanatics to en-
danger our institutions unless by actual inroads
upon our soil for as TO fugitive slaves we
could be in no worse condition than we are at
present Are they likely to wage war of arms
against US! How is the army to be raised and
supported and where is it to be sent! Could
our neighboring States assist in raising such an
armys or, ifraised, could they suaerit to march
through their borders to abolish slavery in
;; nth Carolinag The overthrow of slavery
with US, would be its overthrow with them.
The army that could be mad enough to attempt
the abolition of slavery here, would not have
forbearance enough, in trumphantly returning,
to spare the "damnable" institution in the other
States. These States would have to surrender
it likewise. Nothing less would satisfy the de-
mcnted folly of this hellish spirit. Would the
other States, until they are prepared to givou up
slavery all together, allow such an army to pass
through their borders! To suppose they
would, is to impeach their intelligence and their
spirit.
But there is little danger Of hostile invasion
by the fanatical North. The rabid spirit of
auarice by which that people are governed.
would restrain them from placing hostile feet
upon our soil. 1t is well known, that in all
this crusade against our institutions, they have
been moved by no feelings of genuine phian-
thropy or religion, but u close, sordId selfish
ness, which has as yet never lost sight OF the
pocket. This is the Deity at whose shrine they
worship, in all their denunciatons OF our peo'
nla and in oll their cncroachments upon the