Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-08-19
BY RUTLEDGE.

ner. uOllSaed originally In The EdsefIeld ADVERT
ins in,' ~ BY RuT1zDan.
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T. 4a NO. vi.
. Effects Of Separate State Secession on the OF
..1..a Southern States.
It is often urged that separate governm
IN South Carolina would estrange the otl
Southern States, and exasperate them aeai
us. we are at loss to see how this will b,
pen. Will South Carolina, after she NAV wi
nj draw from the Union, assume hostile attItu
towards any Of these Statcs9 Will she n
on the contrary, be inclined to a peaceful DO
= cy In all her relations Far, from impos
= szssg1ctlnnssnPsSs&th the commerce and intercour
OF the Southern States, she will ffeely .,.....s
| 2oth, and will be'always readyto supply these
States SO far as her means will allow, and the
government under which they live will permit
with all the facilities ola cheap and a prosper.
ons trade. Charleston. opened as she now is
to all their trade and intercourse, while afford.
ing them, by means of our nearer approach to
Tree trade, an. excellent port for the sale and
transhlpment of their exports, will, at the same
tlme' be able TO supply them more cheapy than
any OF the United States sea port towns, with
all the commodities they may wish for con.
hinder their full enjoyment Of these great com.
mercial benefits, it would be no fault of ours,
and it could with reason excite no prejudice
against US. Nothing but a petty jealousy, from
which we must consider our neighI ors exempt,
could, on this account create any unkind feel.
ing. But would not their generous impulses
dironf thu of fhoco Sf.fac
against the real author of the Inconvenience
and would not new restrictions upon their
trade and Intercourse serve to open their eyes
more fully TO the wrongs they are at present
made to bear? Such seems to be the most
natural course of things.
1t is also difficult to conceive how the sep.
aTate nationality of South Carolina will create
disaffection by opposing obstacles to the growth
aud prosperity OF anv of the Southern States.
Can it, in any wav, force them to produce less,
to sell their produce cheaper, or buy their COM
modities at higher rate than they now doa-
Certainly not. And where will be the inconven-
fences 10 which they are subjugateds True,
unless postal arrangements be made between
our State and the General Government, the
Western mail whchnow passes through Carries
ton, would be conveyed Immediately to Savan-
nah but would Georgia, the State most likely
to be affected By such an arrangement, deem
this al Inconvenience since it would give more
Importance to Savanaah while afording that
State all the mail facilities she now enjoys
So Augusta might be deprived Of several huu.
dred Thousand dollars of South Carolina trade,
but she might get treble that amount from Geor
gia which now goes 10 Charleston and New
lork, TO say nothing of the large increase OF
trade to Savannah. 1t is easily to be seen that
no important interest as now, existing III
any ol tine other Southern States is at all likely
to be thwarted by the separate action OF South
Carollna. On the contrary, according to the
opinion oftho opposed to separate secession,
the interests OF our neig ghboring states, BY
houses aud special Legislative charities from the
General Government, are to be SO rapidly pro-
noted US to excite our envy, aud cause us,
within short period, to seek a reunion with
tue other States. Ii such be the case, as is SO
confidently expected, where will there be any
cause OF disaitecton towards our State p
What the secession of South Carolina serve
greatly to iucressetle prosperity OF these States,
aud yet render them hostile against US! Who
can explain this paradoxf
But it is said. the other Southern States
will be aroused against US for presuming to
lead in this great contest for Southern liberty,
and for involving them in struggle with tine
General Government without cause 10 sup
pose our sister States actuated by motives 80
trivial and selfish is to cast stigma upon their
escutcheon. Their generous natures forbid
the suspicion of passions SO grove.ling. Such
paltry considerations ,nightinharne theIanguage
of the coffee house politician or the stump ora.
tor and lead hin, to abuse our purpose, to pro.
mote his own sinister designs: they could new.
or swerve from its dgniied aud honorable ca.
rser, n 'high.n,nded, sovereign State. The
people of the Southern: States incensed against
South Carolina for bold defence of the rights
and liberties Of the South! No. never, never. !