The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1851-01-07
SOUTH CAROLINA.

II mas DeeH Lie Ol Stldh
ers aud dcmagogucs to bvlch oat, their foul
streams of abuse on South Carolina. When
their narrow inteiects and ant-southern feel
in9s aud prejudices are without a topic, that
gsila,it State furnishes a theme on which they
suIIpose they can successfully arouse the preju-
dicss of tic people. But that theme is getting
threadbare-that demagoge clamcr is fast los:
ing its force. That State has at all times had
more talent in it i'll proportion to its population
t6al any other State 1t has at all times been
distinguished for its freedom from pauperism
andscrime; for the noble and exalted hospitali.
ty OF its inhabitants, and for the bravery Of her
sons OF the field of battle. We believe we
speak the truth when we say, that more of her
sons voluntarily declined exalted official stations
in the State and Federal Government than in
any State in the Union; and we ask with tri-
amphant defiance the calumniators OF South
Carolina to show one single instance III the
whole financial history of the country in which
acity has invested five hundred thousand dol
lars ia a public enterprise in another and dis
tant State in which she loses every particle of
benefit arising from the local expenditure of the
money! Ponder on this. ye calumniators of
Charleston and South Carolina!
Dut, on. Coutl NdToililii Huiliiicdtiou! eA-
claims the willy demagogue in his appeals, who
wishes to use old prejudices for the destruction
ofslayery. South Carolina notification ex-
claims the consolidation federalist who wishes
to,obliterate State laws and have one grand,
corrupt, central, consolidated government
And what ofthat! Is there any one now who
has the inpudence and audaeity to say that the
mons.rous tariff Of 1928, out of which South
Carolina notification arose, was not a gross,
an abomhiable outrage on the rights of the
South? Where can there be found defender
cfEthat unequal law now9 And no doubt South
Carolina, having but few manuiactories-fewcr,
perhaps, at that time than any State the Union
--her great staples being rice and cotton
South Caroliua having almost e'ery thing to
buy from abroad, and selling nothing but her
staples, was worse oppressed than any State in
the Union. The people Of the United States
have passed fiual condemnation on the explo-
ded theory of protection. The State Of Penn.
sylyania, in the Presidential election, organized
u public clamor about an iron tax, but the thing
is dead. It has been overthrown in England,
and win soon be regarded as one tthe exrlo-
ded fllacies of by-gone age; and the course
4ofsSouth Carolina no doubt had its share in the
destruction of that system. If South Carolina
acted hastily then-if she committed cxcesses,
none will now be so false and audacioaS as to
deny that shc,was provoked and enragcd by the
ACTION of the general government, BY the pas.
sage of the act Of 1928. She acted under a
goading sense Of wrongs and injuries
sesi But Sonth Carolina advocates the immediate
withdrawal of the Southern States from the
Northern States! Some of her citizens do and
some do not. What the action OF tie constitu-
ted authorities OF the State will be. lies in the
future, and depends upon the united action Of
the southern States, and upon the prospect of
continued aggression by the northern States,
leading directly and plainly to the emancipation
of four. millions Of slaves in these southern
States. South Corolina has more slaves than
whites within her borders. She has deeper
.pecuniary interes. in the question Of .i.ycry
than any of her sister southern States. Her
soil is most highly fitted for slave labor, and
the destruction of slavery would desolate that
State forever, even if they could be removed.
South Carolina is exposed in a higher degree
to the danger of insurrections from these har-
RAISING agitators than any other State. Gen.
Jackson in his message in 1892 told these
-abolitiouists that their agitatons might lead to
sinsurrectons and that they must end them
This idea so far from quietug them seems to
stimulate their activity and increase their zeal.
Is the exposed and dangerous condition Of South
Carolina, is the prospect of unparalleled desc.
lation staring them, as they believe, in the face,
sufficient to furnish no apology for the various
opinions and action of South Caronv, from
her sister States who have deep interest in
the same question South Carolina is acting
on the defensive. She is not the aggressing
party, and it is base aud unblushing calulnny
to charge that she is the aggressing party. If
Senator Seward were in Nashville as the con-
eductor of public press, seeking the destruction
Of slavery, he would fire his popgun once
week at Vermont and his seventy -four daily at
South Carolina Is there any man in the State
who believes that if South Carolina felt secure
in those rights which the Constitution gnaran.
ties to her, she would not be Tranquil and sus.
gtain the Union of these Statess No, not one
hut knows she would
a. We deeply apprehend from the dreadful
storm which now RACES in the North, that the
South is to be degraded from her equal condi-
tion in this confederacy, and that the worst an.
ticipations of South Carolina arc about to be
realised.--.NashvIle American.
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