Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-07-13
The Winnsboro' Register

The Winnsboro' Register
In aninadvertng upon our course in the Presden-
tia election, says:
"TnE CAMDEN JoURNAL-Our heighbor o! this de-
voted Southern Rights paper has begun to swerve con-
siderably as we think from his former perpendicular
and make tracks towards the fence. Now, we do not
wish to censure or condemn the course taken by
our espccal friend but as feel disposed to make
tracks the other way, towit out of the Union, we
have thought proper to drop few words upon the
subject In the Journal of the I'd inst. our neghbor
after taking high ground against the Wings, (which in
the man, is all right says: If we support them lthe
Democratic uominees at all let us do it heartily dc"
We shall try to answer the Register in the order in
which his objections appear.
First-As to our beginning to swerve from our for-
mer course and making tracks towards the fence
This is only matter Of opinion on the part OF the
Register and in point Of fact is without foundation
We ask any one who can to show from any OF our edi
torals since the annihilaton of Secession, that we
have in the least repudiated solitary principle touch
ing the right or duty o. South Carolina to secede or
regrettng the course pursued during the pendency
of that question Since that matter was decided, we
have been free to condemn the course which some of
the Secession and Cooperation Journals in the State
have pursued. This intermnable war of words, and
their idle vaporings think inconsistent with the
true position which parties ought to assume in South
Carolina We ask what good is to be expected from
keeping up party organizations? Secession is hope
lessly dead, and it will be far from magnanmous on
the part of the Cooperatonsts to claim entire control
and direction in every thing relating to the policy and
course of the State Regarding the question OF seces'
sion as settled we think it the true policy of all parties
in the State to unite and make the best we can out Of
n had bargain Our remarks heretofore have been full
and have sufficiently explained this point Our posi-
ton has not been changed by making tracks towards
the ence-ths on the part of the Register is gratu-
tous assumption.
1t is obviously no,D the policy of South Carolina to
pursue course which will tend to strengthen bond Of
union with her sister Southern States for the idea Is
supremely ridiculous the part of fraction OF her
people to suppose that they con make tracks out OF the
Union" Where is the reason or sense of talking so
much about thot which may be safely regarded as an
impossbility2.
The great burthen Of the Registers objection Is to
our entering "hearty' into the Presidential Canvass
that by doing So we exclude ourselves the privilege Of
expressing our appreciation Of any Wing measure, or
of conden.niuS in either party that which we may see
amiss Not so, friend Regiser-you are altogether
wrong We will have just The same right to approve
or condemn what we may see, as though we occupied
position of indifference or independence such as you
suggest. We have never supposed that because we
saw fit to advocate the measures of certain party
that we must of necessity belong to the leaders OF that
party and must think and act they dictate. Noso-
we reserve the right always to think for ourselves and
when we urge upon the State the policy Of her casting
her vote for Pierce and King, we do 80 with the hon.
est conviction that it s right And furthermore II we
pretend to support the Democratic nominees let US DO
so heartily" for we are ono of those who believe in
the doctrine that if we cannot get out Of the Union
we must do the best We can in it We mean, let US
be in earnes-le us show our Southern friends that we
are disposed to aid and strengthen them to cooperate
with them-let us be united at home, and throw the
burthen of agitation upon the North where it belongs
We COPY the annexed extract from the article in the
Journal of the I'd inst, to which the Register refers
and to which it objects warmly. Our readers can
see for themselves whether there is any thing therein
which indicates tracks towards the fence" We OBJ
TO THIS phrase Atlu ueSue oui ii0uu INV
use it again. at least in reference to our course for It
does not belong to us.
IF the South, In body, would always yield hearty
and cheerful support to the party which came nearest to
their standard of right in few years she would die
tate the principles upon which the country should be
! governed This State has long occupied peculiar
nosition-she has stood aloof from federal politics and
withheld herself from all those associations arising out
of party connection which bind together the several
States of the Union perhaps more strongly than any
thing else. She has been in the Union but not Of it.
What has been the RESULT Has any good thing been
effected by it? Does any one hope that good will re,
suit from continuing in it2 1t is evident to all that
we could not have done worse and perhaps if our par
ty alliances had been stronger the moral effect of our
position might have operated upon our sister States OF
the South to produce different consummation Wa
are now in favor ofpaying the best game we can with
the cards dealt out to U.s. (baI though they be,) to
strengthen the hands of partners and weaken our
opponents.
Laying the Corner Stone.
Tho ceremony of laying the Corner Stone Of Bethe
Church. in the City of Charleston took place week be-
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