Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-12-14
Letter from California.

We received few days ago letter from our es-
teemed friend Rev. j. W. KELLY, dated Stockton, Cali
fornia Oct 30 Our readers will remember that about
a wear ago. Mr. KELLY visited our town, and took up
collection for the purpose Of deiray;ng the expenses
in part, for hmsel: and family, and another Missionary
to the gold regions of the far Vest IIo has been for
some time laborng zcalously, and we doubt not with
success in California His recollection of the clever
ness oe the Camden friends he tells u.s. is not forgot
ten We extract the following from his letter, al
though intended as private communication, we take
,e liberty OF using it in columns thinking it may
be interesting to his friends who may see it, and to
our readers generally:
"If thought you would come to California |
would take any trouble and pains to give You all
the news-for rest assured, my good friend, that
this is not ouly great and marvellous state, but
will continue so to be for years and years to comc
and there can be no question but that society Is
organizing here on solid basis, and all the ce-
ments Of prosperity and true greatness IRE in
course Of rapid and astounding development,
and am glad the southern portion of the great
Republic is so credtably represented here al
ready, and in social, political and religious point
of view, am inclined, from actual observation
to conclude the South is giving, or very soon will
give body and shape" to mind aud manners,
and so think because the thrifty yankee is more
inclined to make his pile by shook or by crook"
and then 90 bonneville the less thrifty but
more valuable southern or western man comes to
STAY, settles in some business farming merchan-
,lizng or regular mining, and having by nature
or education more Of the lone feeling sooner
loses his anxiety for home and becomes ident.ti-
ed. think two thirds of the farmers with their
families are of this class, and the better class of
lawyers and medical gentlemen are almost all
southerncrs. Whether the State is ever divided,
or whether it ever becomes slave holding State,
are questions that may be left out of the count,
and vet we ought to be here in fair proportion
if no more--iu view Of the influences that must
rndmlc from this State, as centre toward Cen
tra America and the South Americ N Republics,
Eastern ASIA the japanese Islands and the Is
lands of all the Pacific. Let our social educa-
tional, and religious influences be here. They
are, AMI ever have been, highly conservative and
Of tendency really el,yating and progressive.
Then we may anticipate tn" permanency of Re-
publican institutions, and the triumph of chris
tianity, in those modes of development, which
will ensure the actual happiness and certain sal
vntion Of its convcrts-let Romanisn and Nor
rnonism and all thcisms Of the northwest of New
England and infarl Europe be held in check by
the solid refinement, and unaduleratcd religion
Of the South. 1t can be done. Isms are airy
aud # touched hy the proper hands will vanish
INTO thin air." Let the christian patriots of "my
own, my native land" not prove laggards in this
crisis of our worlds history-nc, let them "screw
their r"ur.G" t" the sticking point" and though
there b" six Rirhmon |: in the ti,ld," we have
better c,ll>r and cleaner hands than The HunclI-
hrrk." and may. in an eminent sens, be the con-
scrvators Of Rcrublicansm and the true (f not
trucst) soldiers Of Christ-and consequently, the
best friends of man."