Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1852-01-20
WHENCE MUST OUR REDEMPTION
GOMEZ

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doubts anduncertainties. That there are dangers
before us, Of the most fearful character can
not be disbeleived. That these dangers are
daily increasing in magnitude is equally true;
| The spirit of Abolition, which commenced
breathing its pcstiIorous Influences upon the
American mind bat few years ago, Is no"
being felt in every part of our vast Republic.
| North of Mason's and Dixon's line, it has nj.
ready become potent TO direct and control the
ballntbox, to a lamentable undue extent.
And South of that line, it has tainted its thou
sands. In looking over its past history, the
conclusion is forced upon every onservant man
that this wild and dsorganizing spirit has been
rapidly progressive. Nor is there any thing
at presant transpiring, calculated to lessen
the probabilities of its career becoming more
and more sweeping with each succeeding
wear. Every effort to impede its onward
course is scattered and driven off, like chaff
before the wind Even the high functionarics
of the Central Government with all their ac.
cunlulated power, are Inefficient to decrease
| lis terrible momentum The reasons, we lear,
are too clear to be doubted, going to show
that Power and Fanaticsm are Fastening on,
hand in hand to the destrution Of Southern
prosperity by subyersion Of that institution
upon which it mainly depends.
And where are we to look for the redecmng
angel, destined to roll back this dark and dash
ing tide? 1t may be answered. to the homes
ty the Justice and the generosity of the great
American People There was a time when
there might have been something consoling in
this reply. But that time is not now-may
never be- again. Our fathers before us were
sustained in many political trialsb an abiding
faith in the American "ror populi." But as Of
ten as they trusted, so often have they been
deceived Until, gradually, the patriotic i'm
pulses which led them to instl into the youth.
iul minds of us, their children, Jealous ad-
miraton of the American character became
chilled and blighted And their last teachings
partook more of the nature of solirtous war
nings against great and growing evil Would
that it were so, that the faith of our fathers
still dwelt securely in the bosomes of the pre-
sent genaration of Southcrners Bat it can
not be- A change has passed over the Repub.
| lie and over Republicans; and every one, who
will rot obstiaately close Ills eyes, must per-
| ceive it, Our Government has been basely
perverted to unholy and unconstitutional pur
poses. The simplicity and trugality of for.
mer days have been replaced by complexity
! and extravaganza, among our people as well
as in the departments of State. The old Sax
on and Norman blood, which planted the tree
: of Liberty on this side the Atlantic, has been
strangely mixed and corrupted by an influx of
men of all kndrcds and tongues And this
last evil has but just fairl y commenced. The
American people are not now what they were
twenty years ago. Twenty years hence, aud
no man may be able TO delneate with any ac-
curacy the thousands phases of American So
cictv. True, the National anal gam may &C.
ment the various heterogeneous compounds III.
to one solid mass So much the worse for
Southern welfare. For every ship load of em-
grants landed upon our shores is but al in
crease of those feelings and principles, which
tend to raise the Central Power upon the down
fall of local interests and State Right. Be-
cause, the advocates of Consolidation and the
propagaudists Of Abolition having already the
numerical strength, those who come from 9th.
cr lands bcingimbued with similar views will as
suredly blend with the marority. And such
are ALL or nearly all, who are now lOcking by
thousands to American soil. No. The final
dccis on Of the American People is no Ion.
ger worthy to Ec trusted. In America, the
''ror popui| is now far-vcry far from being
the "ror Dei" |: is much nearer th, voice of
Anarchy and misrule
When then. We ask again, shall we look for
Southern redemption! The conlidmg religion
ist may reply, to the infinite goodness and wis
dom of that Providence which rnles the affairs
of nations. MAY this sacred confidence never
desert US! But, be it remembered, the lessons
OF our holy religion instruct us that man is the
instrument OF his own wc-hcAg while it is
God who givcth the increase-that Is by the
active and untiring use If means, with the blcs-
sings of Heaven, we are to secure either tenn
poral or eternal good. IF we slumber and
sleep, it is in vain we look to the Righteous
Ruler above us for that which we need. If
now, as Il people, we lie suplncy upon our
backs while political Avalanche threatens to
orewhclm US in ruin, we will offend ii just Pro-
violence by an empty faith which shows itself
by no outward works. There is a faith in the
just Government of Heaven, which has and
will again rebound to the benefit of nations.
1t is faith, smuar to that which animated
Patrick Henry, when he exclaimed, "To trnst
to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is
left usr' And here is indicated the only in.
strumcntality, we verify believe, which will
discnthrall our Southern homes from the doom
which now seems to await them. Let US dare
IN ,Io what was done i'm IT76-nud the same