The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-09-20

BY faithless and savage indignites towards our
countrymen, who may come within their terri
tories. Many citizens from this country, have
within the last few years been insulted, llnprl-
soned, and even put TO death, while travelling
over Prussia, Germany, Austria and Spaln.-
During the last few years, it is fact which
should bring the blush of shame and indiSna.
tion to the cheek of every American, that oar
couatsys,en travelling IN austria and Germany,
in many instances, ,cere Obliged to teigrs Mem-
se,ues English subjects, to escape insud and IN
digaity-aot from tie mob-6ut from the a.
tkorities of the coantrs. So much more Is En-
gland respected and feared than our own ma
tation-and whys Simply because she never
teqs for Justice, bat enforces it with the strong
arm of power, Her subjects are ever ready,
and proud to acknowledge allegience to their
own 'sBrtania," aud to appeal to her flag where
eppression sruns riot" over the land; while,
melancholy to be told, our countrymen, "trom
the home of the brave, snd land of the free" ;"
dare not in Austria, say of America, "Ihat is
my own-my native land The reason of
this distinction in the treatment Of our people,
and those of England, is the proud defiance of
if they have been noted for any foreign policy
at ali, it has been for temporisng, trucking
and even begging>for right-nay, more-they
have actually become the apologist, of the in
cutters of their own country, to All outraged
people
Within the last four years, fifty American
citizens quietly sailing on the high seas in an
open boat, and uaarned, were captured and
cruelty butchered by the Spanish authorities,
soithout euen a form, of trial.. Within the same
period, many of our merchant ships in the
Gulf, have been subjected to search, and their
crews to insult Thrasher, an American citi-
zen, was openly captured in Cuba, and actually
transported.to that horrible sink the Spanish
Mines in Africa, without shade of'crime but
his liberal opinions. These are humliating
truths-truths which cannot be relished by the
friends of the last Administration they are
truths too, which teach US that begging will
never obtain right, but that they
.Who would be ree themselves must strike the blow
The poet has we'll said, "Coming events cast
their shadows before"
The nation, feeling justly outraged at our
beggarly position among foreign powers, has
hurled from Office the party advocating this
submissive policy, and has e:evated power,
the representative of which, fully f',reshadow-
,ng public opinion has declared, that an Ape-
rican citizen in any part OF the world, must be
made to realize that he is a sovereign he
is component part Of his governnrent-ard
that his flag will vindicate his just rights even
with the sword, if necessary. Such we may
hope is to lie the future policy Of this country,
a policy which may, and will most probably
inyoIve-us in difficulties, for it will require ell.
erge,ic measures to resume our long lost rights
but even If this policy produces war, should We
not rather ''rush to battle lhen,'' than coward
slaves, turn and fly p
brush with Austria would give us charac
ter and position abroad, besides giving us fit
introduction to the warld, aud diffusng our
liberal opinions too vide for the safety of the
old "heaveH anointed tyraunies" of the Eastern
Hemisphere.
The temporary policy, adopted by our pro.
genitors, while this nation was yet in swading
clothes, "not to involve in European politics, :"
has been followed too lohg, ana is the chief
saaseof oafslow estimation on that continent,
Ever: rising up like Bangno's ghost, to the
imagination OF our timid rulers, it has made
them shrink from boldly demanding our rights,
and tremble at the very thought of war. Peace
is truly happy boon, but peace, at the ex-
pense of Seif-respect, ceases to be virtue.
Forbearance has been pract:ed by our gov
ernment, till her citizens are compelled to seek
protection under disguise, from other powers.
Did our ancestors iutrnd thisl Was tins their
policy when warlike France was overawed, and
Great Britain grappled with. for claiming the
right of search, one of the very outragrs re-
Gently submitted toe
Bot what would be the consequences of a
war, with some of those old rotten l,onarchies
of Europe, would it not tend to show US to
the. wor in proper light, and to the propa.
gation Of our principles to these secluded aud
oppressed peopIe2 So far then. from injuring
us-for who can doubt our ability to cope with
any power in Europe lit would probably
have just the contrary effect upon people
with whom we come in cortact-the effect of
teaching them that they were created tor far
different purpose, than merely to live the "Pup-
pets Of tyranny
One of the British Ministers remarked, re.
Gently, ia the House of Lords that, elf an
american army should land on tie coast o,
Ireland, tor Me purpose Of invading Great
Britain. Tie Irish Peasantry scowth rise mp, oi-
most en- mosse, and join the inuaders, so great
aoas their love for this country.'
Why do the Irish 50 love America? the an.
sweris easy-it is simply because of our demo,
cratic institutions, and the opportunities they
have had, by contact and association, to learn
something Of them. So it would be with the
inhabitants of the continent-let US come in
contact, associate to, some extent with them,
and no army raiSed there. wuuld contest