The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-05-30
THE JOURNAL.
Address of the Central Committee.
CAMDEN, MAY 80, 1854.

Address of the Central Committee.
We commend this appeal to our fellowcitizens, and
urge upon them, every where, to give it calm and de-
liberatc consideration There is nothing antrepubl
can or against the freedom of our people, in any pro-
position which they submit.
Let US recapituate the prominent points, and the
propositions, made by this address In the first place
the entire suppression of the liquor traffic desired
Is there any thing wrong antrrepublican in this2-
Does not every good citizen, every christian every
moralist every patriot, and every man, who has a
spark Of humanity in his heart desire to see the cnor
mites of this traffic. curtailed ave. destroyed? There
are few thank Heaven in this day Of moral light and
christian revelation who are bold enough TO come out
and deny that the traffic in ardent spirits has produced
more ruin, poverty, wrechedness, crime, panperism
and all the other conceivable ills to which flesh sher
to- than any other cause or causes with the scope of
human conception.
In support of these the address to the people Of
South Carolina does not rely upon figures of fancy
but refers to facts incontroverble truths within the
experience of ALL Who can deny that Intemperance
and the sale Of ardent spirits the cause Of the fearful
increase of insanity in our State? Deny it who can |
that all the tender Ties and sweet affections OF the homo
circle are rudey severed by this monsters hand The
very slave who ministers to wants. who comes and
goes at our bidding is made dsobedent and treacher
Gus by this insidious curse. In property-the least
reason Of all others to be considercd-what immense
sums have been squandered in support Of this vetra
fc The address says, anG it cannot be denied, "Tho
money spent IN riotOuS living would build all the rail
roads contemplated desired in South Carolina would
endow and support Colleges and Academies in every
part of the State; and would crown everyscction with
the results of genius and art" and how much OF that
miserable wretchedness, and increasing pauperism,
which our eyes daily behold would be removed by
the prohibition Of the liquor traffic.
We propose to bring about change in tho moral
condition OF things. How do we offer to effect this?
BY appealing ohe passions of men, and exciting their
worst feelings, in order to produce revolution? By
no means, and it is grat1itous, ungenerous, unjust
false accusation to charge the fanatics" of the State
las ge are in deron called who seek 10 produce and
who ar seek to effect entire change and revulsion
in the moral tone and sentiment Of the people of our
beloved Carolina ntorrifod by tho clamor of ilber.
al opposition which seeks to thwart every good pur-
pose we have in view; we intend to work, and that
boldly and vigorously until we accomplish some good
for our fellow-men. We appeal to the independent
free, unscduccd voters of South Carolina We ask
them if they are willing any longer to submit to y-
ranny worse than bondage? And all of this, VIC are
told by the sagacous leaders Of the opposition is "an
ti.republican" and "revoutonary'-a wise discovery
which others have failed to make, until few little
more enlightened in South Carolina, than elsewhere
have proclaimed to the worldyB
Ifit be "anti.republlcan" and Revolutionary" for
the people, in their sovereignty and independence 10
declare their unwillingness to submit to outrage and
imposition then we claim to be of those who are ar
ti.republican" and Revolutionary" and seek to throw
off the CALLING chains Of OPPRESSION which law-cens
cd curse has fastened upon them. If to lend our fec
bic efforts to raise abused humanity from tho lowest
depths of degradation and ruin, to cheer the widow
and orphan in their moments Of deepest distress; to
drv the tears and stay the trembling sghs OF hundreds
and thousands in the land, to aid religion and mora
ty to build up and encourage all useful and worthy
enterprises to assist the cause ofeducaton and to re-
move one of the greatest hndances to its progression
out of the way-that of ignorance produced and tos
tered by the polluted parent of all social and moral
evil If we again repeat to do all the good we Can,
and use our best efforts to produce good will among
men
ITO scatter plenty DER smiling land,
And read our history in nations eyes,
If this be "anti-publican" and revolutionary-th
be aso. -
To those who have. charged US with being "ant.re-
publican" Revolutionary" fanatics" we hurl back
the accusation upon them, and say to them as Patrick
Henry did, when charged with treason, for daring
to raise his voice against the tyranny of George the
third, "Ifais be treason, make the most Off,"
Our task has just commenced. We shall write
again, and will endeavor to show more fully the neces-
sity offending this traffic. and also to show that in en-
deavoring to do this by the instrumenalities which
we propose that we are neither "anti repubicanist"
'rcvoutiouist," nor fanatics" Our task is not an
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