The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-02-21
Editorial Correspondence.

Editorial Correspondence.
The annual meeting of the South Carolina Railroad
Company commenced on Tuesday Mt the Bank Hail.
j II. Honour, Esq, vas, notion called to the
Chair and the Secretary of the Company, J. R. EME
RY. Esq, acted as Secretary of the meeting The An
nua Reports Of the Presidents of the Bank and Road
were each submitted and adopted. Mr.. CALDwELLs re-
port has already been published and it is useless to
mark upon it, only may be allowed to express onr
confidence in nasa practical business. working man
in whose judgment aud ability we have entire conf
dcncc. He will be reelected President of the Road
without opposition. Tic usual committees Oh prox-
les and elections were appointed.
a memorial from the Convention OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church in South Carolina vas presented
by the Chairman from the Committee ofllmt body, Mr..
J. B. CLARKSON, and read by him. This memorial
prays for dsconnuancc Of all labor on the Sabbath
day upon the Road-in which we most heartily con-
cur We have, on previous OCCASION Zone year ago.
expressed sentiments fully and uncquvocally upon
this subject. We stated our convictions then, and we
state them now, that this custom on the South Carroll
Ia Railroad, Of disrcgardAg and dishUnoring the Sab
bath day is positive and direct violation of law hu-
man aud divine. We challenge successful cont?adc-
ton We ae at loss TO determine by what pro-
cess Of law the South Carolina Rail Road Company
claims the special and absolute right Of using this day
for ordinary weekday business purposes. No such
rgh, is recognised in The Bible or in tic ,tatutc book
and this assumption o: power ought to cease |; is
argument. in Justification, to say that public
m0laion requires tlit Tie mail and passenger cars,
n; least should RIM on the Sabbath day Ii it is 4
moral and legal wrong (nnd who can douLt ny for Il
man to build house or otherwise proElnc the day Of
the Lord which we are commanded to keep holy, and
in which we are to do no work-tcn most aSstTedly
wrong is it for company OF persons, who are each
separately and distinctly, individuals, responsible
for their actions to employ. body. day i'll which
they have right do any work where The sole aim
and Object is gain. Arc We honest in orr recognition
of the divine law? DO "" act up to orr profession "t
moral and christian Obligation, wien our actions are
in direct opposition 10 that profession? How
reconcile this thing to our conscience and respond
hearty assent to the truths and precrprs Of the reveal
cd will which teaches US plainly and cmphaticllly
what we ought and what We ought not to do? We
must insist upon it, that the Christian world is greatly
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c,r,r,o;sino in ,hcir demands for cessation or H..
,r ~, o,,r :, ;Ir,oI ~. tho sh,,,,, ,,,or , cr,,.o
would be speedily effected which would, at least,
pl,r, the means in the mower Of hundreds wb, now
have not the opportunity. be they ever anxious o!
keeping sacred the Sabbath day
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o ,, ,,II In, s,I,so,u.u,Iy c,lIcd nm and orlcrcd
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Uo 500 , ,,o ,,rrrs hero that tho Directors Of the
vor., E,s,nrn Railroad Company have ma,I, a con-
,., for ,,o comrIctiou of ,bc road Lv 1sJ lv 1888
and ,,,, sr, Guards and conditions have hccn ptrodu