The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-07-25
wi, WHO fousIs our IL revolution.

: The Buffalo Democrdcy which has been cour.
'teous enough to give what was intended TO be
"a severely condemnatory notice of an article
lately appearing in this Journal, takes still
another OCCASION to utter anti Southern sentl
ments.
1t takes the lists 81 soldiers furnished by the
different States tosour revolutionary contest
and shows that there is an exceeding dispro.
portion Between those furnished by the States
North and SDuth Massachusetts is for instance
furnished $4,000, Connecticut $4,000, South
Carolina 6,0n0, Georgia 1000, and so on
We regret that these questions should be raised
There is no question. but that all the States
contributed to that contest nobly. Men gene
rally went into it with 'uncalculating devotion
and it is scarcely proper to attempt dscrmlIa-
tons bctw cen them We will not shrink, how
from the questions thus presented. The States
South Of New England did not contribute in
equal proportions to the muster rolls, bat it is
equally certain that they have not participated
eproportionaily in the pension fund. Between
the States Moth and South throughout that
whole contest there was this important differ
ence At the North they enlisted for ser:
vice which they never rendered; at the South
they rendered Il service for which they never
enlisted The one section fought for pay, the
other for patriotism. In the one section con:
tingents were enrolled who were called on,
and securely followed the ordinary avocalions;
in the other there was no thought OF enrolment.
Each man had home to defend. Unlike the
New England States, which were defended hy
tile continental army, the States, South We're
compelled to defend themselves; ovcrrun as
was the country with a hostile army and all
the brutal license which hostile army brings
upon subjugatet country, they clung to the
soil with an endurance that has found no pa
rellel in history. They TILED their farms with
one hand and fought with the other. To men
who did this, vino h Id the country in spite of
its abandonmrt. and who worried out by their
powers of endurance the best appointed army
perhaps that has landed on our Shores it is
scarcely just TO deny the claim of service for
the reason that their names were not upon the
army list.
As we have saiti, it is in special bad taste to
arouse such spirit Of discussion. That the
North made sacrifices for the independence OF
our country, there can be no kind Of question
but it is equally certain tina: the course pur-
sued by the South was especially commcnda'
able. There was little cause for independence
at the South. Their terms Of intercourse with
England had been Of an exceedingly agreeable
character. In this State particularly, we had
just complaints against the proprietary govern
ment. but with the parent government our re-
lations had always been pleasant, and our ell:
trance into contest, therefore, for naked
principle. with scarce a practical evil to ell
force it, was highly honorable, but barring
these, there is no people on earth who could
have suffered more for cause, aud we may
saw, who could have done more for .aeeause, in
proportion to their number, than did the people
ofSouth Carolina, and to arraign them now and
try them upon an evidence afforded hya uuS-
terroil, which Was more familiar to the people
Of the North than the South, and which those
charged with its custody had an interest in MA
king as large as possible, is to say the least OF
it, very grave injustice Charleston Stan
dard.