The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1856-07-08
oAMDBR soUTIal kRoIINA TUESDAY MORNING JULY s. 1856

CAMDEA
is a large one" &c. You are right in yonrscon
! lecture that ands,ny friends wish to make
!. Kansas in altrespects like Missouri. Our in.
terests require it. Our rpeacei ithroughsall time
). demands it; and we intendto leave nothing un
done that viii conduee to that end, and can with
honor be. performed. If Ys fail, then we will
surrender to your care and Control the State ol
Missouri. We have all to loose in the contest;
you and your friends, have nothing at stake
You propose to vote or drive us from Kansas.
I We donot propose to drive you or yourfriends
from that territory; bat aue do otyantend eitker
TO be votea or driven out Of Kansas, aue can
help 1t tor-we are foolish enough to believe
that we have as much right to- ihhabit that
country as men from .NeWs England. Neither
do we intend TO be driven from Missouri, OF
Esnfer ourselsessto boshaESssed in our peace. j
We c;sp help n VI ilEtry and make
you and your friends share some of our ankle
ties. There now. exists no reciprocity between
the free and slave States, 3, You and your friends
can leave Massachusetts, and pass through and
take up your abode in Missouri or Kansas, and
our people and our laws protect .yorr persons
and property not only from injury, but our hos
pitaty and kindness save you from insult. How
| different from your State. / cannot pass through
| Massachusetts or any other orthern State,
with my servant, without the certainty of having
him or her stolen, myself insulted, and perhaps,
my life taken. THERE'S no reciprocity in this.
Yet we:are supposed to be citizens Of the
same republic. Our fathers fought side by side
and formed an alliance, &c.
The fight shall be as free as the nature of the
case admits Indeed, there should be no fight
at all. / do not desireit; but, sir, if am met
! by.a robber in the highway. and he demands.
my purse or my morse, ! will not stop to ash.
him whether he has a sseyolrer, but viii i'm.
medately resort to the use of my own weapons,
and make the best defence I can. z
Your people, you say, leave their homes, thou
sands of miless off, and come outof the or6ina.s
ry course Of emigration, for no other purpose,
rs they avow, but to exclude, us from Kansas,
and overthrow our institutions. All! tooyerthrow
slavery and establish freedom, as they say.
Atthe election last fall, for delegate to Con-
gress, tits fact beyond controversy, that many,
very many, Northern men, came from New En-.
gland, New York, and other remote points, to.
vote, and for no other purpose; for not less than
one hundred and fifty of them left for the East,
together with their candidate, on the day after
the election. 20
. Now, was it right for abolitionists one, thou
sand miles off, to come to Kansas to vote us
out of that territory, and wrong for the people
OF Missouri, living in sight of her green hie
and broa1prairies to 90 there tosssecure ihef
homes y Answes tl.S iff rc,,. ,.ease ..Yob
say tIaf my inEuehce il requisite to restrain your
s{our) people from doing great injustice to actna
settlers" &c Ny influence shall be used to
prevent injustice to all actual settlers who come
toMissouri or Kansas to improve their condition,
whether they be from the North or the South.
But let the settlers be sure that they do not
come with the express purpose of doing great
have no protection from me. The crusade
preached by Peter the Hermit, and headed by
Waiter, the Pennyess, was just, righteous and
holy, compared with the Northern crusade to
Kansas, and against Missouri and the other slave
States. Peter complained Of cxactions, oppres
'sons and outrage upon the Pilgrims to the Holy
Sepulehre by Infdels To redress those. griev
ances he preached, his Crusade, but you and
your friends have 10 such grievances to com.
plain of whatsoever, in the South or the Terri
tories. When you come among US, you are
greeted as friends and treated as brothers, unless
you come with the avowed purpose of doing
wrong TO US.
Now SIR fanatcism preachers, the Three
Thousand Peters Of New England and the Abo-
Htion Battalions of Walter, the Pennyless, will
| doubt not, meet the fate of their prototypes
Indeed. they have already TO some extent met
it. You say that proximity is ours, and that
we can afford to be not only just but generous"
We can and we will not only be just but gen
erous-we will project ourselves and do the least
Injury to the persons and property of those who
are neither just nor generous. For just men
will not come from Massachusetts to war upon
the right of men who never wronged them.-
You say that " the repeal of the law which Sc.
cured this territory against slavery is considered
by most men in the free States to have been a
breach Of national faith ?" The history of the
country, the public records show this to be a
mistaken assumption. Did it never enter into
the heads OF men in the free States, that the
enactment OF the law which was repealed was Il
gross violation, in the first place, of the national
faith, and that the disgracetul statute" should
long ago have been expunged?
You say that "those who 60 from New En-
gland to Kansas, have gone in good faith, and
at their own expense" &c. This may be, and,
| doubt not, is true in many instances; for do
not for one moment suppose that you would
knowingly misrepresent, yet you may not be
fully informed. You further say, "ncither is
there any truth in tile assertion that they are
Abolitonsts No person of that stamp is known
to have gone from here" Now, my dear sir.
we may not agree as to the term ",Aboltionst;;" )"
but care not how this may be settled-a
man coming from Massachusetts, or South Cano.
lima to settle in Kansas, with the express purpose
slnrnh lInrs from, ihut Herrtnru and