The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1861-11-01

Vengeance Invoked OH South Caro-
lima.
The Yankee papers do not disguise thci
longing to wrcak bitter vengeance upon tn
Palmetto State. Under the heading "Shal
South Carolina Escapc!" the New York Time
thus pours out the vials of its wrath upon ou
little State :-Charleston Mercury.
Although the loyal public is not pcrmittc,
to know upon what part of the Southern coas
the immense navel expedition now about t,
be prccipitatcd, we think we do not mistal,
in saying it is the almost universal wish of th,
people that Charleston, South Carolina, if il
receive not the present, may not await similar
blow. If the Government would arouse the
liveliest sympathy of Unionists, in the South rs
well as in the North, let it be seen that cca,
and distinct memory is kept Of the origin o.
the war, and rcsolutc purpose held, however
the conflict may go, and whcnsocvcr it may
terminate, not to fail administering a fearful
rcbuke upon that accurscd City and State
whose crime it is to have originated the war
South Carolina stands out prc-cmincnt in
tho unhaMowcd work OF sedition and, treason.
1t is South Carolina that invented the words
notification" and SECESSION" which have
wrought such mischief; unsettling the minds
of men in regard to the rights of States under
the Federal Union. 1t is South Carolina that
has, for thirty years, been malcontcnt in the
otherwise happy family of States, and an in
dustrious preacher of disunion. 1t is South
Carolina that necessarily muttercd discomfort
and threatened secession, until the national
mind became famiiarizcd with the crime, and
ceased to regard it with that horror which it's
enormity SHOULD have inspired. And finally,
when the poison of thirty years stealthy and
reasonable teachings had corrupted the South
and prepared it for nsurrection, it is South
Carolina that led the way in the overt act of
Her Senators and representatives
we're the first to vacate their seats in the Ma.
tional Congress, and thus to proclaim to the
werld broken and discredited Union. 1t
was one ofthese recreantmen-a true rcprcsen-
tstive, however, of South Carolina treason
that proclaimed the infamous sentiment, in
public speech in the city of Charleston, while
the State Convention there was sundering the
popular allegiance from the National Govern
ment: "Let us seize the pillars of the Federal
Union, as Sampson did the pillars of the tenn
pie, and drag it down, though we likewise
perish in the ruins Such was and is tha
true spirit of secession. 1t is Internal and
destructive; ready to involve thirty millions q
happy and prosperous people in strife, rapinq
bloodshed and woe, to satiate the malice d
subserve the ambition of a nest of disappoini
ed and disafccted politicians of South Carolini
Now, is it NIT a duty, is it not more tina
poetic justice, chat South Carolina, so hagrar
in sin, shoudbc made to feel the earliest all
heaviest pen4ties of war? If Southern civ
must fall, " Charleston be razcd to tc
ground, and salt sowcd on its ruins. If Sou-
ern fields lTust be dcsolatcd by the invasiopof
Union armos, let South Cardinals cotton nd
rice plant ions be marked by the conquepg
advance. If slaveholding insolcnce and rr
amy mv. be humblcd to a dependence on
the Con nytution and the laws, let South Gro
linas afstocrats learn to trcmble for their rcrfs
in the trcscnce of martial law.
And when South Cardinals desperate rea-
son fond imitators, and one after anjhcr
btatot brew off its allegiance till seven had
konq even then there was hope of Jacc-
lblo recovery of our national unity. I'll bor-
Gr,lavc States resisted the fanaticisn, and
M seven seeded States would have been
4 she'd nndc,.thc odum of their insnrirtion