The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1861-12-06

TO TIE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
In obedience to the orders of the President
of "thcsc United States of America" have
landed on your shores with small force OF
national troops.
The dictates Of duty which under these
circumstances, | owe to a great sovereign
State, and to a proud and hospitabc people
among whom have spent some of the pleas
antcst days of my life, prompt me to proclaim
that we have come amongst you with no feel
ings of personal animosity-no desire to harm
your citizens, destroy your property, or inter
ferc wirh any of your lawful rights or your
social and local institutions, beyond what the
causes herein briefly alluded to may render
unavoidable.
Citizens of South Carolina, the civilized
world stands appalled, at the course you arc
pursuing, appalled, at the crime you are com
mitting against your own mother the best,
the most cnli"htcncd, and heretofore the most
prosperous of n#tiots. You are in u state of
"ctivc rcbcll", against the laws of your coun-
try. You have ;awics~ly seized upon the forts,
arscnals and other property belonging to our
With this property YOU in arms and wa
ging ruthless war against your constitutional
Government and thus threatening the exist
encc of Government which YOU are bound
by the terms of a solemn compact to live un
der and faithfully support. In doing this You
are not only undermining and preparing the
way for totally Ignoring your own political and
social existence, but You arc threatening the
civilized world with the odous sentiment that
self government is impossible with civilized
man.
Fellow citizens, I implore you to pause and
rcficc! upon the tenor and consequences of
your acts. If the awful sacrifices made bv de.
devastation of our property, the shedding of
fraternal blood in battle, the mourning and
wailing of widows and orphans throughout
our land, are insufficient to deter YOU from
further pursuing this undoly war, then ponder
| bcsccch you, upon the ultimate but not less
certain, result, which its further progress must
necessarily and naturally entail upon your
once happy and prosperous State. Indeed
can you pursue this tratricidal war, and contin-
uc to imbruc your hands in the loyal blood of
your countrymcn your friends, your kinsmcn
for no other object than to disrupt the Con
fcdcracvv of a great pcople-a Contcderacy cs-
tablishcd by your own hands-in order to set
up, were it possible, an independent Govern
mcnt, under which you can never live in
peace, prosperity or quictncss!
Caroliniaus we have come among YOU as
loyal men, fully impressed with our constitu-
tional obligations to the citizens of your State.
Those Obligations shall be performed as far as
in our power. But be not deceived The OBJ
legation of supprcssing armed combinations
against the constitutional authorities is para
mount to all other If, in the performance of
this duty, other minor but important obga-
tions should be in any way neglected, it must
be attributed to the necessities of the case,
because rights dependent on Tie laws Of the
State must be necessarily subordinate to mill
tary exgcncics created 10y insurrcction and re-
bellion II. w. SHERMAN.
Brigadicr General Com. IIeauquartcrs G..
c., Port Royal. S. G.
November s, 1861.
SALT.-Messrs. Koopman Il Phelps, mer-
chants of this town. inform us that thew have