The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-17

ana 1t is deteriorated rendered incapable of sub
serving Its purposes the effect must be the death of
that cause
Such we know to be the sentiments of this commu
nty-the sentiment of our whole country. But we
are sorry TO hear that exceptions exist That there
are those who are depreciang destroying our curre
cy oy their refusal to receive 1t in payment of debts
IN comparison to conduct such this the evil effects
ot open and avowed traitors Indifferent and HARM
iess and 1t becomes all true patrots-nay it is to
the interest of farsighted selshness ITSELF to fown
down and put an end to conduct thousand times
more hurtfu to the great of Southern indepen
dence than all the fleets and armies of the abolition
lists have yet been or ever will be.
The following truthful extract we take from the
Edgefeld Advertiser, written by a soldier on fur.
lough:"
But he may ask, why arraign me when others
90 the samef What others? Are they patriots
men who deserve to be freemen? Has any man re-
lusea IT, whose soul is in tho cause instead of his
pocketI Any but misers usurers or cxtortloners I
venture to say not one. And it is shame-a living
shame-a mortifying reflection that these miserable
characters are so numerous in country. shame
.t,at our noble sodiery who are suffering enduring,
pieeaing dyng-who have borne the banner of our
glorious young Conederacy trumphantly from battle
ment to battement, and from height to height, and
who glory to fight and die under it still say it is
'ho1 they suoulu DO SaDDnQ IN the back by
TINS army OF Shylocks who collecting in their rear
They receive the money of that government, which
IL is All honor Tor them to serve and remit it to their
families to prevent their suffering in their absence
ana what is the greeting which they receive when it
Is presented either for the payment of debt or the
purchase OF the subsistence of life? mo we will
hod the note of your husband brother father son.
who IS battling to protect and property: or we
Will lock the doors of our barnes and rooms upon
you until you bring specie purchase the actual
cesslties OF life, you sarve or have the homes
OF your kindred sold to pay the debt. have no
hdence in that government whose money you have
aud Tor which your son husband has died 1t il q
fa'lure-t is bankrupt This is the Language of these
contemplate abortions of humanity.
why is this degeneracy and actual decentralization
IN the country? Has the inordinate disposition to
speculate and make money, which seems to have
seized upon so large class of our people, absorbed
the patriotic sentiment which prevailed a year ago?
Have they become indifferent to the success of the
government and are they willing to give themselves
up TO the Yankee government because they tired
OF the war? If not, why do they not arouse them
selves and shake off that spirit of lust for gain which
IS ABOUT to sweep all virtue and patriotism from the
land Arise to the magnitude and greatness of the
occasion keep up the armies by driving all who ought
TO De IN them from the country; support the families
OF those who have gone 10 fight your battles as well
as THEIRS arrest all skukers and send them to their
commands-and all will be we'll But swndle your
neghbor swindle the absent soldier refuse to take his
money starve his family encourage deseron from the
army, and the Yankee will only have to remain quiet
and we will whip ourselves"