The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-18
T. II. IIERSHMAN, Editor
Some of dhc Beauties Of fSubjugation.

LoUlsIANA's APPEAL TO THE WEST,
Within the last few days intercourse has
been re-cstahishcd between the Great West of
the South, between st. Louis and New Orleans.
Boats from above, laden with valuable and
most welcome freight, harbingers of the rc.es-
'tabl'shment of that peace, ofthat plenty of that
cord'alty and sympathy which never ought to
have been interrupted, but which we grieve to
say, has received a terrible if not, irreparable
shock. Our Westerns friends will recollect
how zealously and ardently we contended
against the disruption of the innumerablc ties
which ought to have bound us to each other;
and which we once thought indssolubly con-
nected us; and how Intellectual our endeavors
were; and they will share the overwhelming
distress which oppresscs Us when the return of
their boats, empty, and void, tells them of the
sad ruin which has been wrought among their
former most reliable, welcome and afluent Gus
tcnaers. Louisiana of old is Louisiana no more
Sne was committed to civil war; contending'
armies have desoated her fairest features, and
faction, made drunk by its unwonted success
isengaeed fntrynsgthe experiment how it is
possible, in the shortest time to make the
greatest havoc of the republic piecomeal AS
Louisiana is to Gay, Massachusetts, will ere
long be; there is nothing new Nnder the sun.
Some six or eight weeks ago, ere yet Vicks.
burg or Port Hudson had fallen, we warned
our Western brethren of the danger of believ-
ing the re-opening of the Mississippi to be the
revival of the old, lucrative, rcciprocaly, ad-
vantageous trade with this lower country No
idea could be more fallacious. The Confedcr-
ate edicts to burn and to destroy are no more
destructive to commerce than the acts of the
Federal Congress and the incomprehensiblc
regulations (!) of the Treasury Departr ant,
with its swarm O.: clectioncering spies and
agents. No man in Louisiana can be said.
literally and truly, to be master of any descrp-
tion OF property. If a man buys a shirt for
himself, or cotton gown for his wife, to 90
out of the city, he must first 60 to the permit
agent and wait his convenience to receive from
him five per cent, tax on it's cost, and then 90
to provost marshal and wait six, eight, ten
hours; or perhaps day, to have his permission
to take it home. If a planter buys barrel of
st. Louis -four pork, lard or beef he has to 90
through the same process, and this whether or
not he belongs to what is in official iargon de-
signated loyal louisiana. In like mannor, if
a man wishes to bring sugar or moasses to the
city, he must pay five per cent on its assumed
value for the privilege, and then on arrival two
cents per pound additional internal revenue tax,
to say nothing of the five dollars hospital fee
and the fabulous freight charges. Ifa permit
to bring cotton to the city is required, the APP
pcant must first deposit twenty dollars per
bale as the tax at random levied upon it, and
should he return without his cotton for want
Of transportation or other reason, he must wait
lelsurely for the return Of his deposits. If
however, he succeed in getting his cotton here
the treasury agent will seize it and hold it
fol proof satisfactory to him Of loyal ownership.
and that as such, its owner has never given aid
or comfort voluntarily to the Confederacy.
That our Western friends may know the ex.
act mode to which the treasury locusts proceed,