The Camden confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-02
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Fer THE CAMDEN CONFEDERATE afsaal
Mr. EDiroR-You correspondent "Civis" is quite
pointed ealmcst personal land certainly decidedly
partial in his labor of love towards the eroyoeers-
whose name is "legion" Why did the princely plan.
ters escape touch Of his censorial lash whilst the
small and humble class of shoe dealers are hit SO sharp
ly? 7hss he mght'have DONE but that he should not
have left undone. Surely no class of men are more
vulnerable to the shafts of the censor than that which
has monopoly of the SOIL and consequently of the
bread of the country The shoe dealer has the pre-
text at esat of scarcity but the planters barns and
graneries are bursting with abundance. The one
pinches the feet ofthe poor in this biting weatherthe
other the stomachs of men aud beasts A man or wo-
man-the wife, ormoher. if you choose of some poor
sacrificing soldier, may lve without shoes-they must
d lie without bread.
The planters whohave monopoly OF corn are es
sentaly in the category with the orestaer who
monopolizes some necessary of life, and holds back
till the calls of nature constran his victims to Weld 10
his eXtortion
Ihe planters corn costs him, it may be-, not more
than nifty cents per bushel to produce it, but he and
his GLASS; by consert seemngly-as in The of fire.
wood, defying their creditors some of them, through
the invidious protection of an unconstitutional unne
cessary and demoralizng stop la,O-hold it back till
they screw from their neighbor and, perhaps, creditor
two or three dollars per bushe. But "Civis shrink
ing seemingly from the impartial nfiction OF the cen
sos whip stands dumb before this master class of the
country He handles the shoe dealer with gloves of,
whilst another-quite chivahic-selects poor and
frendless son of Abraham, persung his vocation and
striving to live, for has subject placards him on the
bulletin board, and calls for recruits to mob hml
rose by any other name would smell as sweet" And
torestding and ertorto not less odious and op-
pressive when pracced by the plathorc planter than
by the needy jew
''He that vihholdeh corn, the people will curse him.
but blessing shall be upon the head of him that sela
It." ~.
In the final reckoning men shall be judged oy their
chdracter-not by their class their ai and wheth-
er Greek, Jew or Barbarian planters or shoe-dealers
or member OF a combination of land monoposts to
raise the price OF rewood inordinately each shall
verify get his reward for the oppression of his neigh.
bor poor or rch soldier citzen and for the damage
he Is doing the cause of his country by the dangerous
discomfort heis exciting among those who are sacrificing
their health and spng their blood whilst their wives
and children and mothers pinched and suffering
or want OF the commonest necessares of life: and for
the inevitable bankruptcy and ruin of the qovernnen.
which such enormous prices as are demanded of it
must surely produce Let there be no delsive hone on
ms po'nt the danger to the Confederate States snan
caoE and there can be no escape from bankruptcy and
total overthrow, but by stopping the issue of Treasury
Notes and taking in kind what the government needs
at reasonable prices, to be paid for not in cwrenco
but an Bonds. To this complexion it must come at
last-come quickly, or the cause is lostl
RANDOLPH.