The southern press., 1851-09-03

interest from the citizens OF the other Southern
States, our intercourse would be too intimate
and our pnrsuits and interests being identical
our sympathjas would be mutual.
We are told that our object in separating
would be the protection of the Institution. ol
slavery. and that we would but more eifectual
circumscsibe its limits to us by separating from
the other slave States; but here again we know
that a limit Is already set 10 IL for ali Snuihen
States, On which | am sure our enemies exuli
more than IN all the territory they have robbed
us oi,) and II 10 a question whether those We
have IN the State would become too numerous
Tor profitable employment, sooner than they mag
become so in all the slave States on the ares
assigned us by our pious rulers, especially as We
are told that no more slave States are to be adj
mitted, and as slaves are being removed from
the border States with ten fold rapidity, that thei
owners may realize their value before they may
be stolen by their Ncrihern brethren. If this
be so, even IN the worst asp ct in which thi.
matter has been presented, we could not be
worsted by secession for it is too true that the
citizens OF the Southern States are now but Ia
be keepers OF a SORT Of slavery prison, to be
bursted open andhave them turned loose amongs,
Us whenever the fanatics Of the North believe
they can do so and preserve the Union, either by
lect submission But | have no idea that by
secession we will be 80 restricted in our slavery
in South Carolina Who will believe that the
people of Georgia. for Instance, would ever
stand by and witness the execution of one OF
their citizens by an abolition government, who
might have crossed the Savannah and purchased
negro from South Carollnian!
This whole subject has now, in my humble
Judgment assumed the most serious aspect
The sovereign right of the people of State to
secede from union of death to them, is denied
by those in power in the government (and even
by some In the South who, ! fear, would bind
US hand and foot aad deliver us to our enemy
that they might advance in the favor of the strong
end OF the confederacy) and it does seem To me,
it South Carolina lets down from the position |
have supposed she occupied, State sovereignty
W IL receive its death blow, and revolution will
have been consummated in the government
fraught with moro disastrous consequences to
us, than an intelligent people ever have been
known tamely to submit to, we will find our
selves III government administered by those
fatally bent the destruction of all that is dear
and valuable to us, with no limit to their tyran-
ny above the safety of their own avarice and
fanaticism, when the States will have left them
no shadow of right or power, other than to bow
their necks to the yoke of arrogance and despot-
ism. IL IS in vain for us to shut our eyes to
this startling picture. II stands out before us,
and ty day and night will haunt US as long as
we remain in this confederacy, and we require all
the wisdom and all the patriotism of our every
citizen to meet it and avert its realiz ition.
therefore trust, that. however we may differ as
to the expediency Of separate secession as last
resort, no feeling will have Cotton up amongst
Us which will prevent at least the co-operation
of all the sons of our reviled Carolina, in that
manly struggle that hope may work out our
delverance and preserve our honor. | have no
day or month in my mind when the State should
definitely act. have no doubt the convention
will act wisely and firmly in the matter, there
may be new Developments before it meets and
all | would desire, is that the S ate shall inter-
pose her sovereignty to redress oar wrongs be-
fore the convention is dissolved
do not suppose, were it in my power to at
tend your meeting, could throw any new light
before your intelligent citizens on this whole
subject. ! will not fear that Charleston, so long
the pride and boast of the State, will not in the
hour of trial be found true to her allegiance to
tine State Her early history is an earnest of it,
and although her commerce be thro tened for a
time, her intelligence will tell her that without
our agriculture, her commerce will perish but
above all, her patriotism will scar above such
consideration. J have no doubt, her deeds, if
necessary, will verify her revolutionary history
Please accept for yourselves, and through you
for the central executive committee, my thanks
for the honor you have rendered me, and believe
me to be, with kndest regard,
Your obedent servant,
JOHN MCQUEEN
To f. ID. Richardson, H. H. Raymond, w. H.
Peronneau, Committee.
A SENSIBLE LETTER FROM THE SLAVE DANIEL
The Buffalo Courier publishes the following
letter from the slave Daniel, now in jail in that
city The editor says that he Is assured upon
unquestonable authority, that the publication
Of the letter was Daniels free act that the sent
ments were first expressed by him, then written
down and carefully read over to him, when he
deliberately approved and signed them
Tnthe Colored Population of Buffalo. Il thank
you for what you have tried to do for me. You
meant it for good. but it is of no use. We col
ored people of Kentucky are about as well off
as you are. ] am going back-I had rather 90
than stay here. hope you will not interfere
with my going. My master, Mr. Moore, has al
ways treated me well feel that did wrong
in running away--he bought me at my uruent
request--he placed confidence in me- and do
not feel that ought to deceive him. If he had
treated me i'll, should feel differently about it.
He never did. | was advi ed TO run away and
come to free State, or should not have done
so--the advice was bad, though reckon II was
not so meant. We are about as well off in Ken
lucky as you are here, and some of us better. |
shall advice the Kentucky boys, when get home,
TO stay where they are We have plenty to eat
and wear, and are not badly worked; this every
body knows who has been Ia Kentucky.
Again, my colored brethren, | thank you for
your kind sympathies, and to my white abolition
brethren in Buffalo ! wish you the same, but
do not want you to do any more for me,
DANIEL ID DAVIS,
August 2a 1851, his mark.
NEW ORLEANS, August %, 1851.
On the 2lst instant, the news of the landing
of General Lopez reached us, and the melan-
choly intelligence, Of the capture Of thirty-six
Americans, who were shot, and afterwards
mutillted in the most brutal manner. This
spread gloom over the city, Some three or
four hundred VOunu men wore orane on their