The southern press., 1851-04-23

of the government of the United States will lea
to no change of conduct in respect TO its cit
zens, under British or any other instigation.-
The best guarantee of this is afforded by tn
fact that during the entire existence of the cor
troversy with England, and even when ope
hostilities prevailed and the feelings Of til
people were wrought up to the highest pitch o
excitement, that even then the persons and pro
perry of the English residents in the countr
We're religiously respected.
It is not to be doubted that English agent
are making the most Of the funkeyism of on
government, and-will exert themselves to de
stroy American influence altogether the oppor
tunity is too favorable one to be neglected
but 1t is not to be imagined that there are am
SO wicked as to countenance overt acts of tn,
KIND intmated in the paragraph from the Pic
ayune
AT the worst, this rumor can have no founda
ton except in some attempt at robbery or muir
der, by evil characters, such as are to be founl
in every country. Indeed, one rumor from New
Orleans states that an attempt at robbery wa.
made, near little place of evil repute, calico
Matearas, in which one American was killed.
This is not improbable and if true, it ia certain
that the government Of Nicaragua will neglect
no means to bring the offenders to Justice
There is no officer in the State, high or low
who would in any way countenance an infrac.
ton of the laws.
No alarm need be felt on the subject of the
rumor, VIII will, am convinced, turn out to
be unfounded, or greatly exaggerated.
! am, sir, very truly, your ob't. serv't,
f. G. SQUIER.
Special Correspondence Of the Nss0 York Herald.
CHARLESTON, 5. c., April IL, 1851.
South Carolina PoIiics-Ihe Question of Sc
cession- The Policy Of Going IL Alone-Ap-
proach 10 the Crisis of the Game-I1,fect Of
Recent Epents in the North upon Southern
Opinion-The Danger of Se,oardism TO The
Safety Of the Union
am now here, and find that the first great
movement in favor of secession will be made in
this city. i understand a general meeting of all
the State Rights Associations takes place here
early in May. Here is the FIRST step. Judge
Buffers only objection to secession now is that
the federal government will not 90 to war. If
they would, the South would come to the rescue.
If the government does not, South Carolina may
be started into submission. That is what he
fears. You may, however, very safely put on
the steam. Secession is pretty hot yet in South
Carolina, and she is bound to do something.
Will South Carolina secede? Will she, against
the decisive action of Georgia, the resolutions
of Virginia, and the acquiescence of all the other
Southern States in the late compromise mea-
suses; will she, single-handed and alone, with
draw, or deliberately attempt to withdraw, from
the Union; and set up, or attempt to set up, a
foreign government to the rest Of the confed
racy, almost within the heart of the United
States! AT this juncture, this is the single alb
sorbing issue pending in South Carolina, and by
all MEANS and for all purposes, in every view,
the most important to the Union, and to every
State of the Union, and of paramount moment
to the best interests of mankind the wide world
over. Reduced to its ultimate consequences,
this single Issue pending in a single State of Sc
cesscn, or submission, involves the breaking up
of our whole federal system, and the dissertation
Of every thing sacred in government religion,
and society, to Uktem of civil war, military
despois, military elections, and such history
of military butcheries AS are but family Illus
traed in the dissolution of the States of Greece.
or in the breaking up of the empire of Rome
In truth, II is easy to imagine that, in the disso
luton of this Union, a state Of war and anarchy
would almost inevitably follow, more nearly APP
proaching the horrible atrocities Of the French
revolution. Have We not among us in the North,
(thank God there are none in the South,) watch
ing their opportunity, the Jewellers the agrarians,
the sociaistics Fourierites, red republicans. as
good rs the best Partisan From these splutter-
ing destructives, and from the Abolilionsts and
free negroes, where would be the peace, or the
hope of peace, if once the strong, conservative.
law enforcing, and peace preserving bonds of
this Union are broken! There would be no
peace, no law, no order. The South would, of
necessity, combine into a Southern confederacy
the North would necessarily lose all its present
commercial advantages with the Southern States:
and it is next to impossible to conceive how the
boundaries could be settled between the sections,
or the rights of both maintained, without con-
tinuous state of war, until we shall have five
or six confederacies, each under a military Pre-
sident, till ousted 10y the bayonet under some
other military leader aspiring 10 Presidential
honors.
Disunion looks to these things the secession
Of single State will be disunion; and yet the
question, the single, solitary, absorbing question
now pending in the State Of South Carolina, is
the question Of secession. Will she secede p
To secede is to go out; and 10 go out, now, is
to "go, it alone" Will she 90 out, and 20 il
alone? II so, why so (! and if not so, why all
these threa's and warnings, these civil and mill.
tary organizations, these frequent speeches TO
the people? and why the election of this State
which is to decide the question, and
which is ten to one for SECESSION
These are important interrogatories, and for
the benefit Of the Northern readers of the Herald
we propose to give you from the spot, and from
the best information on hand, series of letters
on the general question, and upon the numerous
and interesting incidental issues involved in the
general controversy. In doing this, we propose
to show that there is still danger TO the Union !
that there Is apparently a remarkable and alarm.
ing unanimity Of the people of South Carolina
. favor of secession that they have very plan.
'ible reasons for acting upon it--reasons OF de.
ence Of interest," Of State pride, and sectional
,afety.
We expect, further, TO be able TO prove, that
o William II. Seward, Thurlow Weed, and
Horace Greeley & Co., Of New York, and 70
heir detestabe, disorganizing, and ruinous prin-
l.. a a.,