Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-04-16
From the Darlington Flag.
HON. JOHN McQUEEN'S LETTER.

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HON. JOHN McQUEENs LETTER.
We have received letter from the Hon. John
Mcqueen, from which We make the following
extracts This letter came to hand so late as
TO preclude the possibility of any remarks. 1t
speaks for ITSELF however.
at would b. exceedingly gratifying to me TO
zee .he State, and the Pee De country especi-
ally, excited on the issue now forced upon the
South by the Aboliionists in Kansas. There,
il a field for patriotism and enterprise. That
territory ori.inally, slave, has simply been OPEN
I'd to the South upon principles Of equality and
justice, and laws have been passed to protect
our property Northern fanatirism and northern
taritai have sent hordes of notherh emigrans
expressly for the purpose of crushing out slave
ry. Armed to the teeth, and with an open
ayowal of their purpose, they have opened to
their settlement, Oregon, Washington. Minnesota
and Culifornia, as well as Utah and New Mexi
co but regardless of these, they 20 through
and overlook these, although perhaps twenty
times rs large rs Kansas, and settle down in
that small territory, behind the State Of Mis-
souri, with cannon and Sharps rifle in their
hands, declaring 10 The world that they vii.
trample the Constitution and the Laws under
fout, drive from or murder the Shareholder in the
territory, and establish their rule. regardless of
the South This il the issue; and the North,
in the face of the Law, has rendered it to the
South; and the time is upon US when We must
respond to it. We must either submit, and let
the territory be ingloriously wras,ed from Us,
with the certainty too, that Kansas being free
State, the same vile incrndiaries who take that
territory will soon steal the slaves from Missou-
ri until she first, then Kentucky and others will
inevitably dispose of The remnant of those in
their possession, until God knows how suon we
may be border Stale. What under these cir
cunstances will our people give! We have the
Constitution, the Law, and the President in our
favor Shall we become excited on subj cts OF
much less Importance, and overlook this Of most
vital interest to US? Or shall our people res
pond to it as did our ancestry, who when their
rights and their interests were about to be inva-
dsd, resisted tax upon tea! Will we not re.
sist the invasion Of our hearh.stones! Aboli-
tion has been looming up, regularly, and more
formidably, for about twenty years. Now We
have an issue that no hypocrisy can disguise ;
and it seems to me that duty, patriotism, and
interest demand Of Us action, and that too with
out delay. do not mean BY action necessarily
war all the laws existing in the territory are
in favor Of our rights; those who oppose them
mayrhs, held as traitors. In that position they
musifss,ain until new elections tahHplace. The
ASs!I.igais!s through shs .ssalsss sssaaIzasiSa
great numbers, with the determination that they
will control the destiny Of the territory by the
next elections: their recent conduct shows that
they will sneak back into their forts and retreats
aud make no fight for the present; but they
will only be the better prepared at the time of
The elections to carry the polls by Numbers, and
this il evidently their expectation, and it Will be
realized unless the South rally at once and meet
them on that ground, also. 1t seems to me
there is every indueeG,ent to prompt our people
10 b. I'D and doing in this matter. 1t is the
FIRST time that the Aboiilionisls have ever made
m issue with Us in which they have not shaped
il in some way to divide aud parayze our
strength. This is plain issun and a must
understand il. lrone those of our people who
have the means and cannot 30, will advance
aiber.ly their uoney aud energy 70 aid young
supn whu have not the means themselves 10 60
10 III. territory and settle early, that they may
secure for themselves the most valuable lands
which Ly pre-emplion they will get at Sl25 per
acre, which one hand can easily clear by tng
the ground the first year, and which iii i short
time may be worth from S25 to 40 per acre.
A man going with one negro man between
this aud June, may easily buy the claim of a
se,tler for reasonable price, turn over the land
with oxen, plant corn on it, and without II single
ploughing afterwards make from 80 to so BUSH
els of corn on every acre he plants, for which, in
20 new country, he can get from one dollar tD
ono and half for every bushel he makes so
that the product of or acres thus cultivated
the first year, would pay for his l60 acres, the
extent of his pre-emption, whilst he i'll the mean
lime could DO any other business which he
might fud profitable, and patrolically aid in
protecting the institutions of his country, and
rights of the South with n sufficient number
of true southern men to control the balot-boxes,
there will be no fighting with the Aboli,onists,
and the miserable scum sent there from New
England would soon find they were certainly in
the wrong atmosphere for them. ] trust GU,
portion Of the State will not behind other sec-
lions having in no way the advantage of US in
anv respect. trust it i. useless for me to say
will contribute literally as my means will allow,
in this enterprise of duty and patriotism
KANSAS MEETING IN CoLUMBIA.-Judging By
one Of the speeches, and the chief one, it ap
psars that this meeting was pretext for the op.
posers of the Convention to let off their super
abundant bile and to pronounce philiipirs againsl
our Congressional delegation. Has it come TO
this, that the fiery, impulsive, generous and pa
triotic Butler is to be denounced, for exercising
the privilege of freeman-expressiugk lis opin-
inn upon the politics of the day2 Is the calm,
intellectual and pure Evans to be leclurcd rs Il