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mmttr'i presence once more. M'lease sir, 70a bid me give the cow nomo corn in the ear, but didn't you moan the mouthV lie looked at nie for n moment, and then burst into such a convulsion of laughter, I made for the slab!** as fast as my feet could carry me, thinking I was in the service of a crazy man." THE LEDGER^ LANCASTERVILLE. B.C. WEDNESDAY.SEP.26,1855, py Return day for Lancaster, Saturday the 29th iost. For Congress The Hon. L. Boozer, of Lexington has been nominated in the Lexington Telegraph in opposition to the Hon. P. S. Brooks. To Corresposderth.?Communications left over will be attended to next week. MUBDEB. The body of YVm. Arnnt was found in a public road rear his home on Wednesday 1 * last, with his throat cut from ear to car.? Arant had been to a store, and became intoxicated, and wns on his return home when ho was wavtaid and m.irdMToH ? ?? cannot say. He was a native of Chester^ field District. King's Mountaio Celebration.?The Hon. George Bancroft has accepted the in. ... citation, and will be present on that interesting occasion the 4th October. B*ply of Hon. John McQueen. The able, fearless and statesmanlike reply of our immediate Representative, Hon. Jno. McQueen, in answer to a letter we addressed him some time ago, occupies the greater I portion of this paper. The views ?>t our : Representative we know will be aequicM-cd in by a greator portion of the clUr; its ?>f Lancaster, and of the Congressional District ' generally. Wo have not space in this paper to say more the same excuse holds good for lh? lack of more editoral. New Ooods. We call attention to the advertisement of our enterprising friends, Mngill &. llealh ? We are informed that they purchased a tremendous stock of goods?the largest ever brought to this place. They do not wUh to keep them, so purchasers should not d> lay calling on them at once. They are determined to sell, and having purchased principally for cash, can afford to sell at low prices. EDITOR'S TABLE. Grahams, Magazine. The September number "bicli has come t? bund, contains two very handsome steel plate engravings, and a large quantity ! of useful ai.~ entertaining reading matter. This is an excellent number. We find articles from Frank Forrester. (IIerb?rt;) Mr. E. Oaks Smith, Rufus W. Grisnod, and several others of reputation. The Editors Table is also exatemly interresting, price of Grahams, Magazine 13*00 a year, with the Ledger $ :'00 and 3 cts for postage. A. II. See, Publisher, Phils. The Ladies, Wreath. The September number is on our table. kit contains a handsome picture, and a steel engraving; also tbo usual number of light stories Ac. Pr'ce only fl'00 a year Durdick A Scovilj., Publisher, N.York. The Londor Qo art lilt Review. Contents of July number. Archdeacon 11AMk nri.~ nf uaiv, Alio vircuiauun OI llie lSloOtf. Sard in ion and Rome. The Romans at Colchester. Memoirs of Sydney Smith. The Facte of the Conception. Advetisementf. The Suppiy of Paper. Objects of the W ar. Some of there articles are tnoro than ordinarily interesting, among which are "Memoirs of Sydney Smith; and "Advertisements: The price of this Review is $3'00 a year. Hie London quaterly and Blackwood*' Magazine $5 year. Any two Reviews $5. A Large Yield ef Cora We havepeen finished bv Mr. Washington Mason with the ftdfowing statements of a yield of corn from an acre and a half of land. The location it on morris's Oreek in this District. Til J suit was gray aandv wish m el*w Jwfib??iiin? ' " " " / * J * prepared in tbe ordinary wajr, and manured with 190 brnhela of cotton seed, half bethel of lime.-?'fho corn vat planted in aow* few feet apart, and one ami a half foot imbed nil, some place* nearer. The horrent yeikled ninety see en hwsheU asid one pack, or awtj-feur bushels to Ike facta - IMa tlWwi what our lande cam be made It do with ahttia a xiflcUl aid. fr&pZ ' w,*<KW*sa,w " m JtfMk.r IT . COMMUNICATIONS- i For the Ledger. Views of Hon. John McQueen on Snow , Nothingism. Bennettcvillk, Sept, 3d 1865. My Dear Sir.?I received your favour , recently, asking my views of the partv in the United States, known as tho Know Nothing Party, nnJ would have replied earlier, that all who felt an interest in knowing my opinion of them, might have it for what it is worth, but other things engaged my attention, unavoidably, until tho preseut moment. In the remarks I shall nir.ke upon the organization, I shall mainly confine myslf to those who originated and compose it* t at the North and, their motives, and do not mean to include all those at the South who have unfortunately, l?cen beguiled into its incshes, because I have reason to believe thare are some good inen who in the mass of professions, made by the party, found some things in which they sympathised, ?uu suucieu iheiii solves to be led off. without waiting to lefiect upon tho whole, or knowing how far they would ue jeuereti down by horrible and revolting oaths, which not only deprive them of their liberty of conscience, but prevent them from warning their friends. 1 have never known a time when I would not sooner have seen an organization of any sort, to sow discord among, and divide the peole of the south, than the presenti I have from a very early period of my life, looked to the North with inosv serious apprehensions for the rights and happiness of the people of the Southern States, and ever since the proposition of the Wilraot proviso, and the , strength, at the time, manifested in its favour, I have believed that fanaticis m was so deeply rivited in the minds of the Northern people, that before long, it would risi up in its arrogance, and, if submitted to, accomplish its full pnr|>ose, abolition; against us, wben the Wiliuot proviso was proposed there was not a Northern whig who was not its supporter or advocate so completely had they affiliated with and became abolitionists themselves, that in every state where they had the ascenden cy, they 6ent men of no other prin:iples to Congress, while they secured, likewise, all the local and state offices at home.? The Democratic party North, battled in some states against them for a season,hut many of thorn, finding that, in one stale after another, a material object of their patriotism, the spoils, was constantly being lost to them, they too, commenced bargaining, and securing the office*, both itateand federal, whilst the South was to he left, to save herself as she could, w ith justice, right, and the constitution in her favour, but a majority of those who profess to be her allies, gone over to the enemy, and even contending that the prov so was constitutional. At that time there was no national Native American party oven amongst the Whigs, nor could they have been induced, to oppose the emegratiou ?.f Foreigners,or to prevent them from voting, indeed they encouraged their emi^rat:?>:i by every means in their power! t <*!r shins brouorht tlmm .1 .i~ J n"~ *uva>> wvivro me nilHIll'.; tin ir money aided in iheir rapid eineijr iiioit to tho Territories of the United State*, where they swelled the population with unexampled rapidity; they were especially embraced by the Whig*, because it was believed and as a general tiling it was true that they came to the country with prejudice against slavery, and could more easily be brought up, to the abolition of slavery, and hostility to the South, and they were <1 ragged to the pools, Roman Catholic, Mahommedan, Mormon or Infidel, upon six months residence until ! the North obtained a majority of anti- 1 slave States, and consequent represents tion, in bo h bracches of Congress, in all i time to come. Had there been an honest ef I fort during that litne to change their tiine of I probation and right to vote, or rather, to prevent theui from voting in six months, in any Slate or Territory, I should have sympathized w ith the movers of it and aided in any constitutional way I could, to accomplish that obiect. and I dnuht ninny in the South would hnve done so likewise, but it hns been left to the North i to invite, embrace, cherish and use them in every way possible, to advanco their own interests, and now, when they have accomplished all they desired by them, to devise ways and means to brand them as a distinct and degraded people, to leviate their affections from the government under which they havechosen to live, to ostracise an.l outlaw then,both socially and politically, and deny them even the privilege, of worshiping their God according to their conscience. But to return to the political condition of the country at the time when tl?e North were making their most powerful eflb t* to secors Cor themselves the balance of ! power in the confederacy, and teal forever the fate of the aouth, the inane was upon the Territory obtained from Mexico, the Whig* of the South, as well as the North had oppoeed its acquisition, the whole Northern wing of the party were, for ail practical purpoees to us, thoroughly ahol it ionized, (hero was not a man oi them in Congress, who was not hi favour of the Wftasot proviso, and who did not declare s" ' , iti-aCsu* - vaT T y "there should be 110 more Slave States** Vj and in truth there were not many Demo- j nj crats from the North who did not approve hi* or vote for the Proviso in some shape or ^ other. Two efforts were made by the th Democratic party to settle thedifficulty.during tire administration of Presedont Polk. c|, One in 1848 (which was agreed toby the C< Democrats ol tite South with Mr. Calhoun to at their head) to give governments to the j,r Territories, without the contamination of i |,c the Wilmnt Proviso, which passed the m Senate, and was defeated in the lower tit House by the vote of every abolitionist hi and Whig from the North, together with co the votes of 8 Whigs from the South.? th The other on the last night of Mr. Polk's ol administration, when an amendment cJi known as Walker's, was attached to the an civil and Diplomatic Dill iu the Souate to p? accomplish the same object, after a whole be night's struggle |in the lower House, by til the vote of every Whig from the North, b?i and many of the nominal Democrats also th the Wilraot Proviso was fastened on the er amendment, and that too, n short time before day light on Sunday morning, at ^ the risk of the loss of the whole Bill, and or a consequent derangement of the sspira- j.r lions of the government. In this condi- p? tion Gen. Taylor (who, according to his Hc own declarations had been elected as no p, party man) found the Country; the issue tj, had still to be met. lie threw himself UP into the arms of tho Whig party North, |lf and took as his counsellors several of j, their most uuscrnpulous abolitionists, and (q it is idle to dwell upon the California w Juggle, Foreigners "and Roman Catholics, t;| Indians and Negroes without distinction ry or objection, formed or ratified a constitu th lion for that empire, prohibited the South jn from a participation in its treasures, and re settled forever the inequality of our peo- p, plo in this Confederacy. This was the c] work of every Whig, every abolitionist and many Democrats at the North, who I lament t?> say were aided by many txi Whigs and Democrats even from the a] South. fa A compromise, that fatal term for the (f South, was male, which was held up as Qj a grand and glorious settlement of all the ni difficulties, and vindication to the South of all her wrongs, the Fugitive Slave V Law and the failure to enact the Wilinot j,, Proviso in letters and words were claim eJ ed by its advocates as a triumph, and all w farther agitation was to c-aso forever. Still* b< there was the Wilinot Proviso so far as jn California extended; more effectually en- la acted, than Congress had ever dared to tl attempt, and for the Fugitive Slave Law p. I never would ha e giveu the parchment ti it is enseribed on. y Tho whole South, however, acquiesced |j in the compromise, and this was the plat- tl form on which Piesidcnt Pierce waselec- I ted by anovcrwhehuing majority in 1832, c< ar.d I am free to confess that during the > nrsi session oi congress under his admin- ? istratinn, I had for a time, higher hope o e justice to the South than I supposed wo h should ever obtain, in the presentcontcd- p eracy. We had the odious Missouri com- 1> promise, that first fatal error submitted to fr by the South, that foul stain upon our C honor and our rights, that burned for 30 G years, as upon a cheek that had been ei smitten and for which there seemed no 0 redress, repealed, and the last of the Ter- tl rilory obtained from France thrown open V to us upon terms of equality and justice fc Hut my hopes soon vanished, and that fc from which wc all thought might follow, ii at least some, repo-e hut furnished the occasion for an entirely now phase in the p political condition of the country, and o brought into existence the new and un- h preccdentcd, Know Nothing organization. o< The President had been elected by a ina- b jority that prostrated the entire whig party, K and the loaves and fishes seemed to have c< gone from ihein forever, lie bad thrown ti his influence iu favour of the Kansas and Nebraska Legislation. With him,a number nr of Democrats from the North who had b not became abolitionizcd,co-operated, and U by the aid of Whigs South, who at last ai were willing to cut looee from their old o! nholitionized brethren of the North, we tl had a.cured to uf, those acta of justice, p but the old Whig party North who were I withering and growing lean, under their a disappointment and deprivations,the same 8 party who held the Hartford Convention B the same party who inflicted upon the h South the Tariffs of 1824 and 1828, the it same party who would have Bankrupt * the country at intervals of about every 10 K years with a United 8tate* Bank, the tl same nartv who would Inno r ? ? """ ~ distroyed the veto power had they had at the strength, the same who violated the ei compromise Tariffiet of 1833, and pttl n upon the Country a mere odious Tariff w than that which our Bute resisted, bi the same party who took charge of Gen. ? Taylor and brought about the Callifcrnia and New Mexico, iniqaity?the same h party who to a man opposed the Kauaas ai and Nebraska Bills, and the same party fa who are known to bs abolitionized from It Mtiine to Maryland and across to the it Pacific, they look advantage of the oeca- tr eion, their old fires of abolitiofi which had gi not been {sleepHag, but slumbered were et easily kindled into flames,dit?ffecied bun- fa grj persons, nominally Democrats, to to wborn the Present eoold not fornisb ei erumba to stop their greedy months, joined ot fa the o* cry? and n Mm party sprang (f ? from subteranean recesses nod ini?l- of abolil glit associations, administering detestn- as we ai B and nnconatitutionnl oatbs, leal their of theirs ncluvo iniquities should be revealed to the first e world. to destn They arrogate to themselves to be ex- consult I jsively American, the Ounrdiaus of the phy as i institution and the Union, the protec- faleofa r? of the South, (God save her froin their So well otection) the defenders of the Bihle and fore sua >ly religion of God, and especially the gressiom emict of Franklin Pierce's Administra- ing they m ?the man who, in my judgement been nu is labored more fervently to uphold the flagrant n&litution of bis country, and preserve been ma e lights of Stales from the aggressions mire sh< Fanatics, than any who has filled his lion, ant air since I have known the government, threaten id who, bad he been sustained by the I have 11 irty who toqk liiin from private life, and have tin mnd him to a platform of principles, theSout ight have ftucceeded belter in driving rights w ick the unhallowed issues of the North, It is s an we will ever see again in this con fed- some of acy. iugism t But who in the South will rely upon Hn<* 8UPI em, or place their slightest faith in their an^ :l nnibua of professions; does not every one l'iein, w low that they arc the old defuct Whig lading i irty North, joined with the rulied and have alv :knowledged abolitionbts, with n few un incipled nominal Democrats,who go with those wl e throng to catch the cruinta? It is HC'inc leleaa for any one to deny the fact, we legialatit tve their works too plainly written alrea> in ll.o ?I 1.:. . -# .L. - * rit flnnfli. . ... ...v p/iiuuni uiaiurj ui me country v< W,,MI deceive those who nre not so blind they "Qmeroi ill not see. We know that deadly hos- them lity exists at the North to African slave- them, hi ' in the South, Hnd that every day for hy the j ie last 30 years but produces new seal hero of! the crusade of abolition against us. It Carolini aches now from the nursery room to the defender ilpit, and pervades, more or less, every I" thi ass of society, and I would ask if a sin- poaaible le man of the Know Nothing party cm would i j>ointod to, who has e\er laten known Know 2 i throw his influence or exertions Against thy mei volition, or can no* l>e relied upon as the hop ilhlul to the Constitution and the South! eomelliii or faithfulness to one is sulhcient for the ' cannot her in this whole issue.) Is there a to reoon ian of them into whose hands we would certainlj i willing to trust our rights in this issue) ^ that of i ifill you find him in Massachusetts, where r*?r? wo" i open day, they shed innocent blood for fearful 'I teculing the plain law of the land, and Horse, ould tear an honest judge from his seat, moreme ecause he administered the law accord- hie to I ig to the constitution of his country, the South! i iw itself, and his conscience, and where rey send Wilson and Sumner as the ex- There ononis of their pr nciples, to the highest creed ol ibunal iu the Federal Government! Will among cu tind him in Vermont, where they open- i to the a r legislate against Hie teller and spirit of hut sun ie constitution! Will you find him in N. w?th us Iamshire where they return Hale aud his >n Soul onipcer to the United Slates Senate! In "ounce Tew York, where they have elected Sea- Ukinly, a 'ard, if not by the whole p irty, just hv governn uough (as they can always do) to secure We hav is election! Iii Illinois, where they have *h has ulled down Shields for voting for the e*t wr*t Innsas hill, and filled his place with one His *ch oin their ranks, who wars against it) In niented Connecticut, where they have condemned *ho mi iov. Toucy, than whom there was notru- records r Stales Rights man from the North! ring his >r, will you find liini in Wisconsin, where ??t on') ley have turned out Wnlker, a native of hut hit irginia, and put in Durkee, who during egation. >ur years in the lower House, never dif- *" ""ha ired from GldJing* in a single vote touch- istsiralK g, in anyway, the subject of Slavery! Hut 1 If such man can he found in the whole Nothing arty North, I am sure I do not know him, those w r from whence he could come. There judgmei as not been a single election, when Dena- in ^y ' irats who voted far the Kansas and Ne- * *ry raska Hill have been beaten, that the hatch of [now Nothing* have not filled their pla- ' nwnt ii ? with vile Abolitionists, who arow boa* J '*w or : lit) to Slavery, the Fugitive Slave Law giou* ?| nd the repeal of tlie Missouri Coinpru- die tiae, and who do not declare there shall foreign* e no more slave Slate* admitted into the ''cs ff01 Inico, end it will not do for the party in ' national ray part of the Union, to repudiate any , legieli r their creatures, the Know Nothings put of the rr tern into power, and they must be ree- dwell in rouble for their acts in all time to come- f?rt t? < hazz.ird nolliing in eaying there ie now w'd? tin strength and power at the North ngainet h>ry of tavery, and the peace and rights of the ?f ">'"8 outh, more fearful and dangerous than murder, as ever manifested it*?lf before, and that despots, recent rapid advance has been coeval ?d uP?n ith the organisation and progress of ths be need [now Nothing party. Every member of tbie wb< ie party may not ba an abolitionist, yet ths sw< ley have acted and voted with them,de- breams royed our frienda, and are clearly reapon* ?f ?ur P bla for their acts. There is no more just ? *?r3 lie in moral or eivil law, than that tbuaa Who bo aid in the perpetration of wrong, shall ed this ( I held natimtiililA -i* r ??V| WVIVI^I ?vt Wl 111 ***-IS. L LW1 msequence*. foreign* I hare now, my dear sir, giren you my tre**ur sliof of the eiementa, the organisation, n> ^*r id aomo of the arts of the Know Noch- com,, fr> g parly North. There it bad its origin. e boos and sinew is still there, and there ** has, so far, done most of its ns'sckief. 1 *0<* w,,< net H nere* will be embraced by any ^7 rent number of the ettisene of the South n States, elthoogh in eosae respects il se been ingeniously sod artfully devised con^rt*> >divide our peonUand distract our eoue la, thet the wJPof abolition may go i, and be enbmitted to by ne. I know ^ mm or i hare often bea*j it froi*!!* meat** of*ea fnf ionists) that they believe, m long re divided nmoig ourselves, no act will ever be resisted. They are not who bave resorted to tbat means >y a people, in fact we need but ibe Bible, tbat book of philosovoll as inspiration, to loam the pe pie divided against themselves, have the northern people bereto:eeded in all their insults and agi against us, that it is not snrprisshould try it again. Had we itud froiu the South in 1850, that compromise would uever have de, or indeed, any other oompro)rt of our rights aud the constitoI if we can but be united now, ing and loweriug as tbe times are, 10 fears for the consequences. We i elements of self-preservation in h, and if united can maintain our ilh honor aud ease, trange to me, however, that in the Southern States, Know Nolhias, for a time, found advocates porters to a considerable extent, j equally remarkable that in all of ' here party strife lias prevailed, its ' champions are those, who of old, ; rays been opposed to every tiling [es Rights, and at this day, are ho deny tbat a State, even in case iwledged unconstitutional, federal in. ItHK AlftV ill !>(>r riiil roao titan !*? revolution, a right which, in case ct, however unjust, with a foe more is and powerful, would guarantee iselves, and their posterity after it the (ate of the rebel and death gallows. Take for example the San Jacinto, and Kayner, of North ?, a* noble specimens of Southern a, in this momentous isuio. s State I have never thought it that but few outside of the cities, have anything to do with the Nothing order. Some most wor n inay bare been deceived by e that among all its professions, ug good might come from it, but ; see iu God's name, what it has imend it to South Carolina. It ' had its origin at the North, and Uelf, with the most guildcd exte ild mAKe me suspicious of it, and k would provo as :t is, a Trojan When waa it that any political nt, at the North, was everfarorathe rights and interests of the and how long is it till our people things as they Are) i is but one thing now in the f the party in which tney agree themselves, and that is hostility Jiuinislration of President Pierce; sly this should not find favour . Is there a States Rights man :h Carolina, who U wiMiug to dethe man and his acta who has certs far as he could, adininbtercd the lent according to the principles, e always contended for, and for brought upon himself the biUeth and vengeance of our enemies) ool of politics had been the laWoodlxjrry's and ours, and those ty take the pains to examine the of both branches of Congress duservico there, will find hi* record ' clear of the isms of the North, votes recorded with our o#u delAre we the people to join in J'owed warfare against hisadioin>nf there is an element in the Know ; professions, calculated to attract lin arc nnl IitI l.? - ?^ %*j m ouuuu fit and mature reflection, and yet opinion aa dangerous to Liberty other ingredient in their whole r article*; 1 mean the commence i this country of persecution by by party, of sects, for their relipinions. Th ;y propose to repeal s of naturalization to prevent all rs and especially Roman Cathon voting and office, and this by f party, and o? course by Federation, else it is nonsense to speak i as a national party. I shall not this upon the iniquity of the efsonnect religion and religious tests b politics of this country. Tliebiethe world groans with the birtory poue persecution, bloodshed and at the hands of politicians and until It seems to me if God look* i our sins as ripe for destruction, but order its commencement in ?le land, soon to be fbliowed by t?rd and the bayonet, until our would run red with the blood llji>le, and grim death around us f side. are those | eople who hare start thing, at this day, in the Uuited Are they not now transporting re to Ksmm with their money and to over vide fry UUirvoU$ South ehoklers in that Territory I Has it >m the bands of the soon of the i who were driven from their y the Area of religions perseentio.ta, we advent, to this day, is eeJeiwn their descendants, as an epoch in wy of the world? Is Maaanrhetbe sons of MnceesiieweVa, in a a to give to Booth Carolina a sinin morals or tha religion of Christ! en who are loodsst against Roman a, and would ask as to join them, >t of them. the vary men who hold Idtl nanntisaa nnheehy ofBos ) \ $$ yfj" **> / . ton in deftaoce of God and Religion; they are the man who steal our negroes and murder those who attempt to redeem tliein. Are these the men who are to call upon the sons of the Huguenots in South Carolina to light the torch with them againet foreigners, and thousands even of American ciliiena because they believe in the Roman Catholic Church? Would you have Wendel Philips and Theodore Parker to come to Carolina, and put such men as Bishop England to the Stake? Or would you be willing to shake hands with Massachusetts at this day, in any one thing under Heaven? I am very certain I would uot, and if wo embrace ber Know Nothing principles, must we not accord and co-operate with her in all their requirements? otherwise it would be foolish to talk of a national organization. In my opinion it is abetfrd at any rate to talk of a national organization to prevent Roman Catholics from voting or office, unless they intend to proclaim openly their purpose to ride over the rights of the States, and violate the plain letter of the Constitution of the United States. The constitution declares that the citizens of a Stato entitled to vote for member* of tlie ? most numerous branch of the State Log- v isl tture,shall Ik; entitled to vote for mom- s bers of Congress, thus leaving to the .1 States the power to regulate the suffrage \ of their own citizens, and depriving Congross of tho power to restrict that right, t Why then, have a national organization t to correct this evil, if it be an evil, or do c that for all the States by a gross violation ( of tho constitution, which each State ? could constitutionally do for itself? Sup- m pose they repeal the naturalization laws nt I the next session of Congress, would that ?i take from a citizen of a Stale, the right ( to vote precisely as he now does, or from | native Komsn Catholics, their right to c vole? Hut the Roman Catholics must < bo excluded from office, and American* s under the cognomen of Sam, must rule <j America, say^the Know Nothings; now * pardon mo for recurring to Massachusetts t again, but she is the inost thoroughly 1 Son-ised Slate in lire Union, and we must r look to her for its fruits; and how does 1 this profession accord with the couduct ot j die Massachusetts aid Sociciy, at this t very time and in open days. Arc they \ not picking up in the Streets of Ho*.on ? the miserable emigrants from foreign pris- I ons, and transporting ibem 1 rilh their money to Kanzas? Yes, Roman Catlio J lies, luff lets or ffends, to out-number t by volts the honest sons of the So'jlh, and wrest from them the institutions they | inherited upon the lauds purchased with t the treasure of their fathers, and if tboy ? fail by vote*, then they are to be furn- < ished with arms to extinguish the blood 1 of the Southron upon their frtt toil.? j The Roman Catholic must not vote in , Masaacbuseia where even Negroes vote,but { he will do to vote in Kansas, and rob the * sous of the South of their rights and pro- | party?what impudence! 1 am no Ru- , n ? m - . - man v^avnojic or detenUcr of their faith. | < I leave that between themselves an J their ' ; God, where the fitimers of the Govern- ' , mcnl left it, and intended it ihauld be , left, when they provided that there should t he no religious tests as (publications for ! , office; but 1 would ask, why this crusade ( against them in this country? Have they , not the same right under the constitution , of the country to worship God accord- , iug to the dictates of their consciences, , that you and 1 have) Is not their pro- , scription in open and direct violation of , the Constitution of this St.te, and of the ( United Stales? Ami are our |>eo|>!e those | who would unite with Wilson of Massa- ( chusetts, Hale of New Hampshire, and < Ford of Ohio, in this unholy warfare a- , gainst them? Have they ever shown | | themselves disloyal to the Slate or the Go- J , vernment) Have they ever in a single , instance, as a sect, attempted to rule the j ( government, or disobey its laws) I there ' ( a man of us, in his sober senses, who be- | lieves in his conscience that our institu- , lions are in danger at their bandst? | There are less than two millions of them < in a population of 18 millions whites, j and who will believe tbe country in dan- , ger from them; even were tbey to attempt \ to usurp the government, would joe not ( confide in thetn sooner than in the tone , of fanatical Massachusetts) Tbe wbole tbing, in my judgment, is a , bait, deceitfully and artfully thrown out ( to excite the prejudices of protesVants, and , swell a party into power, to burl fitar the , government men who wotdd regard the | ooustilution of the country, and rights of j the 8tates, and give place for bungry and , unprincipled jugglers, whose patriotism is ( plunder ^nd whose impulses ere fanatical , nml wicked. But suppose protertatiU in , this country tuflVr themMlre* to be led off ( in this ctuaade against Roman Catholic*, , whet security bare they that another 1 Know Nothirg order, may not soon i spring up, from some eoai pit, or car era ' at the North, to prooeribe tome one of 1 their own Denomination*! Already hare we seen that the Metbodiata. tbeee melon* | pioneer* of the Bible, who go before the I axe, in erery fore*t ia the Wen, hare 1 been apokea of, and who is it can tell, hot tlmt their turn shall some next! Let this ' bell be oec* pet ia motion, and what power under Heevea amy stay Re Moody , week. The propmhkm come* from the land ef all iena, and from MM^flMme me* . ariea, Hfeo a thief ia the ftfghtQp) tbw. ' ' > ?TP v v V'* w ' m ^ ? * - %? ' V | e ver it makes ft impress among ua, it will oon show iu blighting influence uj>on at, etving ut ia discord nnd strife, until ml ust we may fall the miserable victims of >ur own fol'y. I can tee nothing in thin whole organisation but mischief and danger to the knitli. Its profession of adoration for the Jnion has nocbsrnisfor rne, when 1 know ho elements that coni|>oee the pnrty S'orth, and know that they, without scrtf ?le. imbrue their hands in the life blood if the Constitution, the only bond of U? lion between us, whenever their cupidity ir fanaticism prompts them. Let them >ut restore and preserve the bond of our ?athers, and the constitution of oar corosounlry, and neither you or I, or any ilher Carolinian will be found disturbing he Union, however unequally it may operate npon us Their paeans to the Ulion, while they are trampling titer cotrtitution under foot, may host l>e common Mired to Satan preaching the Gospel, and f they mean to desecrate the altar >f liberty in this country, as they hate lesecrated the pulpit at home, and desroy the substance and happiness of the South while they would preserve a union villi us. I trust there will be no name of a on of Carolina to go down to posterity ;i one, who had nided, in the sacriligiout vork. We all know now that abolitionism at he North, is inoro powerful and arrogant hnn ever witnessed before, and no >ne need prophesy as to tho result of i ? i . - - ? no issue net ween mo florin and me toulli. Wo of Carolina have ho^n twice iccused ol dictating to, and attempting to eat! our sister Southern slate*, in iinprulent resistance to Northern aggression*, )lhcrs seem now nwnkene*) to the iinicnding danger, and it seem* to me ns ilear as mid day Mil) that it is otir duly to mrselres a* well a* to the South, that we Imu'd eschew every thing calculated to listurb our harmony among ourselves,ami tand perfectly still, uulil some of oursis rs at least, are ready earnestly, to aniline some oommon ground tosseuro our ights, in the Cofedcrncy or o'ttof It ? is we may he compelled to chose, during i contest that .* now not far otf. In his position wo can carry with us eight and influence, hut if divided hy my thing, w? will hut expose our rnisera?le weakness and invito renewed aggresions, for I know of nothing new, that south Carolina Las to say against aboliion and its votaries. It is thought hy s >mc, and no doubt lonestly, that we ought, nt this day, to hange the time honored pol ey of the Jute, and go into tho next national :ou ven lion and join in ilia sera nt bio u>ruminato a candidate for the Presidency n 1850, but to aay nothing of the ineou latency, I cannot for the life of me, see lie advantage* we could derive from it.The Slate wants no offices outside of her imits for any of her sous, until our right* ire secured to us and our foelinga rusjieotsd. We have not for many years,mingled u that scramble, and I icrily believe if *e are entitled to the character of a conwrvative Sure, it is as much owing to lliat *:ng1e fact, is to all other causes, of which I can conceive altogether web.ro> lot gone there .every wi?*ki?ows,lhal whenever a Stale rights man lias obtained tho nomination, no Slate in the Union, I* so* rertain .0 *11 p port him. Wc have lost nothing of our rights, our interests, or our sharacter by our aliaeuce, and I cannot are what we have to gain hy changing Mir policy. We should leave ourselves uniramtuvicd by compromise* or platforms, mule for the occasion, and to be spit j|>on soon after, and at liberty to vote forr >r reject, any nominee that may be phned ueforc us. I know it is said, it is our luty to kiisutaiti our IMnocralic hicuUs it the North, and meet them in couveiiliotl, but 1 do not see how that is to sustain them. If they are to be undermined try abolition at home, no convention will aive them, fanaticism is not ibua to bo l?iidled, and it (ben will require more than* ram-use* an I resolutions to oppuae it, and t' they nre gone down to that, w? can tevor *avo tlicm. I admire those who liavc atoud up to the cooalilulion and to *?, recently, and would rota for owe of koveral of thein, if tlwy are placed be ore ine, but I regard South Carolina and her :haraetcr more, and I do not think unteew there was tome new cause, of which K itn unapprised, that we ought to ehauge * policy long since established end regulerly adhered to, by the wisest ef our Utauomen for about 30 years. We can rots piite as well without going into cunveuiun, onr Standard of a Flag, a bearer, l? sasily made out, let tliem give us a State* rights Democrat, untaiated with abolition, and of a character to maintain the lignky of tha ?Bee and no State in the Union will be so unanimous. K we take nv thing short of this we may but lead our aid hi our own destruction, and forge the chains that may haee l? he wore by oorsele e and our children, , I have eatciHled this letter modi fcr- ^ a iher than 1 intended but I feel a deep iuicrwi, in the course of Carettae, MM will bo glud if anr thing I have said wW aid in a proper direction of her course through an impending etnnvi which, ire hare ete, long, to aaret, and in which 1 treat eh# will ar hrr twrt, with caution, with wie? dom^md without division among ourselvre I haee the honor to hr your olwdhmt aarvant. JOHJI McQUEXK. R. ft. Btiut t^r. iwfraatri jtkfc X *. 1 ** a ^i. Ir- - *