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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24th, IS1S

 To Messrs. B. I. Dabney, T. ". $. Gregory, and

 others, committee.

 Gentlcmca-Y ours, of the 18th inst, ad- dressed to me in Philadelphia, reached me in this city, yesterday Nothing would give me more pleasure than to accept your very kind invitation to partake with you, and with my friend, AEr. Hunter, of the public dinner you propose to give him, in King William, on the 29th instant But, regret to say, 1 have been detained necessarily so long from home and business, by family ahliction, that 1t will not De in my power to enjoy the plea- sure which know should feel in short interchange of sentiments with the demo- cratic citizens2 of your county.

 shall assuredly continue to oppose every measure in Congress, deemed by me detri- mental to the whole country" and particu- larly those obviously injurious < to that sec ton in which we live.7' From the move ments of Great Britain abroad, particularly OH the relations of Mexico and Texas, and of the latter to the United States, and from com binations of political abolitionists-fo they are divided now into political and religious at home, foresee the most imminent dan gers to our southern institutions, tending fearfully and certainly to the subversion of rights founded and established by the fede- ral constitution, and of course, to violent breach, or the destruction, know not which, of that constitution itself The foreign news Is ominous. The debates in Parliament, the questions and answers of Brougham and Aberdeen, openly develope the fact, known to me for some time past, that Great Britain IS interposing her colossal power between Mexico and Texas, to establish the independ- ence of the latter on the condition of enan- clpation of her slaves, nih the riem, as her mdin object, of dboliShing Slarcry in Me United States. This presents a new and most momentous question for the democratic and American spirit of this nation to solve. It Is not whether slavery shall be abolished Tn the IN orth American slave States and Ter ntones, but whether the slavery and all the other institutions of the United States shall be touched, disturbed, or interfered with, in any manner, directly or indirectly, by Greo' Bri- tam, treating with third powers, against, or without, at least, our consent, or our being even party to the diplomacy or negotiation which dlsposes of our purely domestic con- cerns Whilst we are contending in Virgil ma, that our own Federal Government itself has not the power to meddle with slavery in the States, Territories, or District of this Union, England is officially boasting, that she IS attempting to abolish 1t throughout the North American continent, by her mterven- ton III the affairs of Mexico and Texas.- Thus the question of slavery has become. at last, National one, and no longer remains a sectional question: It is no longer. shall the northern fanatics, but shall foreign diplo macy or foreign arms, be allowed to delraud or force us out of our rights? The northern as well as the southern democracv-aye. the northern as we'll as the southern .4Mericanisga oi our people will answer this question but in one way-with one voice. North America belongs to republics, to Freedom, and the brave who will defend it! Let philanthropic 6tags and princes have and possess the worn- out old world of m0R0rchieS, that would yoke Tn chains of bondage, white as well as black slaves-this new world belongs to a liberty never known to Europe, and which Europe would destroy, under the very pretext of emanclpating slaves. Englaad's phiIan- fhroPy iS hie loee of commerce, and He I4si of Maiccrsal dominion. If she be allowed to interfere with African slavery, in any of its relations touching our interests or institu- lions on this continent, how long would 1t be before she would control some other besides slavery, in our conn