Indian Queen

 Learning so much more about the October 1850 SOUTHERN RIGHTS BARBECUE @ the Indian Queen Hotel where "THE MUSTARD SEED OF SECESSION" was planted. This public dinner was planned while Alabama Senator W.R. King was in town during the week of Saturday October 19 to Sunday October 26. King declined the invitation to the Indian Queen dinner but he also declined two other invitations to SOUTHERN RIGHTS BARBECUES in Montgomery and Selma. The letters he wrote to all three delegations were such a defense of THE SUBMISSIONISTS (folks who wanted to follow the law and preserve the Union) that all three were reprinted in papers nationwide but especially throughout Alabama and Georgia and North Carolina, Senator King's native state. (from the November 5, 1850 WASHINGTON UNION)