Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-06-30
TOOK NOTHING BY HIS MoTloNl

OF Mr.. Yancey Of Alabama in regard 10 tn
course Of the Virginia delegation. In his pro
nunciamcnto at Charleston, he violently denodn
ced General Cass as unsound on many questions
and yet, muss consistent man, it is notorious tina
he declared 10 The Baltimore Convention thai, j
his meaningless resolution were adopted, hi
should pledge The vote OF Alabama for this Sun
sound" statesman Mr.. Yancey has commenced
acrusade through Alabama, but unless he meets
with more laid and comfort" an future, ne is des
tined to stand SOLITARY and alone" in his irui,less
mission In his own town, Montgomery, he
made an infammaory speech against the Balti-
more nominalions-yet The selection OF Cass and
Butler was ratified by an overwhelming MAORI
iy, every vote but thirteen. In Weumpka he
made similar demonstration, and so cfeltice
was his opposition, that resolutions were nnont
nsonstv adopted ra,ifyins the action OF the Bati.
more Convention!
We might safely leave the vindcation of the
Virginia Democracy against MIR. Yancey's i'm.
putations, In the hands of his own enlightened
and patriotic constituency of Alabama. Every
where they have frowned upon bis disorsauizing
movement-and come forward 10 sustain Cas- and
Butler, whose avowed opinions show them 10 be
true 10 the Constitutional rights OF The South and
tho Union.
In his TRADE at Montgomery, Mr.. Y. assaled
.the Virginia delegates lat Ba)timore) as gray
beaded tools; (the incorruptible young men be
ing kept at home, for fear they would prove
fracsious;l that Virginia herself was not true;
that the Alabama delegates were not true"
c., SC.
At Wetumpka he insinuated, without an
atom Of justification, that 10 voting for Cover.
nor Csss, the delegations of Virginia and other
States had been influenced by considerations
touching the candidates for Vice Presidency from
their States. As the Union truly says:
"Virginia will pursue tne even tenor Of her
proud way, without turning to the righ, hand or
the left, without caring to propitiate either the
Hotspur of the North, John Van Buren, or the
Hotsprr of the South, wv. L. Yancey.)'
Thus far, we are proud to say, the Democra.
cy Of Virginia has nobly sustained the action of
their delegation to Baltimore, and scattered TO
the winds the ridiculous and unfounded imputa-
tions OF the Barnburner of Alabama. As an
act OF justice to our friends in Virginia, and to
the gallant Democracy of Alabama, which has
rePudiated the "bindness and foolishness of the
course which Mr.. Yancey has pursued with such
bad temper and bad logio,'' we quote the fol.
lowing comments of the Mobile Register, a
leading Democratic paper of Alabama:
In Virginia, whose delegates he particularly |
accused of nfdeli,y 10 The South, and violation |
OF their instructions, the public judgment has
been pronounced agains. these rash charges,
from quarter and in tone which he could mol
have anticipated. At the Democratic Associa.
tion In the city OF Richmond, which met on the
evening OF the l4th inst, to consider the nomina.
lions OF Cass and Butler the position of General
Cass was examined by some Of the pures, and
ablest OF the public men Of virginia-men, too,
recognized throughout the South as chivairous
defenders OF Southern rights up 10 the farthest Ii.
NIT OF the Constilution-and the nomination was
.asi6ed, on the express ground OF his soundness
N Southern questions, and his conformity 10 the /