The southern press., 1852-04-06


Mr.. YAEcEY.--We have given under our civ
head the RESOLUTION adopted at the meeting held
on Friday night last at the Alhambra. The OBJ
Ject OF the meeting, We believe, was 10 hear
speech from Mr.. fancey, and after the adoption
of the resolution, which was intended az an in
PRODUCTION Of the speaker he commenced and
occupied the floor for an hour and half or
| more. $3.50 !, II
Mr.. Yancey is a very remarkable speaker
lie possesses great huency--a striking facility
OF clearly expressing his thoughts, and man.
ner which Is singularly unegotistic; or rather
perhaps manner which so rivets the attention
Of his hearers as to keep them from dwelling on
the speaker. There is nothing superfluous IN
his matter. lie seems to understand exactly
what ne Intends to say and says il clearly and
stops. One would suppose that he had written
and memorlzed his speeches, if il were not for
the TACT that an accustomed hearer can always
tell the difference between written and I'M
promptu manner. Mr.. Yancey, too. covers TIC
ground he treads on His exposition Of tba
right of secession was a compact, full and looi-
cal argument. It lacked nothing as a basis.
Superimposed on these qualities, there -
another popularity, namely, earnestness. He
speaks like an honest man--an honest gentle.
man--as one feeling the force of his own con-
victions and tolerant OF the convictions of
Others. There was not on this occasion any
excitement, any utterances prompted by the
mere enthusiasm of the moment; but only what
was the result of deliberate and accustomed
thought-and it was sequential and conclusive
from the beginning to the end.
Such speaker We're dangerous, if he were
bad man, but Mr.. Yancey has given proof of his
honesty, and his very position now, expressing
thoughts in behalf of powerless party, is eyi.
dence of the rectitude of his character. Such
man could sell himself to any living party for
his weight in gold, if he had the facility of con.
vertng himself into servant, and doing what.
soever his master might bid him do.
We have never heard him before, and we ex.
press the opinion of numbers Of men who were
present on Friday night, and were opposed 10
what they previously conceived to be his senti.
ments, when we assert that he is man to be
cherished and honored by all those who think
there is higher standard of political duties
than that prescribed by mere party necessities.
we make no attempt to give the opinions of
MIR. Yancey, lest we should mar them. We
may say, however, that he is moderate in his de-
mands that ne opposes no party which prom
ises to provide guarantees for the rights Of the
South, and rejects no candidate of any party who
will give pledges which the South NAV relv upon.
or rather, which are so plain that the South can.
not take from them one meaning, and the North
another. He impugns the honest intentions of
no Southern man, and only condemns that in
difference or insagacity, which our politicians
exhibit in saying one thing to-day, which thew
contradict tomorrow. He is averse to falling
into the ranks of Northern national conventions
mot because it is not possible that some good
can be secured by them, but because he thinks
greater good can be secured by standing aloof
from them. The question is now, in his opinion,
as to the supremacy of parties, but to the SUI
premacy of good to the South. He sees no.
thing to be obtained by going into a conyen-
ton, which may not be obtained by abstaining
from it; and he sees great deal of probable
additional good by an Independent position
good by standing aimed between the two parties
NOT falling into their ranks and rushing head
long to seize the spoils which they have before
us for the purpose of whetting mercenary appe-
tites-making the end and moral of the strife
to consist in mere triumph over opposition,
instead of aiming by it to obtain some disfran-
chisement from past wrong, or some security
against wrongs in the future.
Briefly, in distractions, these are what we nm
derstand to be the main sentiments of Mr.. Yam
cey; and what can be said honestly against
them by any Southern man, is more than we
have just now the skill to see.-Mobile Tribune