Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-20
From TIE .Sfa-e Reg,ste..
MoSrooaEKr. Feb. eb;h. 1ess


From the Sfa-e Rfoiste-.
MoNrooaEKr. Feb. e6;h, 1863
II Tie Editors Of the .Stafs Register
In the number of your paper. containinge no
tee of the late meeting OF Southern Rights men
IN This city, the remarks made by me in the meet
ing are thus alluded to:
He Mr.. Yancy) expressed the opinion thet
| the Union party occupied q position more fayora-
bic to the South, and better calculated 20 maintain
her rights and secure her an that of the
reorganfzed Democracy. He regarded the sepa-
rate organization contemplated BY the Union par
ty, or Its demand of pledges TO sustain the Com,
promise from any National Convention with which
| 1t will act as safer and more patriotic than the
proposed union Of renegade Southern Rights pols
iticans with Rantoul, Preston King, The Barnburn-
ers, and other Froes soIlcrs. in National Confen-
ton. He declared that under existing circum-
stances, the Georgia platform went as far in its re-
quirements as the Southern Rights party could
now hope to advance, and that if the Union men
would only stand up to it boldly and squarely,
| they had his sympathies and good wishes but he
protested that he had no confidence in their Sta
bilIty or fidelity to their platform -
! The above is not an altogether correct version
| OF the position assumed by me, in the few remarks
submitted by me at that meeting and they
have been deemed by your own, and other presses
in the State of sufficient interest to excite atten-
! ton and comment, beg leave through you col
unlns, briefly to state what did say.
Upon the question ''what should the Southern
Rights men of Alabama do 90 expressed the
opinion that we could not consistently with our
| principles, join either the Democratic or Union
parties Before the late canvass, it was undoub;
edly true tina. there existed larger degree of SYM
pathy with the positions taken by us in the Demo-
cratic than in the Wing ranks that consequently,
Southern Democracy generally went SO far, in ths
1 canvass, as to &yow the abstract right of State
to secede, and to denounce the Compromise meas
ures as unjust. The result of this expression OF
i sympathy was, that the Union party carried the
South by a large majority. The Democracy in
Alabama at once determined to abandon the abb
stract position it had assumed infvor of the South
and FASTENED to avow an unconditional acquies-
ence in the Compromise measures and, TO rtn-
der 1t more clear that it would hereafter moot no
question which create ripple upon the smooth
tide of National Democratic harmony, it plunged
unconditonaly into the National Convention with
the Rantouls, and Preston Kings, and Hannibal
Hamlins-wth Barnburners and Frce-soilers Of
the North
expressed the opinion that ike burnt child.
it was afraid of the fire, and hereafter would be
foend farther than from the assertion of prin-
ciples, which, however necessary TO our own sal
walton, had once thrown it into the distressing
dition of being minority in Alabama and that
The assertion in its resolutions of 98 were TIE true
basis upon which to administer 70 tie government.
! was unmeaning, on account of the various and
conflicting cons:ruc ions gwen to them III the late
canvass
AS to the Unicn party, | said that the Gcotg;s
Platform went+as far in It's requirements, as the
Southern Rights men could hope rtow to advance !;
that the declaration Of that party against the de-
structive tenderness Of The old party organizations
met my hearty approval; and that if members Of
that party would occupy this stand end in good
: faith would stand upon, and not be driven from
that platform the position was more favorable to
the South, and better calculated to maintain her
rights and secure respect, than was that 81 the
organized Democratic party.
, / further remarked that regarded all Nation :
n organizations well calculated 10 deaden that
5 active inquiring and searching sectional spirit
which alone could guard us against Northern az
81 gression, and that the Union Convention had com
nited great and radical error, in my opinion. in
proposing National Union Organization. This
move with other facts well known to the public.
y gave ground to believe tLat when the hour
came, this party too would fall back from TIE
$ position of resistance announced in the Georgia
: platform.
Allow me TO say. that did not denounce South
G ern Rights men who had gnne b; OK to the Demo
S cratic party as "renegadts." / certainly do not
: SO view the great of them, and believe that
| do not err in saying that the future will find
: them rallying to the best position which may te
81 hereafter taken by the South in the assertion q
r her rights. Yourobt serv't
, w L. YANCY. +