The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-06

Nh. YAScEY.--We havs given under our city
head the resolution adopted at the meeting held
on Friday night last ut the Alhambra. The oh.
Ject OF the meeting, we believe, wss TO hear \
speech from Mr. Yancey, and after the adoption
of the resolution, which was intended n an in
PRODUCTION Of the speaker, he commenced and
occupied the floor for an hour and a half or
more.
Mr.. Yancey is very remarkable sneaker.
He possesses great huency-a striking facility
Of clearly expressing his thoughts, and man.
ner which is singulariy unegotistic; or rather.
perhaps, manner which rivets the attention
of his hearers as to keep them from dwelling on
the speaker There is nothing superfiuous in
his matter lie seems to understand exactly
what he Intends to say, and says it clearly and
stops. One would suppose that he had written
and memorzed his speeches, il it were not for
the fact that an accustomed hearer can always
tell the difference between written and i'm
promptu manner. Mr.. Yancey, too, covers the
ground he treads on. His exposition of the
right Of secession was compact, full and logi-
cal argument 1t lacked nothing as u basis.
Superimposed on these qualities, there is
another popularity, namely, earnestness. He
speaks like an honest man-an honest gentle.
mau--as one feeling the force Of his own con-
victions and tolerant of the convictions of
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 sequentia and conclusive
from the beginning to the end
Such speaker were dangerous, if he were
bad man, but MIR. Yancey has given proof of his
honesty, and his very position now, expressing
thoughts in behalf of powerless party, is evi.
dence of the rectitude of his character Such q
man could sell himself to any living party for
his weight in gold, it he had the facility of con.
verting 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 to
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
Mr.. Yancey, lest we should mar them. We
may say, however, that he is moderate in his de-
mands; that he 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 may RELY upon.
or rather, which are so plain that the South can
not take from them one meaning, and the North
another. He mpugns 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 they
contradict tomorrow. He is averse to falling
into the ranks of Northern national conventions
NOT 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 su.
premacy of good to the South. He sees no.
thing to be obtained by going into a conven-
ton, which may not be obtained by abstaining
from it; and he sees a 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 un.
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.