The true Democrat., 1855-10-16
Letter from Bradley County.

Gen. Yell is unquestionably the most vulner- able political speaker to whom l ever listened Illiterate, unread, vulgar and interruptions, he lays himself open on every side to successful at tacks. Points of attack, that other more skllful tac,cians have abandoned, he still clings to, pour ing an intellectual wound of grape upon dis tant enemy. exploded fallaces he still contin- ues to press upon his hearers, and reasons as though they still had an existence. For in- stance the General still continues to assert that there was a private agreement between Gene ral Pierce and the Catholic church, that in the event of his (Gen. P's.) election to the Pres- dency, that Mir. Campbell, Catholic, should occupy place in his cabinet, and that before the election took place. this fact was announced by the Pope's Nuncio to MT. Barringer, in Madrid. In reasserting this sander Gen. Yell is guilty of either one or the other alternative. If he asserts it, not knowing that Mir. Barrnger has corrected the wilful error into which Ken ncth Rayner of N. C., has placed him, then Gen. Yell is excusable, on the ground of igno- rance-as being lamentably deficient in the news of the day, or if he does know that the islander has been corrected, then he is guilty of willfu!ly persistng in asserting and giving countenance to an infamous falsehood To one or tho other of these extremites is the Gene ral driven.
 But again, Gen. Yell is guilty of falsfying the history of the country, thing inexcusa. !. ble in public speaker, "whose mission," as he very correctly observes, lis to inform the igno- rant of the great political questions of the day'' Gen. Yell asserts, ts,-would you believe it ?--that Mir. Polk signed the Oregan bill, with the Will mot proviso attached to it, and at the time of signing 1t, MT. Polk was aware of the odious abolition features ref1ecting upon the measure; but that 1t was done to curry favor with the abolition party at the north; and this was one of the reasons, why he, (Gen. Yell had left the democratic party. And yet, in 1S4S after Mr. Polk had retired from the presidential chair, we find Gen. Yell accepting a place in the electoral collage of this State, from that very democratic party which sustained and el- ectcd MT. Polk to the Presidency. Was there S'SA Aiioi0 puueilCc:-ulOTC TeCk- lessness of assertion?-a greater disregard for the truths of history?
 This idea, however, is not original with Gen. Yell. He stole it from w. Porter Grace, prose- cutor for this district, a man whose whole life and actions have been in antagonism to the de- mocretic party, and consequently feels no "goad- ings of conscience" in propagating errors and falsehoods against democratic administration. But that Yell should do so-one who. in times gone by, was accustomed to swear by democra- tic principles, is something strange and irrecon- cilable to the mind.
 It would be impossible for me to follow Gen. Yell through his entire speech and expose his fallacies To do so would exhaust the patience of Job himself. His effort was complete failure-a sounding brass and a tinkling sym bol," and as such was sgenerally received by both friend and foe. After Gen. Yell had conclu- ded four hours speech, our young champion,