Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-10-09

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prompt resistance for the next aggression. Il must come
IN the nature OF things No national party save US ;
no sectional party do IT, Buth we could do as
our fathers did organize COMMITTEES OF safety all
over the cotton States land Is only in them that we
can hope Tor any elective mOyemenU os shati IRE the
Sopbsrt hsag. Instruct the SouherH mind gre eo1r-
rUs fuch oibcr gsd a. ne proper moment BY one or
7ani.s{ cofccriri dctcH PRGclFirArE INK cor
! roN STATES INTO A REVOLUTION
sThe idea has been Swallowed forth by Mr.. Ruin; has
been taken up and recommended by the Advertiser I'M
der the name OF League OF United Southerners who
keeping up the old party relations on all other questions
E hold the southern issue paramount and will influence
parties legislatures and statesmen. have time TO
enlarge, but to suggest merely.
| In haste, yours, &c.
w. L. YANCEY.
| To JANEsSlAUeHrER, ESQ.
About month afterwards Mr. Yanccy made an elab-
crate speech at Bethel Church in which he ardeny ad
vocated the necessity Of Southern league in order to
be prplred for throwing OIL the shaekles Of the Govern
meot, aud establishing Southern COnfederaey. Ga the
llth June, 1859, Mr. Yancey wrote to Col. Meadows in
reply to the question whether he DsuniOnist per
Sc. ANer SAYING be had advocated Dsunion in 1860,
he continues
The South. however, voted down the State Rights
bsJd With which acted, and since then have not
a.ain proposed or advocated such Upon that
question "bde my time' and shall be ready with the
readiest; believing the time that sufficient
srst for resort 70 that remedy sgeR aOF IT wERE Ex
FaDIzNr.
Il is hardly necessary to follow the career of this
avowed and intrepid Dislnonist any further Suffice
hat at Columbia s G., on the SIh July 1859 he made
a speech embodying the PLANES. Disunon sentiments
that when the Charleston Convention disrupted he
delivered passionate harangue the multitude in that
city, saving that perhaps the pen of the his
,orian was nibbed to write the story Of a revOu-
ton and that scarcely month ago this consistent ha-
ter Of the Union speaking Of his letter to Mr. Slaughter
said at Memphis;
There IS no. cord IN that lester that take back to-
gichL THERE Is NOT A SENTIMENT IN IT DtsAyow.
50 much for lanccy.
Senator Clay, Of Al.bams, is a Breckenridge man.
During the last session Of Congress he uttered the fol-
'aziug language in the Senate Chamber:
Il make no predic ions no promise for my State but in
conclusion will only say that II she Is faithful to toe
pledges she has made and principles she has proessed
4 she Is her interest and her own honor
he Is no. rccrelut all thai State pride, integrity and
iuty demand Ss ell 1susr submit 90 your dHih0rit-
VII add that unless she and az ne SJu'h,rR states Of
is Union, with perhaps but two at most three ex-
ce9ous are 20, fIi'css 20 tie pledges Dsg hare gire
ruyY VIII NEVER sCsvr 70 ruE GOVERNMENT or
PEEsIDENr PROPOSING YOUR POLITICAL AND ELLc
-sD ia YoJE SsCu1sAt MAJORITY.
S,uaor ly4Esoy Of Georgia another friend Of Brock
iurlge, said last winter that whenever Black Rapub-
can is elected PRECEDENT
81 for one sh1l b, fer Dsuuion, and shall il alive,
err, az .ts p.rrs iHrg haze ia urging apog c people
Of ne S1' is ac, ssv dHd Pregrsiy Q, IuNADiirE
SEPARATION
All Senator Tooers, speaking to the same point, on
I d, 2I.h January last used The sutjoned language:
..Vh.n thr time comes, ireemeu Of Georgia redeem
ven pl,d.,; ana ready 70 redeem mine. four honor
is inyolved-yorr faith Is iushtgd l know You feel
s.a as a Would YOUR peace, your social system, YOUR
Erg-ij,s are involved. NEvsE rKENlT THIS FEDERAL
GnysRNu.Nr I0 PASS 1870 THs TgADoEoCs HANDS
pl,rE Rirruftc,S PARTY It has already declared WA
.at,ust YOU a.t yolr ustuti lt every day COM
us acts of agast Yos; % has already compelled
YOU 20 arm Tor yUur decu-e Listen 20 mo vain bah
trrsn tou0 trelcherous igoH about covert acts they
have already been committed D-iccd yourselves; the
enemy il q your door; wai not meet him at the
boarthsiouc; meet him al the dOorsl and drive hin
from the temple Of liberty, FULL DOWN
| AND ISvoLvE NM Is A COMMON RUM
Senators Davis and BrOwn of Mississippi have frequent
~ expressed themselves IN the explicit terms The
former, in a speech delivered before tho Mississippi
Democratic STATE Convention, on the Sth of July, 1882
/ said:
aFor myself say as said on former occasion, in
the coutit geucy OF the election Of President, on the
platform OF Mr.. Stewards Rochester Speech LEr IHE
USoS HE DIssoLyED. Let the great but tbs great
est Of evils come For did the great and good Cal
houn from whom IA drawn that expression Of value
love and venerae the union Of these SAFES but love
/ liberty and Mississippi more
senator Davss colleague, Senator Brown said In a re-
cent speech to his constituents:
The election Of Mr. Seward or any other man Of his
party ia not per Sc usd6,be ground for dssOlving the
t,ioH But the &c, Of putting the Government into the
/ hands Of Who mean to use it for sutugaton,
ought 10 be resisted, TO DISRUPTION EVERY
riE rHAr BINps us To Tia UNION"
senator Ciugman, of North Carolina, said in a late
speech that the election Of Black Republican President
would furnish sui,en. eluse for dissolution of the
Uou No other over, act was considered necessary
Mr. Curry, of Alabama in the House Of Representatives
at the las; session Of Congress, said
However dsiasieful il may be my friend from New
York, Mr.. Clark however much may revolt the pub
lie sentiment conscience Of this country | am rot
ashamed or afraid publicly that the election OF
Wm n Seward OF Sllmou p. Chase or any such repre-
sentative Of the Republican party upon sectional plat
fosm ought 70 be resisted 10 the disruption Of every tie
that binds Ibis COniederaey together. Applause on the
Democratic side Of the House.")
Mr.. Moore, another representative from Alabama Mr..
Glr,r Of Georgia Mr.. Crawford his colleague Messrs
MeRlo and Davis Of Mississippi, Mes5rs Garnet Pryor.
and Dcirnet,e, Of Virginia all expressed themselves in
similar terms We omit the extracts from their speech
C. which have before US for want Of cpace As for
the Congressmen IRON South Carolina such as Mr. Bon
han, Mr. Boyee Mr. Keitt General Mcqueen, Mr.. Rhett
Mr. Niles aud other prominent public men Of that dis
coutented aud 6ery Commonwealth their ultra furious
Dsunionism is so well known and so universally admit
ted to spare the necessity Of multiplying quotations
from their speeches and letters Every gentleman al
uled to in this article IS partisan Of Breckenridge snd
Lane. Mr. Breckenridge said In bis Lexington speech
the other day. Judge by their ahtecedents and by
the principles supported by the of their followers
We take hin at bis word Judge him, citizens of :he
South, Judge him by bis own tests and where does be
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