The Van Buren press., 1860-05-25
The Inconsistency of Yancey Ex-
posed by Senator Pugh.

1t will be remembered that the great lead
er of the southern sccessionists in the
Charleston convention was Wrl. l.. Yam
eey, of Alabama. He wrote the instruc-
tions of the Alabama convention, which
requested the delegates to secede from,
Charleston il il resolution was not adopted
favoring Intervention by Congress in favor
of slavery. Those who adhered to non-in-
tervention We're not Democrats in the esti-
nation of Mr.. Yancey and his colleagues.
Senator Pugl', in reply. made crushing
exhibition of lancey's Inconsistency, as
follows. He said
- We have stood by you, gentlemen, not
that we nave asked anything from you we
ask nothing now bu; justice. Now. sir, in
the year of our Lord, 1886, when thc De
mocracy of Alabama assembled by their
delegation in State convention, the Gistin
gui>hed gentleman from Alabama (Mr
Gancey) was present member of that
convention. The State of Alabama met to
give her opinion f: 20 instruct her delegates
to make known TO her sister States what
she thought of these questions l have be
fore me the official record Of The proceedings
Of that convention. Iproposc to read it
Mr.. Iancey, Of Montgomery. offered
the following resolution which was adopted
ResoIrcd, That two delegates from each congress
sional district be appointed 10y The chair to draft
suitable resolution, for the action of this conyen
tou.
81 the committee on resolutions, through
its chairman, Mr.. w. l.. Iancey of Mont
gomery, submitted the fol owing report
THAT the act of Congress providing territorial
governments for Nebrarka and Kansas embolie.
the principle of COngrcs sioaa non interference up
the subject OF slavery tn" Territories and that
the provisions Of that act, far they relate TO
that subject, meet the hearty concurrence and AZ.
pTovai of the convention Applause.
That the delegates t. the D.rnocrat;c National
convention TO nominate President and Wee Pres
dent. hereby expressly instructed to- insist
that the said convention shall adopt pn; form u
principles the basis of national organization.
prior the nomination of candi dates, uneGuiyo-
cally asserting, ia substance, the following proIo
sition:
al The recognition and approval Of the pr:n
cipe Of non intervention by Congress upon the sub
ject of slavery in the Territories.
- ,. That no restriction prohibition of slavery
in any Territory, shall hereafter be made by any
act Of Congress.
''3. That no State shall BE- refused admission
into the Union becaase Of the existence Of slavery
therein
II. The faithful execution and ra;nta.uance Of
the fugitiv slave law.
''The honorable gentleman said that we
have no business with the instructions OF
Alabama to her delegates upoE this casion
Certainly not, but Cor the fact that her dele
gates have presented them to the convention
They are no longer secret they are brought
before us, and it seems that Alabama has
been in the habit of laying down, beforehand
the terms and propositions upon which she
alone will meet with her sister States. Upon
this occasion she resolved,
That if said national convention shall fuse 10
adopt the propositions embraced in the preceding
resolutions. delegates to said convention
hereby positively instructed to withdraw ther.-
from
LET me take my standpoint there
Where We're the aggressions by the Demo-
racy q the North upon the South up TO
that time 90
So it seems that Mr.. Yancey and his
friends instructed the Alabama delegates 70
the Democratic National convention OF
1856 to withdraw from it. If the principal
of congressional non n-iniervention on slave
nv in the Territories was not inserted in the
Territories was no. inserted In the platform
In 1850 the same set Of men instructed their
delegates to retire from tbs Chrrlaston con
vention If their own instructions of 1856
were adhered to. It is needless to say that
this "reminiscences of Mr. Pugh destroyed
the force Of Yancsy's interv v-ution speech =
Cin-'rn1t, En3u;rey