The Van Buren press., 1860-09-21
Nh. Yancey, in 184e ana 1850.

~ must be source OF intense Satisfaction
to Mr.. Yancey OF Alabama that, after
twelve years of political obscurity. he has.
at last. not only revenged his faneied wrongs
but may possibly have tho further satisfac-
ton of seeing, in November next all who
aided in driving him into oblivion dragged
down with him into common grave. Mr..
Yancey is no new hsnd At. disorganization
He is an expert at the business, one of the
few, indeed, who can say. " /, myself, once
defeated the election Of u Democratic Pres
ident." Doubtless, in che .rcccsscs of his
heart he contemplates with satisfaction that
he may do it again.
|. In the year IS4S, Mr.. Yancey published
- {. Address tp the, People ,of Alatama. =
on the stists page raf wLi2h iAa st ylcd himself
" late adeicgate at largo from the State ol
Alabama to the" national Democratic con-
vention held at Baltimore on the 22d o
May, 1S4S. Burning with opposition tc
the nomination of Gen. Cass because the
Baltimore convention Of 1913 would not, at
his suggestion, adept the following Ian
guage as the 7th resolution Of the national
platform
terference with the rights Of property Of any por-
ton Of the people Of this Confseracy be it in the
States or Territories, by any other than the par
aes interested in them. is the true Republican doc
trine recognized by this h,ly.''
We say burning with indignation that
the National Democratic convention
would not adopt the above resolution as
part of the platform. he commenced sys-
tematic attack upon Gen. Cass AMI the
Democratic party; his efforts, however.
much to his chagrin. attracted precious lit
tie attention. In his pamphlet, which is a
sort OF lugubrious expression of his wrongs,
he says that acting as a citizen of Ala5a-
ma after the adjournment of the Baltimore
and under the solemn pledge made to me
by the members Of the convention, AMI by
me, as member of that body to my bro
tller members and to the country 1 have
refused, under any political necessity what
ever, to suppor. the Baltimore nominee for
the Presidency. Following this announce
mcnt he continues 8 Since have return
ed to the State have felt it duty which l
owe to the Democracy that had delegated
me to speak in the Baltimore convention,
to speak freely and without reserve OF the
proceedings of that body, and to call upon
the democracy 10 stand firmly to that
pledge made to the country as we'll as to
its delegates, by its regularly organize, sep
resentatives in the State cosrs, v
ruary last.''
Mr.. Yanceyr' did call upon the democra-
cy'' to condemn the proceedings of the
Baltimore convention, and the result we
give in his own language. as follows:
+" That call lras been answered. by the
great majority of the democratic press with
such a torrent of contur.ely--of personal
abuse-of vindictivcness has been replied
to in ratification meetings by resolutions OF
personal condemnation, and by speakers in
such strains of bitterness and misrepresen-
tation, that were not sustained by per-
feet consciousness of being rightly a
knowledge of my duty. and by courage
: to dare to do wrong in this great matter
Il should have yearncd for that obscurity
which is a protection from such assaults,
and should have sought for peace by yield
ing the principles upon which | have act
cd, as sacrifice to the angry passions of
my assailants.
"A portion of my co-delega,es also
joined in the hue and cry which has been
raised 10 hunt down the rebel 10 drive
the traitor to his doom. Their state
ments, too, exhibit the spirit of the crowd
which they were designed to please.
These Misrepresentation have
force given to them by the studied attempts
of the democratic press with one or two
honorable exceptions, to keep from the pub
lie even an account of my official acts as a
delegate while a portion of it, not salts
fled with leaving me deienceless before the
public, has assailed me with such gross
misrepresentation as would need no other
refutation than a simple statement of facts
Mr.. Iancey, finally, in his long rigma-
role on the contempt with which he wa.
treated by his porty in Alabama, says:
"From an ungenerous, unjust and abus-
i've Press-from the mass of ill-informe
speakers at ratification and cross-road meet
ings-from the misrepresentation of tina,
portion of the delegation to the late Balti-
more convention-I appeal to the people
of Alabama"
Now, we have Mr.. Yancey's testimony
that his desire to destroy the democratic
party in 1S4S. by opposing the regula,
nominated candidate resulted to him in dis
aster. lie was driven into grave where W,
thought no Ithuriel spear could reach him,
and for twelve years he has been wandering
fn gloom making fitful demonstrations 0
life by writing about or Matching plots tt
divide the Union. In an unfortunate hou
he turns up at another Baltimore conven
ton, which partially adopts his resolution
of 1S4S But he is not content he mus
now go back to the doctrines of the ono
hated Wilmot Proviso and because tn
National Convention would not adopt as
principle the power of Congress to inter
fere with slavery in the Territories ant
States, he now, as in 1S4S, raises the ban
ner of secession. Defeating the Nationa
Democratic candidate in IS4S, he desires t,
defeat the National Democratic candidate il
1860, aud instead of having his conduc
treated with the storm CT indignation he s,
eloquently portrays. as the reward of hi
first treason, good and true men have beer
led astray by his course, and he may in tn
present contest not only defeat. the nomi
nee of the National Democracy, but destroy
the Democratic party itself, and with it tn
Union. We will not believe that patriot
ic men, consistent, life long democrats wi!
sacrifice themselves to the crochets of maj
whose antecedents, taking his own confes
sion as true, display nothing but impracti
cable and revolutionary theories and vaul
ting personal ambition.-N Y Nms.
| The National Crisis. an excellent cam
paign paper published in Washington says
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