The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-27
POLITICAL.
Exported for the Daily Exchanged
RiR YANCEY IN TASTON--GREATC crown

"aAN' hANShH IN EASTOE-~GREiT CROWD
AND ENTHUSIAST
Pursuant to invitation, your correspondent en-
barked at I o'clock Tuesday morning upon the
steamer Lancaster, bound from Baltimore to Eastop,
via Annapolis, with the view of hearing an address
from the Hon. W. l.. Yancev, of Alabama, and re-
porting the same.
The boat was in charge of Messrs. John Lutts
Robert Wilson and Samuel McCubbin, who had
gotten up the excursion and who carried it to
most satisfactory conclusion. Every thing was pro-
vided on board to satisfy the internal wants of man.
and the strict order observed formed noticeable
feature of the occasion. During the entire trip,
with miscellaneous party of over two hundred
not single dsagreeable incident occurred and il
was remarked by the inhabitants Of Easton that
this was the first excursion party in many wears
from Baltimore which had not been guilty of some
indiscretion. To the improving manners and morals
of Baltimore, and the admirable management of
the planners of the excursion this result is doubt
less attributable.
l found upon the boat, on my arrival the cele-
brated band Of Noandt, Il small brass cannon
(Which, however, did not speak with a still small
rotee), and an enthusiastic crowd of some 200 per-
sons. Among the nOtables on board were ex-Goyer-
nor E. Louis Lowe, Hon. j. Shower, of Carroll
county, Col. ). ). Mills Of Baltimore, and other
prominent gentlemen. A stiff head wind retarded
the progress OF the vessel, and we did not reach
AhudpOllS llll IL ~. NJ. lheTe received MIR.
ancey, who was welcomed with sundrv DISCHARGES
from the brass cannon aforesaid enthusiastic cheers
from the crowd, and triumphant air from the
band. AS soon as Mr.. Yancey had been greeted
and safely slowed on board, we got under weigh
again. bat as the hour was late and distance was To
be saved, it agreed that we would land at
Miles River Ferry, instead of Easton Point We
reached the former place at ~ p. NJ, and walked
across fertile neck of land to Easton taking the
inhabitants of that place somewhat by surDrisn, rs
a has pl;p hon, ,E,I,o
100 carriages were in waiting.
We entered the town with banners hyinc and
drums beating, under the marshalship of Col. s S.
Mills, (whO had been appointed to that post NV
meeting held on board during the morning, and
who acknowledged the compliment in 4 character
istic speech,) about =. NJ, where we found a
large crowd from the adjacent country already as
sembled Without taking time for repose Mr.
y 1ancey Immediately appeared on the platform be-
fore an attentive, enthusiastic audience, not num-
berlng less than 5000 persons Col. Samuel Z.
Hambleton introduced the distinguished visitor
who was greeted with hearty cheers
Mr.. Iancey said he would have to ask their in.
dulgence on account of his broken voice and iaded
condition-the former having been Injured bv his
constant efforts in behalf of Breckinridge He
however asked their attention while he endeavornd
to reason with them as frank and honest man
should with another. Appealing to 70 preiudices or
passions, but rather to their higher and better
natures, he would discuss the principles on which
the government should be administered, without
election, always important, was now of gravest
moment.
1t was always important to know the policy to
be pursued during the succeeding four years-t6ara
were always important questions of foreign and in
ternatonal policy arising, but this contest rose far
above all preceding ones Nowhere from Maine
to Florida-in the North or in the South was there
more than one question discussed snd that related
to the existence Of the Union and the safety of the
institution of slavery. This was because n great
marty. bOund tOupihpr bv pnfhuSiosrn nd
purpose, proposed through the ballot to change
the nature of the Government and overthrow the
Constitution. The forms through which the Con-
stituton could be legally changed were to be dis
regarded, and they proposed to triumph by numeri-
cal force. They proposed to give US new Govern
ment based on different set of principles and to
establish a law higher than the Constitution
The author of the "rrepressible conflict idea
had been put forward as sectional candidate for
the Presidency, and it was proposed to elect him
by n sectional vote. That party had skilled and
accomplished leader, VIM. II. Seward, who tells us
that this is contest between freedom and slavery,
which must go on till all the States are free or all
are slave. Seward called this contest with sla-
very but he called it contest with the Constitu.
ton. There were but two sides to this controversy
-one occupied by Breckenridge and Lane the other
by Lincoln and Hamlin. The friends of the Senator
from Illinois might think there was third side,
but there was not. He (DOuglas) stood with Sew
ard against the Constitution and the principles on
which the Government had always been admins
tered Douglas went beyond the Constitution and
the compact between the States to derive his
Squatter-Sovereignty power, and Lincoln appealed
to a law higher than the Constitution.
Both, therefore, claimed to derive power from a
law higher than the COnstituton-from a Divine
law. Was Stephen A. Douglas to pronounce upon
what was divine law? In religious matters people
differed and refused to seek authority elsewhere
than in the Bible. Was Mr.. Douglas better authori-
ty than the book of God? BY his (DouglasD the
ory, numbers, and not the Constitution were to de-
termine their rights and this was the Black Re-
publican doctrine.
There was another party who would take neither
side. They wished to run into power between the
two sides under loud cry for the Union, but would
not say what sort of a Union they were crying for
This was the Bell party, who had their banner in
the field, but no platform on which to plant it, and
expected to triumph by mere appeal to preiudi-
ces. They ask to be allowed to administer the
Government, stating that great evils exist, but
proposing no remedy. They said the Union was
in danger, but don't say how they proposed to save
it. Bell was not the candidate for an intelligent
paople to votefor How could they make their in
telligence available when the Bell party told them
nothing of their views which their judgments
could work ? All it was necessary for them TO
have was a generous confidence in the man. IF he
did wrong afterwards, they could not blame him
but only themselves. This time for the re-
pose of such confidence, when the Government
seemed tottering to its fall. None could conscien-
tiously give vote without knowing the PRINCIPLES
for which he voted
Under this state of things he would ask their at
tention to the principles which underlad the can
vass. He stood there the defender of the Consti-
tuition, [great applause,] and also to defend the
South against the insane charge that she sought to
agrees on any section. They purposed to take
from section the least iota of its rights They
only asked for themselves what the Constitution and
the past action of the Government had conceded to
them.
Mr. Yancey here examined at length the demand
OF the South in relation to the protection of prop
erty in the Territories cOntending that this was in
accordance with the Constitution and the decision
OF the supreme Court. lie argued to show, also,
that the North had for years received protection
from Government, which was so much tribute levied
out of the pockets of the Southern people All the
South now asked was protection against the robber
and wrong doer; and gratitude for favors conferred
should induce the North to grant it. All they
asked was protection for all species of property
that their property might be safe from legalized
robbery, against the Constitution and the decision
of the Supreme Court. (Great applause) How
modest was this demand and yet it went forth that
he was a secessionist and extreme man. All that
he had ever asked he had asked now and what
man could object? He excepted, of course the
Black Republicans. He knew what Republican
was, but Black Republican was hssus ndturn.-
Laughter.
The Anti-Savery party proposed to DESTROY the
rights OF the South through the forms of law. bv
the power of the Union and by construction to
be given to the Constitution that maorities shouId
rune ny tHe mere lOfce OF numbers. IheV said that.
as the principle that the majority should rule was
the fundamental principle of the Government, they
would vote down the minority and keep it from adj
mitting any more Slave States. Wherever the
Government had jurisdiction, they would place
their ban on the institution of slavery, reform the
judiciary, and put Black Republicans on the bench
who would decide in favor of the "irrepressible
conflict doctrine. They would also decide it to
be constitutional to appoint commissioners to value
the negroes and pay their owners for them, at the
valuation of the commissioners, out of the public
treasury, from the proceeds arising from the sale
of the public lands. Thus the investment would
become an antislavery one, and the white race
would lose its position by being degraded to
an equality with the negro-if it was easier to
reduce the white man to the level of the negro
than to elevate the latter. In fact the policy
of Lincoln and Seward would make this mu-
latto government. [Great laughter Was Mary
land ready to accept of that /? Mr.. Yancey then
proceeded to show that the doctrine of the suprem-
acy OF mere numbers would destroy the equality
OF the States, and illustrated his argument at some
length. The Constitution, he held, was the shield
and protection of the minorites against wrong and
injustice, and therefore they of the South had more