The Van Buren press., 1860-05-18
The Secessionists.

We copv from some OF our exchanges
articles expressive of the feeling extant In
rgard to seceders at the Charleston Con
vention. Tho st. Louis Repudtiea" says
EVERY man who followed Yancey out
of the Convention, knew what manner OF
man he was-knew that he was contempla-
ting treason against the union OF the States
and this. not because of anything which
had occurred in the Convention, but because
| he lonscd for a revolution and the dlsmem-
berment of the Republic. 1t was no latter
day notion of his, as is proven by the fol-
lowing letter from him to correspondent
written nearly two years ago:
MoSTaoMERy, June 10, 1888.
DEAR SIR: Your kind favor of the 18th
is received. l hardly agree with you that
a general movement can be made that Will
clear out the Augean stable. If the Democ-
racy were oYerthrown, 1T would result IN
giving place to a greater, hungner swarm
of flies. The remedy of the oouth Is not
in such a process it is in diiiSen' organ
ization of her true men for prompt resist
ance to the next aggression. 1t must come
in the nature of things. No national party
can save us, NO sectional party can ever dc
it but if we could do as our fathers did,
organize committees of safety all over the
cotton States-and it is only in them that
we can hope -for any effective movement
we shall fire 4he Southern heart. instruct the
Southern N give courage to each other,
and. at the Hroper moment, by one orSanl-
zcd concerted-sction, We can precipitate the
cotton States into a revolution. The idea
has been shadowed forth in the South by
Mr.. Ruffin, and has been taken up and re-
commended in the Advertiser, the Mont
gomery organ of MIR. Yancey, under the
name of g The League of United Southern
ers," who, keeping up their old party rela-
tions on all other questions, will hold the
Southern issues paramount, and will inhu-
ence parties, legislatures and statesmen. /
have no time to enlarge, but to suggest
merely. In haste, yours. DC,
w. L. YANCEY,
To JAS. L. SLAUGHTER, Esq.
In the Convention at Charleston, and af-
ter he left that body, to form another Con
vention, and g to precipitate the Cotton
States into revolution" he was the mas
ter-spirit. And now it remains for Mis-
resented in the Convention by the Secders,
for this revolution ?" Do they desire
that this Government shall be broken into
as many fragments as policy or power may
detrmine, for no better reason than was as
signed by the Yanceyites in their resolutions
i'll Convention ? Are we ready for this rev.
olution Is Louisiana or any OF the other
Slave States, ready for it, without some
graver pretext than has yet been shown for
tin the desire to defeat the election of one
man, or to engraft upon the platform of a
great national party, an absurd, ridiculous
abstraction, test of which will not be
IN ade under the next or many succeeding
administrations of the Government We
answer for Missouri, broadly and distinctly
that she wants no revolution" unless up
on more SUBSTANTIAL grounds than this-no
dissolution of the Union for any causes vel
assigned where-and her democracy wilt
not secedc from authorized conventions
simply because they cannot get the man of
their choice for President Missouri repudi-
ates and condemns the attempt to get up a
Sectional Convention of the Southern
States at RichlpOnd. ms equally revolution
ary and disloyal with the efforts of the
Black Republicans of the North TO elect a
President by Free States and on the slave
question alone. The city of St. Louis in
one Of the largest meetings ever held in her
borders has denounced in the strongest
possible terms, the conduct of the seceders
at Charleston, and that denunciation will
find responsive voice all over the State
She will nurse in her bosom no traitors to
the union of these States, and least of all
upon such pretexts as Mr.. 1ancy has pro.
vided for his justification" &c.