Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-10-25
G.o,re \. sander. and STr. Yancey.

Mr.. Sanders letter Of explanation in another column
IS worth looking at statement has been running
through the political papers for the last few days TO the
effect tha. prominent friend Of Mr. Douglas proposed
to Mr. Yancey that he should allow his to be plae-
ed, as the candidate for Vce-President, on the same
ticket with the squaer sovereign. This singular piece
Of gossip was las the New York World renArks) odd
enough in ITSELF but a letter from Mr.. Sidney Baxter
confirming it, published in the government organ at
Washington was droller yet Mr.. Douglas friend who
made the oler stated a why Mr.. Ianeey ought
to accept it. that Douglas roud die ritiR SIR months
asr his election and Yancey would then be President
And the imperturbable Mr. Baxter repeats isargument
with grave face.
Il turns out that il was Mr. Geo. n Sanders who pre-
dcted that his dearest political friend would be COM
PLEASANT enough to obige Mr. Yancey by dying six
months after his election. Mr.. Sanders is someWhat no
ted as a couyiyal gentleman, Who loves his joke, and
who has a stock Of assurance which sometimes amounts
to sublime impuderceas witness those voluminous dis
patches from the Charleston Convention to Mr. Buchan
an in which he cody took the President to task and
made him pay the telegraph charges Whether Mr. San
ders meant his odd proposal sheer waggery or wish
cd To practise on suspected weakness OF Mr.. laneey
Il sppears that the latter did not take il heart. When
Sanders alluded to it the second time, he declined it in
the ocose suitable TO so grosesque suggestion
The only thing worth remarkng on this matter is the iu
Justice OF holding Mr. Douglas in any degree responsible
for impromptu badiuagc which he knew nothing about
The south Under the Protection OF England.
Theleadng Breckinridge organ in Alabama, and the
special organ Of Yaucey the Montgomery Advertiser,
warmly ayors Disuuon in the event Of Lncoln's cleo
ton. aud then whats Why, it next gravey proposes
that the South shal-aiter DisunOuism is Effected
place hsrsslf usdsr tis protection Of England
In reply to which, our Bel contemporary the Mont
gouery POST well says that the first Of these propositions
would be bad enough, but-shade of Washington, has
the South got down 50 low to mpOre the protection
Of Great Britain to free ourselves from whose yrannicsl
power our fathers fought for long years and pour
ed out their blood ike water Great Britain, the most
moastrous Abodons. the face OF the globe; one
cf whose leading statesmen recently insulted ambas
saier before the represenves Of the world because he
represenated n part slave country; and whose Queen
has recently conferred the bonor Of Knghtbood upon
free negro Under the protection Of Great Britain Why
in less than twelve month he whole South would be
run with free negro nobemen There would be the Honor
able my lord Cuse and lady Dido osting wives and
daughters of the sidewalk his grace, the duke Of Pom
pee Squashes, erOwding in all the tboroughhres and
the Honorable the Misses TbiekEp leading of at all our
assemblies. No, if We to have dsunion, let so it
upon our own hook FIVE arc TO have disuuion let
sight t our to the las. drop OF blood and die in the last
ditch Better die freemen, than to live the dependents
Of any power in the world and least Of all the depend
ents Of Grea; Britain.
But there is no necessity for any Of these alternatives
If the South viii only unite Bell and Everett they
be elected they can defeat LincOln aud Hamia, and
save the Union.
Besides, what do Irish ielOT-czens of Richmond
say to this propOsitisn to them to Eugand'