Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-26
From the Nashville Patriot Sep p. 1850



The Knoxville Wig of the goth inst in
giving the points of Mr. Yancey's speech in
that city on the 18Th says:
HE denounced the writers of certain arti-
cles in the Nashville PATRIOT and Memphis
Appeal, as INFAMOUS LIARS and WICKED SIAN
DERERs, and said he had charged the same in
effect, before $1,000 persons in Memphis,
when the editor of the appeal was said TO be
in the assembly, He denied organing a
Southern League" at Bethel Church in Ala.
bama. but boosted of organizing one in
Montgomery, where he resides. and read its
constitution, daring any man to rise up and
object to any one article"
The Knoxville Register of the same date
also gives synopsis of the speech, and gives
the following in relation to our publication
of the Bethel Church League:
"He read from the Memphis Appel of July
%, 1860, what purported TO be copy of the
Constitution of the Southern League. This
had been copied into the Nashville PATRIOT
and other Opposition papers. This document,
so far as he was charged as being connected
with it, he pronounced vile aud Infamous
forgery. He did form a Southern League
and never heard of but one. which he formed
at Montgomery. These ISLANDERS were uttered
for party purpose. No mans private charac-
ter was safe from the assaults of Il corrupt
press. He could stand 1t, however, but he
the country. He was sorry to feel that some
good man might be misled, and would drop
a tear OF regret over those who prOstituted
their talents in this base work of calumny."
The truth of this matter is this The Patri-
OF never said Mr.. Yancey formed the Bethel
Church League; but we stated that on the
day that il was formed DULY 10, 1859 Mr.
Yancey was at Bethel Church and made 4
speech. We connected him with that League
hot ,r 10 no hat md
defy him TO its denial. So far as the COnsti-
tuition of the Bethel Church League is con-
cerned. We gave it as published in the papers
of that day. We have the statement, and
have heretofore twice published it, of friend
of Mr.. Yancey, that 1t sras lcrittel by a distul-
glished id1cyer Of Montgomery, AIa., lcito at the
time he icrote aud published IL, occupied a high
judicial position. When Mr.. Yancey pronoun-
ces il forgery, therefore he prOnOunces bis
friend a willful falsifer. They may settle it
between them, and 10 enable Mr.. Yancey to
do so, we are ready TO give him the name of
his friend who made the statement TO us. II
matters not to us who wrote the constitution,
or who formed the Bethel Church League.
We simply stated facts, and we have given
AIR. 1ancey the full benefit OF his eXplana-
tiOns and denials as contained in his address
to the democracy of Tennessee y and in his
Memphis speech, in these columns. If be
persists in stating either that we charged him
with forming the Bethel Church League or
that we were concerned in any way Id forg-
ing its constitution, he persists in what he
knows TO be u deliberate and an infamous
falsehoOa. That is all.
We reproduce the above from our own col
umns, at this time, that Mr. IANCEY, if he
has occasion to refer to the PATRIOT in his
speech tonight, may know the facts.
We simply published the constitution of
the Bethel Church League, as it came to US
in the Alabama papers, with the statement
that Mr. YAScEY was at Bethel Church and
made speech on the 10th July, the day on
which il was stated the League was formed.
From these facts we inferred that Mr.. Y. was
cognizant of the League, and that it met his
appreciation. The supposed constitution was
certainly written by some Judge in Alabama
and was published in papers of that State as
having been adoped at Bethel Church.
Whether it was so adopted perhaps Mr. YAM
cEY can tell us. However that may be, we
did Mr.. YAScEY the justice to publish his
disclaimers of being concerned in that par
ticular League promptly on their publica-
ton. both in his address to the democracy Of
this State, il reply TO Messrs. CARROLL and
WATTERsoS, and 10 his Memphis speech. We
have been careful to do him no intentional
Injustice, and we trust he will dc US none.