Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-02
Exfrac to from the Letter of Hon. w.
l.. Va ncey In Reply TO the A ddress
OF Messrs. w. II. Carroll and III. M.
Wate fson.
MoxrGoMERY. Ala, July is, 1850.

l.. Va ncey In Reply TO the address
OF Messrs. w. II. Carroll and III. M
Wate rson.
MONTGOMERY. Ala, July ]9, 1850.
Under the above dignifed caption. Vim
81. Carroll aud 81. NJ. Estterson addressed
the Democracy of tennessee, from Washing
The CHARGES made against me are as follows
.5-wit:
5th. "But the Convention, recognizing il
the principle of snon-intervention' an old
doctrine of a majority of the party, unani
mously granted the demand, and this arch
traitor and eonspirator against the union was
a third time baulked-'
9th. I'm less than two years after the adj
journment of the Cincinnati Convention. We
find him heading the notorious Southern
League organized avowedly TO break up the
Union, as the following first article of it
constitution drawn by his hand, fully proves
ART. 1. The members of this organization
shall be known as The League of the South,
and cur motto shall be, a Southern RfpllbLst
Is our only sgfty.'
9Th. ABOUT the same time appeared the
following private letter, piling Pelion upon
Ossa of proof of the reasonable designs o.
this American Catiline:
MONTGOMERY, June Is, l S58.
DEAR SIR: Your kind letter of the 18th il
received. l hardly agree with you that q
general movement can be made that will
clear out the Augean stable. If the Democ-
racy were overtnrown. il would result il
giving place TO greater and hungrier swarm
of flies.
The remedy of the South is not in such a
process. 1t is in a diligent organization o
her tr lie men for the prompt resistance of the
first aOurpScinn mn sf N the N I'm rt
OF things. No national party can save us
no sectional party Can ever do it. But if we
could do as our fathers did-organiz "com
mittees of safety" all over the cotton States
(and iG is only in them that we can hope fol
any effective movement,) we shall fire the
Southern mind, give courage to each other
and, at the proper moment, by one organ
lied, concerted action, we can precipitate the
cotton States into "a revolution.
The idea has been Swallowed forth in the
South by Mr.. Ruffin; has been taken up and
recommended by the Advertiser, under The
name of League of United Soutberners,
who, keeping up the old party relations or
all other questions, will hold the Southern
issue paramount. and will influence parties
Legislatures, and statesmen. l have no time
to enlarge, but to suggest merely.
In haste, yours, &c.
W. L. YANcEY
To James Slaughter, Esq.
Sth. 1.-The transactions at Charleston, in
which Mr.. Yancey and his followers took sc
active and ominous part, have plainly
proven to the world that the Convention OF
the National Democratic party in 1850. was
looked forward to as the period when the
Democratic party and the Union were to be
overwhelmed in one common ruin."
pass on the fifth allegation. The only
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the Southern league. The two misstatements
in it are, first, that it was .'organiZed
avowedly to freak up the Union" Second,
that the article quoted formed a part of its
constitution.
It's avOwed as well as real object WIS the
very reverse-and its constitution contains
no such article as Messrs. Carroll aud Wat
terson have presented to quote with verbal
accuracy! To prove, copy here that con-
sitution-as follows:
CONSTITUTION OF THE MONTGOMERY LEAGUE OF
UNITED sOUTBERNERs.
Believing that the South is in need of some
rfficient and organized mode of coucentra.
ting public opinion upon public men and
measures, and of influencing and guiding
.litical parties with view to the advance
ment and protection OF her Constitutional
Tigh:s-and that the want of this has enabled
all political parties to sacrifice those rights
to their own necessities:
And believing, further, that it is the duty
of the South TO Use all proper means to
maintain her right within the Urion, with a
view TO being justified before the world in
resuming she powers she has delegated to
the General Government, in the event she
fails to obtain justice in the Union, we Or
game ourselves under the following
CONSTITUTION:
ART This Association shall be known
as the Montgomery League of United South
erners."
ART. 2.-Its officers shall consist OF a
President. Vice President. Secretary and
Treasurer, who shall hold their offices one
year, or until their successors shall be elected
ART. 3-Election of all officers shall be
made annually, and by ballot.
ART. 5.-Any person may become a member
of this League who shall pledge himself to
carry out its objects, and shall sign the Con,
siitution.
ART. 5.-The object of this League is. by
The use of proper means, to create a sound
public opinion in the South on the subject OF
the rights of the South in The
Union. Among its primary ideas are--1.
No more compromise of those rights either
in party platforms or in national leg
islation. 2. A full recognition and main
tenance of those rights a. paramount to the
safety of the Federal Administration or the
success Irrational parties. 5. The elevation
TO the public councils of the ablest and purest
men.
ART. 6.--This League will nominate no
candidate for any office, State or Federal; but
its members are pledged to use all honorable
means to secure the nomination, by the res
pective parties to which they belong, of
sound, able and pure men of the Southern
Rights School.
In advocating the League, thus expressed
my views in a lengthy speech, which was re-
ported and published at the time.
'And yet. as L have said elsewhere, and
firmly believe, the South cannot get rid of
these partes-or if she utterly destroys them,
their destruction would lead to an immediate
dissolution of the Union
The great object to be attained is to ele-
yate and purify these great parties-and
cause them, if possible, to abandon the law
of Compromise, and to adopt the law Of the
Constitution in dealing with the Southern
question.
To effect this, the South needs to cultivate
a more large and generous faith in the patri-
otlsm OF all her people, without distinction
OF party. She needs the power of public
oplnlon-in other words. she needs some Or
ganized, systematic method of gathering and
bringing to bear upon great public questions
the opinions OF her people. In this particular.
she has always been singularly deficient
and hence her public men have been left too
much to follow their own devices, and to be
Influenced by antagonistlc Influences. Gen
orally speaking it is only at elections that the
peoples voice is heard-and then. unfor,n.
nately, the spirit of party is strongly in the
ascendant, and party candidate is held To
be the best man lat all hazards.n We want
some means of arousing and concentrating
pubic opinion on the great Southern issue.
at any hour in which it may be needed.
The party press does not express the pub
lie sentiment of the people. as a general
thing Ii it is the press OF the party in power
1t |, apt TO be controlled 10y mere parIizans,