Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-24


they got il. They may possibly have got II
from some miserable lying sheet IN Alabama,
and taking it for granted to be true. repub-
lish it. l state this to you. The Constitu-
ton of the United Leagues of the South, the
only one adopted that | ever heard OF, MAS
spublished on the next morning after 1t was
adopted in public meeting. large hummer
we're struck off and circulated; and alter
wards seeing document put forth purp9rt-
ing TO be the Constitution, wrote letter
correcting the misrepresentation L have
given the Constitution, at length. everywhere
i have spoken. / have, at each place, met
the same document. and have reiterated the
same truth: aud vet the Douglas orators in
nv State still carry il about and promulgate
it. Are they so utterly destitute OF merit
that they cannot do fair and manly piece
of justice and courtesy. Have not q rlghe
TO demand of these gentlemen the ordinary
rules of lair play? That they should at least
put me on trial before their reader, aud cay
Mr. Yancey has denied il? Perchance II has
been done. have endeav0rcd to fluid out
that il has, but cannot so learn. But ON
the contrary / find myself attacked again and
again
In his speech at Atlanta, Ga., on the night
of the 18th inst, Mr.. YANcEY is reported as
follows 10y The Lqtethgenoer, paper friendly
to him:
He then reverted again to the Slaughter
letter. and showed that its doctrine differed
not from the Georgia Platform. which he
read. y league was referred to in that let
ter-and the Nashville PATRIOT bad pub
iished that that league had for its motto y
Southern Republic is eur only safety that
il was an oath-bound, secret organization,
whose object was disunion. DC. Now, he
would meet that forgery and slandcr best by
reading the original Constitution OF the
League, which was not secret association.
but open to the public; its proceedings. aud
the Constitution he read from had been
printed in the Montgomery Adcert.ser.'
Mr. YANcEY demands fair play and he
shall have it. We have never intended TO
do him Injustice and will not. We have, On
two occasions since the publication of our
articles exposing the conspiracy to break up
the Union. given him the benefit of his de-
NAL that be Is a disunionist, and have repub-
lished his defence IN ett5ssO ON this subject in
reply TO Messrs. CARROLL. aud WATTERsoS of
this State. And we have now given above
the defence which he is now making from
the stump, wherever he goes. 1t is now, we
suppose, complete and we thus do all that
may be required by the most eXacting. But
Mr.. YANCEY, while SO persistently demanding
insiice and fair play from others. is indnstri-
Gus to perpctratc injustice upon others. The
above references TO the PATRIOT are not only
grossly unjust but untrue, and if repeated
after he reads this article, which we will send
TO his address at Montgomery, they will be
deliberately and bassiy so.
NJ. YANCEY says that we represented the
Southern League as an oath-bound and secret
organization. This is untrue. We dated the
conspiracy with the meeting Of the Southern
Convention at Montgomery on the 10th of
May. 1858. We gave Mr.. YANcEY's recep-
ton speech to the delegates to that cOnven-
ton. followed by his letter TO Mr.. SLAUGHTER,
extracts from his Letter to Mr.. Pryor, and
the constitution of ihc Southern League, and
from them drew the conclusion that the
scheme thus quickly organized, ''tooI is share
fran ssera constitutions held by men from v'ri-
Gus Southern States sl.riag tie sitting Of tie
Southern Coacela'iop, IN U1y, 1858" This is
the amount of what we said OF the secrecy"
attending the movement. VIII Mr.. YANCEY
deny that such consultations were held during
the sitting Of that convention, or that there
were intcrchanges Of sentiment on this topic
by the members Of the convention and others
and that they were never made public in
the ordinary channels Of publicity, The news
papers2 We said nothing about lis being
Oath-bound-
Mr. YANcEY says that the. constitution OF
4 faiT1
the motto. A southern Republic is our only
Safety" is base. infamous political for
gerry" He does not, however. impuie ihe
forgery TO us He tE,ereupon sets out the
constitution OF the Montgomery League,
which he drafted, rs being the only true one.
Let Us understand this. The constitution
" iIoi Irv 1bus c4,--.I, - IutIuss'ei - ''a' 10
been adopted at Bethel Church, in the coun-
ty of Montgomery, on the 10th July, 1858.
We copied it into the article which appears
to give Mr.. YANCET 80 much uneasincss, from
our own file OF July Is, 1S5S-six days after
its formation We gave it then as an item of
the current events of the time. and neglected
to uote from what paper we took it. Bat
from the shorinass of the time, 1t mast have
come through some Of the neighboring prints.
But we then accompanied 1t with state
ment. derived IRON the same source, that Mr..
YAxcEr delivered speech at Bethel Church
that day, July 10. 1858. This fact he has pot
denied. We at that time, made 40 comment
on the subject-had no motive for doing So
much less could we conceive what object any
one could have then had to forge such doc
umcnt. and especially light under NJ. YAM
cEY's nose, where it could have been 50 read
ilv exposed The constitution Is not attribu-
ted to Mr. YANCEY; but from his presence at
Bethel Church on the day it was reported TO
have been formed, making a speech. the in
ference was irresistible that he knew of its
existence and concurFcd III its views. We
have no recollection of seeing any letter from
Mr. YAXCEY, correcting any misapprehension
about the genuiueness of this Bethel Church
constitution; aud We will thank him or any
friend of his for a copy of it. The Mont
gomery League of which Mr.. YANcEY is so
boastfuI now, the constitution of which he
reads with So much triumph in bis stump ef-
forts, was organized on the 10th July, 1858.
This we also published, together with Che ex-
pIanatory remarks of Mr.. YANCEY, the Pa
TRIor. on The 27th OF July, 1S5S-shOwing,
from the time intervening, that both cOnsti
tutioHs were probably obtained by US from
the same paper-but we failed to note what
paper in both eases. Now, will Mr.. YANCEY
frankly tell us whether he was at Bethel
Church on the IOlh of July, 1858. and wheth-
er be did not make speech on that occasion?
and if. within his knowledge, a League was
formed. whether he did not concur in the
Mr.. YAxcEY, referring to the Slaughter