Daily national Democrat., 1860-10-20
COnspirators against the Union.

who spoke Tor the Secession Convention at
Baltimore and who controlled the spiri. Of
that more damnable convention at Richmond,
which nominated Breckenridge and whose
nomination Breckinridge accepted. The
Naucey party will control the Breckinridge
Administration, if Breclinridgo by any pos
sibilty should be elected.
This man, Wm. L. Yancey, was Disor-
gauizer as early as 1913, and a straight cut
Disuuionst in lS5oand 81. With that por-
tion Of his history readers are familiar. With
q period subsequent they may and they may
not be quite so familiar On the 10th Of
May, 1858, a Southern Convention mot
National one, but a Southern Convention
met at the city of Montgomery, in Alabama.
Mr. Yancey was the spokesman there, as he
was at the Secession Convention at BalG-
more, and as he always is at every conven-
tion where treason against the Union of these
States can be listened to or tolerated. Said
he to the delegates Of that purely sectional
convention:
Il must be allowed, at least on my own
behalf, to welcome YOU too, as but the fore
shadowing Of that far more important body;
important rs You evidently will be, that if
injustice and wrong shall continue to rule
the hour and councils of the dominant section
of the country, must, ere long, assemble upon
southern soil for the purpose of deyising some
measures by which not only your industrial,
but your social and political relations shall
be placed upon q basis of an Independent
t.ttf4t hov n
unity Of climate, unity of soil, unity Of
production, aud unity of social relations
that uui,y which alone can be the basis of
successful and permanent government"
See how insiduously, how treacherously
/ he endeavored to instii the venom of his SER
/ pent mind into the bosoms of his auditors
| No difficult task it was to effect it with
body already bigoted, fanatieal and sectional
But how hypocrtieally he talked of the "in
justice and wrong" to the South, and of the
necessity of establishing separate indepcnd
ent sOrereigRtyi Not a--word did he say,
however. of his own black wish to be the Pres
ident of that sovereignty, should it ever be
established.
1t was shortly after this convention that
Yancey addressed his celebrated letter to
Mr.. Slaughter, wherein he spoke of the means
which should be used to "precipitate the cot
ton States into revolution" Mr. Slaughter
has recently, it seems, with his own hand,
forever precluded the possibility of his ever
committing treason against his country.
Yancey's next movement was to form a
league of United Southerners," whose motto
was =" southern REPUBLIC Is OUR ONLY ONLY
SAFETY There were primary leagues State
leagues and a league of the Southern States.
No league was ever to nominate a candidate
for any office of profit or of honor, but
each league cas to Uote according to his o'cn
conscience, remembering al,cays his duty to the
/ South" So each league-for the members
were called leagues-was to play the hypo-
critical part of pretending to be Democrat,
&c, at the same time that he was looking to-
and working fol, the ultimate end of Disunion.
These "ieagues" were no doubt in the
Charleston and Baltimore Conventions At
any rate, Mr.. Yancey was on hand to urge
forward secession from those conventions and
to take the lead in all the movements of
those who, claiming to be Disunionists, were
yet more careful to remember their pledges
to sectional organizations than their duty to
their country Verify, it looked very much
like development of the reasonable pur-
poses of that Southern League, when dele
gates retired from the National Convention
upon so slender pretext as the one which
/ they alleged. and Immediately called upon
the Arch-Conspirator Of all, VIM. L. Yancey,
to address them. 1t will be remembered
here too, that a part of the Yancey pro-
gramme was to break up the Democratic party
What better effort could be made to break it
up, than to strike at its authority, in its
grand character as general National Con-
vention2
In 1858, JEFF. Davis publicly avowed very
nearly the same doctrines with Mr.. Yancey,
but was glad to retire before the storm Of
popular indignation in Mississippi in 1850
and 81, which rose against him aud his Dis
union sentiments Now, he is in the same
boat with Yaneey again. But it remains to
be seen whether Mississippi will this time
agree with him or not
Yaneey ct ia omne genus have for long
time been endeavoring to instruct the South
ern mind, as they term it, and "fre the
Southern heart" Their efforts blossomed
out in spots and places in such manner as the
following:
The Mobile Mercury said in April, 1859:
"The times are now ripe for the organiza-
tion of political movement in the slave
holding States, irrespective, of course, of all
old party designations and there are pecu-
liar reasons why such movement should be
undertaken now and here Indeed, we are
credibly informed that conferences have al
ready been held by leading patriotic gentle
men of this city, of all parties and the plans
Of q southern organization have been set on
foot ana almost matured, preparatory to ac
ton. We earnestly hope the good work may
go on, and that speedily.
The country, we repeat, is ripe for the
movement, and ifjudcously iuaugurated. it
will sweep over the land with force that
no opposition will be able to check. We
therefore caution our friends in the country
every rywhere to be prepared for IT,, and to
Keep themselves from all entangling ALLAN
eies which may hinder them from joining in
it untrammeled."
The Charleston Mercury in 1859 said of
the Charleston Convention, soon expected to
assemble:
"Unless it is limited exclusively to dele.
gates from the South, it will be no eunven.
ton Of the Democratic party"