Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-10-13
Hon. Wm. L. Yancey.

of their breath in abuse of this gallant A la bamian. Not one of them would meet hin face to face, but behind his back, like thei leader Brownlow, they can yelp and bari increasingly. We would not give the fol lowing extract from Yancey's Washington speech for all the speeches John Bell evel made, and all the political ideas that he and all of his followers combined, ever en tertained. It deals with facts, and breathe. the true spirit of patriot devoid of maudlir nonsense, and is we'll calculated to make the conservative portion of the North pause and think:
 "The issue is now left with the North, and 1t IS rendered her to save the Union and the constitution by putting down the black re publican party. Good They can do il by union of all parties against the com mon enemy. If they do it, the Union will be safe, and we will be rejoiced to tender our acknowledgements to our northern brethren that they have preserved the Union
 Good But if they do not preserve the | Union; if they choose to divide it into fac. tions looking after the State spells, and without reference to the safety of this great country, and this party is elected, and the South Is driven to the wall, then let not the North complain if northern commerce that rests upon southern industry, becomes destroyed, and they become beggared by the operation.
 read the other day very statesmanlike speech by Mayor Wood, of New York. at the great Union meeting, in which he spoke of commerce and the value of commerce te the whole country But would commend to the northern people this idea, which did not enter into the speech of Mayor Wood Commerce is not merely the handmaid o agriculture, but it is the creature of agri culture. Commerce is the mere means ot interchanging the commodities which arc made by industry, by the agricultural and mechanical arIs. It istrue that.if we make no surplus there will be no commerce, but still agriculture will exist, and the mechanic arts will exist for our own subsistence. Ii the South ever undertakes to make other marts than New York, and if the North does not uphold this Union, but permits il to be destroyed, the South intends to make her Baltimore, her Norfolk, her Charleston her Savannah, her Pensacola, her Mobile and her New Orleans, her marts. Rivals. not rivals merely, but substitutes for New York, will rise up all along the southern border Three hundred and sixteen mil. lions ot exports in the last year were all given to New York and New England com merce, the coasting and shipping and foreign trade of the North, and interehanges usually make that right. $250, ,000, 900 year can make commerce at other ports than New York to see to 1t, my eountrymen. If she loves her commerce and loves her palatial houses and princely merchants, let them see to 1t that the South driven to the wall does not make New YorRs of her Baltimore Norfolk, Charles Savannah and New Orleans, and grass grow in the streets ol New York. We can do without her com, mercial facilities, but she cannot do without our- agricultural labor.
 We can bring the shipping of the world to our ports, and make ou1 own shipping to carry away 250 millions of the 316 mil lions. She cannot supply the 250 millions of our southern labor, if ever she does per. init that division to take place. I say | therefore, to New York, in no spirit of ar. rogance and pride, that her commerce while in some respects it may be the hand. maid, is the creature of southern industry and southern wealth, and, unless she chooses to take in hand this question, she, Boston and Philadel phia, and settle it so as to ore. serve the benefits of this Union and the constitution that secures 1t to her, WIG will show to the North that we can do without New York, Boston and Philadelphia. and make other marts for our industry, while her shipping and her wharves, and,her ware honses will rot for the want of that industry and support. The Union is everything t. New ork, Boston and Philadelphia. The Union is mnch to the South; we prefer tc have it as it is, and we will deprecate dis. solution. But if it be dissolved, it shall not be the South who did it. It shall be dis. solved by those who are warning on the South and seeking to destroy the constitu- ton and destroy the Union that is made by the constitution. Let northern men see tc 1t that they preserve that Union if they want to preserve their commerce, if they wish to preserve their manufactures ol tO" ~'' "ii' II tlCy WISH tO preserve tH( South as the best mart for the sale of theil products. the fruits of their industry and their commerce. If we of the South arc dnven to support ourselves, we are inde pendent of the world; we have the grea peace maker, King Cotton, within ouI midst. Vocferous applause.
 w can supply the looms and manufac tories of the world; we can feed ourselve. and clothe the world. Unless these people therefore, want to go naked, Ilaughter. and show their nakedness, renewed laugh ter, they had better come and solicit tn, support of our cotton planters.
 Now, then, fellow citizens, beg of yo, to excuse me from saying further, and fo the desultory character of the remarks have at this time submitted, l close then by telling you that the South loves the Union, has all respect for the constitution and W Il stand by and preserve that instru ment in tact, with all its checks and bal ances; and the South is now stelnly resolved that every section shall so preserve it. Tn, South means to defend the constitution against all attacks from the wide-awakes the sleepy aboltionists, UT anybody else Great applause and laughter.
 Complimentary Barbecue.