The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-09-28
The Dictator, VIM. L. Yancey.
From the Nashville Dcmocrat.1

union party of the country, made speech
at Columbia, S. c., oil the 18th of July,
1859, in which he issued programme for
the government of his followers in the
Charleston Convention. We make an en-
tract from this speech, which will be
found below, in order that the true Demo-
cracy may be warned as to the objects of
the leaders of the Breckenridge party
The game suggested by Yancey has been
played out by the boilers at Charleston
and Baltimore, as far as it could be DONE
and now only awaits the action of the
people, provided their action corresponds
with the wishes of Yancey, to complete
the programme.
Yonccy, y will he ~ y SS;iry', , Il detoi..
mined, more than year before the meet
ing of the National Convention at Charles
ton, that it should be broke up, and such
a state of things produced thereby as
would furnish an excuse for an effort on
the part Of his party to destroy the Union.
1t remains to be seen how far he can
sltCCtSu Ill his liiiOIy pun pOsC'
As the Seceders have been so industri-
ously engaged in circulating VIM. L. Yam
cey's Memphis speech, as campaign doc.
umenl-tor cart loads of them have been
sent through the country-would it not
he as well for them to publish and circu-
late the following as q piece of informa-
ton, so that the people may learn the true
position which he occupies:
"To obtain the aid OF the Democracy in
this contest, it is necessary to make a con-
test in the Charleston Convention. In
that body, Douglas adherents will press
his doctrine to Il decision. If the States
Rights men keep out OF the Convention,
that decision must inevitably be against
the South, and that, either in direct favor
of the Douglas doctrine, or by the en-
dorsement of the Cinoianati platform, un-
der winch Douglas claims shelter Tor his
principles. The States Rights men should
present in that Convention their demands
Tor approval, and they will obtain an en-
dorselnent OF their demands, or a denial
| Ii endorsed, we shall have greater hope OF
triumph within the Union. If denied, in
| my opinion, the States-R Rights wing should
| seceue from the ConyenIlon, and appeal
10 the people OF the South. without dis
linction OF parties, and organize another
Son' upon ''.I o"siS Vi theil P'ih-
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uentia, W nIJ oJh'est a. n'doA nepuo,ioah INA!
oe eieo'eu. a tlis uire event shouiu nap
pen' III my oP'ii'o' 'he oniy noPeo vi sa'e'y
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'o'e'.'iiie,' shaii VI piacet III .he heeP-
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contest within the Union, we should ini