The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-10-16

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MIR. IANoEy IN BosToN.-Faneuil Hail.
Boston. was thronged on Fridsy night by
masses Of people anxious to hear Mr. w. l.
fancey speak upon the political issues of the
day. Hundreds were unable 10 gain admis.
SION into the building. The Boston Advert.
ser "a Republican paper) says:
Mr.. Yancey was occasionally interrupted by
| questions, which he adroitly answered gen
| eraily turning the current Of the meeting in
MS favor, even at the most critical points -
| Thus when the cheering for Douglas had be-
| come somewhat Overwhelming in it's obstrep-
| erous zeal, after pausing 10 allow 1t full play,
| ne swung his arm in the air and proposed
| three cheers for the Constitution and the
| Union, in which the whole assembly Joined
| with tremendous en- thusiasm.
| The Courier, Bell and Everett organ, com.
menting on the speaker, says:
| He was eloquent, logical patriotic and pa
| tient under the taunts which were poured in
uron him. The speech will be remem bered d
long time by all who heard it. Whether we
| agree or net with Mr.. Yancey, we are glad
| that he has given as an address which VIII set
our people thinking.
The speech was not a very lengthy one, but
judging from the frequent inteIi up.ions and
noisy demonstrations ted in IL by the phono-
graphic reporters, Se should think that Mr.
Yancey had pretty hard time OF it. He COM
menced his remarks by alluding to his long
| residence some twenty -sev eli years ago iu the
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New England teachers he mad I'm mbl bed many
lessons tie had in after lite endeap ored 10 carry
out, aud that this circumstance had height
ensd the pleasure of his visit on the present
occasion. Abiding TO the position OF The
South, OF Virginia IN particular at the time OF
the framing OF the Constitution, MIR. Yancey
made "A great point:
He urged that at that time Virginia opposed
the continuance of the slave trade-Massachu-
setts urged lis continuance, and demanded TO
be secured In Its continuation until the year
lSUS, and lest she mls hit invest capital largely
In the trade which might be swepi away by an
amendment to the Constitution, she had a
guaranty put into that instrument that the
articles should not be altered even by an
one hundred thousand slaves were imported
into the country, and Massachusetts, which
was the great shipping Stale OF that day. made
ten millions OF dollars by that section. Zap.
plause. Those ten millions of dollars, ac-
cordipg TO the ordinary rate of interest, would
now amount TO thirty millions.
Now, then, said Mr.. Yancey, you have I'm
posed upon US properly amounting not only
| TO one hundred millions OF dollars, but to far
more than that. The one hundred thousand
slaves you imposed upon us by that trade,
constitutionally guaranteed TO you, amounts
to one million of slaves. And every one OF
that million OF slaves will now sell in the
market on the block, for an average of one
thousand dollars. tCries of "shame" and
are invested by Southern men in properly
which was held TO bs property by your ances-
try, sold TO us as property by your ancestry,
our titles resting now from your ancestors and
traced back to them, and yet the sons Of these
men want TO take from them their property
oy an addition law. [Applause and cries of
"good."l