Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-10-24
MIR. YANCEY.

Mr.. Yancey, the great Southern FIRE eat
or, the man who seems DESTROYS, single
handed and alone, to dissolve this Union,
made speech the other day In Cincin-
natl. It was emInently Southern speech.
He strutted on the rostrum like game
cock Just turned loose from dark room
he talked heroically and brayely-Pitched
into the North magui6csntly-frightensd
many very conservative men, and while ne
convinced all his hearers that he possessed
a large amount of brains, he also convinced
them that he had net the remotest idea Of
what constituted true craftsmanship.
His leading proposition was "that the
Southern man shall be permitted TO go every
rhere Nth his slaue, as freely as the North
ern man ,oith his horse, the rights" being
treated as exactly equivalent; other0ise
the South roiH secede from the Union!"
There it is at last. Slavery not only &c 60
into the Territories, but everywhere else
into all the Free States, the same as man
takes his horse or his mule there,and if this
is not acquicsced in by twenty millions oil
freemen living north of Mason and Dix
on's line, why, the South will seceds.-
Good bye, South, you had just as well GO
now, for not one true man in the North
not one who loves his country and its con-
stitution--respects the opinion Ofour faith
ers aud regards the welfare Of posterity-
not one who loves the right and dares
maintain il, will ever consent TO so blast
ing a condition. Better, far better. that
every slaveholding State should secede,
and the embattled North and South meet
on the dividing line as enemies, than such
a policy should be adopted by this Gov
ernment-than such doctrines should be
accuiesced in by freemen. And yet, this
secessionist-this disunionist-this reck-
less disturber of the public peace-this ad-
vocate of a doctrine that would paral ize
the free labor Of the North, and place. as a
competitor alongside with our Agricultu-
rists and mechanics the lash driven slave,
was offered the second place on the Demo
cratic ticket with Stephen A. Douglas.
A few days ago we published extracts
from the Richmond Enquirer, going to
prove that the Douglas wing of the Demo
cratic party solicited Mr.. Yancey to go
upon its ticket as a candidate for the Vice
Presidency, with the fattering prospect
that Mr.. Douglas. should he succeed,
would soon "shufle off this mortal col"
and then he (Yancey) would be the Pres
ident.
The following distinct aHd responsible
sentiment from the Charleston Courier OF
the 10th inst, is 10 further confederation OF
this fact:
We are authorized to state positively
and distinctly, and on responsible evil
deuce viii CHI can be furnished 20 proper
demand, that the nomination for the Vice
Presidency on the Douglas ticket, was Of
fered to william L. Yancey, Of Alabama.
This offer was made through or by Geo.
N. Sanders, of New York, and with the
knowledge of Stephen Arnold Douglas.
and but a few days before the meeting OF
the adjourned Convention at Baltimore.
We respectfully, request exchanges IN
terested TO give extensive circulation to
this assertion, in the words of, and on the
authority OF the Courier. as we have placed
it above, aud we demand in justice, that
those who undertake to doubt. should put
their Degation in proper form. N
This will be taken as an answer 70 all
who have Questioned concerning our
former. asse rtion OF the same fact, as We
had not then the destinct evidence avail
able. although we were fully convinced
before we first uttered the assertion.
Is not this most infamous towards North
ern men and northern sentiment To
what depths of political iDfamy has this
Douglas wing descended to keep posses
sion of that power which the people have
now determined to wrest forever from
them