East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-07-12


national democratic convention to adept
into the platform of the party the prnci-
pie known indiierently as "Congressonas
intervention" and Congressional protec-
tion 10 slavery in the Territories" in op
position to the old national democratic
doctrine of "non-intervention."
Upon the secession of the Alabams
delegation, the movement was soon after
followed by the secession of the delega-
tons, either in whole or in part, of seven
other southern States, the most of whom
were not instructed SO to act.
Now, fellow-citizens, by whom was
this secession" or, to call it by more
appropriate name, this DIsUNIoN, move
ment, led? 1t is as well known to you
as it is to us that it was led by the Hon.
Wm l.. Yancey, Of Alabama,'a member
and chief spokesman of that delegation
at Charleston. An able and most elo-
quent man, it is not too much to say of
him that his course has, for twelve years
past, been one long conspiracy, as well
against the integrity of the democratic
party, as against the Union of these
States.
Look first at his course in the national
democratic convention at Baltimore in
lS48. On that occasion he proclaimed
the doctrine of intervention" or "pro-
tection," for the first time; but failed to
get single Stete to stand by him. lie
entered his protest, seeded from the con-
vention, went home, and opposed the
election of the democratic nominees,
Cass and Butler.
In 1852 he went back to Baltimore
with the same proposition to "rule or
ruin" the democracy, and was again voted
down, even more emphatically than be-
fore.
In 1856 he again makes his appear
ance in the national democratic conven-
ton, which assembled that year at Gin
cnnati, but this time advocating the
very reverse of his old doctrine of inter
vention for protection. He had absolutely
got up instructions to the Alabama dele
cation, of which he was chairman, to
demand non-intervention, and, if the con-
vention did not grant it, to secede and
'lead off the balr' of disunion-that
terrible catastrophe to which all his de-
sires seem to tend. But the convention,
recognizing in the principle of "non-
intervention" an old doctrine of a major
ity of the party, unanimously granted
the demand >of Alabama, through her
spokesman, Mr.. Yancy, and SO the de-
signs Of this arch traitor and conspirator
against the Union were third time
banked.
But his undying hatred Of the Union,
though for time artfully cloaked, even
as he and his followers now cndeavor to
throw sand in the eyes of the people on
this momentous subject, was not allowed
to slumber or grow cold. He nursed his
wrath to keep it warm. In less than
two years after the adjournment of the
Cincinnati convention, we find him head
ing the notorious "Southern League" or
ganizcd avowedy to break up the Union,
as the following first article of It's con
stitution, drawn by his own hand, fully
proves:
CART. /. The members Of this organi-
zation shall be known as The League
of the South and our motto shall be "A
SOUTHERN REpuDLIc is OUR ONLY SAFE
TY.'n
About the same time appeared the
following private letter, piling Pelion
upon Ossa Of proof of the reasonable
designs of this American Cataline:
MONTGOMERY, June ID, 1853.
"DEAR SlR-Your kind letter of the
10Th is received. | hardly agree with
you that q general movement can be
made that will clear out the Augean
stable. If the democracy were over
thrown, it would result in giving place
to a greater and hungrier swarm of flies.
"rhe remedy Of the South is not in
such a process. 1t is in diligcnt or
ganization of her true men for prompt
resistance to the next aggression. 1t
must come in the nature of things. No
national party can save us; no sectional
party can ever do it. But if we conld
do as our fathers did-organize Commit
tees of Safety all over the cotton States
land it is only in them that we can hope
for any effective movement), we shall fire
the southern heart, instruct the southern
mind, give courage to each other, and,
at the proper moment, by one organized,
concerted action, we can prcclpltate the
cotton States into a revolution.
"The idea has been shadowed forth in
the South by Mr.. Rulfin; has been taken
up and recommended by the Adrertiser
(of Montgomery, Ala, Mr.. Yancey's or
gan), under the name of League Of
United Southerners,' who, keeping up
the old party relations on all other qucs-
tons, will hold the southern issue para
mount, and will influence parties, lcgisa-
lures, and statesmen. | have no time to
enlarge, but to suggest merely.
g In haste, you're, sc, w l.. iANCEf.
"ro James Slaughter, Esq"
This was private letter, hastily writ
ten, it is true; but in subsequent one,
written in explanation of it, to the editor
of the Richmond South, MIR. Roger a.
Pryor, he makes the matter worse by
saying that in "prccipitating the cotton
States [only] into revolution," he
meant that, in such movement as the
revolutionary one contemplated by him.
self and the "Southern Leaguers," he
could "place but little trust" in the border
States-''such States as Delaware, Mary.
LII Toocoesoo Kontuckv and NISSAN.