The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-08-01
Another Letter from Mr.. Y.rc.v.

! The Montgomery Advertiser publishes a
letter from Mr.. Yancey three columns long
In the conclusion he thus explains his Slaugh-
| ter letter.
"The seventh allegation is that wrote the
| Slaughter letter. did write ii. Itwas pri-
vate-not designed for publication, and there
| fore ITS expressions are loose, and not as well
| weighed as l would have desired. Still, there
is not an idea in II that do not now enter
| tain.
"Bnt the letter does not urge disunion- does
| not advocate disruption, either Of the Democ-
| racy or OF the Union. Mr.. Slaughter had
| written to me urging me 10 abandon the De-
mocracy, as the great obstacle to Southern
| union. / replied, refusing TO go into his
scheme. He called the Democratic party an
| Augean stable, and his scheme would clean it
| out / denied that his scheme could succeed.
| He predicted good from its overthrow. The
| letter refuses assent TO his prediction. To
| wean him from his chimerical and shorts ight-
| ed policy, susges ted to him to aid in extend
ing the League; not to destroy the party, which
| in the same letter had refused 10 give coun.
| tenance TO, but to elevate and purify the true
men of the country. And for what purpose !
| The Douglas papers and orators, following the
| idea given by Mr. Douglas himself answer
| and say that proclaimed my purpose in that
| letter 10 be to precipita;e the cotton States
| into revolution / say that this is gross
peryersion of The letter and spirit of that docu
ment. The letter itself says that the purpose
| was q prompt resistance on the neTt asgres-
| sion,' that at proper mon,snr this resistance
| can be made
"This, and this alone, is the offence in that
| letter. When it was written, l had in my
head no scheme of dsunion. have had none
since-I have none now. Then, as now,
was for using all proper means for main tain
| Ing our rights within the Union-then, as
now, to elevate. purify and bring the Demo-
craiic party up TO 4 strict maintenance of the
full measure of our constitutional rights and
TO ignore all further compromises. To this
end have honestly llbored, MP to this hour
| The whole tone and tenor of that letter is to
prepare for enforcing the platform of the
United States Convention of Georgia, 'on the
next aggression at "a proper moment When
that hoRr arrives, shall be found prepared
That did not have in view the destruction
OF the party and of the Union at Charleston
| Is made evident by the fact, that when its dis
ruption was complete, on the adjournment at
Charles ton by the secession of eight Demo.
cratic and cotton States-so far from discoun.
tenancing all efforts 10 heal the breach-so far
from endeavoring TO widen it, and thus make
it perpetual-so far from exulting over it and
looking upon it, as charged ,and falsely charged
in the eight and last allegation, 'as the period
which was looked forward to (by mel when
the Democratic party and the Union were to
be overwhelmed in one common ruin'-tho
country we'll knows that as soon as we'll
grounded hope of harmony being restored
was held out, / seized upon that hope, and
used all my in pfiuence with reluctant friends
TO obtain a reunion of the Democracy at Bal
timore."