Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-10-13
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

TwHAI'sAHEAp-On "Wednesday MIG bt last the
Hon VIM. L. Yancey, Of Ala, delivered, in the
city Of New York, an elaborate and very power
ful address to an audience numbering MANY thou
sands, composed for the most part of men In &C.
tive business life, with everything cooceivab,e TO
lose oy the destruction Of the Government Of the
confederacy, on which northern sectIonallsm now
seems 80 determined In the blindness Of its fanst-
srism and the ferocity Of Ito political partizan-
ship. He 10 by long odds thepablest popular ora.
tor In the country, rarely falling to persuade his
audiences Of the propriety Of his positions and
the righteousness Of his cause. His speech,
though precisely such a speech a. he delivers to
southern audiences, met hearty response In the
bosoms Of nearly all who heard him therein
New York-except In one particular. That 10 to
say while nearly all at the South have come to be
supporters of the doctrine OF the right of secession,
the sentiment of the North is nearly as unani-
nous against It. As eloquenty as he enforced 1t
on the night before last the vital interests of the
mass Of his audience being 30 manifrstly against
It, we doubt whether he made many converts to
IL. Its current popularity throughout the South
Is simply the result Of the arguments upon which,
the New York Tribune, Mr.. Seward, Mr., sum.
ner, and, indeed, all the Republican party press
and orators have urged Lincolns election upon
the people Of the Ncrth--the irresistible conflict
1guments-which II foreshadowing the policy
of the next administration with reference to sla-
very, can hardly fail to impress iriesstibly upon
the southern popular mind the belief that there 10
to be safety for the hundreds of millions worth
Of southern property In slaves for the lives and
Aresides Of the South under the existing Govern
ment Of the Confederacy, as that may shortly he
administered. t..f# H- ...r.
We sincerely believe that at this moment quite
three fourths Of the people OF the slaveholding
States subscribe to the doctrine secession having
been brought to that position by the means indi-
Gated above. But Of that we will say more anon
MIR. Yancey's speech in all the rest Of Its 20 nts
carried conviction, evidently. to the minds Of his
audience. Those points went to show the ab,o-
lutte necessity for hearty union of all the conser.
vative men at the North to defeat Lincoln, If the
North would not Involve itself by his election in
the prospect Of the absolute ruin OF all its Indus
trial and commercial interests
The misfortune Is that there is Imminent danger
that the extreme South will not wait to see whether
Lincoln, II elected, will essay to administer the
Government upon the policy foreshadwed by the
New York Tribune, MIR. Seward, Mr.. Sumner
ct al. Ii she does delay, our belief 10 that the
danger OF the speedy destruction Of the Govern
ment will blow over because tits clear to us that
even IL 50 minded, it will be utterly out OF his
power so to do.
The Senate Of the United States WINS clearly
against him ere the recent elections, and In
those elections the Republican party have been
shorn Of their command Of the action Of the next
House Of Representatives. They have lost four
members in Ohio and three IL not four in Penn
syivaniai making change Of at least fourteen
votes against them already, with a fair prospect
that they will lose quite as many more in New
ork and other non -slavehoding States before the
next Congress come together. Thus It 10 already
certain that the Republicans, though they may
elect Lincoln, will be In a miserable minority In
both Houses Of Congress. Their national COM
mittee, foreseeing this state Of things have lust
issued an address urging their party to save a.
many members Of the House a. possible In the
northern congressional elections yet to come or.
Thur the hands Of Mr. Lincoln, IL elected and
disposed to administer the Government upon "ir.
rePressible conflict principles will be etYectually
tied. He viii have been elected only through the
folly Of bis opponents by having received scarcely
more than one-third OF the aggregate vote Of the
whole country; and his every act will be con-
frolled bya House and Senate hostile to the al
legged schemes Of his party with reference to
southern slavery.
Again: we do not believe II possible that. II
those principles doctrines in the policy Of his
administration because in the current state of the
southern popular mind to do so will surely DESTROY
the Union. We believe that he has not SUP.
porter In the length and breadth of the land even
but toerably informed concerning the .tipulations
Of the Constitution of the United States, and also
concerning the state Of the southern mind with
reference to the South's duty to herself II the
policy Of this Government be attemp pied TO be
based upon the doctrines Of Messrs. Seward.
Greeley, Sumner, at al, concerning American
slayery-we believe that no such supporter of
Lincoln is to be found who will fail TO compr.-
bend, with him. that an attempt to base the policy
OF bis administration on the principles OF his
party as now being enforced throughout the
North by the press and on the stump, must in
evitably and at once destroy the existing Con-
federacy. We, therefore, entertain no fear that,
IL elected, he will aim to carry out extreme views.
The way to cure a radical is to devolve upon him
responsibilities and in such
crisis as the present, no American administration
except one composed Of men utterly crazed with
selfsufaciency and fanaticism, can posi- bIy fail
to be conservative where the question Of slavery
Is concerned.