Newbern weekly progress., 1860-10-23
MIR. Yancey i'm the North.

| we PUBLISH accouhIS Hona tne papers OF MT
Yancey's speeches, in the North, as items o
news, and because they contain some good
Union Sediments But why does he not ex-
plain the Slaughter letter in these speeches j.?
| NeitheB the Northern or the Southern people
will have any confidence in Mr. Yancey until
he can explain away his avowed disunion and
revolutionary sentiments. He is asked ques-
tons in New York and Boston but he fails to
answer. Why don't he answer? Why don't
Mr.. Breckenridge answer? Mr. Douglas an
swered when a "trap was laid for him." and he
will answer again in Tennessee, Georgia and
Alabama. He has no opinions or sentiments
to conceal But to Mr.. Yancey in Boston:
Faneul Hall, Boston, was thronged On Friday
night by masses of people anxious to hear Mr. w.
L. Yancey speak upon the political issues of the
day. Hundreds were unable to gain admission
into the building The Boston Advertiser "a Re-
publican paper) says:
Mr.. Yancey was occasionally interrupted by
questions, which he adroitly answered, generally
turning The current of the meeting in his favor.
even at the most critical points. Thus when the
cheering for Douglas had become somewhat over.
whelrang in its obstreperous zeal, after pausng
to allow it full play, he swung his arm in the air
and proposed three cheers for the Constitution
and the Union, in which the whole assembly Joined
with tremendous enthusiasm.
The Courier, Bell and Everett organ, COM
menting on the speaker, says:
He was eloquent logical, patriotic and patient
under the taunts which were poured in upon him
The speech will be remembered long time by
all who heard it. Whether we agree or not with
Mr.. Yancey, are glad that he has given US an
address which will set our people thinking.
The speech was not very lengthy one, but
Judging from the frequent Interruptions and noisy
demonstrations noted in it by the phonographic
reporters, we should think that Mr.. Yancey had
marks by alluding to his long residence some
twenty-seven years ago in the State of Massachu-
setts. Under the tuition of New England teach
ers he had inbided many lessons be had u after
life endeavored to carry out, and that this cir
cumstance had heightened the pleasure of his visit
on the present occosion, Abiding to the posi-
ton Of the South, of Virginia in particular, at
the time of tina framing of the Constitution, Mr.
Yancey made great point.
He urged that at that time Virginia opposed
the continuance of the slave trade-Massachusett
urged its continuance, and demanded to be sc.
cured in its continuation until the year 1903 and
less she CHI invest capital largely in the trade
which might be swept 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 amendment ofthe Constitution.
In that time ons hundred thousand slaves were
imported into the conntry, and Massachusetts,
which was the great shipping State of that day,
made tenmillioas of dollars, by that section. CAp-
plause. Those ten millions of dollars, according
to the ordinary rate of interest, would amount
to thirty millions.
Now, then, said Mr.. Yancey, you have imposed
npon property amounting not only to one
hundred miors of dollars, but to far more than
that. The one hundred thousand slaves you inn
posed upon us by that trade, constitutionally
guaranteed to you, amounts to million of
slaves. And every of that million of slaves
will now sell in the market, on the block. for an
average of thousand dollars [Cries of
shame and "good,'l Just tkink of the
millions that are invested by Southern men in
property which was held to be property by your
ancestry. sold to as property by your an.
cestry. titles resting now from your ances-
tors and traced back to them, and yet the sons of
these men want to take from them their property
by an abolition law. [appiause aud cries of
good