Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-08
A letter from Mr.. Yost, one of the Virginia

A letter from Mr.. Yost, one of the Virginia
delegation to CHARLESTON, published in the
Staunton indicator, says
Alabama, with Yancey as the leader,
came here pledged to a certain course, with
arrogant demands for certain concessions,
the refusal of which was predetermined by
her to be cause sufficient for retiring. The de-
mands were inexpedient and impoitlc, look
ing more to a sectional triumph than to the for
nation Of basis of national differentiation.
Being pledged, as she was, then, to this eX-
IRENE demand and occupying no grounds
upon which she could be approached, or
from which she could recede with honor or
self-respect, it was q matter of regret, as well
as protest, on the part of the delegates from
the Tenth Legion District, and r. FL. Glass
and James Barbour, that Virginia should,
by tangible action, encourage and nurse the
refractory and obstinate little State, and her
deluded followers This was done, however,
under the ill-advised, ill-digested and suicl-
dial counsels of Lewis Z. Harvie, Seldom,
and Brannon from Lewis county; who made
q motion, through the State delegation, To
appoint committee 0fone to meet the dis
union States. The whole game was to tie
the Middle slaveholding States-and especial
IL Virgina-to the tail of Alabama, (?) and
thus backed, for Alabama to take the bit IN
her mouth. The short-sig htedness of Mr..
Hunters peculiar guardians in the Virginia
delegation, entrapped them completely, and
placed them in the humiliating position of
shifting their position, and exhibiting in
constituencies most glaring, and vastly dam
aging to Mr.. Hunter. This whole movement
was bitterly opposed in caucus by both the
delegates from the llth District, and Mr..
Glass, of Lynchburg. But numbers prevail
ed. Had the Convention proceeded to the
nomination of candidates for President and
Vice President, at first, instead OF the torma-
ton of platform, as was the wish and poll
cv of your delegates, Mr.. Hunter, ere this,
would have been the nominee. Those, how
ever, who claimed the direction of his in
terests deemed that course unwise, and have
thus destroyed all hope of his success"
1T has really been Il source of humllla-
ton to Eirsinians to witness the scene of
Virginia being led by Alabama, and this too
through the instrumentality of few men
who claim to be par excellence, the friends
of her favorite son, r. NJ. Il. Hunter. This
gentleman might well eXclaim, ''save me
from my friends" Those delegates who
have been the substantial friends of Mr..
Hunter, and whose policy, if it had been
! adopted, would have eventuated in his noml-
| nation, are James Barbour, of Culpeper-
the ablest Of Virginias youug men-R. IL.
Glass, the talented editor of the Lynchburg
Republican, and the delegates from the 18th
Electoral District. These gentlemen have
stool firm to the declared policy of the Nir-
ginia Democracy, while others have loaned
themselves to the extremists suggestions and
actions thus cooperating with those who
have brought upon US the present distracted
and unhappy state of affairs here"
Il will take pleasure, hereafter, in venti-
lating the action Of some of the Virginia del
egation, who have both injured Mr.. Hunter,
and misrepresented the State. The time
has come for better men to take the place Of
few tricksters, and by this means, restore
the old Commonwealth to her true position
in the family of States"