The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-12
POLITICAL.
POLITICAL.
MIR. YANCEY AT THE COOPER INSTI.
TUTE, NEW YORK.

OF the day. question was put to Mr.. Y. as to
what the South would do in case of Lincoln's
election, to which he replied as follows:
This question that is put to me is speculation
on the future. 1t is what consider would happen
IN the event of something else happening. | hope
to God that that will never happen, and that the
speculation will never come to head GApplause
| am no candidate for the Presidency, INV friends.
who wrote these questions, though some of you
| seem to have thought so, Judging from the manner
in which you have treated and Mr.. Breckin-
ridge am no candidate for any Office, and do
not want your vote. But | would like to advise
with you, and get you to vote for a good man-for
any man, do not care who it is excepting one of
the irrepressible conflict men. [Uproarious ap
In the first place there is no such thing as the
South seeding. do not know how she would 90
about it, [Cries of "Good" and loud cheers.
@ mere is sueh thing as State seeding; but the
South seeding is thing which / cannot compre-
bend. l do not know how the South would 90
about do not think it could ever happen; and,
therefore, have got no answer to give as to what
| the South should do. Now, then, | am a citizen of
the State of Alabama. | am what is called States
Rights man. lbelieve in the rights of my State The
Constitution Of my country tells me that certain
powers were given to the general government, and
that all which were not expressly given, or were
not necessary to carry out the powers granted,
were reserved to the States and the people of the
States: My State has reserved powers and reserv-
ed rights, and believe in the right of secession
Excited cries of ffGood.''1
Virginia and New York were parties to that
compact. w hen the question presented, the
State ot Virginia expressed her willingness to Join
under the compact. The State of New ork also
did so through her convention. 1t was provided
that if nine States assented, it would be govern
ment for those nine and for all the States that would
sign the compact Therefore, the compact was a
compact between States mutually asserting, will
lingly assenting. If any dissented there was no
| proposition to force them into the Union There
fore believe in the right of State to go out of the
al a hJnt HtnC
in her last General Assembly, passed law reuuir-
ing the Governor in the event of Black Republi-
can being elected President of the United States, to
convene, within so many days after he ascertained
| that fact, convention of the people of the State
for the purpose of considering the question which is
here presented to me. 1t is question for the de.
cison of my State-I cannot decide it. As one of
the citizens of Alabama shall abide by the decision
she remains in, | remain with her. / cannot do
| otherwise. Laughter and cheers , ..
IL IS grave question for any citizen to consider,
whether he will dissolve, or aid in dssolviDg the
| ponds winch connect his State with this govern
| ment. 1t is grave question, but one which Ihope
God, in his providence, will keep me from consid-
ering by the safety of this government in the cleo
ton of some man opposed to this "irrepressble
| connict party. Cheers But when the time
| comes for me to make up my mind, will have de-
berate consultation with my fellow citizens in AL
ALBANIA You in New York have nothing to do with
it-nothing. Whatever deberation Won choose to
State, will be for yourselves. | have no interest
in that question, except incidentally, and have no
right to advise with you say ything to YOU
| about it, But upon this Presidential question 7
have common interest with you, because it is one
| to administer the government for the next four
years-for my State as well as for yours. There
lore 1t Is common question, about which | can
| consult with you.
| But whether nv State or any other State will
go out OF the Union is question which it will be for
that state itself to determine lie is not to be de-
termined by arguing it before the election. 1t
would be grave matter for me to commit myself
here, to a crowd in New York, to any policy that
might be influenced by after events, by surround
ing circumstances, by the expressed sympathes of
large majorities of the people of New York 9TH
er States with the South. For me here merely to
crafty some political antagonist, to express any
opinion on that point would be folly; it is the Wild
est folly to expect that will. That opinion will
De ee rendered to the people of my State whenever
they ask for it. An individual on the platform
Three cheers for the answer."l Now, | am asked
one other question. | am asked whether if any
portion of the South secedes, will aid the gov
ernment in maintaining the integrity of the Union.
Yes, my friend, the integrity of the Union
lCheers | am now struggling for it; | shall
struggle for it to the day of election. The integ-
Irity of the Union shall struggle for with my life's
blood If required Enthusiastic cheers.1
| But If this questioner means by the integrity of
| the Union the preservation of an administration
tnat snail trample on any portion of the rights of
the South, tell him that will aid my State in
resisting 1t to blood Great cheerngl The
common rights of resistance to wrong which be-
longs to the wOrm-those rights are not the rights
that were meant to be secured by our fathers in
the Declaration OF Independence, when they cut
| themselves loose from despotism and the despotic
ties of the old world The serf of Russia has got
the right of revolution. The hog has got the rig ght
to resist if you try to put knife to his throat.
lCheers and laughter. The right of revolution is
the poor serfs right. 1t is right at all. 1t is
only the last expiring throe of oppressed nation,
allty. lIumultuous cheering.l Yes, gentlemen,
there is the poor, degraded people, that for centu
rles has groaned under the armed heel of power
ful despotism, that know no rights in the masses
save the privilege of rendering up their hard
earned earnings, in order that the masters might
revel in infamous and criminal luxury and wealth.
foor Italy Is trying to raise up her bleeding and
bruised body, and is now, perchance, on one knee,
and with manacled hands, is yet struggling for the
great right Of revolution. Cheers.l 9
Have our fathers provived no better fate for us I
Y Yes they have. They have made this a govern
ment existing upon the will of sovereign States
a compact between sovereign States, not made
States by force, not made consolidated masses by
| the conquering march of hero, with his army at
his back and his sword thrown into the scale
where the will of the conquered is not consulted
That is not our form of government. Ours is a
TORN of government that the people have willed.-
1t is self-government. 1t is a government where
States have willed to make compact with each
other; and, whenever that compact is violated,
who is there higher than the States? Who is
more sovereign than the parties to the compact
|
There are rights reserved to these States the Con-
stitution itself guarantees them; and there is the
great right that rises above northumberland
1t Is the right of humanity, the right of civiza-
ton, the right of intelligent public opinion,
the right of freemen-and that is, that when gov
ernments become oppressive and subversive of
the objects for which they formed then, in the
language ofour fathers, they have the right to form
new governments. [Cheers.l Governments should
not be changed for light transient causes, but
whenever the whole property of an entire com
munlty is swept away by policy that undermines
it or deals it death blow directly; when the social
relations of an enlightened, virtuous Christian
people shall be utterly destroyed by policy which
lnvidlously underinines them and produces nevita-
bly, contest between castles and races; when these
rights touched upon and the people see that the
attack upon them is coming, they will not wait until
the policy is cinched upon them. The very mo.
ment their equality is destroyed in the government
under the Constitution, then, in my opinion it be-
the duty of the State to protect its people by
lnterposng this reserved right between the acts of
the general government and its people, And when
1t does that if Abraham Lincoln, or any other man
who aids Abraham Lincoln, or any other man in
the Presidential office, shall undertake to use fede-
raj bayonets to coerce free and sovereign State
IN this Union, Il answer that question as an indi-
vidual because it does not involve my State)
shall fly to the standard of that State and give it
the best assistance in my power. [Great cheering. ]
| THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
We have some additional returns from the Penn
sylvanIa election, which we give below;
We subjoin list of the Pennsylvania delegation
to the next Congress as it is likely to stand:
| MEMBERS ELECT 37TH CONGRESS-.
! Dist. Dist
l. VIM. E. Lehman, ID. IA. Galusha A. Grow. p
2. E. JOY Morris, p Is. James T. Hale, p
3. John P. Verree, p. l6. *B. F. Junkin, p.
4. VIM. d. Kelley, P. II. Ed. Mcpherson, P.
5. W. Morris Davis, Z. Is. s. s. Blair, p.
6. John Hickman, p. 49, John Coyode. p.
| Z. Thomas B. Cooper ID. 20. *Jesse Lazear d.
s. 5. L: Ancona, D. 81. Jas. K. Moorhead, P.
j. Thaddeus Stevens, P. %. Robt. Mcknight, P.
10. John W. Killinger, p. %. William Stewart, P.
IL. James II. Campbell, P. "a. *John Patton, p
| II. Geo. w. Scranton, p. %. Elijah Babbitt P
Is. Philip Johnston, d.
| Those marked with a star are uncertain.
The Peoples Party, according to the above list,
have 20 of the 25 members but several of them are
uncertain.
For the unexpired term of the late Hon. John
Schwartz, of Berks, in the present Congress, j. K
Mckinty, Democrat, is elected.
| THE LEGISLATURE.
| The Peoples party have already large majority
| OF the State Senators holding over They have
| also gained Senator in Philadelphia, one in the
Chester and Delaware district. and one in Bedford
Somerset and Huntingdon district, while they have
lost none. The Senate will probably stand-Peo co.
ple's party, "a; Democrats, 8.
| The House of Representatives is more difficult to
ascertain. But the Philadelphia North American
says the Peoples party have carried from ifty- five
to sixty of the one hundred members This will
ensure to them the election of United States Sena-
tor to succeed Mr.. Bigler.
! THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.