Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-27
From the LouisvIIle journal. oct. %.

| speech was made.
These points. established by Mr. Yancey's
own public declarations. undisputed and I'M
| retracted. are four in number. They are, 1.
That Mr.. Yancey desires to preserve the Union
only upon certain express conditions g
That he believes these conditions can never
be obtained; 3, That he desires at this mo-
| ment to destroy the Union; 4, That his ac-
tlVIty In the present canvass is directed con-
scIously and exclusively to the end of real
lzIhg this desire, first, by sunderiDg still fur
Their the links that bind Southern men to
Northern men," secondly, by consolidating
the South as firmly as possible against the
North, and, finally, by so working up and in
| flaming the passions Of the Southern people
through the means of such Increased sectional
estrangement and consolidation as to enable
those who like himself are ready y at any
moment for dissolution of the Union to
move forward and drag after them into
the abyss of revolution the entire South.
Here the Journal gives quotations from
Mr.. YANoEY's speeches, mostly the same as
republished in the PATRIOT yesterday. 1t then
continues:]
The careful reader, whether he be candid
one or not, will observe that each of these
| four points is fortified completely and i'm
prcgnably by Mr. Yancey's public deciara-
| tons. Mr.. 1ancey cannot attack either one
OF the points in question without first break
ing through the walls and batteries of his de-
liberate avowals within a very recent period
The points, ii is clear, leave Mr. Yancey but
three courses to pursue in relation 10 Them.
He must submit, quietly or ENORMOUSLY, to
the brand of treason they stamp upon his
brow, or else eat his own words or defy the
laws of thought. Mr.. Yancey has no other
choice in the case. -t..
We now call attention TO Mr.. Yancey's
speech in the City Hall, for the purpose of
showing briefly, that. in the presence of the
Breckenridge Democracy of Louisville, and
surrounded by the chiefs of the party in Ken
lucky. including His Excellency the Cover
nor of the Commonwealth. who presented
the vile and relentless agitator with glowing
words of communication to the audience he
pursued tie first mentioned course; that he CHOSE
TO SUBMIT To THE BRAND OF TREASON Mr.
4ancy submitted querulously, indeed, but he
submitted Nay, he did more than submit;
before be sat down he with his own hand add
ded sharpness and distinctness TO the star
ing mark of ignOminy. OF these points in
their order.
As respects the first, it is sufficient 10 say
that Mr.. Yancey brought his case voluntarily
before the audience and then abandoned it
without so much as denying the points es-
tablished against him or any one of them.
lie wrathfully submitted by default. After
complainingly vaguely of misrepresentation
and abuse, MIR. Yancey, as reported in the
Courier of yesterday, added:
''Will you allow me now to pass from so
humble an individual as myself, not to detain
you by examining my past history before
you. Detain three or four thousand persons
to look into mig past history! l should be
bigger fool than he who asked it if | under
took to do it. pass from it,"
Such is the reply which Mr.. Yancey made
before his Louisville audience to the charge
of reasonable motives, a charge supported
by the overwhelming array of evidence which
we have reproduced above IN order that our
readers might contrast the miserable paltri-
ness of the answer with the tremendous
gravity of the arrai gnment. We ask them
to consider the latter in the full breadth of
its terrible solemnity and of its unanswera-
bic proof, and then TO look at the former in
its impudent frivOlity. and say whether or
not Mr.. Yancey has submitted to the stigma
of treason we fixed upon his forehead.
This. however, is not all in regard to the
point in hand. A we'll known gentleman of
this city sent over his own signature to Mr..
Yancey a short series of questions adapted
directly TO test the character of his loyalty.
The questions were handed to Mr.. Yancey by
Gov. MagOffin, and Mr.. Yancey read them:
but he declined TO aslstVer them. We need not
give the questions here, as we published them
in our impression of yesterday, together with
the name of the gentleman who put them.
Certainly if all this does not constitute an
implied confession of guilt on Mr.. Yancey's
part there can be no such confession possible.
1t is in itself conclusive.
But Mr.. Gancey went further than this.
As we have said, he not merely submitted to
the brand of treason, but he added distinct
ness to the ignominiOus mark Only half of
Mr.. GanceyS speech appeared in the Courier
of yesterday, and that the argumentative
halt but those who heard him throu ghout
will bear witness that whilst in the conclud-
ing part he made somewhat frequent mention
of his loyalty to he Union he invariably
qualified the word Union" in this relation
by the clause "as our fathers framed IT. or
some other such significant phrase as that:
he never once avOwed his loyalty TO the
Union as it e, or pretended to cherish any,
Never once. Let the reader compare this
noteworthy trait of Mr,i Yancey's speech here
last Tuesday with one Of the passages of his
speech at Montgomery two years ago, which
we have quoted above, and it will be seen at
a glance that the former is only reflection
of the latter, or that both are but the Off
spring of a common sentiment of Disunion-
ism, which burns as ardently in Mr.. Yancey's
breast to-day as it ever did, if not more ar
IDENTIFY. 1t is plain that this sentiment still
burns in his breast at any rate.
Again, no attentive listener 10 Mr.. Yancey
in the City Hall could have failed to remark.
that, in calling upon all parties to support
John &. breckenridge as the only mode of
defeating Lincoln, he was careful not to adj
init that even the defeat of Lincoln would
save the Union. but, on the contrary, dis
tinctly held up Li1coln's defeat as the means
only of preserving the Union ''a title lonqer.''
"a LITTLE LoNGERw These were his very
words. Now, let the discriminating reader
turn to the principal extract from Mr.. Yam
cey's speech at Columbia given above and
in the concluding sentences he will perceive
the exploitation OF this most pregnant phrase |
lf, however" says Mr.. Yancey in that pas
sage, ''a Black Republican should not be elected.
then in pursuance Of the policy of making |
this contest within the Union, WE SHOULD IN |
TIATE MEASURES IN CONGRESS-, WHICH SHOULD |
LEAD To A REPEAL OF ALL UNCONSTITUTIONAL |
ACTS AGAINST SLAVERY. IF WE SHOULD |
FAIL TO OBTAIN so JUST A SYSTEM |
Of LEGISLATiO ON, THEN THE SOUTH
SHOULD SEEK HER INDEPENDENCE
OUT OF THE UNION" Thus. if Lincoln |
should be defeated, even Mr.. Yancey and |
MS confederates intend TO press this ''sys- |
tenn of legislation" upon Congress, and, if |
it can't be obtained from Congress, to |
dissolve the Union, just as they intend |
10 do if Lincoln shall be elected. And |
we have shown that Mr.. Yancey himself be- |
ieyes that this system of legislation can't |
be obtained; from the whole of which it fol- |
lows that he meditates the dissolution of the |
Union in a very brief time, whether Lincoln |
shall be defeated or not. In other words, |
Mr.. Yancey and his confederates mean to |
dissolve the Union or attempt it in contin- |
gency which he believes TO be certain and not |
remote, no matter who shall be elected. |
Hence, he appeals to Kentuckians irrespec- |
i've L., 20, Il,
G. Breckenridge as the only mode OF defeating |
Lincoln aud of preserving the Union "a LIT |
TIE LONGER" The phrase is simply the ex-
preston of the irrepressble treason in the |
heart of the man. 1t is the outcrop of the |
fell purpose which underlies his whole public |