The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-07-25
ISHLAND UNION, MORNING JULY, Is 1860.
AEI;ond Cum from Tennessee.

O1AAa11N C1N1O4N1
: a loud Gun from Tennessee.
f The Secession Movensent Shoaon up by a par
he Tennessee Observation-Disclosures Q
: Ydncey.
The HonsH. NJ. watterson, " II. Carroll
and w. b. Jones, three of the SIX Delegate
who remained in the Convention, issue an ad
dress to the people of Tennessee Which showI
THE spirit with which-th the campaign opens ii
the South. We copy only the concluding
portions of it:
"Upon the secession of the Alabama delega
Ition, the movements was soon after followed b.
the secession Of the Delegations, either IN
.5whole orzinzp part, of=seEenNother Southern
States, the most of whom were not instructed
so to act. T.
Now, feIlow-citizens, by whom was this use
~cession Tor, to call it still by a more appropri,
etc name, this disuuion movement ledf 1t is
as we'll known to you as it is to us that it was
led by the Hon. Vim. L. Yancey, of Alabama,
"a member and chief spokesman of the delega.
Etion at Charleston. An able and most eloquent
man, it is not too much tossay of him that his
4 course has, for twelve years been one long
conspiracy, as well against the integrity of the
Democratic party, as against the Union OF the
ST ites. Look first at his course In the Nation
al Democratic Convention in 1913. On that
occasion he proclaimed the doctrine of "Inter-
vention," or Nprotection," for the first time;
but failed tosgetsa single State to stand by
him. He eAtered his protest, seeded from
the Convention, went home, and opposed the
election of the Democratic nominees, Cass and
Butler. m-- 1iue8 bss .z-a>t4.e- O. ~.
In 1852 he went back to Baltimore with the
same proposition to "rule or ruin" the Demo-
craey, and was again voted down, even more
emphatically than before. 5zq .sa1G
+ In 1856, he again makes his appearance in
the National Democratic Convention, which
assembled that year at Cincinnati, but this
time advocating the very reverse of his old
doctrine of Intervention for Protection. He
had absolutely got up instructions to the Ala
bama delegation, of which he was chairman, to
demand Non-interyention, and, if the conven-
ton did not grant it, to secede and "lead off
the balP' of disunion-that terrible catastrophe
to which all his desires seem to tend. But
the convention, recognizing in the principle of
"Nor-Intervention" an old doctrine of a ma
jority of the party unanimously granted the
demand of Alabama through her spokesman
Mr.. Yaneey, and so the demands of this arch
traitor and consplrator against the Union were
a third time balked.id vrfa1c51s t5a lib y
Bnt his undying hatred of the Union, tho
for aotime artfully cloaked, even as he and his
followers now endeavor to throw sand in the
eyes of the people on this momentous subject,
was not allowed to slumber or grow cold. He
nursed his wrath to keep it warm. In less
than two years after the Adjournment of the
Cincinnati Convention, we find him heading
the notorious "Southern League organized,
avowedly to break up the Union, as the follow
ing first article of its constitution, drawn by
his own hand, fully proves n ~ AefE d
e. fCA,&- L IT, rnopoHarc of The orroof1af1nn
shall be known as sThe League of the South ;
and our motto shall be "A SOUTHERN REPUB-
LIC Is OUR My S~AFETY."'a7roo aET'
About the same time appeared the following
private letter, piling Pelion upon Ossa of proof
of the reasonable designs of this American
Cataline ylGnai:na9 4 III yQG .45et 70 4
9G0 - Montgomery, June Is, 1858. /
DEAR SIR;-Your kind letter of the 10Th
is received. 1 hardly agree with you that at
this time a general movement can be made
that will clear out the IAugean stable. IF the
Democracy were overthrow, it would resultin
giving place to a greater and hungrier swarm
of flies. ttt /
The remedy of the South is not in such a
process. 1t is in a diligent organization of
her true men for the prompt resistance to the
next aggre ssion. 1t must come In the nature
of things. No national party can save us; no
sectional party can ever do it. But if we could
do as our fathers did-organize COMMITTEES
of safety" all over the cotton States, (and-it is
only in them that we can hope fer any effect
tive movementO we shall fire the, southern
Heart, instruct the southern mind, give cour-
age to each other, and at the proper moments,
by one organized, concerted action, we can
precipitate the cotton States into a revolution.
he-idea has been Swallowed forth nithe
South by Mr.. Rufhn; has been taken up and
recommended by the Advertiser, a(of Mont
gomery, Ala, Mr.. Yaneey's organ,) under the
name of tsLeague of United Southerners,"
who, keeping up the old party relations on all
other questions, will hold the Southern issue
paramount, and will influence parties, Legisla-
lures, and statesmen. I have no time enlarge, !
but to suggest merely itts aE gsf1tx
In Haste, Yours, &C., w. L. Yancey. as !,
To James Slaughter, Esq. ~saira7ei
This was a private letter, hastily written, it
true; bntini a subsequent one, written mex
PLANTATION of it, to the editor of the Richmond
South, Mr.. Roger A. Pryor, he makes the
natter worse by saying that in "preeipitating1
,he cotton States (only) into a revolution" he
meant that in such a moment as the ~revolu-
one contemplated by himself and the
Leauge,'' he could 'IpL1ce but little
in the border States, Esuchi States as
Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee, Kentuckya and
He cannot trust Tennessee, he {
Iays, because she so long kept an Abolitionist
n the Senate-meaning JohnrBell, of course
land because a Tennessee Methodist Confer.
nee refused to expunge certain anti-slavery
which John Wesley had inserted in
he discipline He cannot trust: Kentucky be-
cause Kentucky, for SO many years, upheld
'uch free-soilers as Horny Clay and john J.1i
Virginia he did not mention, nor
lid he f~fdiscriminate between Virginia and
,ther border States because his purpose did
lot call for it.. He then proceeded to say.
y oft is equally true that LIDO not expect I
to take any initiative steps towards a
lissolution of the Union, when that texigency
hall be forced upon the south Her position /
s a border StateJand awel[eonsidered South I
IN policy, "a policy swhich5ha been digested :
understood, land approved by the ablest s
men in Virginia. as ayon yourself must be II
ware) would seem to demand that, when such