The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-04-01
A SPEECH FROM Mr.. YANCEY.

IL. L
from his unsuccessful mission abroad, made short
speech last Th4rsday night at the St. Charles
Hotel New Orleans. We copy from the Delta
the following sketch of his remarks:
It was one year, lacking two days, since he had
quit our shores, and he was glad to stand among
his eountrymen again. He came back convinced
that we had no friends in Europe, that we must
fight the battle one, and rely Only on our firm
hearts. (Applause) They looked cotdly on the
South because OF its slavery institutions. There
! was not country in Europe who sympathized
with us. Even the great principles of our revolu-
! ton not understood by them any more than
! by the NOrtheruers, who have never been able to
seize the true spirit of our institutions. With the
North, Europe believed in the unqualified su-
premacy OF government, not understanding
! that government Is made for the people.
They have, therefore, friendship for nor sym
pathy with US; neither have they, however, for the
! North They regard the North as people men,
dacous unjust, aud hypocritcal. They do not
believe word said by the people, the press, the
Cabinet, the President. Europeans are pre-
judced against slavery, but they do not wish to
deprive n.en Of their property without honestly
paying for it; they have idea of cutting the
chains of bondage with lawess sword. They
| have discovered the Northern motive in this war
to be political not social; not a strong principle
against wrong but determination to rule. IIav-
! ing, therefore, no sympathy fol us, and turning
with honest contempt from the hypocritica Yam
kee they would look with positive Indifference on
the contest, but for their own interests involved.
They desire to cripple dangerous rival This
country was getting too vi igorous, aud they are de-
| termned that it shall forever remain separated
| They would never allow the South to be subiuga-
ted, and would interfere to prevent such a re-
suit, but that they feel CERTAIN it cannot be
accomplished. They know and say the South will
! be free. In the meantime, they wish to the
war drag until each side is thoroughly ex-
| hausted and overwhelmed with debt which shall
crush its energies for years. or if possible for ages
| to come. To further this policy they ignore the
we'll established fact that the blockade has been
run at least thousand times. They set aside
practically against us, the painest behests of
the European treaty which fixes the law of block
! ade. They arc determined, in the face OF all law
Of all equity, of all lity, not to recognize us
until the last possible moment, and acW mcuer do
SO until they see orr 6(o0drcching slv0rd stretched
ocer conquered and PROSTATE No1th
A. to the blockade, said Mr. Yancey, don t
know that we should it raised. 1t it con-
tinued six months longer, he would not, on any
| consideration, wish such misfortune that it
| should be raised. BY that time internal
| ergies will have developed, our manufactures es-
| tabIished, and he had such confidence in the in
genuty and enterprise of our people to believe
them capable of attaining, within themselves ali
necessary ends. AS to luxures, indulgence in
| them was not becoming to people laboring in
| the very throes Of heroic struggle. Various
causes had hitherto prevented the fprcible raising
of til @ blockade lu the first place, when the
blockade commenced to take effect immense stocks
of cotton were in the hands Of the weathiest
tacturers. Those men had the ear of Govern
n4emt, and it was decidedly to their interest that
the blockade should continue until their stock on
hand sold at exorbltant prices. Government
! too, was the more willing to listen to them be-
cause it was deslrous OF fostering the production
OF cotton outside Of the Southern States, even at
the expense OF heavy Temporary suffering at home.
| Our principal ground of miscalcuation here as
to the blockade had been the laea that c,tton is
king. If by this it is understood American cotton
it is a falacy. American cotton certainly plays
mighty part in the commerce Of the world, but it
has absolute sway, because the staple is raised
| too abundantly elsewhere. Fol hundreds of years
Iuda has raised much cotton the South now
does: There is probably one thing in the
world which grows universally cotton. Eu-
rope therefore, was willing to take advantage OF
the crisis to entrauchsc herself from sway at
almost any cost, but she has found the ordeal too
severe. India cotton is too dear, and the whole
machinery of their immense manufactures would
have to be changed to suit the staple Orleans
middliug has been found by experience to be the
only thlhS that VIII exactly 20, ana the supply OF
that will be exhausted by the 1st Of April Then,
when starving population rises around their
thrones, with the words, Cotton blood, the
blockade will be raised.
Here Mr. 1ancey asked BY "a gentleman
whether Mr. Stewards promise to open cotton
port had not had great weight? Nj Yaneey re-
piled emphaticaly no. They did not believe
one word he said They believed the Yankees
to be nation of mendacious liars 1t i'm
possible in Europe to get at the truth Of things
over here. Facts got there fItrated through the
medium of Northern papers, anG the strength was
all gone. No Southern journal allowed 20
reach Them, and that indeed it had been so to a
great extent before the People there got
their ioeas of the South from New York papers
aud Boston Iiterateurs. They gave US credit for
being brave people determined to be free. but
reckless of life, somewhat inhunan to slaves, and
at best, semi-cigilized; and that our sense OF in
dividuaiity went far that each man considered
his will as paramount to = the law. We cannot
look Tor any sympathy or help from abroad. We
must rely upon ourselves alone.
TEE MILITARY PRIsoN.-There now $40
Federal prisoners confined here Most of the
privaters are Scurvy fellows and by no means as
decent as the last lot sent from here. Among the
officers are several belonging to the old United
States army, who are gentlemen hy efiueation
The Northern volunteer officers. such as Corcorau
dic, are low bred fellows generally. Among the
nttel States army officers here Is Major Fodacs