The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-06
A Iowa goptherner,s Ezpe1ience.

government, writes from Washing
ton to the London Daily Netcs to
expose the sophistries of WILLIAM
L. YANcEY. We make the follow
ing extracts from his letter
"For proposing to my countrymen Of
Alabama a repeal of the ordinance Of Sc
oessioD, which an armed minority had
precipitated upon that State, was, by
portion of that same armed mob, precipi-
tated out of the State. All this happen
ed before the first gun doomed over the
hsrbor Of my native city Charleston, s.
c. and called up the echoes of the bleak
hills OF the remote North.
"Itprieved my spirit to the quick when
I read extracts from southern papers
which spoke of southern rights state
equality and southern independence
but never once was cheered with single
word in favor of those true southern
rights of the vast numerical majority of
the white population of the South, whom,
in their arrogant usurpation, the cotton
planters of the Gulf and their slaye-pro-
Quoting suppliers of the border states
denominate poor white trash My soul
tainted with impotence when / heard
the mendacious exclamation southern in
dependence; fer knew by personal OBJ
servation and experience, that the inde-
pendence Of what these editorial mis-
creants mis- called the South, was only
the right of the cotton planters and their
parasites TO put the yoke of eternal in
feriority upon the non- Shareholders of
the South. Nor were my grief and in
dignation assuaged when those cotton
planters claimed separation from the gov
eminent on the ground Of state equality
when they were, even then, glOrying in
the discovery of John Q. Calhoun, that
all men, and, therefore, of course, all
states, were not created equal State
| equality is a creation of man-so is per-
sonal equality. The first ought to be the
result of the Constitution Of the United
States and will yet be that result; and
the second ought to be and will yet be
the result--to all white men in this ma.
ton, whether North or SOuih--of the
declaration Of independence.
4 rebellion founded upon what these
! Southern fanatics denominate the in
dependence of the South is, therefore,
as immoral as ii is presumptuous.
Where are my Southern rights Am
less than q man because | am not a
cotton planter ?-less than freeman be-
cause | do not bow the knee to King
Cotton Pa usurper not vet and never
to be recognized in the Constitution of
the Unitod States! Am less than an
American citizen because, as a lawyer,
l kept, at the peril of my life, the oath,
registered not only in the court book of
Coosa county, Alabama, but recorded in
the court of Heaven? Where are my
Southern rights? Where are the South
ern rights of William S. Middlebrooks,
of Wetumpka, Alabama, who was i'm 70
prisoned on the sbsurd charge of being a
Lincolnite? Where are tho Southern
rights Of DIR. James Slaughter, who, for
the offence of publishing private letter
of Yancey, was found dead in his bed
from the effects of poison Where are the
Southern rights of these refugees, too nu =
merous to mention who for no other offence
than attachment or suspected attach
ment to the Union, like myself have been
driven into exile,on account of the hatred
of the brutal planters? Where are the
Southern rights of that multitude Of poor
white men, who have been pressed into
the battalions of King Cotton with
whose success will perish the very
name of their blood bought rights?
"Of this sanguinary struggle
the non-slaveholders of the South are
bearing the burden, under which they
sink, whilst the glory and the gain are
the desiderated prize of their tyrants
who tell them that the policy they have
at last succeeded in forcing upon tn,
Government of the United States is Tn,
invasive measure long premdated by
} that very Government. The desperat,
, fighting of this war has been done by tn,
non-slayehOlders of the South. Unde
ceive them, and the cause of King Cottor
would be lost | was exiled because
! dared to think and speak for myself an,
r for them. But l think and speak stl
for my brethren Of the true South, and
advocate pure Southern rights
go, search the Southern graves o
this unrighteous rebellion, they will b
found TO contain non -slayeowners almos
, exclusively. Literally have the cour
, tiers of King Cotton carried out thei
abominable programme; they have liter
r ally made trash of the poor whites o
the South, and have cast them out a
filth TO the fowls of the air. Yes; 0
the purest, best, least adulterated, BRAY
est Aglo-Saxon blood OF this continent
this rullan spawn have made stream
{ to irrigate the cotton OF which Mothe
, England is to be, in future, the favore'
monopOlistl
"Since we hear so much fror
D Mr.. YGncey and his confederates q
Southern rights, State rights, and Stat
q equality, let me speak a word. AS th
exiled champion and the representa-
tive Of the most numerous class Of III
South, here in the sight Of the ciyilze
l world demand from the nations of th
a earth the recognition of true Souther
rights, and the real and practical indie
pendence,' in the union Of their forefa
theirs, Of the non -slayeowners Of the Soutl
e and following up Mr.. Lincoln's pFOclama
ton with one more elllcacious, more 1
the point, more consistent with humanit
and justice, and more in unison with ia
7 necessities Of the hour aud of the coun
. try, hereby proclaim tho HoR-slavehold
/, ing white population of my native sec
tion TO be the South their indepen
dence Of the cotton planters 10 be III
only independence needed in the Soutl
and their rights 20 be the only 'Souther
{ rights endangered, and that the only par
r ties who are endangering those blood
u / bouoht taoufhaFn rfnhts1 an, tbo ,.tto