The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1866-05-09

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WILLIAM L. YAxcEY-Henry S. Foote, in his RET
Gently published work, entitled THE War Of the
Rebellion thus sketches the character of Mr.. Yam
cey: Before closing this chapter shall avail myself
of the opportunity of doing justice to an individual
now, alas in the tomb. With the views which /
entertained of VIM L. Yancey lis political schemes
and movements in 1860, (which now continue to en-
terrain in 1863 in relation to those schemes and move
ments,) / could not have done otherwise, as one
anxious to preserve the federal Union than exert
myself to the utmost of my limited intellectual powers
and still more limited influence, in warding off the
perils which conscenously thought he and others in
alliance with him, were bringing upon the country /
feel bound in frankness to declare that, though do
not at all doubt that his conduct, however grossly.
erroneous and pregnant with lasting mischief, cer-
tainy deem It to have been was in all respects regu-
lated by high but perverted sense Of duty to that.
section Of the Union where he CHANGED to be born and
reared, and with the safety and permanent prosperity
Of which his feelings were intensely affiliated. was
a close observer OF his conduct while member Of the
Confederate congress and | take pleasure in bearing
testimony to the fact that bis course while lab0rng to
provide for the exgencies of civil war; in the bring
ing on Of which he had so prominently participated,
was, with very slight exceptions, scarcely worthy OF
mention in happy unison with his aDtecedent profess
si0ns of devotion to State rights and popular freedom.
He resisted with manly and persistent frmness the in
sidous and untiFng efforts OF others to concentrate in
the hands Of Mr. Davis powers, the possession Of
which, even for year or two would infallibly have
resulted in the establishment of the most appalling
dcspotism aud lust at the moment Of Mr.. Yancey's
lamcnted decease, he preparing at the next ses-
sion OF the Confederate congress, to institute great
and searching Investigations which would have en-
forced terrible responsibility in the high places of
governmental rule and have caused thousands Of petty
offenders all over the land to shudder with alright att
the prospect Of being at last held to just official
responsibility
" He had long since ceased to entertain any respect
for Mr.. Davis Abilities either the manager of diff
cult concerns or as the chief controller and director
Of military movements; and he began, with multi
tude Of Others to fear that if the southern States
should be eventually successful second and per-
chance far bloodier struggle would be necessary in
order to drag from the hands of Mr. Davis and those
associated with him the iDudicouSly vested powers
which they were every day shamefay and so I'M
pardonaby abusing. Il is with melancholy gratifca-
ton that | call to mind the last interview had
with Mr. Yan6ey. It in the Confederate house of
representatives month two before his demise. He
bad come in for the purpose of Witnessing the last
successful struggle made in that body to defeat the
reenactment Of the law for the universal suspension
of that great writ of liberty, the habeGs corpus The
contest had just terminated and the champ ons Of des-
potic power had been Frustrated on the field of con
troversy. Mr. Yancey approached me with extended
band, congratulated me cordially upon the triumph
Just achieved and said Mr.. Davis has at last cufed
the two houses into independence and ntmated that
he should hereafter have hope for the Confeder-
ate cause than he had entertained for some months
previous.
w. L. Yancey undoubtedly no ordinary man.
He possessed an intellect Of great native activity and
vgor, and he had cultivated his rare natural gifts both
with assiduy and success. He had but little of i'm
agination and still less Of humor; but he was clear,
methodical and eogent in argument; always expressed
himself in chaste and polished language his readiness
and dexterity in controversy astonishing and his
powers of sarcasm such few besides have possessed
He lacked nothing save happy equpoise of his
faculties, little more quetude and sobrety of temper
little less OF enacity in bis own opinions and little
more OF Difference for the views of others, to have
become one Of the most effective and useful public
men the republic has at any time produced"
The Commercial Advertiser contains the following
queer piece of information:
The secretary of refuses to confirm the sale of
the magnificent car that bore the remains Of Mr. Lin
coin to their final resting place in Illinois The car
cost the government something over fifteen thousand
dollars, and was manufactured by the government
military railway corps, to be used by Mr. Lincoln when
he should have occasion to travel by railroad Mr.
Stanton thinks the government should hold the relic
and place it among the rebellion archives in the late
Ford's theatre"
We had heard that all manner of STRANGE tbinas
were being deposited among the rebel archives IN
the Growers theatre, and that great liberties were
beng taken with the real archives there bnt II had
never entered our brain that Mr. Lncolns funeral car
could BY any ingenuity or bocu8 pocts be transformed
or construed into "a rebel archive" We can now
comprehend the Ingenuity which displays Jefferson
Davis and Clement c. Clay to radical ewes as the ac
completes OF the assassins Of Abraham Lincoln. III
Ar Lncons funeral car be in fact rebel arcbive
as Mr.. Stanton says it H. then may Mr. Davis be an
assassin as the same Mr. Stanton says he is But for
our part we believe with every unparalleled gentle
man, that Mr. Davis and Clement C. Clay are as limo
cent OF the murder Of Abraham Lincoln as i M
Stanton himself nav yor Ton.s
The Louisville journal publishes the following letter
from this distinguished and lifelong abolitionst now
minister to Russia: -"
81 Pa ERsBURG, RA March Isl 1886
Dear Sri deem it my duty to denounee the
course Of Sumner and Stevens III ons nan remains
loyal he as the State stand by the presidents veto
Of the ireedmens bureau bill Let the States Dive he
freedmen all civil rights and by degrees extend to
them the right Of suffrage or else let an amendment
OF the constitution make one rule of suffrage for ali
the States This attempt of congress 10 interfere
with the rights of the States after the war power
ceases, IS usurpation of power unknown to the con
stitution, and suhyersive of the whole theory If
repnbcanism as based upon the old constitution Of
the United States.
QUEER DEscRrPT1oN.-Daniel Webster used to saw