Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-03-31
VIM. LOWNDES YANCEY.

A long needed link in the history Of
the slave states has been supplied in an
elaborate biography of this wonderful
orator. If oratory is to be judged by its
practical effects, Yancey had few equals
and no superior on the short roll OF the
worlds immortal orators. He was as
sisted by able men, Toombs, benjamin,
Rhett, Mason-but more than all others
combined he, by the magic of his words,
by his "logic on fire." welded the south
ern people into Il compact mass, to ''die
IN he last ditch" More than all others
combined, he aroused southern feeling,
southern purpose and southern hope He
above all others created that force in the
south which required the north to send
magnificent armies under great com
manders into every state of the Confed-
eracy to subdue the people of all ages
and both sexes living there; which also
required tho north to place Gordon,
along the sea coast, of powerful iron
ships of war at the mouth of every har-
Dor and at the entrance of every cove,
from Norfolk down and around to Calves
ton. Where in the history of oratory is
to be found parallel to this leaders in
tluence over the hearts of his people
1.-The Life and Times of Yancey" has
just been issued from the press of Rob
erts s. Son, Birmingham, Ala. 1t is Il
large and handsome quarto, 76S pages,
and is undoubtedly the best illustrated
volume of biography on the American
market for the price, There is a steel
plate portrait of Yancey in his prime
There is very handsome steel plate il
lustration of planters home, witt
horses, the inevitable Sambo and the
umbrella, grounds, trees, lake, etc. Be
sides these, there are other portraits, al
admirable one of Prof. Tutwiler, one O
Gov. Martin and one of Gov. Watts, O
Alabama, being among the number. l
should be said, the paper is the finest
the type singularly clear and bold, anC
the binding Is tirst-class. 1t is the frs
book of equal Importance ever writer
and published alike in the state of Ala
bama.
This volume has been received will
open arms by the press of the south. q
Montgomery exchange declares: at will
live for ages; Mr.. DuBose has enriched
posterity." The author, John Wither-
spoon DuBose, is South Carolinian b,
birth, living at Birmingham, whose HUI
guenot ancestor landed at Charleston
more than two centuries ago, along will
DeSaussure, Huger, Porcher, Bacot, anc
whose descendants have been and ar,
now identified with southern affairs. III,
isa lineal descendant, ON the materna
side, of the famous DR.. John Wither
spoon, president of Princeton college
Signer of the Declaration and devoted
disciple of Thomas Jefferson. In pre-.
paring't the Life of Yancey Mr.. DuBost
had the advantage of personal knowl
edge of the man and the orator, and has
used his advantage to good effect. He
is in possession of all of Yancey's private
papers, and thus is able to add rich
stores to southern history.
The historical narrative of this bool,
which will appear. as entirely pew, con-
sists in the correspondence of Yancey
as head of the Confederate Commission
to Europe, in the first year of the war.
Why Mr.. Davis should have omitted this
most interesting data in his voluminous
work. and why he should have ignored
the head of the Commission while nam
ing each of the other subordinate Com
missionars is not easy to explain. Mrs.
Davis's memoir of her husband commits
the same unexplained injustice against
history. Mr.. DuBose corrects the neglect
fully and well.
There is an appendix to this volume of
the first, importance. 1t is comprised OF
Yanceys own account of b. H. Hills at
tack on him, and of private correspon-
dence of President Davis with Senators
Yancey and Clay; thi9 correspondence
throws new light on many unexplained
events in the brief but heroic struggle
of the Confedracy for the right to live.
A reviewer says of the book: ut is q
child of the South; all the culture of
New England could not produce single
page of it,"