The age-herald., 1899-05-14
.... THE SUCCESS OF YANCEY. Y....
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speak to the free states. He declined, but at length yielded, against his better judg- ment. The tone of his speeches was the de- feat of Lincoln as the revolutionary candi- date. To achieve this end he urged New York Massachusetts and Ohio to vote for Douglas. The audiences he met were chiefly Lincoln men. His reception every where was enthusiastic beyond expression. No hall was ever found to contain the thousands who came to hear in the most respectful manner
 The second critical event in MT. Yancey' s career, overlooked in it's essential meaning by Mir. Brown, was the convention of Jan uary 1856, of the whole people regardless of past party alliances, called by Governor Winston the democratic governor just in- augurated for second term. MT. Yancey had been banished eight years from demo- cratic party councils. He addressed this meeting the day of it's assembling. In va rious relations the speech was the most decisive that ever fell from the lips of man. A new party then and there formed itself MT Yancey, against his earnest protest, was placed in the lead of it's practical work. In a word, he was placed at the head or the electoral ticket of that year with the implied duty of canvassing the state-the first canvass of the state he had ever made. He held this party together as long as he lived and 1t was this party which placed Alabama in the confederaey.
 The fnal QemOnStratlOn 0I NH 1dnCey $ intellectual grasps and his statesmanlike power came with his two years in the civil service of the eonfederaey. This most ina portant feature of his life and character Mir Brown omits. He went to Europe and left there an address to Lord John Russell, which is the cleverest, most comprehensive and logical exposition of the origin and character of the confederate government ever written. Before his return ito Alabama he was unanimously, save one vote from Winston, elected to the senate for six years. In the senate, 1863, he delivered the most argumentative and eloquent speech which ever came from him. It was his last. He went home to die. He agreed with Stephens. Toombs, Rhett Wigfall, Cobb and all the leading minds in the civil ser vice and together they disagreed with the president. He agreed with Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph E. Johnston. Beaure- gard, Jackson, Forrest that the Napoleonie policy of aggression and invasion was necessary, but the head of the government withheld his assent. As a senator he was wise and prudent and aggressive. His right to a niche in the temple of fame rests on the wisdom of his counsels for the conduct of the government he had cre- ated.
 MT Brown, never having been face to face with Yancey, refers to an indifferent portrait of him in the capitol at M0ntgom- cry and draws an unfavorable impression of his manly beauty. In truth, MT. Yancy was a remarkably handsome man. His bearing gentle and distinguished and the tout ensemble would arrest attention in any assemblage- A steel plate portrait of him was at MT. Browns hand while he wrote, which is confessed by contempo- raries to be an excellent likeness. but seems to have been fntereicted for a purpose Yancey's physical man, the light that ever shene from his countenance, the step by which he trod the earth were the con- bination of an apparent energy, poT;er and motives which could not be mistaken. He was man among men under all i circumstances. A public speaker in joint debate offended him. He deliberately walked in front of the offender and pIac- | ing a hand on either shoulder crushed him | down to his seat reproof Standing on f the streets of Montgomery, a we'll known r citizen trod his foot, and, returning, trod on the same foot. Yancey remained quietly. Presently, the third tfne the of fence was committed. Yancey, with his bare fist, knocked the pedestrian down full length and springing on his protrate form walked the whole length of it, stamping it furiously as he walked.