The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

any appearance of division of senti- ment on SO important a question. the doors had been opened. Davis was then unanimously chosen as Chief Execu- tive of the Confederacy." Tn the first place, the Provisional Con- gress voting by States never had but seven votes. The States were South Car olina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama. Ms sissippi. Louisiana and Texas, no mora. There never was any such baIloting for President as you describe. The Provis- iona1 Constitution was adopted on Feb ruary 8, 1881 It was decided to elect Provisional President and Vice President the next day.According to tacit agreement each State for itself met in caucus on the night of the same day February sr When the Congress proceeded tho next day. Feb ruary 3, to elect those ofiicers. Davis was chosen President and Stephens vice-Pres- ident without the least opposition In eith- CT case. The State caucuses had settled the matter.
 | Mir. Yancey took his seat promptly in the Confederate Senate after his return from Europe in February. 1s62. Stopping for brief repose with his family in Mont gon1ery he attended a meeting of school girls where a Confederate flag was ex- posed He remarked casually. ''the flag has no friends outside the Confederacy." Arrived at the scene of his duties at Richmond. he proceeded to inform him. self of the condition of the War and Treasury Departments by personal inves- l tigation. At the close of this labor he | wrote . markedly friendly but frank iet- ter to the President stating the results of his studies. He wrote to the President that while recruits for the army were be- ing called for. the Secretary of the Treas ury was sending little or no money to buy arms in Europe; that arms could be had there, if enough money and the proper agents were sent to procure them. If the President had provocation for withdraw ing his faith in Yancey greater than this letter, proof of 1t has not been brought out. There were unquestionabiy various subsequent similar causes. if cause at all, l for the resentment of the President. Some | correspondence was held between the two men, going down to the Hast weeks of | Yancey's life. touching the changed feel l ing of Mir. Davis, but it threw no light | upon the cause of the change, Yancey | steadily averring he know none and his | regard or the President was firm and un- | broken.
 Your pronouncement upon the power Yancey's oratory Is just to him as he ap- | peared to others who heard him. One of your colleagues in the United States Con- | gress, the late James Taylor Jones, de- l lighted to tell that he had heard Prentiss | Clay, Webster, Calhoun. Crfttenden Blaine without having heard the equal of Yancey. Not few competent men now | contend that. weighed by the accepted rules of the art, Yancey' was the great orator of all the ages among them Rev. | FDr. J. B. Hawthorne. Moreover, as he spoke to thousands before him in plain. straightforward appeal to reason. he was an "all around man" in daily life. He was an expert horseman, in the saddle or | with the whip; he was crack rife anecdote as none other could. He was | not the man to die of remorse or disap- | pointment as you intimate.
 I wish to give a single fact of lasting | interest Mir. Yancey moved the Senate. | as an amendment. that the President be | authorized to sell cotton bonds in Europe l to $250.0OO.0Oo for war purposes. The l amendment was lost but authority was given to sell $15,000.0o0. When the bids | were opened in London $76. .0OO,0 900 had been | called for and at least one bid was at a large premium. What of the sequel? Two iron warships were built for the Confed- l eracy on the Clyde. They were ready for sea Commodore Maury had gone to take command of one and Captain Bullock Gan uncle of President Roosevelt) to take com l mand of the other Minister Charles Francis Adams. at the last moment, re- ceived intelligence of the ships on the blocks about to be launched. He hast ened to Lord John Russell, Secretary for Foreign affairs. Lord John persisted in refusing to forbid the sailing of the ships. Minister Adams rose from his seat and half turning to leave the audience cham | Der. said with emphasis: T need not re- | mind your Lordship this is warp The day following MT. Adams received g note | asking him to call at the Foreign Ofiice | Arrived there, Lord John informed the | Minister of the United States that if he | of England within forty-eight hours the | order. to detain the two ships would be issued. It was suspected that Lord John did not regard his proposition seriously, | as the United States was known to have l no credit in London. Mir. Adams was in | despair. The evening of that day the | banker. George Peabody. rang Mir. Ad- amss bell. asking for an immediate pri- | vate interview. He had heard of Lord | Johns unique demand; MT. Adams would find the gold in full at the Bank the next morning. Congressional Record, Vol. Xl, p. 5254)
 The incident is of value to illustrate the point of divergence of Yancey's view of the policy of war from the policy actu- ally followed. Instead of two ships he | would build dozen; instead of 500 a month sent to Captain Caleb Huse in London to buy arms. he would send q | million a month to General Beauregard | in London. Instead of a defensive war, he would make an invasive war.
 John Witherspoon Du Bose.
 SLEEP.