The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

sultingy which I had no conception was entertained towards me by the senator from Georgia. have already spoken in |this debate and do not rise now to reply to the senator. When other gentlemen who desire to speak. and who are enti- tied to be heard first shall have address ed the Senate, shall ask the Senate to hear me in reply; trust to do justice to myself and also the senator from Georgia Before I sit down. however. wish to send forth simultaneously with the remarks of that senator this-that many statements made by the senator as to what he has been pleased to denomi- nate my autobiography are misstate- ments which that senator at the time he made them knew to be false"
 Yanoey. then suffering pain from the disease that soon terminated his life. had placed q hand on each arm of his chair. lowering himself gradually to the seat as the last words passed his lips. While he was in this position, Hill. hav- ing sprung to his feet. threw heavy glass goblet with all his force. The mis- sile, passing close its mark, Yancey's head. was crushed upon the window frame in line. Yancey instinctively turn cd his face toward the direction of the assailant. when. in an Instant. Hin threw the glass inkstand on his desk. The ink
 
 of Yancey near the eye. making cut into the skin from which blood flowed profusely. but no serious injury followed. Yancey sprang forward as If to grapple with his assailant. but senators nearby interfered. The then Attorney General. Thomas H. Watt1. told me he met Yan- cey in the State House few days after the episode, of which he had heard noth- ing, and observing slight scar on his cheek, enquired. in familiar way, how 1t got there. Yancey made no answer. but turned the conversation away. A month after this personal difiiculty Mir. Yancey spoke two legislative days against the Clay bill and this was his last speech. If 1t was not the foremost speech of his career in all the essentials of his power, happen to know not its equal. The ques- tion gave license to his logic In it's fa- vorite arena. It was a question of the part of Jurisprudence in a Confederacy of sovereignties. The recent contact with Hill let loose as never before his blast ing invective.
 The Senate passed the Clay bill :the House took alarm and refused 1t. No later attempt was made to organise a Supreme Court for the Confederacy.
 The senior and junior senators from Alabama had long been close to each other, even from the time they served together in the General Assembly at Tus- kaloosa. They were confidential friends as long as the two lived, indeed up to the day of Yancey's death they were in confidential correspondence on grave pub lie questions. A letter came from Clay after he had ceased to breathe. Strange as it may appear, Mir. Ciay's bill endowed the proposed Supreme Court with appel late jurisdiction over State Courts, to a degree named. Yancey would consent to no jeopardy of the principle of Federal rather than national government. Hill, always a nationalist. naturally favored the bill. But few doubted Hill had more than one reason for his course. Did he not speak to advance certain political project of the President? The President, not in unison with Judge Campbell on the