The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-26

l statesmanlike He is comparable to no predecessor. because no one ever unit
 ed so many qualities of the orator. He
 stands alone, and has attained a name
 and an elevation which is glorious and l unapproachable."
 Clingmann was a peppery man, game as a fighting cock. and as a result of | the debate he and Yancey had hos | tile meeting and exchanged shots after the usual correspondence. Clingmann fired first. and when Yancey returned the fire the Constables had arrived on the field, and were within few feet Of him to make arrest.
 Stephen A. Douglas was also a mem- i Der of the Twenty-eighth Congress. and | there sprang up between him and Yam cey a warm and cordial personal friend
 ship that even withstood the passions that were engendeped by the Kansas ! troubles. If Yancey had seen the
 North and West as they actually were,
 of he had had the personal experience
 and the personal contact with those peoples Douglas had. it is altogether probable that Yancey would have aban- doned the punctilio and embraced Doug | las idea of popular sovereignty" That would have made Douglas President in 1861. Douglas and Tilden were the on- ly two men of that period who had clear conception of the situation. They knew that all the constitutions and all the laws in the world would never make another slave State unless it was in that sregion now known as Oklahoma and
 Indian Territory. Nature had made Kansas a grain State: and, therefore, free State. for the climate in which corn and wheat flourish is no home for the African. Cotton. cane, and rice are his crops. He Is a failure in the tobac- co patch. in the cornfield and in the
 wheat belt. Yancey. too. knew that Kansas would never be a slave State, whatever It's constitution and laws, but he was contending for the punctilio of the law. He said: The constitution gives me the right to take my slaves to Kansas and hold them there as slaves" If the North had looked on the thing with the wisdom of Douglas and Tilden. 1t would have answered him: ''Very well; take your negroes and set tie in Kansas. and may you and they live long and prosper" Precious few slaves would have been taken to Kan sas. Instead of that, the North met Yancey's punctilious fanaticism with the cut-throat fanaticism of John Brown and the dilettante fanaticism of Theodore Parekr and that Boston gang. The result was murder in Kansas, soon to be followed by war, involving every inhabitant of the country. Yancey served but three years in Congress- and then voluntarily retired. Over the protest of Calhoun he voted for the Mexican war. With Calhoun he opposed the election of Cass in 1S48, but refused to take Calhoun's advice to sup port Taylor. He declined to vote for
 Pierce in 1852, but said if he thought his vote would be decisive of the result he would give 1t to Pierce rather than to Scott. .. .:
 At the bar Yancey was a wonder. Ills partner was a gentleman of the name of Fillmore, one of the greatest lawyers of a State celebrated for the learning of It's bar. It was said that after Yam cey had consulted with his partner for two hours he was equipped to contend against the ablest lawyers of Alabama in the trial of any cause in which the firm had been retained. He was the greatest advocate in the State and Ju- ries loved to give him verdicts. But he gave more time to politics than to tho law. He was a free lancer, pleading for the Union as he conceived 1t under l the Constitution-a Union of equal States-the Union of Roger Sherman of | Connecticut, who saw all the reason for | returning a runaway negro to his mas
 ter there was to restore an estrayed | horse to its owner. Yancey thought | Kansas as much the property of the | South as 1t was of the North, and 1T a | Northern man could take his horse there a Southern man should have the l right to take his slaves there.
 The Supreme Court said Yancey was right. The North nullified the Supreme Courts adjudication Yancey said that was disunion; that the Constitution, the bond of union, no longer bound the stronger section, and that the union of the fathers was no longer in existence. kl.E E1wa frNWa AR a Southern Confederacy. and his advice was taken The Confederacy was form ed, and 1t did a very unwise thing. It made war on the stronger section, in stead of waiting to be assailed It was a fatal mistake-united the North, divided the South If the Contederacy had stood pat on secession, the more than 300 900 white soldiers from the South that wore the blue, would have worn the gray.
 Yancey became a Senator in the Con- federate Congress, a body that was torn by faction, and 1t is quite likely that the Confederacy would have died of fac ton, if the Federal authorities had new CT attempted coercion. Indeed, there is little doubt that the seeded States would have sought to re-enter the Union before the expiration of the ten years if their independence had been acknowledged.
 Yancey died in July. 1863, at the age | of 4S. He was yet a young man. and | 1t was a mystery of Providence that | none of us can understand that stephen | A. Douglas was cut off in 1861 and that | Yancey survived him only two years Had these two lived to be three-score | and ten years. their influence might | have made momentous changes in our history-one the first debater and the | af t,g
 Yancey was fortunate in his biog- | rapher DuBose. It is the best life" of | any of our public men in my opinion.
 ------ .. Mir. Wong Going Home.
 Washington. Sept. 25.-Wong Kai | Kah, Trade Commissioner of China, | called upon Assistant Secretary Adee at ] the State Department today in com 1 pany with Yung Kwan, secretary and | interpreter of the Chinese Legation l