The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-04

s,r,noar months. An unfortunate diff ac1Iltv in Greenville In September, 1SSs' i'm which all testimony went to prove MT Yancey was not to plane, resulIeo fin MT. Yancey's killing pr. Robinson M Earle. an uncle of Mrs. Yancey. He was virtually held blameless by the court and jury The sentence was S1'- 500 fine and twelve months inlprison, ment. Two thirds of the flne and all inc imprisonment was remItted and MT Yancey returned to Alabama, where ne waa soon to be a leading figure III the politics of the day.
 1t was Mir. Yanceys expectation when he came to Alabama to devote himseiL to agriculturalg pursuits. He rented a fine body of land, as the prevailing flush times" had put prices above xafatv mark. He owned a large num- Der of negroes. He was methodlcal and practical and often said that ms twelve years of life in New York ana New England were not thrown away. He looked after every detail. In ana around Cahaba, where he settled, many of the oldest and most distinguisheo families of the state were to be tound. His wife's uncle, William D. Bird, was the County Judge of Dallas, and Jesse Reene. A lawyer, who had married his wife's aunt, had preceded him to Ca haba The latter was at the time member of the Legislature. MT Yam cey's natural inclination for political writing soon asserted itself and 1t was not long after he settled down In Ca- haba before he was in editorial charge of The Cahaba Democrat, and The Southern Democrat, both weekly, ana published at Cahaba. His brother, Benjamin Cudworth Yancey. was now the Register in Chaneery for a dis trict composed of several rich counties, and was living in Cahaba. The two brothers, between whom the strongest bonds of affection always existed, bought two papers published at We tumpka. called The Commercial Ad- vertiser and The Argus. and consoll- dated them into one paper, William L Yancey, who was the junior, was Tn charge of the business. It's circulation rapidly extended over Alabama and into Georgia, and Mississippi. along the stage coach lines. There were no railroads in this part of the land in those days. The Argus was veritable tower of strength to the Democratic Party. It is a bit singular that young Virginian, Charles Yancey, and supposed to be a relative of w. L; and B. c. Yanoey, established rival paper of the whig faith. He was fine writer. One of the declarations of MT. w. l.. Yancey is his statement of the policy of his paper was that it shall be devoted to carrying the fundamental principles of public edu. cation into every cottage of the state. This was a noble idea and 1t Is not go- ing outside the mark to say that ne was thus inspired from having w.t. messed In his boyhood and school days the benefits of the free public schools in New England, where they were m full operation long before an attempt was made to establish them in the Southern States.
 Mr DuBose, in writing of this DOT ton of Mir. Yancey's life, says Tn order to avoid the expense Of resu- lar summer visits to Greenville' 5. C, with his family. seeking to escape the malaria of fresh cleared forests aoout Cahaba. he bought tract of land. per haps one hundred acres, at HarroWsaIe Springs, near Wetumpak. While re siding there in the summer or leSe' an accident occurred which proved the turning point in his career, UntI now now the life of an agriculturist and polltit cal leader, very consistent wlth sacn other in Alabama, when the indiVluuaiI;, as in Mir. Yanesy's case. had snlai' snl ambition to hold office, opened oeIoLe hinA. He studied the science or koN-