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1 William L. Yancey, Speech of the Hon. William L. Yancey, of Alabama, Delivered in the National Democratic Convention, Charleston, April 28th, 1860, with the Protest of the Alabama Delegation 1 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/shwly0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SRE EGOH OF THE~ 1PN IWLLIAM YANCE O ~ALAB 3ALA, D LIV9RED IN TRE CARLESTOZ4 APRIL 28tH, 1860. WITH THE PROTEST, OF TTIEl1i ALABAMA DELEGATION. From the Repor of the Charliaton Afercry. Gentlemen of the Convention: Thisis a very vast subject, of wide range; whether gonsideed as policy. or whether con4idered in its constituti Ial lght, of very vast Impori, when we consider the consequences ofthe resultat which we may ar- rivo. - It has long been iny study to arrive at a correct coilusn, and experience warns me, gentlenen, that justice cannot be done to this schject in anything like an argument that will rise above a mere partisan view .fth question, in one hour. I wjfl endeavor to compress and limit my remarks within the time. I may be able to do so, but before I proceed I would like to ask it of this body, whether if ny argument is not concluded within the hour, it will be the pleasure of the Gonventiod that.j shalt stop, or whether it will extend to methe courtesy of allow- ing me to finish at least such branch of the subject as I may be upon when my hour expires. (Loud cries of yes, yes, and no, no.) Mr. IAMULS, of IoWa. I ask that the gentleman from Alabita may have time to fliish his argument, and I would now ask the gentleman how much time he will occupy? If more thaht an hour, I am decidedly in favor of giving him an op- portunity of being fully heard by this Convention. (Cheers.) I ask him. there- fore, how much time he w1 want. Mr. YANCEY. I would most cheerfully answer if I were able. I believe that if were untrammeled by time and not speaking against time, being sonmwhat known for dondensation, I could finish it in an hour and a half or better. I think that in my attempts to condense I should not be longer. I would say to theCorq vdntion, however, thakI would not trespass upon its courtesy if there was a sirk, gle dissenting voice, forI k'now the value of.your time. (Loud cries ofl'go on I will say, also, that oh conference with ceitain leading, generous and maguant, mqus gentlemeta who occupy an opposite position from myself, I have cheerfully consented to adbance in, the debate, and that a representative man upon the othef side will doubtless follow me, and to him, Iam sure, will be as freely and gene- rously accorded the same courtesy by my friends as his friends have this moment accorded to me. (Applause.) Mr. President, I thought that there was probably no better occasion for an Ala- bamian to arise and address the Democracy ofthe Union than after the remarkable and unnatural speech thA has just fallen from a native son ofthe South. I could have heard that speech from any Northern man unmoved. I confess I did not hear it from a citizen of the State, whose admission has caused the South nearly all its evils, entirely unmoved. Coming, too, from a Stae, Mr. President, that has as sumed a somewhat prominent position on this question, I thought it well that one ,of her sous should endeavor to present what the State believes to be the position 'mliillh the South occupis qn tis question. Alabama has instructed her del- gates to present to this body 'her platlform of principles, and ask for it its candid Imaged with Permission of South Carolina Historical Society

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