Identifier: lifetimesofwilli00dubo (find matches)
Title: The life and times of William Lowndes Yancey
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Du Bose, John Witherspoon, 1836-1918. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814-1863. (from old catalog) United States -- Politics and government 1815-1861 Confederate States of America -- History. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Birmingham (Ala.) Roberts & son
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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u, if it makes no impression, how can I hope to add more ? .1 voice: Give us some popular sovereignty. The orator: That idea of Douglasis the wildest hum-bug ! But, Douglas wont hurt anybody. I am dead againstLincoln. Great confusion followed. Three cheers were called for,and given, to Douglas, accompanied with hissing; also threefor Breckenridge. Mr. Yancey: I call for three cheers for the Union andthe Constitution, and these were given heartily. Quiet regained, the orator entered upon his peroration.This was a chaste and touching eulogy on Daniel Webster.So impressive was the delivery that profound silence ruled,except a slight ripple of applause in the early sentences.Concluding, he said: If you have not paused, but advancedin that career against which your great statesman expostu-lated with you, vain are my words. But, my countrymen, Iwish, as an Alabamian, to leave with you the words of sober-ness, the words of justice, the words of truth I have spokento-night. They are with you.
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II THE PEOPLE BEG IDE. 513 The audience rose, cheering, and, waving hats, stood inlong continued demonstrations. It had been expected thatCaleb Cushing would follow Yancey, with a short speech, butthe attempt to restore order was evidently hopeless, and thesurging mass dissolved of its own impulse. Before leaving New York for Boston, Mr. Yancey, in com-pany with other Alabamians, Mesdames Smith, Mathews, LeVert and Miss Le Vert, accepted an invitation to the grandball given in honor of the visit of the Prince of Wales. On the evening of October 15, he spoke at Albany, NewYork ; in the forenoon of the next day at Syracuse, and atnight the same day at Rochester. The occasion was observed,at each town, as a holiday. Hundreds of people came fromthe territory adjacent to hear him. At the railroad stationsthe waiting crowds received him with distinguished courtesy.The stage was everywhere occupied by a large number of theforemost citizens. The speech at Albany was delivered at theCapitol. A

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