CHAPTER 6.

THE ABOLITIONISTS....

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The discovery of a new muscular force, quasi-mechanical; the

plantation the forerunner of the factory system; African servi-

tude and its normal relations to the age of mechanics and

political economy; various failures of Southern colonies fol-

lowed by distinguished successes, and the causes; the political

results of Southern prosperity in the colonial times; the anti-

slavery movement and its philosophy; incidents of insurrec-

tions, North and South; Slade and Adams; Rhett's view of a

remedy; Calhoun's view of the power of Congress over the

mails; the Twenty-first Rule.

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CHAPTER 7.

YANCEY AND HILLIARD...

A debate prolonged through twenty years, which makes of Mont-

gomery, Alabama, the centre of Southern political thought;

the oratory of Yancey and of Hilliard.

Second Division.

CHAPTER 8.

THE ALABAMA PLATFORM.

1848-Yancey begins his career; the Mount Meigs barbecue; three

conventions in Alabama; the conflict of the King and Lewis

wings of the Democratic party; Yancey writes a party Address;

the historic convention of February, 1848; the Alabama Plat-

form written by Yancey; its unanimous adoption; its speedy

repudiation; Yancey before the people; his course at Baltimore.

CHAPTER 9.

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THE CAMPAIGN.

1848-Yancey speaks at Charleston; the character of his speech;

the people demand to hear him in Alabama; public resolutions

in regard to him; he denounces the Baltimore Convention; ex-

citing scenes attend his public addresses; he publishes a pam-

phlet; he refuses to return to his party, but awaits the return

of his party to him.

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CHAPTER 10.

SOME PREPARATORY STEPS..

1849 The meaning of the election speedily reveals itself; Mr.

Calhoun's Address; President Taylor arrogates to the Execu-

tive the ancient privileges of the Congress; California, a mili-

tary creation, demands admission; Yancey declines to stand for

Congress; the campaign of Hilliard and Pugh; revolutionary

proceedings in the federal House; the Alabama Legislature

and a Southern policy; Yancey is thus vindicated; Mr. Clay

the dernier resort.

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CHAPTER 11.

THE LAST "COMPROMISE"

1850

Mr. Clay and his part; Calhoun speaks and retires; Seward

speaks and formulates the doctrine of revolution; the Nashville

Convention; Sharkey, Campbell and Rhett; the Montgomery

meeting; Goldthwaite, Bagby, Mays, Watts, Yancey, Noble;

the two greatest slave counties endorse the "compromise;"

agitation in Georgia, South Carolina and Mississippi; the Geor-

gia Platform; Howell Cobb founds a party; Jefferson Davis in

Mississippi.

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CHAPTER 12.

SECESSION DEFEATED

1851 The Abolitionists repudiate the "compromise;" Mr. Clay

and the Boston riot; agitation in Congress restored; Governor

Collier a candidate and his reply to Shields; South Carolina

and Mississippi fail to secede; Abercrombie a candidate; Yan-

cey declines a nomination; debate between Yancey and Hilliard;

Secessionists defeated in Alabama.

CHAPTER 13.

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THE DELUSIVE SUCCESS

1852-Yancey retires from political debate; he devotes himself

to the law, science and literature; he counsels moderation; the

election of Pierce and King; the candidature of Troup and

Quitman; the phenomenal success of Uncle Tom's Cabin and

the political importance of the fiction.

CHAPTER 14.

THE NEBRASKA-KANSAS BILL....

1854 - Senator Douglas, seeing the failure of the "Compromise

to restore the harmony of the sections, attempts to build up a

party uniting the West and the South; the constituency of

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Douglas; his arraignment of Chase and Sumner; the clergy
attack Douglas; the Abolitionists hang him in effigy; the vio-
lence of the Abolition petitions; the Lopez expedition; John
A. Quitman and the federal court; Douglas condemned in the
free States and disappointed in the slave States; what the Ne-
braska-Kansas act was; why the South accepted it.

CHAPTER 15.

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CIVIL WAR BEGUN..

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1855 Kansas the seat of war; Emigrant Aid Societies and Border

Ruffians; riots in the free States; the American party organized

at Philadelphia; the Twelfth Section; a letter from Yancey;

Yancey speaks at Columbus, Georgia; the American council

repudiates the Twelfth Section; Fillmore and Donelson nomi-

nated; the Alabama Americans repudiate the Philadelphia

platform.

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CHAPTER 16.

FORCING THE ISSUE....

1856 Birth of the Republican party; the Convention at Mont-

gomery, January 8; Yancey's speech before it; he is restored to

the leadership of his party; the Alabama Platform re-enacted;

Buchanan and Douglas; the Cincinnati platform; Fremont and

the Republican platform; Yancey's canvass of Alabama; his

speeches at Talladega and Union Town.

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THE BROKEN PARTY..

CHAPTER 17.

1857-1858 - The Dred Scott decree; the LeCompton Constitution;

revolution triumphs in Kansas.

CHAPTER 18.

THE PEOPLE CONSIDER..

1858-1859-Yancey's activity; the Secessionists gain ground in

Alabama; General William Walker at Montgomery; Colone!

Seibles calls a Democratic meeting, at which Mr. Yancey ap-

pears, uninvited; memorable example of invective; Yancey's

labor for the Mount Vernon Association; unveiling the statue

of Washington at Richmond; Yancey and Everett speak; the

African slave trade revived; the Southern Commercial Conven-

tion meets at Montgomery; the character of the meeting;

Yancey's contest with Pryor, Preston and Hilliard; Yancey's

letter to Orme; the Slaughter, or "scarlet," letter; the League

of United Southerners; the Lincoln-Douglas campaign; Yan-

cey's letter to Meadows; John Brown's raid; Lincoln's speech

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347

on the raid; Fitzpatrick, Yancey and Winston before the Legis-

lature.

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CHAPTER 19.

THE MAN AND THE ADVOCATE......

Yancey at home; his culture and amusements; his personal in-

dustry; riding the circuit; law and politics; Yancey before the

jury; he never failed in oratory; the new firm of Chilton and

Yancey.

CHAPTER 20.

THE SOUTHERN ARGUMENT

1860 — The adjudicated rights of slavery; the status of bondage

gradually preparing the African for the status of contract;

evidence going to prove the relative prosperity of the sections;

the fiscal action of the federal government and its favoritism

tends to retard the progress of the African; education in the

sections.

CHAPTER 21.

THE ARGUMENT CONTINUED..

1860- The promise of Tuomey's labors in the mineral region of

Alabama; the promised competition of free with slave labor;

the work of Milner; Yancey favors progress; ready cash await-

ing investment; the price of slaves too high for the price of

cotton; Miss Amelia Murray in the South.

CHAPTER 22.

THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION.

1860- Yancey visits South Carolina to advise the people; the six

propositions of the Charleston Mercury; the early meeting at

Montgomery; the resolution of Sanford and the speech of

Yancey; the Alabama State Democratic Convention; the State

in the lead; the Alabama Platform, of 1848, reaffirmed; John

Forsyth; the resolutions of the Alabama Legislature support

the Democratic Convention; the first Secession Convention

provided for; Douglas preparing for the Charleston Conven-

tion; proceedings of the Convention; a trick; Yancey and Pugh

debate; Richard Taylor and Winston; delegations withdraw;

St. Andrew's Hall meeting; the Convention adjourns; the Dem-

ocratic dissensions in Alabama; the Richmond meeting; the

Convention re-assembles at Baltimore; the Convention dis-

solves; the two divisions nominate candidates; Yancey's speech

at Baltimore; Jefferson Davis and Stephen A. Douglas.

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CHAPTER 23.

THE PEOPLE DECIDE..

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1860 Preparing for war; Sumner and Chesnut; Yancey's ora-

torical tour of the South and North; the unparalleled ovations

which attend him; the election of Lincoln not a result of the

dismembered Democracy.

Third Division.

CHAPTER 24.

SECESSION OF ALABAMA....

1861 Yancey tried by events of his own creation; Yancey and

Morgan.

CHAPTER 25.

CONFEDERATE DIPLOMACY.

1861 Yancey invited to office; B. C. Yancey and his counsel; a

Cabinet and the members thereof;, the Confederate Constitu-

tion; the Confederate foreign commission; Rhett's plan of

foreign negotiation; the Commissioners in Europe; the plea

for recognition; Yancey resigns; his letter to Sir Archibald

Alison; the Trent affair; England vacillates.

CHAPTER 26.

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THE PERPLEXED PEOPLE...

1861-1862-President Davis; McClellan; J. E. Johnston; the coun-

cil at Fairfax; comparative energy in the government of two

Republics; Secretary Benjamin and a destructive administra-

tion; the personal relation of President Davis to great men; a

plan of war denied; the relative strength of the two belliger-

ents; Miss Carroll furnishes a plan of war; Confederate suc-

cesses; Watts chosen Governor.

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CHAPTER 27.

SENATOR YANCEY.

1862-1863-Yancey at New Orleans; his depression of spirits;

letters to the President; the burden of mal-administration;

Caleb Huse's letter; Rost's letter; Earl Russell's opinion; Yan-

cey's activity in the Senate; John A. Campbell and his strange

career; three great armies removed from the field of conflict;

Yancey and Hill debate; death of Yancey.

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