... of opinion have developed and carried on. Mary Queen of Scots and James G. Blaine are such debatable figures; also is Jefferson Davis. A large and an imposing group of southern leaders Henry Wise, William L. Yancey, Joseph E. Johnston, Alex­ ander H. Stephens, the two Rhetts, and many more blamed Davis...

..., we should remember it as one of comparative moderation. Its climax was not the civil war, but the compromise of 1850. The prevailing note was not the ringing popular appeal of the secessionist agitator, but the quiet counsel of the peace-maker. Yancey, thefirery orator of disunion, was discredited...

... Orphanage 136 66 Baptist Orphanage 394 142 Negro Masonic Orphanage 108 13 Schools Kinston 54 21 Wavne County 21 19 Duplin County 19 13 Wake County 119 32 State Blind 45 24 Negro A. and M 93 15 McDowell, Yancey, and Mitchell counties 1111 445 Pender County High School Bakersville State Deaf and Dumb Hickory...

... been completed in twenty-six counties, which are as follows: Burke, Caldwell, Columbus, Cumberland, Davie, Duplin, Hert­ ford, Johnston, McDowell, Mitchell, Montgomery, Pender, Pitt, Randolph, Robeson, Rowan, Sampson, Wake, Warren, Wayne, Yancey, New Hanover, Craven, Chowan, Gates, and Bertie. From...

... zine one is struck by J. W. DuBose s Study of Yancey, and by an Executive and Congressional Directory of the Confederate States of America, which isprepared by the editor. This maga­ zine has made a strong place for itself in the historical publica­ tions of the country since it was launched last...

... to discriminate against their beloved South; they believed in economy in government; they opposed militant abolitionism; they grew to hate both Stephen A. Douglas and the Republican Party; they became Southern fire-eaters, and the younger Clay joined forces with William L. Yancey on the eve of the Civil War...

.... Despite the sympathy which the Confeder­ ate cause aroused, few people in Great Britain ever consciously approved of the South, its society, or its political ambitions. Slavery, of course, was a major impediment in this regard, as diplomats like William Lowndes Yancey soon acknowledged upon arrival...

... to several causes: In some counties there was no opposition and hence alight vote; the election took place during the holidays; and the weather was bad. See DuBose, Life and Times of Wm. L. Yancey, 551. Hodgson, Cradle of the Confederacy, 492, 499. The Peace Movement in Alabama. 115 izing the new government...

..., New Series, IV, pp. 473-491; Wm, L. Yancey s 18 &efOre the S°utkern Commercial Convention, Montgomery, Alabama, May, 20 Harper, William, Pro-Slavery Argument, 35-85; Southern Rights Pamphlets, A Report and a Treatise, pp. 1-81. 27 L. W. Spratt s Speech before the House of Representatives, Columbia...

.... It was necessary to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, and in many places martial law was declared. This caused much opposition, even from men like Yancey, Stephens, and Vance. The number of political arrests at the South were fewer than at the North and the large proportion of them were made in the immediate...

... and Davis and even Yancey, he has made that appeal doubly effec­ tive by showing a vital understanding of New England life. He does not hesitate to say that in certain important respects this civilization was ahead of all ancient or modern civiliza­ tions. How insignificant is the muster roll of any other...

..., she says, her bright black eyes that look on darkness turned in the direction of your voice. I know I was two year older than my next sister. We was the Boones of Plum Branch in Yancey. Everybody liked us. All you had to say was you was a Boone and you could get food and drink anywhere. They all...

... Cripple Clarence, Pinetop, and Jimmy Yancey. Though we do not know if Russell personally familiarized Cage with Yancey’s ‘‘tack’’ piano (tacks placed underneath the strings),Cage had performed Russell’s Chicago Sketches, which re-created Yancey’s tack piano sound through the instru- ments of a small...

... steady North could bring upon them. Besides the main article, which gives its title to the volume, the author has included some essays on allied subjects, as, The Orator of Secession W. L. Yancey; The Resources of the Con­ federacy The Ku Klux Movement, A New Hero of an Old Type, Richmond Pearson...

... steady North could bring upon them. Besides the main article, which gives its title to the volume, the author has included some essays on allied subjects, as, The Orator of Secession W. L. Yancey; The Resources of the Con­ federacy The Ku Klux Movement, A New Hero of an Old Type, Richmond Pearson...

.... Laughlin, Reciprocity, Review of, 281.. Wise, Henry A., on Education, 200. WomanWho Toils, The, fry Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst, Review of, 175. Woodberry, G. ENathanielHaw­ thorne, Review of, 101. Woodward,F. C.,GettingTogether on the Negro Question, 306. Yancey, Wm. L., 198. Young, T. M...

... in monographs, sources, and reprints in Southern History. With Bell Irvin Wiley as general editor, the output of the press thus far has been limited to reprints and one compilation of Confederate materials. In 1919 The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone was edited by William Whatley Pierson, Jr., and published...

... on My Hands (1940); Rebecca Yancey Williams, The Vanishing Vir­ ginian (1940); Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek (1942); Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory (1942); David L. Cohn, Where I Was Born and Raised (1948); Hodding Carter, Where Main Street Meets the River (1953...

... is not satisfying and is contradictory in places. Being content to follow and not bold enough to lead, Alabama made little original contribution to the secession cause. As in other states, indecision as to a course of action was inevitable (in spite of William Lowndes Yancey) because of the division between...

... places and people and events. But the wise veteran will not allow this wealth of experience to inflate his ego to such an extent that he thinks the col­ lege professor has nothing new to teach him. The fact that Pfc. Jim Yancey spent a year in an Army camp in China does not make him an authority...