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Updated: June 11, 2025
He feared he would ask about someone whose name was now enrolled in that sickening total. "What about Yancey?" he tried. Larkin laughed. "Oh, that Texas cyclone is as wild as a range horse and is due to get potted any minute. In fact, he's overdue. He's a balloon busting fool, and no one can stop him.
In McGee's flight appeared the names of Tex Yancey, Hank Porter, Randolph Hampden, and of all luck Siddons! McGee started to make protest, thought better of it, and biting his lips savagely left the group around the board and went to his quarters. Of all the good men in the squadron, why should that traitorous scoundrel be included and other loyal deserving pilots be left behind?
Yet in worldly knowledge he had learned more than Yancey was an abler man than Jefferson Davis and but for his affections and generous habits he would have made a larger figure in the war, having led the South's exit from the Senate.
He believed wholly the Yancey confession of faith; that secession was a constitutional right; that African slavery was ordained of God; that the South was paramount, the North inferior.
The scheme, however, never received general acceptance; and in the constitution of the Southern Confederacy there was a section prohibiting the African slave trade. On the other of these two issues the independence of the South Yancey steadily gained ground.
Yancey, who in a street mass-meeting had declared that he was neither for the Union per se nor for disunion per se, but for the Constitution, announced that the Democracy, the Constitution, and, through them, the were yet safe.
The poor colonel, who since the discovery of the unstamped letter had sat in a heap buried in his coat collar, the military button having given way, now gave his version of the miscarriage. He began by saying that when his friend Major Yancey became conversant with all the facts he would be more lenient with him.
When Davis, soon after his first inauguration, sent Yancey, Rost, and Mann as commissioners to Europe to press the claims of the Confederacy for recognition, very few Southerners had any doubt that the blockade, would be short-lived. "Cotton is King" was the answer that silenced all questions.
And did Yancey play into its hands?* The truth seems to be that, between 1856 and 1860, both the idealist parties, the Republicans and the Secessionists, made peace with, shall we say, the Mammon of unrighteousness, or merely organized capital? The one joined hands with the iron interest of the North; the other, with the slave interest of the South.
In fact, I have heard some rather flattering reports concerning you." Yancey cast a sidelong glance at his neighbor; Siddons nudged Hank Porter. Porter pressed his foot against Fouche's boot. Not a bad fellow, this. Something like, eh? Major Cowan was not one who could permit others to roll the sweets of flattery under their tongues. He must qualify it with a touch of vinegar.
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