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The reception of Mr. YANCEY at his home was an event long to be remembered by the people of Montgomery. He was already endeared to his political followers by twenty years devotion to their principles. He was now looked upon with pride by even his opponents, who felt that their city and State were honored in one whose splendid oratory had thrilled the Union from centre to circumference. The little city of ten thousand inhabitants turned out en masse to welcome her distinguished son. As the evening shades fell upon the streets myriads of lights illumined the dwellings, the sidewalks and the public buildings. The political clubs emerged from their halls with transparencies and torches. Bonfires blazed at the corners of streets. the mass of eager people followed the march of the clubs the procession lengthened out indefinitely, and with one accord, accompanied by music and banners, they marched to the residence of Mr. YANCEY. There the orator was received in an open carriage drawn by four splendid horses and conducted to the Theatre, which was already well filled with ladies. The men crowded upon the stage, filled the aisles and passages with a dense mass, and sought from the lobby, the vestibules and the stairways to secure a glimpse of the inspiring scene within. "Welcome to the Garibaldi of the South," "Yancey and States-Rights," "Equality in the Union

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or independence out of it," were some of the significant mottoes which decked the stage. Boquets were showered around him as the speaker appeared, and the whole audience rose to their feet with cheer upon cheer. The multitude outside who could not obtain entrance, clamored for Mr. JUDGE to come out and address them. Thus the audience in the street who listened to Mr.

YANCEY by deputy was almost as great as that which filled the theatre.

The orator reviewed the canvass which was now to close upon the following day. Mr. LINCOLN would probably be elected, and it became the duty of all true Southern men to stand united in resistance to his domination. The die was cast; the argument was exhausted; would his friends stand to their arms? The answer of those friends was given in the motto over his head. They looked upon him as THE GARIBALDI OF THE SOUTH.

On the 6th of November, while Mr. LINCOLN was elected President under the forms of the Constitution and by the unrepresentative system of Electoral Colleges, the people had declared against him by a large majority. The majority of votes against him was nearly two hundred thousand. The Supreme Court and the Senate were already against him; and now the elections had increased the majority against the Republicans in the lower House of Congress. Of the twelve hundred and fifty-one thousand votes cast in the slave States, Mr. BELL and Mr. DOUGLAS, representing the UNION sentiment, as against the secession sentiment, received six hundred and and ninety thousand, a clear majority of the whole. In the State of Alabama there were 41,000 against Mr. BRECKINRIDGE to 48,000 in his favor. A larger vote had been polled in Mr. YANCEY's own State for candidates who denounced both the right and policy of secession, than ever before in her annals. In Georgia the vote for BELL and DOUGLAS was larger than for BRECKINRIDGE. In Mississippi, the grave of QUITMAN and the home of DAVIS, the BRECKINRIDGE ticket stood to the others only

as four to three. LOUISIANA threw five thousand majority against BRECKINRIDGE.

In the Gulf States, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, there was, in a poll of 330,000 votes, a bare majority of 14,000 for Mr. BRECKINRIDGE. While 172,000 men stood by Mr. YANCEY, there were, 157,000 who stood with Mr. BELL for "the Constitution, the "Union and the enforcement of the law," or with Mr. DOUGLAS in denying the right and policy of secession in the event of Mr. LINCOLN's election.

CHAPTER XVII.

Election of Lincoln-Reception of the News-Mass Meeting at Montgomery-Yancey Declares for SecessionThe People Taught that Secession will be PeaceableCo-operationists and Secessionists The Crittenden Compromise-Its Rejection and Defeat.

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"Wayward sisters, depart in peace!"-[Gen. Winfield Scott.

"I have good reason to believe that the action of any State will be peaceable-will not be resisted-under the present or any probable prospective condition of Federal affairs."-[W. L. Yancey.

"Were the plan of the Convention adverse to the public happiness, my voice would be, REJECT THE PLAN. Were the Union itself inconsistent with the public happiness, it would be, ABOLISH THE UNION."-[Madison in the Federalist, No. XIV.

On the night of the eventful 6th of November, 1860, as the telegraph carried to every nook and corner of the Union the news of the election, the people of Montgomery thronged the streets and the newspaper offices to a late hour to learn the result. All depended upon New York; it was past midnight before definite returns could be received from that vast State. At last the result was announced. The administration of the United States had been consigned to the Free Soil party, the restrictionists of slavery. Mr. WATTS had already broken the Whig line by announcing, towards the close of the canvass, that in the event of LINCOLN'S election he should advise and advocate secession. He had been educated at the University of Virginia in the school of constitutional law presided over by DAVIS,

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