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 State before or since; and the mention of his name at this day arouses in the memory of old residents a sense of ecstasy produced by no other. No better idea of his manner can be given than by quoting once more from his biography, this time from a letter of General H. D. Clayton, describing a subsequent impromptu debate with his great friend and opponent, Hilliard:

"Mr. Hilliard, being loudly called, took his stand, and made the graceful speech he always does Then broke forth the deafening, enthusiastic cry, 'Yancey, Yancey.' He came like a man conscious of right should always come As with modesty becoming a maiden of sixteen, he requested to be permitted to occupy the stand, 'To the stand,' shouted an hundred voices Bowing low he began—Here I must pause. I should despise my own presumption should I undertake further description of what followed. First went the Confederation newspaper, once in existence, now a dream, a shadow of things that were, gone glimmering like a schoolboy's tale. At every blow some foe fell, broken in every bone. For just two hours this work of destruction proceeded amidst deafening shouts from the throats of what is admitted on all sides to have been at least two-thirds of the crowded house, called to put Yancey down."

In the debates and speeches of those days the men and the measures of the last decade