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Yancey and tried
Yancey was tried and sentenced to a year in jail for manslaughter.

Yancey and make
Yancey did make one further attempt to meet with Russell in the wake of the Trent affair, but Russell replied to the delegation that " we must decline to enter into any official communication with them.

Yancey and for
" In 1822 Polk resigned his position as clerk to run his successful campaign for the Tennessee state legislature in 1823, in which he defeated incumbent William Yancey, becoming the new representative of Maury County.
LeRoy Pope Walker of Alabama was made Secretary of War, after being recommended for this post by Clement Clay and William Yancey ( both of whom declined to accept cabinet positions themselves ).
* On Jimmy Yancey ( 1973 ) for 9 winds, piano and double bass ( written for Orkest de Volharding )
Pro Bowl wide receiver Yancey Thigpen was the team's leading receiver with 85 receptions for 1, 307 yards and 5 touchdowns.
The team did not have any outstanding deep threats, but wide receivers Yancey Thigpen recorded 38 receptions for 648 yards, Kevin Dyson had 54 receptions for 658 yards, and tight end Frank Wycheck gained 69 receptions for 641 yards.
The new sheriff and his deputy — Rusty of course — have a hard time not just fighting the criminals but also convincing all the farmers who have been wronged by Surrett that mob rule (" Come on, boys, let's take ' em out to the plaza ") is out of the question: When Yancey ( Victor Jory ), one of Surrett's thugs, is in jail, Hatton has to protect him against the furious men outside who, not caring for Yancey's right to a fair trial, want to take the law into their own hands and lynch him right then and there.
In the year 1796, one of the early land speculators, John Gray Blount, paid for 326, 640 acres ( 1322 km² ) of land, a portion of which later became Yancey County, N. C.
Some say it is named for James Yancey ( 1768 – 1829 ).
Others claim it is named for his younger brother, Bartlett Yancey, Jr. ( 1785-1828 ).
On April 6, 2010, the Town of Burnsville, the only incorporated town within Yancey County, held a referendum providing for the legal sale of alcohol within the town limits.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1931 for his performance as Yancey Cravat in Cimarron, in which he shared top-billing with Irene Dunne.
" Although the neighboring states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri would also produce boogie-woogie players and their boogie-woogie tunes, and despite the fact that Chicago would become known as the center for this music through such pianists as Jimmy Yancey, Albert Ammons, and Meade " Lux " Lewis, Texas was home to an environment that fostered creation of boogie-style: the lumber, cattle, turpentine, and oil industries, all served by an expanding railway system from the northern corner of East Texas to the Gulf Coast and from the Louisiana border to Dallas and West Texas.
Douglas Yancey " Doug " Funnie ( Voiced by Billy West in the Nickelodeon series and by Tom McHugh in the Disney series ): Doug is the title character, a shy, extremely insecure, somewhat clumsy, gullible, naïve, 11½ ( turns 12 in the Disney series ) year old boy with an enormous heart, a large imagination, a talent for writing, and a love for music.
At the 1858 Southern commercial convention, William L. Yancey of Alabama called for the reopening of the African slave trade.
The Schwob School of Music is contained in the south wing of the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, while the art and theater departments reside in the Corn Center for the Visual Arts, the Yancey Center, and the Rankin Arts Center.
Yancey was wanted in Georgia for double murder of his wife Linda Yancey and a day laborer.

Yancey and slave
Slavery was discussed only when Russell asked Yancey whether the international slave trade would be reopened by the Confederacy ( a position Yancey had advocated in recent years ); Yancey ’ s reply was that this was not part of the Confederacy ’ s agenda.
At the May 1858 convention in Montgomery, responding to a speech by Virginian Roger A. Pryor opposing the slave trade, Yancey, in an address that spanned several days, made the following points:
For the 1859 Southern Commercial Convention in Vicksburg, which passed the resolution to repeal all state and federal regulations banning the slave trade, Yancey could only contribute editorials, although by July 1859 he was able to speak publicly in Columbia, South Carolina, in favor of repealing the restrictions.
On October 10, 1860, at Cooper Institute Hall in New York Yancey advised Northerners interested in preserving the Union to " Enlarge your jails and penitentiaries, re-enforce and strengthen your police force, and keep the irrepressible conflict fellows from stealing our negroes …" Yancey cited southern fears that with abolitionists in power, " Emissaries will percolate between master slave as water between the crevices of rocks underground.
Confederate Secretary of State Toombs ’ official instructions to Yancey were to convince Europe of the righteousness and legality of southern secession, the viability of the militarily strong Confederacy, the value of cotton and virtually duty free trade, and the South ’ s willingness to observe all treaty agreements in effect between Britain and the United States except for the portion of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty requiring aid in combating the African slave trade.
Yancey emphasized the points from his instructions and denied, upon being questioned by Russell, that there was any intent to reopen the slave trade.
In January 1859 he spoke in support of fellow fire-eater William Lowndes Yancey in advocating the repeal of federal laws banning the African slave trade.

Yancey and code
Yancey, like most members of the planter class, was a strong believer in a personal code of honor.

Yancey and moderate
Despite the efforts of Yancey, the popularity of the Compromise of 1850, the failure of the Nashville Convention, and the acceptance of the more moderate Georgia Platform by much of the South, led to unionist victories in Alabama and most of the South.
While many of the fire-eaters were opposed to the selection of a relative moderate like Davis, Yancey accepted him as a good choice.

Yancey and get
Both the Alabama Platform and the Wilmot Proviso failed, but Yancey learned to be less overtly radical in order to get more support.

Yancey and Southern
One famous resident was William Lowndes Yancey, a firebrand newspaper editor and statesman who was an influential advocate of States ' rights and Southern secession.
Now militant Southern " Fire-eaters ", such as William Yancey of Alabama, opposed him as a traitor.
William Lowndes Yancey ( August 10, 1814 – July 27, 1863 ) was a journalist, politician, orator, diplomat and an American leader of the Southern secession movement.
In 1849 Yancey was a firm supporter of Calhoun's " Southern Address " and an adamant opponent of the Compromise of 1850.
At the 1860 Democratic National Convention, Yancey, a leading opponent of Stephen A. Douglas and the concept of popular sovereignty, was instrumental in splitting the party into Northern and Southern factions.
During the Civil War, Yancey was appointed by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to head a diplomatic delegation to Europe in the attempt to secure formal recognition of Southern independence.
Yancey was critical of Calhoun in the 1830s, but by the late 1840s he was fully supportive of Calhoun's defense of Southern institutions.
In early 1838, Yancey took over the Cahaba Southern Democrat, and his first editorial was a strong defense of slavery.
Yancey also began to attack Henry Clay for his support of the American Colonization Society, which Yancey equated with attacks on Southern slavery.
Yancey was increasingly interested in politics as his personal politics moved towards the most radical wing of the Southern Democratic Party.
Yancey recognized the significance of the Wilmot Proviso to the South and in 1847, as the first talk of slaveholder Zachary Taylor as a presidential candidate surfaced, Yancey saw him as a possibility for bringing together a Southern political movement that would cross party lines.
Yancey helped create Southern Rights Associations ( a concept that originated in South Carolina ) in Alabama to pursue a secessionist agenda.
Yancey ’ s third party support for George Troup of Georgia on a Southern rights platform drew only 2, 000 votes.
Yancey continued to support the most radical Southern positions and is generally included as one of a group of southerners referred to as " fire-eaters.
When the conflicts in Kansas Territory known as Bleeding Kansas erupted in 1855 – 1856, Yancey spoke publicly in support of Jefferson Buford ’ s efforts to raise 300 men to go to Kansas and fight for Southern interests.
The Southern representatives reconvened in Baltimore on June 23 and adopted the Yancey platform from the Charleston convention and nominated John C. Breckinridge for president.
During the 1860 presidential campaign, a widely credited report in the Nashville Patriot said that Rhett, along with William Lowndes Yancey and William Porcher Miles, was a leader of a Southern conspiracy to end the Union that began in May 1858 with a plan, hatched at the Southern Convention in Montgomery, Alabama, in May 1858, to split the Democratic Party along Northern and Southern lines.
For a detailed account and comparison of Yancey and other white Southerners who went North to secure an education, see Franklin's book, A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North ( Baton Rouge, 1976 ), pp. 45 – 80.

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