The Issues Involved in the Presidential Contest: Speech of Hon. William L. Yancy of Alabama, Delivered at Memphis, Tenn. , August 14, 1860 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Issues Involved in the Presidential Contest: Speech of Hon. William L. Yancy of Alabama, Delivered at Memphis, Tenn., August 14, 1860

By the Operation of this rule he gained largely, so as to make a difference in the result of fifty votes. New York gave thirty-five votes to Doug las, whereas he was entitled to but twenty; Penn sylvania had given no instructions to her dele gates, and therefore the rule allowed all the mem bers in the minority to vote for Douglas; where as, by the unit rule, as applied to New York, her twenty-seven votes would have been cast against him. The practical Operation of the rule was to suppress the voice of the people with reference to Mr. Douglas, and to suppress the voice of the people with reference to his principles.

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