An Arnold-Burr Document! -- The celebrated letter of Mr. Yancey, the principal engineer of the bolting movement, to Mr. Slaughter, of Alabama, is worth keeping before the people, at this juncture:
Montgomery, June 15.
Dear Sir: -- Your kind favor of the 13th is received, I hardly agree with you that a general movement can be made that will clear out the Augean stable. If the Democracy were overthrown, it would result in giving place to a greater and hungrier swarm of flies.
The remedy of the South is not in such a process; it is in a diligent organization of her true men for prompt resistance to the next aggression. It must come in the nature of things. No national party can save us; no sectional party can ever do it: but if we could do as our fathers did, organize committees of safety all over the cotton States, and it is only in them that we can hope for an effective movement -- we shall fire the Southern heart, instruct the Southern mind, give courage to each other, and at the proper moment, by one organized, concerted action, we can precipitate the cotton States into a revolution.
The idea has been shadowed forth in the South by Mr. Ruffin, and has been taken up and recommended in the Advertiser (the Montgomery organ of Mr. Yancey) under the name of "The League of United Southerners, who, keeping up their old party relations on all other questions, will hold the Southern issues paramount, and will influence parties, Legislatures and statesmen. I have no time to enlarge, but to suggest merely.
[Signed] W. L. Yancey. To Jas. S. Slaughter.