Craven 1947, p. 276, Potter 1976, p. 409. Potter refers to Yancey as "the most silver-tongued of a race of uninhibited orators, and the most fervent exponent of southern rights." Craven, Avery (1947), The Coming of the Civil War Potter, David M. (1976), The Impending Crisis 1848-1861, New York: Harper & Row, ISBN0-06-131929-5
Walther 2006, pp. 222, 225. Walther adds that Yancey, in response to criticism within the South would clarify that "I am a secessionist and not a revolutionist."Rable 1994, p. 7. Rable states that while Yancey here appealed to "antiparty rhetoric" and "Southern unity", neither here nor elsewhere did he present a picture of "what a Southern nation might look like". Walther, Eric H. (2006), William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War, ISBN978-0-7394-8030-4 Rable, George C. (1994), The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics, Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, ISBN0-8078-2144-6
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