The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-10-22
From tLe MusuuPpiaH
SENATORS DAVIS AND FOOTE

ckNAitho DAVIS Avn TWIN
Il has been understood for several months
uast. that senators DAVIS and Foo;s, by mu-
iuai agreement entered into on the floor Of
the Senate chamber, adjourned the Discus
siou Of the questions OF political difference
between them 10 the tribunal Of popular
audience 10 Mississippi for hearing and de-
cislon. One or the other Of these Senators
has misrepreseuted the State, deceived aud
wronged the people. II the course OF Gen.
Foote j. sustained, then will that Of Col.
DAVIS be condemned. The approval Of the
course Of one carries with it the signal re-
buke Of the other. We are already inform
ed that Gen. Foote is expected to commence
a canvass Of the State at Columbus on the
l2th inst. We DO not know whether he IN.
y!ted Col. Davis 10 meet him there or
what time they may have agreed upon to
give the people that fair hearing in defence
OF the cause which each espoused in the late
protracted Session OF Congress. But we do
know that ,ite srdcbS lGeGds OF Col. JetIeT-
son Davis-ths masses who approve his
speeches and his votes in the Senate-ex-
pect Of him to meet this champion of the
Clay omnibus, and expose his unfaithiul-
ness TO the South. Such an exposition will
amount TO triumphant defence of his own
positions so nobly and consistently sustained
by him in the Senate. That Col. Davis
will meet his confident and boasting co.,
league before that tribunal to which they
both appealed at Washington, we do not
for n moment doubt. 1t is due to himself
that he should do so; and it is due to the
people who have looked to him with conf.
dence aud marked his career in the Senate
with the voice Of their appreciation.
We are not advised in what temper Gen.
Foote will enter the State and conduct his
discussions. We do not know whether his
appeals for support will be addressed to that
political party which elevated him to office,
or whether he will, like Mr.. Benton, when
dlsregarding the instructions Of the Legis-
latnrc OF Missouri, appeal to the whole PEG.
pie of the State. Let him do has he NAV
choose in this respect, if the people sustain
him, they condemn the speeches and votes
of his colleague in the Senate.
Gen. Foote returns to the State with n
confident and boastful air lie returns from
the Senate, the Chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, the confidential adviser
81 Mr. Webster WHO has franked his speech.
es in great numbers to the people of Missis.
slppi. lie returns with the written c~ertif.
cate of Horny Clay in his pocket avouching
his dbiAty anil patriotism; he returns, It
may be, to denounce those of his feIlow.citi-
zens, who are indignant at the tyranicai
government of free-soilism, as dtSunionists
and traitors; he returns to assail the posj.
tons ola majority of those who elevated him
to his seat iii the Senate to assail his col
league in tile Senate to assail the positions
of all four of our Representatives to assail
the position of the Governor of the State ;
and at this junction, to sow the seeds of dis
cord broad cast among the people, SO as to
inttmidate the Legislature, now soon to as
semble, and defeat action, having for its OBJ.
ject, the security and defence Of our invaded
rights and insulted sovereignty. He returns
trlumphing over the success of measures
which every man in the Standardization he
be submissionlst or secessionist, whig or
democrat-ln his heart knows and feels not
only do not secure to the South the boon of
equality in the Union, but deprives it forever
of that equality which the constitution was
designed to perpetuate. And while this
Senator attunes his voice to these offensive
paeans, shall go unanswered, onhis triulnh-
al tour! We say not. He ough. to be
met at all points by Col. Davis, or one of
our Representatives, and by others who dis
approve his course.