The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-28
GEN. Foote'S Speech.

Gen. FooTE, Senator from MISSISSIPPI, one OF
| the specially invited guests, was called for. He
presented himself; was introduced to the meeting
| by Senator Downs, and was received with such an
outburst of applause as we have never before heard
| on similar occasion.
GEN FooTE expressed great satisfaction at hav-
ing an opportunity to address the citizens of Lou
| siDa. He had often heard before that there was
but one feeling in this State the great question
of union or dsunioD, and that he was happy to
| find that all he had heard was true. He said that
if he were an envious man, he would certainly
envy the position of ais friend who had just pre-
coded him Gen. Downs.) He represented people
united on this great question, while he (the
speaker represented people, he was sorry to say,
not wholly united on this subject. But, said he,
notwithstanding our Governor had eaten of the
insane root, and had suffered wofully therefrom,
and good many of the younger members of the
| Legislature similarly affected, he was con
fdent that the mass of the citizens of the State o
| Mississippi were as patriotic and devoted to the
Union as those of the Stale of Louisiana. He sail
he had just travelled throughout the State, engaged
in correcting errors and ascertaining public senti
ment, and in all the counties he had visited if the
vote were directly taken there would be an over
| whelming majority for the Union. There were,
in fact, few disunonists in any portion of the
State Mississippi would redeem herself vet. A
convention of the people of the State will be
called but he said that good care will be taken
that it be filled with Union-loving men, whose &C.
ton will put permanent quieus upon the efforts
of the few agitators, whose loud brawling has
| made them appear numerous and irresistby potent
| He thought South Carolina intends 10 secede, and
| most likely will secede for month or two; tina
| her Senators and Representatives might even re
fuse for while to go to Congress, land he him
| self thought that proper respect for themselve
| ought TO retain them at home y but as Presden
Fillmore is not blood-thirsty man, and will prob
ably not deal with them very harshly, he had n
doubt, that after short spasmodic interval, al
things would come right, and South CAROLYN
consent still to remain in the confederacy.
Virginia there was no secession party. In tina
patriotic State-the mother of Presidents-th
home of Washington, Madison, and Jefferson
disunon had not dared to raise its head Vii
ginia, said he, will be the last to forsake tn
Union. In Maryland, there was not man, We
man, or child, but was in favor of the adjus
ment scheme. In North Carolina there were abou
one hundred secessionists, led by his friend V,
nahle, In Kentucky there is not a division
sentiment. Tennessee-the home of Jackso
and Polk-is true to the Union. In Georgia II
masses are all right The Governor of Alabama hi
refused to convene the Legislature on the groun
that there is no exgency in the public affairs whic
requires il. Arkansas is unanimous for the Uniol
In Missouri there may be few free-soers who al
not pleased with the present state of things al
Texas, said he, 8" has taken the money!" and wi
of course remain in the Union. (Here there WIS
great appause) The Union was not, in his opil
ion, in very great danger after ALL The peop
were awaking to the mad efforts of fanatics al
factionists, and every portion of the country
now prepared to declare that The Union mast an
shall be preserved
He then proceeded to consider the great pla
of adjustment, or rather the Compromise B
The question which had arisen was secession
the Union. Seward, the chief of the dsunions
had done much to give the question some impor
ance. He had urged on the commander of Il
military forces in New Mexico to cut the throats
: the people of Texas Mr.. FooTE was sorry to So
that feeling equally reprehensible existed to col
! siderable extent, in his own State and in Sou
Carolina. The consequences of spilling Texs
blood, on Texan soil, would have inevitably been
dissolution of the Union. Mr.. Clay said that sue
must be the case that it would have been the du
of the South to rush to the aid of Texas, had 81
thus been invaded, and he would pledge the aid
Kentucky. Free-soers and abolitonists, cont
: ued the speaker, and men who in the South ID
claim to high-minded sentiments and chivalry, d
their utmost to instigate such deadly confiC
The reflection appalling. Who ever heard
J perfect law? There never was nor never c,
be, one framed by human skill, and yet these m,
had endeavored to defeat the effects of whoeson
legislation and plunge the country into discor
All the laws included in the Compromise B
;. seemed to him to want amending, but the gre
object was to preserve the Union, and not let it
> down in blood. Texas has settled that questio
so far as she was concerned, for herself, witho
our aid. He 0he speaker had inquired of Govern
Quitman whether he thought the terms offered
Texas bride and he had answered emo :" al
he had been asked again what he would do to pr
serve the Union under such circumstances
The next lection which had been made to Il
Compromise bill, had been the admission of Ca
fornia with her extensive limits and coast.
would reply that her sea coast was not as great
/. Florida and some other States. The line of Sc
: had been objected to, while he, at the commenc
ment ofthe session, had been instructed to vote
IS 30. Mr.. King, of Alabama, was in favor of tn