The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-10-31

been fully appreciated. Up to the morning
after Mr.. Calhoun had delivered his last
great speech, when Gen. Foote came into
the Senate and attacked him, the South
had presented to the North an undivided
front. All along the Southern lines there.
was frmness and compactness- shoulder
to shoulder stood our men-evely man to
his post and ready to maintain it.
Terrific was the effect upon the foe
The North was fast q%uailing before that
terrible front--these uubroken ranks. The
time had arrived when it became absolute
" necessary to the game Of the comPeti-
t%ionists, the deceptionists, and the rotten
hearted, su~perannuated ,tottering aspirants
for power, that the great leader OF that
formidable phalanx should be attacked by
one of his own men aud that those ranks
should be broken. Foote was the man for
the work. He was the cock Sparrow
from whose bow and arrow a wound was
made to rankle in the side Of the greatest
and truest friend Of the South while a
wound was also inflicted on the cause OF
his country. And fellow citizens, after
the great man died, this fly that had helped
to sting and buzz him to death could not
allow his friends TO weep for him in peace,
but must thrust himself at such an hour be-
fore their mental vision and distract their
attention by his disgusting vanity. The
friends of the great Calhoun from the Pc
tomack to the Rio Grande, while mourn
ing the calamity which had befallen them
and their children-while pouring out their
hearts in mourning and sorrow, were not
allowed by Foote the last sad consolation
Of the distressed, the privilege to weep un-
disturbed He denied them even the lux
Dry of tears-the sublime dignity of grief.
For who could look on at such a time but
with feelings incompatible with grief, when
they saw Foote'S card IN the Union, as
soon as Mr.. Calhoun died, grayely announ-
cling that up to Mr.. Calboun's last moments
he and that great man were on the most
intimate terms of mutual personal respect;
and that their differences were only politi-
cal. Before Mr.. Calhoun was cold, be-
fore he was entombed, this disgusting
card, after all that had happened, was thrust
upon the attention ofthe deceased's friends,
and was made to mingle with the last sad
rites of mourning and broken hearted aE
fiction.
Calhoun and Foote! give them toseth-
er to fame, the gnat on the Bulbs horn
give them together to the tide Of immor-
talliy-oh how We apples swim!
Fellow citizens, | am told that the gen
tie IAN has done me honor over much in
alribnting to me mainly the getting up Of
and passage of the resolutions in this coun-
ty, which condemned his course and which
suggested TO him that if he could not con-
form his conduct to the wishes of The peo-
pie Of this state that he ought to resign
Those resolutions but called his attention
to a doctrine which he once pretended to
hold sacred. When first arrived in this
state in the fall of 1884, Foote, Gwinn and
Walker (you see where that precious trio
is now after fattening at youl hands espe-
cially Foote and Walker Walker the
captain, and Foote the Lieutenant were en-
gagged in a most savage warfare upon gov
ernor Poindexter for disobcdience, as SEN
ator, Of the instructions Of the Legislature
of this State. If there be any old Missis-
sippians here, any who were living in this
State at that time, will bear me witness.
that | state the fact, when | say, that
most savage was the warfare. 1t was a
Choctaw,a Chickasaw,a Shawnee warfare
waged without stint and without mercy,
and for what ,ostensibly +? For no other
cause under Gods heaven, so far as the re.
cord could show but for disobeying the in
sIructions Of his constituents as a Senator
from this state. am ready therefore to
vindicate the resolutions OF this county in
commenting the gentlemans " doctrine
to his consideration in inviting him 10
stand or fall by the standard which he him.
self and his coadjutor Walker erected in
this State Butle not the Senator put
the llatterine JUNCTION to his soul that in dis
posing Of me he settled his account with
you.
Fellow citizens, i am a eyphsr, a small
man, a nothing, without influence, with
out power, without any note whatever in
this county compared to the able man who
formed those resolutions.
Those resolutions were drawn and sarti-
ed through by able men, by men Of in,ellec-
tual power, by men Of influence and stand