Daily American telegraph., 1851-12-23
mss.rs. Foote, nayIy = 90.

Of Virginia, says:
! "Ihe 'tale as far as | am concerned, is easily
told and there shall be no mystery about 1t.
am determined to have afiliation with free
soilism or disunionism, and, if possible, 10 keep
il out Of the Democratic party If 1t is admit
ted as an important element, the party VIII DE
defeated and will deserve to be defeated, In the
nert Presidential election My confidence is great
that the effort to introduce it will fail; but 1t
cannot be defeated by temporizing. We must be
| yigilant, or it will creep in like thief In the
night"
SO much for Mr.. Bayly; now for Mr.. Foote.
We are told that on his way to Washington, at
Montgomery, i'm Alabama, Mr. Foote, fresh from
his triumph in Mississippi, delivered an address,
| and that he advised the Constitutional Union
party to preserve their organization-that he de-
nounced all those who were opposed to the Com
promise, and all who had rallied under the State
Rights banner, as disunionists; and recommended
that none such should be admitted into political
fellowship short Of probation of twenty years.
We find that in furtherance of what all must now
admit to have been a preconcerted movement,
resolutions were introduced into caucus by MIR.
Polk, and into the Senate by Mr.. Foote, the pur-
pose of which was to make the Compromise the
basis of a new party organization. Take these
facts in connexion with the refusal of Mr.. Bayly
to vote for Mr.. Boyd, and the explanation which
he now gives for that vote and it is clear that he
was acting with faction whose chief objection to
Mr.. Boyd was, that he had refused to sign the
pledge, the purpose of which was to commit all
who could be induced to sign to the new party
organization, under the fraudulent pretence of
great attachment to the Union.
| Now, who are this new Constitutional Union
party into whose custody Mr. Bayly and Mr..
Foote would commit the honor, the power and
| patronage of the Government? Go to Boston and
| ask Mr.. Everett and Mr. Choate go into the
Senate and ask Mr.. Foote; go to the leading
partisan papers north Of Mason and Dixon's line,
who are pensioned to do it reverence, in the past
or in future: and do they not all give you one
response and is not that response the cuckoo note
of Webster, Webster, Webster? But we are not
in the dark as to what all this means. The ere
public" which is Mr.. Webster's organ, and the
organ of this new creed, republishes, that it may
commend to the favor of the new party, the fol-
lowing article:
From the Montgomery (Ala.) State Register.l
| THE New DEMOCRATIC CREED.-The effort that
| the Southern Rights" and Secession wing of
| the Democracy are now making to amend the
creed of that party, by incorporating test
as its leading feature, has now become too glar-
| ing to escape any mans observation. If their
present attempt to fost their one p7incipie into
the Democratic creed, and to place themselves at
the head of the party, shall succeed, there will
be no longer Democratic party, as heretofore
organized and interpreted, but we shall have in
its stead a party based upon principles at war.
with the perpetuity of the federal Union and dan
gerous to its stability. Let the people consider
the following facts and developments, which lead
us to this conclusion
The g call " for q reorganization Of the Demo
cratic party, lately issued from this city, states
its object to be to secure the election of Presi
dent entertaining ''just views of the rights and
duties of the States and General Government
| What those "just views" are, is very apparent
from the political position of majority of the
signers of the call; but they have been more
fully disclosed by the responses already made by
the papers and public meetings of the party.
The first of these meetings that has been noticed
by US was held in Taladega, and it "resolved
| that the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of
'98 are the ...fundamental principle on which the
Democratic party has ever been based;" this
meeting makes no other issue, but cordially in
vites all who subscribe to the said resolutions of
'9S to unite with the Democracy.
Another meeting, held in response to the "call I"
convened in Marengo county the other day. This
| meeting was participated in by secession Whigs
| as well as Democrats, and recognised only the
aew principle of Democracy as it's test. Mr.. John
w. Henly, formerly Wing leader in the county,
but lately Secessionist made speech announc-
ing his repudation of the Wing party, because it
went for consolidation" and his determination
to I" take his stand in that party which advocated
State Rights-the Democratic party"
| late meeting held in Benton-dubbed the
20 banner Southern Rights county" of the State
adopted a similar test of Democracy; but we
cannot now find paper containing the proceed
ings.
The Marion Commonwealth Ia Whig paper
before the sectional strife was stirred up, and
since then Southern Rights print) not only
takes its position now upon the Democratic plat
form as amended, but intimates that all the Sc
cession Wings viii dc likewise. 1t says: "We
say, therefore, to the Federalists that they need
not trouble themselves about the State Rights
| Wings their principles fix their position, and
no State Rights Whig can longer act with the
Whig party"
In this connexion the action of the Democratic
caucus at Washington, in rejecting the resolution
approving the Compromise, is significant and i'm
portant The Columbus " Times" says that it was
not done because of the Free-so tendencies Of the
caucus, but because, If adopted, the resolution
would have had the effect of bringing the Union
Democrats into the party, and turning the South
ern Rights men out. This is very true; but it
may be added, further, that the adoption of the
resolution would also have turned the Freesoilers
out Of the Democratic party; and hence the COM
bination of "Southern Rights" and Freesoil agi-
tators to defeat it. But we will let the :" Times"
speak for itself of the Union Democrats who in
troduced and supported the resolution. The
Times is one Of the Southern Rights" papers
| ,tao
the Democratic party, with view Of impressing
upon it "pure State Rights principles" It says: