The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-01-01

people OF allssissippi, through the only channels
givcn for tho expression Of public sentiment
public meetings, the Press md the Legislature
-hnye signilie their disaprobation Of his course;
and II Is equally certnin, that Mr. FoorE's seat
IN the Senate has not been vacated His decalar-
'ion would seem to indicate, that he was man
oi the finest scnsibility; but his acts are wholly
Inconsistent with that declaration, eyinciug nm
utter want ofpridc, ofruth and Of dignity.
with regard TO the discomfort Of the people o.
Mississippi, rs expressed through their public
meetings, hc says that it Is but the cbulition of an
etiervescent excitement, which means nothing.
nnd that tho people of that State do not in reali
W know their own sentiments. But even gr,n,
ing, that they in the full possession of that
amount of intelligence, which 1t would seem Is
requisite to insure them in knowledge of their
own thoughts and wishes upon this particular
subject, Mr. +. can only recognise, in the fnc, of
his being invited home, the prevalence of tia,
suicidicnl policy, which would induce tic child
TO throw off tho protection of the parent and
hc gives tie world to understand tim, the article
patriotism, enters much too largely into his com.
position to permit of his allowing his loved but
unloving Mississippi to commit any act no sub.
vesive of her own interests, Us that Of Kidding
herself ofhis services.
With rgnri 10 the attacks Of the Press. he
processes supreme contempt "for newspaper
scribblers," intimating, that their shafts when
aimed ut NO exalted an object himself, are rs
harmless rs the arrows of the Lilliputians.
With regard 10 the resolutions passed by the
Legislature concmnatory of his course; he Inns
the unblushing cfIrontcry to assert that the gen.
tlemnn who compose that body, although en-
ligktcnc, and patriotic, nre yet guilty of misrcp-
rescnting the people, in the passage of such res
clutions. So that, when the Press and the leg.
iSlntnrc declare, that Mr.. FoorE miSrepresen.
sents his constituents, they are themselves mis-.
representing the people; and when the people
themselves declare, that Mr.. FoorE misrcpre-
scnts them, they do but miseprcscnt their own
views md feelings. Surely this particular por-
ton OF the universe was never destined to figure
upon cnnvas-so difficult is il Of representation
But then does not some one represent it! Oh
yes Mr. FoorE does. Happy Mississpp,-
happy in the Possession Of n servant who knows
her better than she knows lrerSc!f and loves her
better than she loves herself. So others NAV
think, and cxcam; but for us, we urc in
cined 10 the opinion, that the case of Mississippi
pi is much like that Of" Sinba,i, the sailor -
that she has snddlcd herself with an "old man
OF the sen, "and TINT it will take something morc
than worls to disodgc him from his scat
The circumstances, attendant upon n snjourn
i'll Washington, are clothed with n degree of at
traciivencss fnr greater than that which invests
the simpler features of the distant homestead
and the people of Mississippi may long In vain
for the presence Of their benclactor. Thoughts
of home have no charms for him nor can the
touching plnint of the exile. home, sweet
homc"-fni responsive echn in his BOSOM
lie is determined to stay it out; and no, MI the
ailuremcnts employed by the Syrrns-not the
picture Of all his social cnjoymenr-no, even
the anticipation of The carcsscs b. had ut the
hands of the Juvenile Fccie-can move him
from hiS deierminntion-or from Washington.