Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-12-27
From the Southern Press.
The little PacificatOr and his Plan.

The little 'pacihcator is TO press his fire brand
resoluuon-hls compromise test oath--on the Sen
ate to-day His evident design is to re-onen the
bleeding wounds of this distracted country ,-T1ear
off the dressings which himself and brother sur
geons had applied to them, and to force himself
into full communion with the Democratic party, or
lay down platform for another. If anything were
needed to show, in its true colors, the real char
acter of the desperate political gamber--the very
breath of whose political existence has been agi-
tation on the stump at home, in the Senate here
this last move of his, stultifying his whole re-
cent course, and his noisy professions of patriotism
would suffice to stamp him demagogue and agi-
tator
No man in this country has been more noisly
abusive of agitation and agitators, he termed
the cause and it's champions, which he at first aid
ed, then abandoned and betrayed. Noman mouth
ed more copiously about the necessity of putting
down agitation, and restoring peace to the party
and the country. No man insisted more strenu
ousy that the acts of the last session should be
'fnality in their totality Ito use the current cant
ofthe day. And yet this man, after agitating all
summer in Mississippi, stirring up strife, dissen-
sion and bitterness, wherever he went--this man,
we say, returns to Congress for twenty days only,
and in the teeth of all his declarations and profess
sions, true to his nature, commences at once to dis
turb the short truce which even the more rabid
Abolitonists had expressed their Willingness to
grant. And to cap the climax of hia undaunted
effrontr7 renevs the old war upon the pretext of
establishing permanent peace--convinced by his
own personal experience, how far spurious pretes-
slons of patriotic purpose cover and conceal
the real purposes and the real man. Many an ami
NAL, since the days of 4Esop, has donned the
lions hide, and many performer played the lion S
part but sooner later, the bray of the animal,
and the buffoonery of the actor, have shown the
former to belong to the long g-eared race and the
latter TO be mo lion, but only Snug the Joiner =
Such has hitherto been the case, and another SINH
lar instance has been added within the last few
DAYS, as the records of Congress show. One short
week since, Henry S. Foote returned to Washing
ton, flushed with his victory in Mississippi over
his former principles and former frends-a victory,
under the circumstances more hgmiiating than a
defeat because owing to the accident of the illness
of his adversary, and the popularity of the cause
of which his new friends unwilngy accepted him
as the exponent. He came here to gorfy, to strut
and crow over his triumph; and to fasten himself
again as an incubus on the party of which he still
CLANS to be member. Last, but not least, the
senator may have had an eye to mileage metal
most attractive to patriots such as he But alas
as the poet Mr.. F. is fond of quoting poetry, J
observes the schemes of mice and mouse-like
men, too often fail in this uncertain world of ours.
| The senator awakes from his visions and dreams
of gratified malice, and successful strategy, to
find himself an estray--a waif unclaimed by eth
er of the old parties, and in lean and pewerless
minority-a thing his soul abhors, nature abhors
"a vacuum. From the heights of exultation drop
ped at into the depths of despair-the resolu-
| tions which were to admit himself and friends into
Democratic ranks, and at the same time rule out
those whom he hated, because he feared, repudl-
ated and rejected, nothing left him but TO DE
| hard
Doubtless to-day, he will spout and declalm =
rant and rave, be as insolent and explanatory--as
egotistical and absurd as usual--but, whether the
wedge he drives In, is to split the party or he him
self to share the fate Of the Grecian athlete who
sought TO rend the oak--the course OF the debate
which it will excite alone can determine. What
course that discussion vii take i IS ret LEFT to Il