Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-12-27


and face, measures and men, suits the paper to
which he writes, or the direction of the political
current, this omnipresent letterwriter does more
to propagate false predictions, and half truths
which serve the effect of whole falsehoods, than
almost any editor in the country. At the present
moment he is lighting hard to help Foote and Co.
on the Democratic platform, With an eye to the
elevation of Cass, who only needed the nerve to
get into the same boat, last session, when the
''great Union party sprouted up and rotted down"
in the same week. That boat has stranded at last,
and the shipwrecked mariners who tried to nayi-
gate it, much sickened by the salt water which
they have swallowed in their escape, are still swim
ming about on the political sea without finding
any safe platform to land on. To drop the fgura-
tive, Foote and his Constitutional Union friends
have not the fantest idea of what is to be-
come of them and hence the spasmodic shrekings
of the little man, in the Senate, about Kossuth,
Irish exiles, and the Compromise measures The
reception and fate of his resolution, which comes
up, to-day, IN the Senate, will determine the ac
ton of his CO. laborers in the other house If tits
seen that any capital can be made out oft sim
liar resolution will be thrust on that body. Should
it prove unpalatable, and an egregious failure
then it will not be pressed there at present, but
be keptin reserve, as an explosive, which may be
used with effect at more favorable time One
thing is certain however, that the unity of the
of that test, cannot go together. Without most
material notifications sufficient to make it mere
nullity, it couldnot be swallowed by the Southern
Rights Democrats of the House, who have already
strained very hard to stomach ''acquiesence' -
The Freesollers, of course, would be driven of by
it, and the gain of few Struggling Unionists
would not compensate for these losses in count
ing pontsof view in the arithmetic of politics the
Constitutional Union men count very small.
i e. L l. H.
stage in the Senate, and affiict Senators and the
country with another of his gasconade speeches.
Should be chance to conclude before ad journment,
and the debate not be continuedby other Senators,
you shall be advised thereof by Postscript at
tached to this letter. Should such p. S. not be
attached, you may conclude that the Senator was
speaking when this letter left, and may be speak
ing still when you receive lt-for the limits of his
loquacity, no man may venture to lay down. He
has given notice through his letter writers) of his
intention of fleaving this city to assume his Guber
Material Chair on the 90 ofths month, consequent
ly he will not speak beyond that time There is
some comfort in that reflection, at any rate. What
a nuisance the man is, can only be fully known to
those who occupy seats, either in the body gal
lery of the Senate-as Scribes above or Pharisees
below.
] z. S.-Since the above written, the Senate
has adjourned, after very spicy debate, and,
Foote, after two speeches from that Individual
His effort in his usual vain glorious, and inso-
lent style. The lash had been strongly laid to
him in the Southern Press of this morning, and
smarting under the infction, he even exceeded
his usual rant and fustan. He even rdcu-
lous enough to refer to that fagellation and ex-
posed his bleeding wounds by his denunciation
His TRADE called up your Senator, Mr.. Butler, who
seized and shook him powerful mastitf would
an intrusive rat, then dropped him down hal
dead-but the ndefatigable Foote rejoned, anC
Mr. Butler will probably complete the work 0
his demolition tomorrow. tits also supposed tha
Mr. Rhett, may take him in hand too-and he
likewise, it is well known, does not do his worl
neggently. How long this debate may be pro
tracted, is impossible to guess; we have seen it
commencement, but it is hard to predict when
how, or where it will end. The arrival of you
Senators was very apropos. MIR. Wallace and Mr.
t Mcqueen have also arrived SO your delegation i
now full. The sensation produced by Kossuth il
= New York has not extended here. Gen. Cass
, Mr.. Foote, Mr.. Hale and Mr. Seward, are trying
to make capital out of him, and resolutionizin!
abouth him at a great rate It's supposed he won
come here unless Congress invites or compliment
D him. His New Y ork speeches are rather startin!
to some of our conservates here, for he says pret
ty plainly, Il do not want words but acts, for tn
e assistance of my country"