Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1851-10-04
GEN. FOOTE'S REPLY.


/ AND OTHERS, 81 lAtutRpALE COUNTY MISS .
/ Gea}smeu-I Your communication Of August
/ 2lh, published in the last number Of the Ms
/ Suuppaan is now before me, IN which you pro.
4 pound certain nleuugalurir,, 70 which proceed
TO respond without deIay, and without cqolyora-
/ ton ~ shHH no question and ! Gear no mask.
/ Ny opinions upon all the material points, lcgltl.
mattel, connected with the present canvass, have
been Ally exposed in hearing o. my ieIlow'c'ti-
2an,, n numerous popular addresses and on all
( other occasions when any one OF ny hearers has
suggested the least doubt, in regard to tho true
meaning Of the words employed hy me, have
never aled to give additional explanations 50 as
to avoid, as far As in my power, all possible ms
construction, | should consider myself dis
graced man and totally unworthy Of public conf
dence if, US candidate for official station, ci
Their concealed my opinions, o. so cqulyoca'ed
in regard to them, r. to leave any reasonable
man in doubt IA reference 10 their true char
acler.
You ak me whether believe hat "a State
in This Union has the night 20 secedc, Tor any
,au,e vhalpyerl" | am clearly Of opinion, tbnt
there /. no right secured By the Constitution Of
F the Tated States % any single State OF the Con.
fedemcy al is o,nn pleasure, TO secedr from, or
to break up the Union--whlch understand to
BE the ayowed doctrine Of 10Y adyersarirs n this
contest agree with Mr.. Madison, thai the
Constitution in IT.. Inception, required M adop
tan in tate and iorerfr." am certain, that it
vasadoprd as a compact, expected and designed
To br OF permanent endurance aud have never
IA encountered any political opponent who was
able q, point oul 10 me that precise clause OF the
on-tlulion under which the right Of accession
could be reasonably sci up. | was a member oil
II Union Democratic Convention OF the State
Of Mississippi, which assembled in Jackson in
~ year 1884, over the deliberations OF which
ho iIu.rrious Thomas Kinds presided, aud cor
Tally participated in the adoption Of the various
resolutions promulgated at that time, under the
authority Of that body among which you viii
lad the fi.oving:
"Rcsoired, That a Constitutional right Of Sc
cession from the Union on the part Of single
5 ate, a, asserted b. the nu.l5ug leaders ct
south Carolina, is utterly uu=aneionfd by the
Federal Constitution, which was framed to "cs>
mbIish" and not TO destroy the Union OF the
States aud lbat no secession can, ~ TACT take
place without H subyersion Of the Union e-tab-
Iishcd, aud which will not amount in Is effects
and consequences, TO a civil revolution "
In the year 1893, warmly approved reso-
luton offered in the House # Representatives
Of the State Of Mississippi Wy that answering
democrat, Timan NJ. Tucker, (Which was
adopted too, ny an overwhelming majority Of the
votes Of that hody,) in which resolution, (r"ier
ring to the then recent act- Of Mr.. Po'od'Eler n
the United States Seuae) the foil wing an-
guage viii be found embraced
"AaA be Pyuthcr rcsoired That the speech
orour Senator aforesaid SO far as it gives sanc-
ton las it evidently does,) to the dangerous and
absurd doclIncs Of notification and secession IS
deemed worthy Of the strongest fepfobatlon, as
being VIGOROUSLY repugnant to the feelings and
opinions oft people ofths State