Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-08-09

ALBANIA election except from PIckens county. Ef-
win, State Rights, leads his opponent, Smith, y
Mon, 254 votes-the whole State Right ticket in
the county triumphantly elected.
1t is probable that Erwin is defeated for Con-
gress in the district represented by Col. Inge. We
have no doubt but Bragg defeats his federal free
soil opponent, C. C. Lcngdon, in the Mobile dist.
1t is said Hubbard will be reelected
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Who Approves the Course of Senator FOote
The last Legislature of Mississippi dsapproved OF
and censured by resolution, the Senatorial of
H. s. Foote. At the same time it approved and COM
mended the course of Me8srs Jeff Davis, A. G. Brown
w. s. Featherston, Jacob Thompson, and VIM. Nc
Willie, in regard to the compromise bills. We ask
now how many men are there in Mississippi who would
vote to reverse the action of the legislature Very
few we believe. There is scarcely man in ten that
approves Foote'S course and this he well knows. He
was unwilling to permit his course to to the honest
voters of this State because he satisfied that he
would be almost wholly repudiated by them as unwor-
thy of further confidence. To save himself from
demnaton and shield his base conduct from scrutiny
he has endeavored to his fortunes with the
popular cry of Union or Disunon. With great adroit
ness he jumped the question: and with perfect disre
soute horror of fairness justice he travels the State
and everywhere declares the issue to be Acquiesence
or Secession and calls on high Heaven, with his
hand on breast, to witness the fact
VIII the People of Mississippi repudiate and con-
denim the who have yield nothing of their rights
to an abolition majority We cannot believe it. If
the delegation in Congress from this State demanded
jusce-smpIe ustice-at the hands of the North for
their they defended the Constitutional
Rights of the South and batted to preserve her nst
tuition from the grasp of fanaticsm and yielded only
when further struggle vain, it is opinion that
the People should commend, and not condemn them.
Have they yielded right, failed to stand in the
breach and defend that right long there was hope
If they have been derelct to their duty show when
and where If they have been faithful, in the name
justice, do not condemn them then.
1T they have been faithful then Henry S. Foote has
been unfaithul. IF they have been true to the Con
stitution and the South then Henry S. Foote has beer
untrue TO the Constitution and the South. If they
have been true to the institution of slavery, then II. S
Foote has been untrue to the institution of slavery
They opposed from the inception those bills which
the Southern People almost universally denounced
II. S. FoOte favored the whole scheme-spoke 70
them, wrote for them, intrigued for them, and vote
for the most of them, and now defends them all. s.
tits apparent they hisopponents and he theirs
How can the people Of Mississippi honor II. s. Foot
III he is honored and sustained-hs senatorial cours
endorsed, surely the other members who opposed tn
Il OMNIBUS measures are repudiated If Senator II.
ooe Is elected Governor, the rest of the delegatio
III the last Congress from this State, will argue tha
tney We're wrong in opposing those measures =, nea,
n 'Ies WHICH by the way, Foote said Welded I'D all
at the North. If he is elected Senator left Da,; ~;
resign, for an endorsement by the people of Foo+o
n censure of Davis by the People and we kre,s III
We pure patriot and consistent public servant will
Id to hold office from constituency he cannot honorab
Ct represent.
1e The election ofFoote will be a censure of the a
e. ton of the legislature And the of Oct
mr. Der falls under the same ban of condemnation al
singular it may appear, that convention was mo-
unanimously endorsed and commended by the peopl
than any public measure we now remember noting
If Foote is elected the public meetings held to d
tn nounce the omnibus measures in almost every tow
of and county throughout the State will be generally COZ
lg sidered have been very excellent farce got up
re effect by demogogpes. If Foote is elected all o.
III public whether Legislative primary, having Il
De rights and the interests ofthe South in view may
ne regarded as the ouburst of madmen and political nj
IN MES, as devoid of prudence ofreason.
If the people elect Foote, they endorse to the fue
lie extent the whole of the compromise measures. TIL,
rs say first That they satisfied Second TIL
Ill no injustice has been done the South Third TIL
OF the admission of Caorniawas just andright Fourt
III That denial to protect slavery in the territories
just and that refusal is not an intended assertion
C. determination discriminate against that species
.U property by Congress Fifth That refusal to 7
move all obstacles to the free introduction of slaves
any other property into the territories should be acqr
esced in Sixth That cutting off $4,000 gqua
miles of slave territory and devong to freeso pu
poses is alright Seventh: That taking $40, 900, O
from the public treasury to pay for permission to ma
of 1000 square miles of free of slave territory
rv not improper Eighth: That the abolition of t
slave trade in the district is not improper Ninth
That Congress possesses the power to pass law Hbe
riotc to honor the who has aided i'll every for
of to fasten the South these measures
n Thepeope of Mississippi have in almost every il
aginable form repudiated the compromise bills and
k they now to acquesce in them and vote for II
defender of Them the Northern people well might
that the excitement in Mississppis "but the burst
of beer barrels How ridiculous it is, when we cali
of y think of it, for whole people rise up and
mo- nounce series of measures and the men who pass
nd them, and then within twelve month after, tame
at submit to them, and then cap the climax by voting
the men denounced, and repudate those who were
of most earnest terms commended We say that til
S looks very ridiculous and it is very inconsistent al
lie we have idea that the intelligent people of MISS
O. sppi will be guilty of enactng farce SO contemp
r. ble We shall see.