The southern press., 1851-12-09
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, DECEMBER s, 1851.
The Little Paeifieator and his Plan.

country !"-tear off the dressings which his
brother surgeons and himself had applied to
them, and force himself into full communion
with the Democratic party, or lay down plat
form for another. If anything were needed to
show, in its true colors the real character of this
desperate political gambler-5the very breath of
whose political existence has been "agitaton,"
on the stump at home, or in the Senate here
this last move of his, stultfying his whole recent
course, and his noisy professions of patriotsm,
would suffice to stamp him demagogue and agi
tator. ..." ..... -.
No man in this country has been more noisily
abusive of agitation" and "agtators,' as he
termed the cause and its champions which he at
first aided, then abandoned and betrayed. No
man mouthed more copiously about the necessity
of putting down agitation, and restoring peace
to the party and the country. No man insisted
more strenuously that the acts of the last ses.
sion should be fnality in their otality" 60
use the current cant Of the day. And yet this
man. after agitating all summer in mississippi
: stirring up strife, dissension, and bitterness
among brethren, wherever he went-this mar,
we say, returns to Congress for twenty days
only and in the teeth of all his declarations and
once, to disturb the short truce which even the
more rabid Abolitionists had expressed their will
iingness to grant. And to cap the climax of his
undaunted etfrontery, renews the old war under
the pretext of establishing permanent peace
convinced by his own personal experience, how
far spurious professions of patriotic purpose can
cover over and conceal the real motives and the
real man. Many an animal, since the DAYS Of
EsoP, has donned the lions hide and many
public performer played the lions part but
sooner or later the bray Of the animal, and the
ouftoonery Of the actor, have shown the former
to belong to the long cared race, and the latter
to be mo lion, but only Snug the Joiner
Such has hitherto been the case; and another
similar instance has been added within the last
few days, as the records of Congress show.
One short week since, Henry S. FooTE returned
to Washington, flushed " 18th his victory in Mis-
sissippi over his former principles and former
t'isheso NStoiy, unHeT the CIRCUMSTANCES,
more humiliating than defeat, because owing
to the accident of the illness of his adversary,
and the popularity of the cause of which his
new friends unwillingIy accepted him as the ex.
ponent. He came here to glorify, TO strut and
crow over his triumph; and to fasten himself
again as an incubus on the party of which he still
claims to be member. Last, but not least, the
senator may have had an eye to his mileage
metal most attractive" to patriots such as he,
But alas as the poet ar. F. is fond of quoting
poetryO observes, the schemes of mice" ard
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 STRAIT
egy, to find himself an estray-a wait, unclaimed
by either Of the old parties, ard in lean and
powerless minority thing his soul sbhors,
rs nature abhors a vacuum. From the hei M
Of exutation dropped at once into the depths Of
despair-the resolutions which were TO admit
himself and friends into Democratic ranks, and
at the same time rule out those whom he hated.
because he feared, repudiated A. iected no
thing was left him but 10 di a..S Is. .~.
modic throes and contortions ~ ,ir. JET. g..
hold-his plot so shallow IL prar.a....
much at war with his acts-tt-t .,. . |...u 80.
dam eulogist, the Union. has "a. ..l ..-.., q
hestaiing disclaimer-bsIfsp sIs-. .a.stn.
inc. in relation to III. ,ur,,,.oi ,,ri,i., -, =.
editor in the re.o,u,ior ,r,t +, -. "a
descantinp on the ma, sn5 III. .r W. ,D,i..,
cess apparently crowned lbem. ant ,l,,.. we,,
another face nj pre,eui--p,n. ,or,,,i .Iisr, :.
the cue now; and The senator. ,prpi,g Z, hi. aide
NAV well exclai,p. in view NJ Ie.,d,y', sdi,ori,I
" r, tn BrU,es, Mr. Fo,,as.sss b,ndorsd 70 ~,
fate by his former 4, - for g principle.
not nen"-pdr,,~ z y, .,. rot personal
Friendships, &C s.t y ..cW. g.,
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