Southern standard., 1851-06-14
Extracts from the speech Of Clemens endorsed
by Senator F00te.

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Below viii be found few sentences of the speech
endorsed by Foote. It will serve to show how con-
sisent the submission candidate for Governor is, and
may aid in coming to the conclusion that he
unworthy of confidence as public man.
Il answer that every thing is conceded by the
admission of California. The whole matter in con-
troversy terminates at once. The North gets all
she has ever asked-gets it by the action of Con-
gress, and in direct violation of the great legal
principle that the wrong-doer shall not profit by
his own wrong
"Who among US does not know that agitation
in the State Legislature and in The national Con-
gress has prevented southern emigration to Cali
tornia, and placed the country in the power of
those who have imposed this restriction? Who is
there so blind not to see that this has been the
result of aggression here And who does not feel
that Congress responsible for the factth slavery
has been excluded? Property is proverbialIy
timid. The Shareholder would not carry his prop
erty there with threat hanging over him that it
was to be taken away by operation of law the mo-
ment he landed, Agitation, then, in Congress
repeated declarations made everywhere-in State
Legislatures-in conventions-in the public press
from the pulpit even-that slavery should be ex-
cluded by law has deprived us Of our constitution
al rights as certainly and elIectuay as any posi-
tive enactment could have done, and we are not
only asked to submit to it, but to accept it as boon
and be very thankful for an outrage. Sir, prefer
the Wilmot proyiso direct, prefer it because it
is bolder, palmer, and more manly. The robber
who meets me on the highway, and demands the
surrender of my property, leaves me at least the
option of contest and is entitled to far more res
pect than the assassin who turks behind a corner
and stabs in the dark. So, sir, he who undertakes
to deprive of my legal rights by open means
is always entitled to higher respect than he who
seeks to accomplish the same end by deception and
trickery l hold that whatever opposition is due
to the Wilmot proviso whatever resistance it de-
mands, is doubly due to this scheme of smuggling
sovereign State into the Union
Foote'S apology for endorsing Clemens speech.
1.-The honorable Senator, by way of making out
a case of rank inconsistency against me, averred
that | had sanctioned his speech read and then
declared that he had no doubt that l would now
pronounce it altogether reasonable. In both these
points it to me, the Senator is laboring un-
der some delusion. In the first place, I have GER
tainly not the least recollection of approving the
views contained in the honorable gentleman
speech at all, though it is certain that felt graft
| fed, as of his early friends, that he made sc
brilliant an exhibition in our body. Nor do / now
recollect that l ever read the Speech or any par
of it, in my life. | certainly heard it, and was
pleased with it, so far as l was able to catch its
meaning. In the second place, am by no means
prepared to denounce that portion of the honera
BILE gentlemans speech which has been read thi:
morning as at ali reasonable and, indeed l an
rather inclined to think that, making allowance fol
its beinga little unduly burdened with fantastic fig
ures of speech, and swelling words of sound anc
fury, | should even now, if formally called upor
to pronounce concerning the views contained in it
be inclined to express an opinion not altogether un
favorable. am sure l thought the speech at The
time quite Skillfuy pFenarad FIR effect apd par
tlcularly calculated to produce impression upol
the audience to whom it was addressed and if
uttered more or less of commentator upon it anc
its author, doubt not that it was sufficiently de
served"
I Who SHOULD THE South ELECT TO CoNGREss?-
This question is answered SO well in the annexed
paragraph from the New Orleans Delta, that W,
submit it to the consideration of the reader with
out a word of comment:
Who, then, are the dsunionists Are they th
opponents of the compromise, which brought u
from state of compromise peace, to the very brnl