The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-08-26


duly appreciated the sound aud Statesman.
like views maintained by him can even
hear the amendment OF the honorable Sen.
ator from New York read. without being
satisfied that this amendment was designed
to cap the climax OF Southern wrongs to
cause the cup Of our oppression at once to
overflow, aud to force us OF the South,
whose lot it is to be the owners of slave
property. to secede from the Union, or, re.
naming in il, to submit to wauIon, heart.
less, aud Insulting deprivation Of all our
Constitutional rights, such as no free pco.
pie have ever been known patiently to en-.
dure. ."--CoagresSioaaI Globe, rot 81, part
lst, u. 236.
Is there no secession in this speech of
Mr.. Foole Has Governor QuIman ever
said more or even MS much ms this on the
subject of secession Yet Mr.. Foolc is
lauded aud praised as the Saviour of the
Republic, whilst Gov, Quilman is abused
aud denounced as secessionist desiring
the immediate withdrawal OF Mississippi
from the Unou. After the action of the
Convention Of this State, held at jackson
the second Monday in October lSl0, com.
posed of an equal number Of each OF the
great political parties in the State, aud
which recommended the Nashville Con.
vention aud the assembling of a Southern
Congress, and also RECOMMENDED the Leg.
isature to adopt suitable measures to carry
out its resolves aud recommendations, AZ
ter the Legislature had adopted almost
rcr6dtiHl, the resolutions OF tins October
Convention, and in accordance with its rc.
commentators had elected delegates to
the Nashville Convention, and passed such
laws as it recommended after Mr. Foote
had presented to Congress the address and
the resolutions OF the Mississippi Legisa.
ture relative to the Nashville Convention
(see Congressional Globe March 2lst 1850
page 577) and after he had been fully in.
formed of the whole action of Mississippi
Oh all these important matters, he wrote
to L. Barksdalc Esq. then Editor OF the
Yazoo Democrat, the following letter
WASHINGTON, April 29th 1850.
my Dear Sir Accept my wdrmest
acknowledgements The prompt and gen.
erous manner in which you have repeled,
in late number Of your paper, the absurd
and unfounded charge that | am, or ever
have been. hostle~to the scheme of the
Nashville Convention, My views have 50
often been declared both in Congress and
elsewhere, in appreciation of the action OF
our noble State OH the subject that | should
have been surprised at the caIumny, had it
not been my lot to be the object OF gross
misrepresentation of every kind during the
whole period of my senatorial career. BE.
lieve me to be your .Jatthfm and cordiak
TRENT, IL. 5. FooTE.
To L. BarksdaIe, Esq.
On the 2lst of January, 1850, Mr.. Foote
with our other representatives in Congress
wrote to the Governor of the State the fol.
lowing letter. ....
WASHING ron, January 81, 1850
His Earetiency,
Jno A Quitnan, Governor, dc., 9c.
SU- We the Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress from Mississippi, feel il
incumbent upon us to advise you and thro
you, our common constituents, that we
have n well defined opinion that California
will be admitted as a State of this Union
duriug the present session of Congress
The President earnestly recommends it, and
we can not be mistaken, in supp6sing that
a majority Of both Houses Of Congress will
be found to vote for it. Our individual po.
sl.ions have undergone no change. We
regard the proposition to admit California
as State, under all the circumstances Of
her application, as an attempt TO adopt the
Wilmot Proviso in another form. But sep.
Grated, as we are, from our constituents
and having no convenient means Of con.
sulting them as to their views on the new
phase OF this perplexing question, i've de.
sire, through you, TO submit the single fact
to The people and the Legislature. that Cal.
iiornla will most likely obtain admission in
to the Union with Unconstitutional prohibi.
ton of slavery--and we beg leave TO add,
that we shall be grently pleased 10 have
such expression Of the opinion Of the Legis.
Iature, the Governor, and il practicable, by
the people, as shall clearly indicate the
course which Mississippi will deem it her
duty TO pursue in this emergency.
Very respectfully. your ob't servants,
(Signed) jeff DAVIS. II, S. Ioote, J. Thomp.
son, w. S. FeatIerston, WIN. Melville,
A. G.. Brown
California was admitted exactly under
the circumstances OF her then application,
and Mr.. Fooie spoke in favor of such ad.
mission, il joined in bill with other meas.
ures. The objection he made against her
admission, was as separate measure. With
him her admission, as a separate measure,
was nothing less than the odious Wilmot
Proviso 1" in another form :" but il tackled