Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-09-20

turer Judgment.
AS to the opinions of my colleague, know him
too well to doubt that he says what he THINKS
know him well enough to be assured that his ex-
citabltv has led him into error in relation to this
matter Wien he and oisa oar constituents al
the short period to which he refers, lie oiH fr'd
schere public opinion is.
Mr.. FOOTE. l hope the Chair will bear with
me while making a single remark. / am perfect
B agiZIiag 10 abide Jy the decision TO whsch "y col
ieqque refers And [ am willing to leave TO the
Senate and to the country to decide whether he OF
am the more 'sexctable' man of the two.
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The Independent Candidate for Governor.
Col jeff Davis is an Independent candidate for Gov
ernor of Mississippi He has submitted his name to
the people without the intervention of clques
ventions and he stands forward neither the advo
cate nor the defender of this that platform He is
therefore free and untrammeed, and he enters the
canvass for an APPROVAL or a DISAPPROVAL,I
of his Senatorial career He asks the people to say
through the baot-box whether Senator, he has at
any time, or in any form, demanded in their name,
for the State of Mississippi the South, any right,
privilege or immunity, that not strictly fair, just
and Constitutional He asks them to say through the
ballo-box whether he has bartered, compromised
Welded up any right, privilege immunity belonging
to the people of the State of Mississippi, to the
South, as United States Senator. He asks them to
say whether he has guarded and defended the Const
tuition of this Union He asks them to say if he has
been derect in the discharge of his whole duty to the
institutions of the the South, if his Senatorial
reer has tended to strengthen the abolition influences to
warm, aid and embolden fanatcism to repress and
limit slavery and above and beyond all to exclude
Shareholders from entering and enjoying in common TIE
territory purchased by the blood and treasure of the
whole nation These the questions he puts to the
Peope-these are the questions, felowctizens, you
e will decidoat the ballot-box in November next.
IfCoI Davis has but done what he so calamity and
herocly did upon the battle field at Buena Vsta-de-
Tended the rights and the honor of his country-f he
spurned the bribe the compromise and the base bar
gain ake-and planted himself upon the constitution
and the rights of the South, and bid defiance that
spirit of aggression which has controlled National
e council for many months past is there so base
II 50 mean and contemplate in the State desire
ot degrade him We never believe that the true
J. Republican feeling feeling which springs from the
heart of the American patriot, and swels the breast
/ the sincere and manly-w ever far degenerate in
? Mississippi to strike from the brow of Col Davis
one wreath placed there by the hands of the fair anc
brave throughout the Union.
What shall it be said in after times, that MISSISSIPPI
pi deserted and degraded one of her public servants
. for having Faithfully and Honestly INDICATED the
quality of his State For having demanded Justice
the name ofhs constituency. For having refused t.
barter their rights under the constitution away for
I'd national reputation. For having refused to snbmi
lc to an exclusion that was discriminating and unjust
G. Shall it be said, ask, that Mississippi thus treats
d her public men! We cannot so believe, nor will we
Il until the ballot-box reveals and confirms it.
Up What we ask, is it, that prompts the representative
to discharge truly and faithfully, his duty to his con
a. stituents 1t is that he may receive from their lips
ie Well done thou good and faithful servant 1t is al
approval which the faithful and true aspire to receive
and the generous and rejecting are ever willing to ex
tend Strike this approval from therecord of the pub
e lie servant and you away the most potent leve
for depressing the demagogue and the political knave
But has it to this, that price is to set upol
political terpitude aud national knavery! Have thos
! who manifest willing zeal to barter and bargain
and for national reputation sell the public domain
the South to the anatcism of the North to be alon
honored, trusted and confded in If so, there can b
little hope for the success of Jefferson Davis in sue
contest, there is for the future preservation G
the Union the safety OF the institution of Slavery
&C politics is to be reduced to a science and the basi
of it barter the South will have thousand foot
the Vi WOULD De capable OF cheating
L. Jew in trade. It is not too late to prove to tn
nj world that Mississippi is not yet sold
r. If she does SUBMIT to the Bargain or Compromis
+. as final Adjustment, we are not willing to beHev
h. that she APPROVES ITthat if left to her own FIRE
choice she would have ACCEPTED IT We ma
e submit to many things which we may not approve
en- Wemay submit not that submission makes that whc
10 is submitted to right but that resistance might hazar
~ more than was proper. But this is approving c
l. the evil submitted to- This is the point in issue be
- tween Davis and Foote. They both submit to tn
III compromise, but one disapproves and the other az
is proves of the measure, themselves. Col Davis :
ed SENATOR only disapproved ofthe compromise ea
lie ures, but endeaVored defeat them Senator Foot
not only approved of those measures but he aided an
ly assisted in enacting them Here as the reader wi
nc see, is line darkly and clearly drawn between tbe
-, two gentlemen Before the people they appear, an
:, each asks to be sustained and approved
r. The question for the people to determine is this
e. Do you approve ofthe compromise measures and ,oo
Of o~ haze Uod for them separate and distinct measures
p II you aood not, as ii right to cote against COL Dan
a. Tor doing as you would have done
ty
n COL jefferson Davis and the Columbus Demo
ar Graf.
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~ back the curtain which is suspended between the Pre-
ent and the Past and to see how the opnion and M