Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-06-07
Col, Jefferson Davis.

COL Jefferson Davis.
By reference to the proceedings OF the Convention
held in this county last Saturday twill be perceiv
ed that our delegates the Jackson Convention are
instructed to use all honorable means to secure the
nomination of Col. jeff Davis as a candidate for Gov
ernor. We have not time to prepare such atGle,
setting forth all the points desire at this late
hour on this subject. We must touch point or two
they being in the Judgment of most men, sufficient
justification of our convention.
What has given rise the two parties in Mssis: ip
pi We the result of the committee of thir-
teen, raised chiefly by the exertion of Gen. Foote-I
The result of that committee the passage by the
Congress of six distinct bills, to wit The fugitive
bill the bill for the admission of California State
the partition of Texas and the payment by the federal
government of ten millions of dollars to Texas for the
territory ceded; the abolition of the slave trade in
the federal district; and the two territorial bills for Utah
and New Mexico. These measures gave rise to warm
debates, and our Congressional delegation acted as
unit almost the whole time in opposition to these
measures In the Senate the was different. One
Senator opposed and the other defended these meas
One contended that his constituents would ss-
tain him. the other made an issue that point, and
the glove cast down in the chamber of the Senate
of the United States, to be taken up in Mississippi
The friends of Gen Foote have presented him-thev
have offered fight this battle by putting the leader
forward-they offer no proxy. The friends of the
compromise measures court the ssue-thev stand by
their leader and present his for endorsement or
dsapproval.
Col Davis is the natural opponent of Gen Foote on
these measures-t was he who accepted the challenge
to meet the issue made up in the Senate before the
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sire proxy they content to risk the cause of
Southern Rights in the hands of Davis.
If Col. Davis is the nominee, there is an open issue
and the record ofspeech and vote comes up between
the two candidates. and the people can then say def
nitey at the balobox whether they acquesce or not
in the compromise measures. We know that the peo-
pie dsnclned permit side issues to be raised by
Gen Foote with other gentlemen, and if Col Davis is
the nominee there be side issues got I'D to draw
the attention ofthe people off of the direct questions to
be decided at the ballot-box.
We will further say that this opinion has become
fixed in the public mind, to wit to put forward the
men in each district for Congress who met and
opposed those bills. Brown, Melville Featherston.
and Thompson have all been put forward without op-
position from any quarter.
The friends of Gov. Quitman must not misunder-
stand the people-they do intend to cast him over
board. But between Gov. Quitman and Gen Foote.
an issue almost personal is made up-an issue HAVING
relevancy to the contest. The issue not union
disunion, secession not secession. 1t is tame
gnOmnious submission to a series ofunust measures
or constitutional resistance Gen. Foote NAV make
up many issues as he pleases with Gov. Quitman-
the people not called on to decide whether Gov
O. isa disunonis secessionst, or anything else The
opinions of Gov. O., he is responsible for, and Gen
r is now satisfied that they need defence by any
friend of Gov Quitman's The people have no inter-
est in the private opinions of any man they have an
interest however, in the of their Senators and
congressman, and the laws they aid in enacting are
more important to them than a knowledge whether
Gov. Quitman is for or against secession. They have
more interest in knowing all about the abolition of the
slave trade in the federal district its ultimate effect
and what consideration the South got for the ten mil
lions paid to Texas &c. &c. than to learn the private
opinions and pledges of President Fillmore and his
whole cabinet to generation of compromsers. The
people are aroused and they will permit no side issues
in this campaign.
W we have seen statement recently going the
rounds ofthe papers to the effect that Is negroes had
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