Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-08-16
CDLU NJ B U S:
wednesday Morning, Aug. Is, 1851.
Natchez Courier Rec0rd--SenatOr FOOte
and the AbOlitiOniStS.

Tho Nstcbez Courier of the 1st inst, contains
ho+ nnrnorts to be a defence of Foote for having
voted with the abolitionsts the bill for the aboli-
,;op of the slave trade in the District of Columbia
The Courier takes the occasion to defend Foote by
showing that the Memphis Appeal has made several
CHARGES against Foote and that one is party true and
partly false = and that the next charge "s most
nalpable and egregous error and the Courier appeals
70 the record to establish the TRUTH Here is the
language of the Appeal quoted by the Courier.
'.Sufice it to say that Gen. Quitman, during his
sneech showed three distinct instances IN which
Senator Foote had voted with the free -soilers and
abolitionsts The first proposition to lay the DIS
trict of Columbia bill upon the table, which was
test vote and decided the fate of the bill; the Sc
coad ON motion to strike ou the Objectionable tea-
t,re from that BILL making the freedom Of the StdUe
the penalty for the violation Of the lar, and the
third on the motion of Senator Davis to abolish the
Mexican laws prohibiting slavery IN the territories
against all Of oyhich motions ne Voted ac'th oe"0r"
Hale d. CO..
The Courier says the frs charge is that Fooe vot-
.3 in companv with Seward and Hale against mo-
tion TO Law the District slave trade bill on the table,
The reader will notice that the Courier has failed to
state the hole charge-it shouldbe stated thus FoOe
voted with Selrard Hale d Co. to lay said bill on the
table The Courier admits that Foote voted against
LAYING the bill the table, but it deries that he voted
with aSeward and Hale for the record shows that
they did not that prOpositon-but 1t fails to say
that he voted with the Coparers of these men as the
Memphis paper charges. Chase, Ewing,.Davi OF
Mass and Baldwin regarded as abolitionists' and
it will be seen that Foote voted with them-here Is
the record.
SLAVE TRADE IN THE D. OF COLUMBIA:
Mr. CLAY. Before preceding to the orders OF
the day desire the Senate to take up the Dill 10
supuress the slave trade in the District OF Column
bia. for the purpose of fixing early day for Its
consideration.
The motion was agreed to, and the bill was TAX
en- up.
Mr.. CLAY The bill being before the Senate
I wish to propose such day as will be most agree
able to the Senate move that it be made The
special order ofMonday next, at twelve o CLOCK:
Mr.. FOOTE | am in favor of that motion, bu
mold M my hand an amendment which desH'
10 present, In order yaat Ii may De printed.
The amendment was or5ere1JO be pllhled.
.Rlr. REAECE. also have an aulead"en
which desire TO submit to the Senate Iof IN
M r-5er.l-asa5 was received Informally, an
ordered to be printed.
Mr.. ATCHISON Mr.. President, by way OF
test vote IN relation to this bill, L move to lay
upon the table, and on that motion call lor 'n
yeas and nays
The yeas andnays were ordered and being ts
ken were:
YEAS-Messrs Atchison, Barnwel, Berriel
Butler Davis of Mississippi, Dawson, Down
Houston, Hunter, Mason, Pratt, Rusk Sebastian
Soue, Turney, and Yulee-l6
NAYS-Messrs Badger, Baldwin, Bell, Be
ton. Bradbury, Bright, Cass, Chase, Clarke, Cl
Cooner. Davis of Massachusetts,, Dayton, Dicki
son. Dodge of Wisconsin, Dodge, OF Iowa, Dou
las Ewing, Felch, Foote Greene, Hamlin, Jont
King, Mangum, Pearce, Phelps, Shields, Sml'
SnrHance Sturgeon Underwood, Upham, W al
Winthrop, and Whitsomb-36.
So the bill was not laid upon the table.
The Courier SAYS, after mentioning King and tn
other Southern Senators as having voted win I o'
that sal the Senator's from Maryland, Kentucky
Delaware voted with Foote. This is simply untr
The record above proves it untrue Let the C00r
when it undertakes to correct in another sh
give the facts itself.
The Courier says in extenuation of the vote of Fe
that summary rejection by "the Senate OF the
trict bill, which was one of the compromise measu
would of course have been fatal to the success IN
House of the Southern measures before it." The
rier is the first Southern paper we have seen mpu'
enough to charge that the compromise were SOut
measures-the California bill was before the HI
then, and that too, according to the Courier wa
Southern Measure
The next charge is that Foote voted against S
ing out the Objectionable feature from that bill /
inc the freedom of the slave the penalty for the
ton of the law.'' This is the language of the
phis paper but the Courier states the charge
@On the 10th of Sept, Mr. Pearce OF l., Mar.
moved TO amend the District slave trade DILL gy
ing out the clause making the freedom OF the 81 slaS
penalty, and by subtitutng therefor hne OF SoO
The Courier says that Foote voted in the affrm
and Seward in the negative. on this prop0s'f'on
is true-but the Courier fails to state that FOOT
ted to retain the section containing the "Pe'a0tty
freedom of the slave for the violation OF the la"
the Courier desired to deal fairly, and present tne
as they exist, why did it not state the whole cas-
not like Jesuit, suppress the truth in order TO c.
an adversary of propogating errors, when the 81
matter on which the charge is made is OF recor
is true in fact Let it answer
Seward, Chase and Ewing voted to retain tn'
section with Foote, and that section contains
penalty" But here is the record, and it susta
Memphis paper.