Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-05-10

Bdle-WnOSe CldTdcteTS, puOHC private, are
spotless purity tself-and whose whole lives
have been illustrated and adorned by the practice
of all those virtues which bespeak the patriot, phi
lantropist, and the christian. This sir, is the he
roic cheftain who, when far distant from the OBJ
iects of his hostility, denounces them as traitors
disunionists, and Williams and threatens, on get
ting sight of them in the Senate house, to demol
ish them forever; but who, when he gets here
once more among us, is either mysterously and
stocally silent or, assuming truly lamb-like
meekness of aspect and of manner, and a soft
nasutty of intonation, is to round the
Senate Chamber as gently any sucking dove"
1t will be hard to find record speech delivered
by any public that more fully successfully inn
peaches the consistency and political character of the
author than the above. The denunciations launched
against the Missouri Senator, will apply with
trenchant and powerful force to Senator Foote him
self Weare not called on to denonce Senator Foote
His present compared with his former attitude, deny
to us that privilege, were we inclined to embrace it.
But the reader is requested to note with what vru-
lence Mr., Foote bears down on Benton-there is will
that warns with the subject, and as the Mississippi
rounds off one sentence, he up with re-
newed energy and opens up another until at the clcse
the good old Saxon apparently too weak and imperfect
to express his "deep damnation, he sweeps into the
classics by the way Inappropriate finale.
But reader do not overlook the miniature bnst of the
Mississippi senator in the reference made by him to
the remark of John Randolph on 'instructons.'' Mr.
Benton was under instructions from his state legsla-
ture at that time-Nr Foote is now under instructions
from his state Legislature and is in fair way to be n
structed OUT John Randolph ''used to say.'
Here Mr.. Benton left his seat, walked towards
the door of the Senate Chamber, and passed rap
idly through it. See, Mr. President, he flies as
did those same deluded sons of Africa among
whom his cloquence is reported to have awakened
a regular stampede. He escapes me Just as | was
about to compare him to that degenerate Roman
senator, whom Cicero once addressed in language
that will never perish, eXclaiming in the hearing
of such men Caesar, and Cato, and Brutus,
with majestic cadence "Qu0uSque tandem abutere
Catline nostra petientia !' AS Tullv said of that
same degenerate Roman, | feel that l can say
now, in behalf of myself and of my friends, in
relation to him who has Just departed from our
presence, ''Tandem aliquando Quirites, L. Catili-
nam furentem audacia, scelus anhelantem peSteDe
porj@ netarie motientem vobjs atQue huic ur6 fir
ruDe famman9ue ninitantem ex urbe, vel ejecineus,
vel emissmus, vel iosun egredientem ger6is prose-
cutj suneus." | may well add: ''1biG-crcessu
-e0asit-erupHH
To prevent confusion and give the reader such facts
necessary expose the consistency of Mr. Foote
we give three articles of the bill for the reduction of
the limits ofTexas, as it became law. Here they
are.
FTrst.-Thc State of Texas will agree that her
boundry on the north shall commence at the point
at which the meridian of one hundred degrees west
from Greenwich is intersected by the parallel of
thirty degrees thirty minutes north latitude,
and shall run from said point due west to the me-
ridian of one hundred and three degrees west from
Greenwich ; thence her boundary shall due
south the thrty-second degree of north latitude;
thence on the said parallel of thirty two degrees of
north latitude to the Rio Bravo del Norte, and
thence with the channel Of said river to the Gulf
of Mexico.
,Second-The State of Texas cedes to the Uni
ted States all her claim to territory exterior to the
limits and boundaries which she agrees to establish
by the first article of this agreement
Fourth--The United States, in consideration of
said establishment of boundaries cesSion of claim
to territory and REIMBURSEMENT of claims, will pay
to the State of Texas the sum of ten millions of
dollars in stock bearing five per cent. interest
and redeemable at the end of fourteen years, the
interest payable hafyearly at the Treasury of the
United States
We copy the following from the Fulton Monitor
in relation to speech delivered at that place, by
Col. Fontaine Read it
ssOn Tuesday, Col. Fontaine of Pontotoc, at
the request of portion of the Southern Rights
party of this county, addressed his fellow citizens
in an able speech of an hour and a half s length
in which he as heretofore disapproved of the
compromise measures and argued the necessity of
the South asserting and demanding the whole of
her rights. He showed conclusyely, that she is
more able to do so now, than she can be at any
future time, and that such demand would now
be more likely to prove successful. He alluded
to the attempt of the submission party to prevent
an investigation of present affairs by the mad-dog
cry of Dsunion, and handled them and their petty
trick without gloves. He approved of the assem-
bling of a Southern Convention or Congress, and
thought no good objection existed against it. He
argued that South Carolina had taken position
from which she could not honorably recede and
that it important to meet her in Convention,
to advise, counsel and assist her in opening away
for satisfactory and honorable settlement of the
pending question. He was fully convinced that
| if the slavehoding States assembled in Conven-
ton and made formal demand of their just
rights, that their voice would be listened to, and
their boon granted. He argued that it could not
be otherwise, as the very existence almost of the
North depended upon their union with the South,
would produce disaster and revolution throughout
the civilized world. He spoke at length of the
objects to be accomplished by the formation of the
so called Union Party of Mississippi justly ascrib
ing desire to sustain the present free-soil admin
straton with Fillmore at its head as cause of the
movement He stated explicitly that he was il
I favor of the Union, the Union which the Consti
tuition formed, and if the present one could be re