The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-05-20

an article Ia toe last Wilkinson Wing, bead.
ed The Union Ticket"
HGeu. Foots has done nobly IN s~aer6aag
BIZ place ~ Senator to bear the State Union
banner in the coming contest. and we believe
the Union party viii rally ohis support as one
man"
Now, what the Wing means by thus say
ing that "Gen Foole has done nobly insac-
n6cing his place as Senator" will, we think
puzzle amy one 10 determine. How has
Gen. Foote sacrificed his place as Senator?
Has he resigned, or in any other way vaca-
ted the office! The Wing knows that he
Is not. 1t also well knows he does not in
tend to resign or give it up, unless he is cleo
ted Governor and if he is not elected to
that office, (Which the Wing ought to know
he will not BEL he will go OF and take his
seat as Senator in the Congress Of the Uni
ted States. Why then did our neighbor ex-
press himself in the paragraph we have
quoted from the Wing, in such a manner as
TO have the inference that Gen. Foote was
no longer United States Senator from Mis-
sissippi that he had sacrificed, lie. reIin-
pushed, j. e. resigned the office We can
come 10 no other conclusion from the Ian
guage used by the Wing, in saying that
/" Gen. Foote has done nobiy in sacrificing
his place as Senator" Perhaps the Wing
can if so, we should like very much to see
how it docs IT,
Again, there is something further, very
remarkable in this same paragraph we have
quoted from the Wing, where our neighbol
says, "Gen. Foote has sacrificed, &C., &c
bear the State Union (Whig) Banner in the
coming contest, and we believe the Unior
(Whig) party will rallyto his support as on,
man." Now when we recollect that Gen
Footc still pretends and Justify claims to b,
a democrat Of the first water, but is nomi
mated by the wing convention of this Stat,
for Governor, and is running as the viii:
candidate for that office at the next election
! We think all must agree there is some
thing rotten in Denmark" And we cal
but think that the situation of our irien
the Wilkinson Wing is made to appear pc
culiarly ridiculous when we place in juxta
position its opinions and declarations in re
ference to the contemplate, ~locofoco IL. S
-
d Foote, of May 1850, and what it now say
y of the Hon. Henry Stewart Foote, in Ma
: 1851, in the paragraph we have quote
above. Certainly nothing could show strong
or evidence Of Foote's treason.
4 Speaking Of the affair between Foote an
I. Benton in the Senate, April II, 1850. Th
Wing says;
"The disgrace Of violating good order, goo
: manners, aud the dignity becoming the Sena
70 is to be shared by Foote and Benton, il is co
temptible in two venerable men to bring the
- personal hates and bitterness in the highe
" place in the country, Foote is most TO blan
ie in the matter he disgraced himself and vi
nd lated the prophecies Of the Senate chamber |
calling a fellow Senator a BLACKBOARD. III
~ age, intellect and services of Benton shon
II. not protect him. Foote has no claims to
rs diligence" Wilkinson Wig, Nay 3, 1850.
The Wing of May 10th, 1851. says
"Gen. Foote has done nobly in s~acrificii
to his place as Senator, to bear the State Uni,
10 (Whig) Banner in the coming contest, and '
in believe the Union (Whig) party will rally to
n. support as one man,