Southern standard., 1851-06-14
FOOte on Henry CLAW,

The efrontery of Senator Foote is remarkable, in
fact there is not in the State entirely free of
sensibity he is To those who have taken the least
pains to keep themselves informed as to his public
e; his speech here presents most amusing study
and it may'wel be questioned, if its parallel be
produced. He took general crack, as Capt. =. b.
Starke would say, all creation. Gov. Guion, Gen.
Qutman, and the rest of mankind in for share
of his tinie and attention. He paid passing compli
ments to Mangum, Dickinson, Webster, Cass and Clay
the latter gentleman particularly, he compli
mentarv in fact he was 80 eloquent that he drought
down the house, in long and loud applause. Well
thought We, how easy are gulled. Here are they
appauding to the very echo, who has assailed
Henry Clay with more bitterness, vituperation and
backguard coarseness than Re ever assaed in the
Senate Of the U: States. They hang upon his every
gesture, and listen his every word, thought we'll
ed up from heart that had ever beat with admiration
the object ofthe paIeygric Can it be possible that
those gentlemen who appauded Toote for his eulogy
on Clay, knew that he had coupled that statesnans
name with the abolitionists Garrison and Phillips
content even with this outrage upon decency, he
included the Free Negro, Fred Douglass Yett is true
What assurance Foote has He minds nothing of
assailing gentleman in the morning and euogizing
him in the eyeningif It is for his interest he could
scarcely avoid it, It's natural-itsa occur
with himhs history is of such material polti-
cally.
To prevent his peculiar friends charging US of injus-
tce give extract from the Senators speech, and
invite to the whole oft careful attention because it
prOUeS Foote conscientious man-here it is.
''On several occasions in Congress, the honora-
BILE Senator has been known IN former years TO ex-
hibit himself more or less as decided disapproyer
of he Of oaStic in +,o
Last summer he took another step, and recon-
merded to the people of Kentucky, in deeply in
teresting letter, the adoption of system OF pro-
spectlve emancipation. The publication of this
letter brought on contest in that State, which
was waged heatedly and actively for several
months, and not without some bloodshed but
which happily terminated in the utter defeat OF
this plan of emancipation. A short time since, the
Free-Soilers of Ohio, and believe of several 9TH
er States, held convention at Cleveland at which
they adopted resolutions more Objectionable to the
South than any which had antecedently appeared
A committee of this convention wrote letter tc
the honorable Senator from Kentucky, to which
he replied, approving fully the objects of their as
semblage, and giving his assent to their genera
doctrines. Such was the predicament of the hon
orable Senator when he among us at th
session; and what has been his course here
Why, sir, feel bound to admit that the honora
BILE Senator has been quite consistent. His frs
important movement the introduction of hi
resolutions of compromise. And what are thes
resolutions Why, one of them is formally dc
clarative of the hated Wilmot Proviso principle
another brings in California another, by ine1ita
BILE implication, asserts the power of Congress t,
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia anoth
er proposes to abolish the slave trade in the Dis
trict of Columbia and all this is to be conceded
by the South withoutany compensating advantage
whatever | am certainly not great deal sur
prised chat such terms of adjustment should hav
been brought forward by the honorable Senate
from Kentucky taking into consideration the event
OF this public life already referred to but sha
certainly always remain unable to perceive in hi
resolutions any of the features of genuine com
promise.
=, ana what sort of speech was that by whic
1lese resolutions were accompanied Why, sir
undertake to say, that there is more in the senti
me"S ana language Of that speech to mortify south
er" senS'0'If'es' to awaken Dissatisfaction, and
Pro0o6e resentment, too, as aoeH aaono all acho ar
not quite convinced as am Of the pur;ty of the hon
0ra6le Senator'S motives, than find in am speec
OF professed obOltioniSts, not excepting The far
famed Garrison, and Phillips and Douolass-
Certainly no speech at all approximatine to tbi
one OF the honorable Senator from Kentucky ba