Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-19
From tie Nississippian.
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gdru 10 certain personal matters. It closed, to my
entire satisfaction, with my publication of the 9th
ult. The Senator himself having wisely declined
a reply to that which was unanswerable With
this dispute Of Senator Foote | am dcne; not
! word more is necessary. The facts are before
the public, and am not uneasy, as to public opin-
ion, concerning the actors in the transaction
But for you. sir, the '.rnan Friday of Ernator
Foote, L have word. In my controversy with
Senator Foote, being purely personal one the
Editors of the Mississippian, who are gentlemen,
have mtertered not at all, though my personal
friends. On former occasion, you thrust YOUR
! tongue into that which concerned You not a sec
ond time you have done so, though refrainet
from noticing you; your principal has ingoriousy
fled the field, yet have you made yourself busy in
matter of highly delicate nature, proud to per
form service for which his conscience was not pre-
pared. In SO doing, you have forgotten the die
tates of prudence, and discarded the claims of
truth in your ambitions eageYness to do the dirtT
work of your master.
To prove your capacity for the part assumed by
you, and, perhaps, properly assigned to you, you
have, at the outset, volunteered the ready false
hood, that my cards issued for political eff
feet" They were persono5, and we're so inten-
ded. Senator Fooe has political sins to answer
for OF a far more heinous nature than any wrong
done me, for which he is on trial, and must
answer
Pleased at your success, you then utter the un-
qualified falsehood that there sis no real conflict
between Grneral Foote and Major Hunts state
ment." Both before the public. 1t can
Judge. have before paralleled them. shaTf
not do SO again. Were you really in search of
truth, | might; but to commend the truth to YOU
would emphatically be to least pearls before
sacine."
But you say that, ''oriyfnally, both cards as
signed the object for Gen. Foote'S call upon
me, but that the reason for the oIjec was ditier-
! ol.ss a.,
but that you overlooked Major Hunts card, and
erased the statement. Now Foote and Hunt
conflict; both cannot be correct You exculpate
both by thrusting yourself between them A false
hood is the result, will ever be the case when
such men as yourself are allowed to minge in the
affairs or statements of gentlemen.
have sad in former publication, that the
statement that had made myself busy in a mat
ter of highly delicate nature between Generals
Quitman and Foote, was false in any and every
sense. You say that you informed thst this
can be proved to be true against me. In so doing,
you have insinuated what you know to be false
These TIVE gentlemen had been engaged in a pu5-
fic discussion. /, among hundreds, spoke of what,
understood had been said and done in debate
So far l interfered. No further. 1 exercised
right belonging to all. If General Foote thrust
upon the public, through the medium of a speech,
'matters of highly delicate nature" the public
cannot be censured for noticing them. 1t is be
charged to his own want of delcacy and propriety,
and is not helped by prevaricatng subterfuge,
which owes its origin to the plastic conscience OF
a supple toady.
You seem to be dissatisfied, because have not
descended to particulars respecting the members
of my family who present, when Gen.
Foote burst into my private chamber. Motives of
delicacy have forbade me to say more on this sub
ject; fully appreciated, am aware, by every true
gentleman, but which, | am not surprised to see,
are lost upon the obtuse sensibiities of man who
has ever been a stranger to them in his own walk
and conversation in life.
In conclusion, let me say to you, sir, that this
controversy with you has not been sought by
You have forced it on, and stand prepared TO de
fend myself, and shall do so with firm but free
hand. Let me advise you to follow your own az
fairs. Interfere not with those who have not
wronged you. When you will do so, heed the note
of prudence and the voice of truth more nearly
than you have done in your wanton and malicious
assault upon me. 10. BELL.
Which of us Finds Favor with the N0rth!
tits fact worthy of notice that while the prn-
ciples and objects of the Southern Rights party
are denounced by the free States factious and
reasonable, the Union party greeted with SYM
pathy, encouragement and hearty well-wishes.-
The exceptions to this are trifing and of little
ment Some few of the abolitionsts We believe
have admitted the abstract right of a State 70 Sc
cede but neither the number oil theSe nor ANYTHING
they have done, entities them to be classed as an
exception, or barely So Take the press of the
North, the speeches of northern orators, the re-
solves of northern legislatures, and public meet
ings, and all other means by which northern opin-
ion is ascertaned, and it will be seen that practi
cally the whole North is unanimous in expressing
a hope of success to the Union Party of the South
We ask one to take this statement from us with
out examination. We would far sooner they would
investigate the matter for themselves for feel
certain that the truth will appear we have sta
| ted it.
! What then is to be inferred from this 1t ap-
pears to that the conclusion is, that the people
| of the north are of the opinion that the Union
Party of the South acting in furtherance of
northern principles and northern interests. In
this, our brethren of the north may be mistaken,
but ii will be one of the rare instances in which
their sagacity has failed them, when calculating
the chances of the profits to themselves We ask
our readers and our friends of the Union party to
look at this matter for themselves, and reject ON
It. Not to take some insulated scrap in regard to
the doctrine of secession as an evidence of north
ern sentiment but to look at all the elements which
go to make up public opinion, and express the
wishes of the north. In another column We give
some extracts which are illustrative OF what We
have been sayng-MddisonidR.
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Two the b'hoys passing up street yesterday.
were interruptedin their conversation, IN front OF
one ofour churches, where they observed man.
i tugging away Justify at the bell-roPe. Il say,
p;1I, ono 10 tbo sdon't that bell tol-