Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-26


from the fiery pest of Hale and Seward into the
supple laquey of that arch freesoiler Henry Clay.
Every body recolects the continuous torrent of Vi
tuperation that poured from his lips, upon the
head of fanaticism and even scathed the great pa
ctcator himself and it is hoped, that no one will
forget the Benton paraelism, from which he gil
ded into the position of disgraceful hostility to
his own immediate constituents-and bartering
away their rights for the llusory prospect of ma
tional fame.
In connexion with any other person, this posi-
ton of things would seem strange and unaccoun-
table--but with him we have the key, and the
whole is at once explained. Circumstances had
reduced him to strait, and the wheel of fortune
had rolled him upon great political necessity.
Senator Davis had been elected from the South
his glorious deeds on the battlefelds as well as
in the councils of the Nation, left hope for the
little pacifcator in that quarter.
We believe he had not then spoken of resi-
dence in Columbus or Tishamingo, and chanced at
that time, to live in the same section of the State
with Davis.
The North had been claiming the Senator for
several years, and were daily growing more and
more impatient, under the postponement of what
she conceived to be her right Foote'S seat was
rapidly giving way, hissenatorial honors departing
and another soon to succeed him.
He appreciated the accident that elected him be-
fore, and saw the full force of that current of e.
vents, which were so rapidly bearing him away
from the democratic choice, into the peaceful
shades of private life. How could he arrest this
tide without breaking things? Thatwas the ques
ton and it could not be answered
Under the old whig organization, he knew he
could reasonably expect nothing For that party
had men by scores, that were every way prefera-
bic to him, and in whose favor he was conscious
that they would set him aside Indeed both of the
old political parties knew the Gen. SO well-he had
passed from one to the other, and returned so re-
peatedly-he had lounged and loafed upon both so
often until actually he had dosttheirrespect and con-
fdence, and his presence was unwelcome with eth
er. Thus circumstanced with his Unsuitable thirst
for Office and his unbounded ambition to figure in
the public eye, the temptation came, Mr.. Clay the
beaten broken down freesoiler approached him,
the serpent coiled his seductive folds about him..
POAi0iNoA
doubt the handspring of that fatal change A
new order of things must be brought about his
days numbered, and his political would set
in defeat
A new issue must be started; Clay and Foote
set about the task. Their political fortunes are at
stake, and how shall they stop the downward ten
dency of things? Union platform is erected,
they mount it and now impudently call the Ameri
can people, to take position by their side--impu-
IDENTIFY ask the people of the South, whom they
have misrepresented and wronged, whose inter-
ests and rights they have compromised away to
JOIN them in the hollow shout of Hosanna to I'm
ion-nor The Union of our Revolutionary ancestry,
but the Union of Clay and Foote.
A Union for ofice-a Union pledged to op-
pose and put down all those who dare open their
mouths and speak forth the robbery and foul in
justice of the adjustment scheme Senator Foote
occupies at present, position where the old par
ty cast aways the refuse of the old democrat par
ty, and the federal portion of the old whig party,
can meet and cooperate. He is neither whig
nor democrat-but consolidationist
The genuine Southern whig, is good States
Rights man. Foote denies the right ofpeaceful Sc
cession, natural eminaton of sovereignty, a
right recognized in and reseved by the the FEEDER
al compact to the States-a right not parted with
and the retention of which constituted the condi-
ton upon which the States accede to the Unionthe
faYorite doctrine of tconsohdationists, of what
ever party or name and one that should be held
sacred by the South, in this the hour of her peril
and humility.
He repudiates the Virginia resolutions written
by Madison and the Kentucky resolutions, writ
ten by Thomas Jefferson the great apostle of de-
mocracy Everybody knows that these resolu-
tons are the sheet anchor of the Democratic faith
and the main pillar of its hope
But he does not stop here, in order to give his
position real full blooded Websterian cast and to
strike from the complexion of his political charac
ter the last democratic hue, he goes further and by
his conduct not denies the right instruction, only
right held sacred by the party ofwhich he claims
to be member, and for refusal to practice which
he gave Benton such a severe lashng, but has abb
solutely, pledged himself, to oppose and put down
any one, whoshall dare to question the propriety
of his conduct as representative, by attempting
to disturb any portion ofthe late Compromise swim
de-
Thus denying to the people, the poor pitiful rem
nant of right left them, that of complaining of in
Justice in Fadarol of