The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-22

The Senator from Mississippi has failed in
pressing his proposition to vote previous to his
departure. 1t is understood that he leaves to-
day for Mississippi to assume his gubernatorial
duties, and possibly to resume his place on the
no-party Union platform, laid down by him
month since at Montgomery. To be a thorough
paced party man at Jackson Hall, in this city, and
a no-party manin Mississippi, leaning on Wing
support, would be difficult position for most
politicians to occupy-but is AIN easy feat for
Mr.. FoorE-who is everything by fits, and no.
thing long" The position of Mr.. COBB, in
Georgia, though in some respects similar to that
of Mr.. FOoTE, is by no means 80 bad, since he
was elected through combination of similar
influences, and never strongly committed to
the opposition, has, since his election, prudently
held his place, and the Union organization in his
State still keeps it's organization But silence
is an impossibilty with some individuals When
DIR. JOHNSON spoke of some one as "a terrific
engine of colloquial oppression," he must have
had in his eye just such spouter of wordy cat
aracts as the Senator from Mississippi He
must speak in place and out of place, in season
and out of season-he must keep contradicting
everybody, himselfincluded, all the time: and on
the slightest solicitation or pretext pop up and
make personal explanations"
Keenly susceptible to the impressions ofthe mo
ment and of the passing scene, he reflects always
the color of the objects around him. Hence, the
personal explanation" at Montgomery required
an expiration of twenty years, on the part of the
Northern Democracy, before he and his friends
could touch it-and before many more DAYS hat
expired, the same shrill voice wakes the echoe
of Jackson Hall with renewed pledges of fdelit,
and assurances of past, present, and future allie
glance to it alone. But, before Mr. FoorE made
his finale in the Senate, he had to undergo the
torture of cross-examination, and make another
series of personal explanations" in relation &c
his zigzag course, which stripped off all his film
sy pretexts of consistency or patriotic purpose
and sends him back TO his generous Wing
friends, without a rag to cover his political ma.
kedness. Provoking an encounter with the
Senators from South Carolina, he has been most
signally exposed and shown up in his true colors
to"the whole country, as one of the most perfect
political weathercocks that ever pointed due
South in the morning, and due North in the
afternoon. In fact, like The dancing girls of the
East his revolutions have been so rapid as to
dazzle the eye and almost bewilder the percep.
ton. In the short space Of eighteen months he
has been States Rights Democrat Southern
Rights, parti-colored Compromise, Great I'm
ion" party, semi-Webster and Wing, no party
Constitutional Union and various other thing
too numerous to mention and lastly, has claimed
to be an unauthorized Democrat, taking as th
cardinal article Of that faith the Proclamation
and Force Bill of Gen. JACKSON.
The simultaneous appearance of the Union
leader on that subject, and Mr. FoorE's pronun
ciamento on the same, looks a little singular. {
Mr.. FooTE, and such Democracy as that preache
up by the Union, every genuine States Right
and anti Consolidation man may well pray to b
delivered AS we predicted a short time sine,
MI. II ooIt enuiilB mas Dten ike unto MS be
ginning this session. failure His firebran
resolution has only burnt his own hngers-hi
assaults on others resulting in his own exposur
and utter discontinue. The more Justify an,
generously his voice has been elevated, the fur
Their the lions skin has slipt of, and the rea
character of the sound, and the source fror
which it emanated, been understood lie ha
come, seen, but not conquered. He goes an
warm wishes go with him that he may
depart, like Ajuct, never to return"
And with reference to his absence, we, and a
other lovers of peace and quiet, and commo
courtesy may well breathe the aspiration,
ESQ Perpetua.
The Compromise Resolution.