Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-06-14
A small foote measuredby dealer IL Small
Wares,

Senatorial harlequin paid this town visit on Satur
dav last AS usual when such shows are advertised,
and it is generally known that so distinguished,
not only as a clown but BLACKBOARD and bully is to
exhibit himself crowd collected to witness his antics
and hear his vaporing The spiritual knockers were
there and distinguished themselves not less than their
iustrious performer to whom they seemed to bear
double relation of gmasters musicians Asusu-
al too the clown of the occasion seemed to have been
indicted into the small gossip of his latitude, and
wonderfully did he delight his instructors by his mar
,ouS reproduction of the items and new tricks with
which he had been kindly furnished. Nor did he de-
light himself less by informing his audience of his own
importance Why he told the crowd who listened to
him that he had been all the way to New York,
and Philadelphia make speeches-this is fact
The friends of Webster, Clay and Cass were anx-
ious exhibit him the country that they doubt
urged him CO. They knew the people were anxious
to see the man who boasts that he made that old
ster r. H Benton "scamper,' he classically says,
from the Senate chamber. The people of New York
had curiosity see the that misrepresented Mis-
sissppi that had turned the Senate chamber the u
States into sort of cock pit in which pistols instead
of arguments presented-they wanted to see the
whose vuperave tongue had assailed and attemp-
ted insult of their Senatorsthey wantedto see
the man who said if needed he would aid in hanging
United States Senator ifhe visited Mississippi There
strange curiosity manifested to the General
and there can be no doubt that Clay, Cass, and Web
ster who are known to be polite men, desired that the
reputation of Mississippi should be further blackened
and knowing the levty of Foote'S tongue, the expan
sibty of his conscience through their friends had him
invited to speak well knowing as they did, he could
address audience any subject without striking at
and denouncng the truest and best in the State
which had honored him. and which he now endeavor
ing pass over to the tender mercies of abolition
majority.
The submission harlequin said that chapman as de-
fined by photographers, meant dealer in small
- the General will speak the truth sometimes and the
public will award to him the credit of having defined
the word properly, for Chapman is dealer in small
wares--he has to deal with small men and small
measures-even a toote, the smallest possible vulgar
fraction in the shape off Senator in America and
the smallest measure of genteman-his own evil
dence not being admtted-that struts within the bor-
ders of this State.
The Senator spoke of the Standard and seemed de-
sirous of knowing what it a standard of-morals
religion politics. 1t makes pretension to the
possession of morality than its neighbors
religion ntereres with it politics at least
is standard of truth Unlike the Senator its stand
ard is not fixed by sliding scae,-s assertions of
to-day not proved faLsehoodS the day following
The Senators assurances given in 1913 may be forgot
ten by many, but of his present admirers now
may remember when acting against him democrat
they asserted that they would not believe him oath
and to freshen their memory and expose his moral
Standard he asserted that he had private assurances
that the Missouri compromise line would be to the
Pacific. The proved false-they false
and the Senator knows it. But his standard of moral
ltyfts itself to circumstances with peculiar ease For
instance he asserted that in four river counties, com
mencng with Adams the State Rights party would
not get tooo hundred and fifty roeS. VIII any
sert that he believed Foote told the truth or that Foote
believed himself lchat he uttered? He stated that in dis
membering Texas they cut off population opposed tc
slavery feared by the people of Texas-he fur
Their stated that 'we, -referng Congress ofcourse
had been urged to rid Texas of them" Is there q
word Of truth in this of Senator Foote'S =
But says this moral Senator whose love of truth is SC
keen, we paid Texas Sl0,00O,O0O, for a few barren
acres of land, Texas got rid of population opposel
to slavery" as believed and then went on to pror
that he had not told the truth because the land haC
not been dedicated to freeso but to slave institutions
This is the way Senator Foote makes slave territory
f he finds population in slave State opposed to sla
very he aids a free-soil majority in Remembering
that slave State by cutting off the population "opposec
to slavery, pays the State millions of dollars anC
then that although the population "opposeC
to slavery the dismembered territory will become ;
slave State.
He said he fool for voting for the line of 36>
, 30. We wont deny this. But was he an ass or ;
knave for proposing the line of $50 So which he did
He says slavery 60 up to the 42nd degree nortf
latitude, but declares the abotonsts voted down the
proposition to permit it 60 up $50 3d. or $50 80
But such is the high moral standard of the Senator tina
we shall only say he failed to prove his Statement
true. He said the question in this State is secess
ion or submission-these his exact words W.
undertake to say that the written history of the State
will convict him of deliberately asserting what canno
be proved.
In the language of the Senator .we mean no offence
none-we resort not to revilement and abuse though
we be assailed by travelling missionaries and editors
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0FFoote in his speech here the other day announc
ed that the Standard small affair-said its editor
had mistaken his calling and that he had better 90 t.
freezing icicles for living The editor of the
standard may have mistaken his calling, but if So he
is not alone in this msfortune-a Just appreciation
of his true worth would sink the Senator into circu:
clown or stage Jester, position both morally and So
caly much better suited his taste and genius The
Senator said that the Standard would excite no one
The Senator did not seem to be excited did he He
spent about fourth of his speech nrngng his Jokes
the Standard, its editor and postion-he want excited
though That STANDARD, its editor the iccle freez