Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-06-14
A Sketch by a Rough Artist.

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The times demand that rough work be done, anu We
are decidedly of the opinion that the man VINO shrhAS
from full discharge of his duty now, deserves neither
reenect nor sympathy. We for Selling the produ-
Of the discord among and exposing them to the
world AS an element, leading element Tor no one
knowing Foote we'll will deny it, for there are but
f ubo dare 90 further in producing discord, "a
ro,inr heated feelings and awakening the evil pas
sons of men, than he. We are witness OF this-h
ia his history-he is always in broil with some one'
and it is known that his inqusitive manner his pryg
shirt his restessness and busy meddlesomeness push
him into continual quarres-dissatsfed with hmsel
and the world his only method of saving himself from
absolute lunacy by spending his bitterness upon IN
divduals or party. The whole history OF the U. D
Senate will show that Foote has been the author OF al
least three dsgracefu and bullying scenes to the hap
ppning of one before his entrance there WIN ulis
fact in our facewth the further fact that he had dis
graced himself and the State he represents IN the eyes
Of all gentlemen and the world by his bullying assaults
on Senators-with the facts before us we are amazed
10 know that he has defender anywhere who claims
to be abiding, order-loving or religious man
Asaman of parts intellectually, he ranks low tie
is a man of half knowledge, whose information con-
ssts of shreds and patches of scattered and separate
items which can, in fact, be made to suit one position
as well as another Such feels no shame, Tor
he has nc clear conception ofwhere the right heshe
NAV have half defined notion certain tendencies 10
believe the right side, rather than the other =;
but he is not sure he has fixed opinion made part
of his mental nature and is therefore, as ready to
support one doctrine another Feeling this, having
sort of instructive sagaciy that his interest requires
no further investigation that his mind Is sui
cienty cultivated for all purposes necessary to tit him
for his perncious avocaon, he abandons further la
Dor and turns out quack-a hack-ready to sell his
slanderous tongue those that proer the best pay
Point to speech delivered by H. S. Foote, that for
mental power political expansion OF thought will
compare with an hundred very ordnary-common-@
speeches delivered in Congress, by men unknown to
fame. Foote's speeches made up of snatches OF
flashy eloquerce and low wit-gew gaw tnsel and
sparkling epigrammatic points, and well managed ap-
peals to the vulgar and the prejudiced His power is
not so much in what he says, in his manner-and
in that he is peculiar for there is of the erocy of
the enraged baboon in his manner than saw
exhibited in any human thing. Foote's speeches read
poorly-their strength is in hearing and seeing them
without the voice and the manner, they merely
TRASHY
Foote possessed of political virtue the most fex-
ible and easy-he has consummate knowledge of the
motives that prompt the action of political adventur-
ers and is sagacious enough to the ways and the
means through their aid and assistance personal adj
vancement-he thus a cheap reputation. To
make man utterly and completely vicious, nothing is
so efficient make him shape his conduct by pre-
Icepts which regards himself alone. This is Foote's
position nowhe is shaping his conduct to suit himsel
alone, for he rises sinks upon the issues he is
deayoring to make. Is there man who supposes Mr.
Foote incapable of shaping his conduct so as to sui
his aims if there is one verdant, pity him-ht
must be object of profound commiseration.
man who persists undevatingly in pursuing per
ncious course, may claim respect the score o
probity, though possibly we may have contempt fo
his understanding He, however, most of all deser
wing reproach who, yielding assent by his understand
ing to correct conduct giving in his adherence,
claiming respect for that adherence yet swerves from
the path he knows to be the path of duty, and by will
arts false and half statements tries hide his dere
LECTION. He essentially, above all others is Vicious
The incubation of these arts above all others is mos
injurious to society, and the morality of the Young
tThe history of Foote is the history of laborous f
spent-he has travelled from side to SIDE from par
ty to party position to position and there is no subec
now up, that has demanded much attention for tel
years past in politics. that Henry S. Foote has failed
, occupy both sides of
But Senator Foote is essentially a vain man--he i
serye tool in the hands of Clay, Cass and Webster
and praise from them is the breath Of his nostrils
could not conceal his egotsm in the stand here-h
! boosted of their friendship for him And like tn
spaniel he snarls at those who shake their fingers
his masters But like the spaniel they have despatch
cd him to bag the game they have trapped. He is es
sentially their tool The tool must be ever ready
all times for all purposes, and will of his own wheI
on duty for his masters he must not pretend to- AM
is not this Foote'S present position Heknows thes
men are all hostile to slavery, and yet he is their de
fender and apoogist He can'thelp it, though. Mex
year he'll again denounce them.
Foote'S vanity, ndiscretion and total want of polit
ical honesty and consistency so manifestly ap
parent that Clay-who knows men well-saw in hin
just the instrument he desired. Clay needed bold
fluent tool-wth face ike brass, and conscience lik
inda-rubber, susceptible ofindefnte expansion on
whose vanity bow smile, well turned compli
ment would lead captive proof against ridicule
armed like about the head with pair of ears s.
capacious that the hozannas of the world would not sat
isy his thirst for applause and adulaton. Foote wa
just the man, and old Harry of the West saw it-h
knew his 1t is seldom, however, that vanity O
this large and unnatural growth has oppressed som
healthy function of the mind. In Foote it has Il
him it has oppressed the fine sensbles of the gentle
man and expanded those the buly-to this fact ma
be attributed that constant evty of opinion that ran
id and strange inconsistency of conduct, which ha
rendered him by-word of contempt and scorn amon
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