Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1852-02-26
NUMBER A
From the Ficksburg Sentinel
GOV. FOOTE'S DEMOCRACY.

Ao iotS iGttSf OF TIE HtIte i1cTHc3
!. tor, TO his accomplices at Washington
| will. of course, relieve the whole coun
,, try from an immense weight of ankle
ty. Doubtless, it will be a source o
infinite satisfaction 10 the democratic
party to be assured. On the highest au
lhority, that Henry Stuart Foote har
bors no fell purpose to blow them sk,
: high, by entering into an alliance witt
the great new England statesman the
Corypheas of American federalism
: Daniel Webster. We are now safely
| past the breakers that threatened u:
with destruction. and hencelorth ali i.
plain sailing on a halcyon sea. The
: night passes away, and 10Y cometi
/ with the morning. Foote being a de
nocrat of the first water, without flaw
? or bieniisll-for which we have hisoer
: word-the democracy can now breathe
deeper and freer, and look forward
with something like confidence, 10 {
glorious victory, in the approaching
Presidential election. God only knows
: what would have become ofthe party
: if Foote had struck hands with his
friend Webster, and thrown his vast
influence into the scale of the great
. Expounder. Let US ali fervently thank
heaven that the democratic cause has
been spared SO great calamity.
i We are not surprised. that this rest
: less and factious man should at length
nave become conscious, that the dem
ocratc party every where regard him
with strong suspicion; and that some
new scheme must be resorted to, TO
keep them still longer in the dark, as
TO his reasonable designs. Thetreach-
erous game he has been playing begins
to be understood; and what the de-
mocracy of Mississippi have long
known is rapidly becoming manifest to
the party in other States, that is, that
Foote has regularly sold himself out,
body and soul, to the enemies OF our
faith. His career, for the last eighteen
months, il carefully studied, must sat
sly every one, that the arrangements
are all entered into. and a convenient
! opportunity is ali that is wanting TO
consummate his treason to the demo-
cratic party. The FuIture has sailed
up North River, and Foote will soon
be aboard. His ardent professions OF
devotion to the Union-have run their
course; the mask will serve his purpo-
ses no longer. Never was mortal man
more mis- taken, if he lays the aattering
JUNCTION to his soul, that his word will
De taken as evidence, that be still re-
tains his allegiance to democratic prin-
ciples. The Americas people are coa.
hdiag and perhaps somewhat credu-
lous; but there ale some things too hard
for. the public gullibility, and among
i them is the assurance from Foote him
self that he is true and faithful dem
i ocrat. Whether man belongs 70 our
party is TO be determined not by his
Professions, but by his acts. When
tried by this test, to what class of pol
iticians are we to assign this desperate
political gambler
! The country viii hardly have forgot
ten the absurd attempt, inwhich Foote
took SO prominent part, to organize a
great National Union party, to be COM
posed, forsooth, of all the pure men Of
the two old political parties, and whose
platform of principles was to be pledge
to uphold the compromise, until ats
friends should deem Il e1pedientto change
it. Upon this rickettv scaiTolding,
Foote, Cobb and Clemens were TO
meet in loving embrace such men as
| Fillmore, Clay, Webster, Toombs, Ste
fphens and Others, whose. whole lives
had been spent in fierce crusade "a
gainst the policy and principles of the
American Democracy. If this ridicu-
lous scheme had met with the success
which It's concocters expected for it-if
both parties had not united in regard
! ing ii as corrupt proposition for pure
fly personal and selfish purposes-does
any man suppose that Foote would
now be in favor of holding a national
Democratic Convention Ii the facts
| had not become evident, that the Union
partyin Mississippi was rapidly tend
ling to dissolution, under a galloping
consumption, and that Foote himself
was no great favorite with it, can there
be any doubt that he would still adyo-
cate the policy he openly approved OF
prior to the November election, which
was, that the Union men of Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi should hold a
convention of their own, and adopt
the ticket ofthe Baltimore or Phiiadei-
phia Convention according to circum-
f stancesa Even now, with all bis loud
Il protestations Of democracy. is it not
5 manifest from what he says himself
and from the position of his organ, the
i Flag of the Union, that be and his
: trieuds will not consent 10 60 into the
| Baltimore convention, with u pledge 10
; support its nominees, upon the old pat
farml- Should that Convention refuse
!. as il probably viii, toinlozse 1ae com
promise measures, ia all their ampli
! fuie, we regard il as certain as fate
: that Foote, Freeman. Wilcox and IA
4 bors, and their little band Of disorgan
izers and traitors, will take ground foi
: any wing candidate forthe presidency
r who may see fit TO purchase their sup
port by approving their one idea. ane
promising them a fair division OF LII,
spoils. With this factlous squad o
!, broken down political hacks. the com
e promise is all in all-the beginning, Iii
f middle and the end of their poiitica
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