The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-03-11

South represented ii that Convention and
pledged to their support, &C., &c.
This corresponds very well with the idea
Of q Hgenuine com promise nominee"
The Yicksbufg Wing, one Of the frmest
and ablcst supporters Of Governor Foote in.
the last canvass, thus withdraws from the
Union organization, the "true Democracy
"True. our Democratic friends made US the
maonanimous offer that We might join them
! in their Convention We agree to
support the nominees Of the Baltimore Dem
ocratie Convention as We did not see
any propriety in about 5000 or 700O Union
democrats debating terms to about 20, OOO
Union Wings, the proposition was respect
fully declined; and as we furthermore believe
the Wing party to be the Union party, and
that there is a greater guarantee offered IN
the National Wing Convention to adopt the
/ Compromise measures, and to nominate un-
4 doubted friends of those measures--we re-
specially suggestto our Wing friends, that
we look to our own Convention for men cal
culated to protect the interests of the South,
and the pcrpetuity of the Union"
Gov. Foote finds the language applied
something less than courtly, he considers it
coarse. On the evening before his inaugu-
ration, be made public speech in the Capt.
toll of the State. The Natchez Courier, a
Wing paper, which is equivalent to saying
that it supported his election, published an
account Of the speech, furnished by its cor
respondent. It will do for specimen Of the
harmonizing, delicate language of Governor
Foote. In reference to what is termed "the
leaders who had tried to put him down, =
"He noticedtheir incessant and continued
attacks upon himself, and paid them off in
their own coin. Little Jonny NJ Rae, Colin
S. Tarpley, Roger Barton, Gov. Whitfield,
Messrs. Stone, Singleton and others, were
all displayed before the meeting, under the
dissecting knife of this most skillful politi-
cal surgeon. They had declared war upon
him, and war, he said, it should be; war to
the knife" "He scorned alli-
ance with them; he defed them; denounced
them. They must die, he said; they may
die willingly and with decency, or they may
struggle on; 6m die they must, and die they
aciW Their putrid political carcasses should
yet lie about the State in heaps, like piles of
chickens in the streets that had died of the
gaps
"Senator Foote referred to the rumor that
was spread about, that the Senate would re-
fuse to go into an election for Senators.
He did not believe it; he could not credit
they would refuse to perform duty enjoin-
ed by their official oaths, and so add the
crime of moral perjury to that of factious
and traitorous demagoguism. But if they
did, he gave them full warning of what be
should do. They had opposed to them, a
man they at least could not browbeat or put
down. He owed allegiance to the Constitu-
ton and the sovereign people; and he would
stand by the former, and appeal to the latter
1t was a contest to which he defed them. If
the Legislature failed to fill the two vacan-
cies in the 7. S. Senate, he gave fair notice
that he should appoint two Union Senators
to the vacant places, as he had the power to
do; and if they failed to elect to the six
years term commencing March 4, 1858, he
should call an extra session of the Legisla-
ture in February 1858, for that especial pur-
pose"
fear the commander-in-chiefi is becoming
warllke in his temper, notwithstanding his
known distaste to military leaders" He
must intend something revolutionary, if not
bloody, when he announces that he will Eli
by executive appointment vacancies which
existed whilst the Legislature was in session.
Would public or private considerations re-
concile him to the expense of an extra ses>
sion of the Legislature, which would form
the objection to allowing the people to indi-
cate through another election of members to
the Legislature their choice as to the char
acter of the representative they would have
in the u. s. Senate for the many years be-
tween the present time and the expiration of
the term which commences in 1853?
In a former article l noticed the announce
ments which were made during the last can
vass, that Gov. Foote would resign the Office
of Senator before the election of November,
and the subsequent announcement that he
had resigned. He now says he is inclined
not little to question this. Who beside
himself had forgotten the announcement that
his commission was to be placed at the dis
posal of the convention to be elected in Sep
tember, which was followed by another that
he would not resign Immediately, because it
would give Gov. Guion the power to appoint
his successor, and that the governor publish
ed card to deprive him of that excuse
Then, that it was stated he would resign be-
/ fore the November election-and afterwards
! that he had resgned-that his commission
had been placed in the hands of gentleman
/ Of Warren county | more than once stat
ed, in reply to inquiries, that he had no
commission, and the statement could not
rest upon better foundation than a letter of
resignation; but did not see then, nor do
perceive now why it should have been de-
posted with private citizen. But he says
he did resign before the November election.
If a letter placed in the hands of private
individual be resignation, then his asser-
ton is true, and if that was resignation, why
might he not have resigned by letter put
into his own pocket?
| stated that his ''resignation" did not in
terfere with the privileges or perquisites of
the station, and that before his commission
was annulled by his inauguration as COVER
nor, that he resumed his seat in the Senate,
and there made statements in relation to my
self, which he had never made when I was
present, to answer him. He notices this
point, but does not answer it.; he does not
show how his Office was vacated, other than
by his Inauguration. He states a number
Of ways by which Senator might vacate
his Office, among them, one which his case
would hereby suggest, that is, by refusing
longer to serve. If the presentation of his
letter to one of the branches of the Legisla-