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Gen. Foote has written letter, published in
the Washington Union of the 10th instant, in
which he denounces the attempts made by GER
tain persons in the South toimpeach his fidelity
to his party. In this communication, he takes
occasion to reaffrm all his Democratic sympa-
thies and to deny the truth of the charge, that
there at any time existed compact between Mr..
Webster and himself to unite their political des-
TIMES in a Presidential ticket.
The only colourable pretext for this imputa-
ton on these distinguished gentlemen, is their
combined efforts in favour of the slavery Com
promise. He expresses his preference for Gen.
Cass for our next President, but he adds, in the
true spirit of partizan, that he will always be
ready to concur in party nomination.
We feel a sincere respect for MIR. Foote'S re-
cent exertions in favour of the measures of pa
eifcation, and should be sorry if his favour with
his party should suffer on that account. The
main force. however, of his letter. is directed
against the ultra politicians of the Southern
school, who in several of these States, are bend
ing their exertions to the formation of section
al party in the next canvass. We wish him and
his party organs success in neutralising these en-
deayours, though, without doubt, if the Demo-
crazy shall succeed in sinking their divisions,
growing out Of the subject of slavery, in the
coming struggle for the Presidency, the chances
Of
ished. But we ready to put at hazard party
success, in consideration of the additional secu-
rity which the Union of the States will receive
from the existence of party ties between the free
and the slave States. Our love of country leads
us to this conclusion.
But il we look with compacency upon the
union OF our opponents upon the national plat
form of the Compromise, with how far greater
pleasure do we contemplate union of the
Wings. We entertain but little apprehension
on this score. The Wing party throughout the
recent agitations was constant in its support of
those measures of peace, whilst our political
adversaries, more especially here in Virginia
were marked by their hostility to them.
But the unusual degree of animosity displayed
by the leaders of the Virginia Democracy, to-
wards the Compromise, affords no sort of proof
that these same leaders will not only be ready
to mount up on a compromise platform, will
be prepared to sing hozannahs to it. What
though they villiied it on its passage for injus-
tiee, oppression, unconstitutionality, they have
yet ii store an easy way OF surrounding such
difficulties. These gentlemen tell their consti-
tuents that they were carried away by an over
zeal for State Rights, and they are as readily
forgiven as a lover, who, in the fondness of pas
sion, oversteps the bounds of propriety.
So strong was the animosity of his party in
this State towards Gen. Foote on account of his
Union afiaities, and his efficient cooperation
with Mr.. Webster and Mr.. Clay, that there
was manifested serious disposition to put him
under the ban and pass upon him the sentence
Of ostracism. Yet these same gentlemen in the
fulness of time, when the hour and the man
shall come, will be found ready amid the shouts
of party mobs and the anthems of party organs,
to unfurl Presidential banner upon which will
be inscribed in mamoth letters, "Compron,ise for
the sake ofour glorious Union.''
Gentlemen whocan vote with the ruffian Gid
dings to preserve Southern rights will find no
difficulty in the management of this, to any
other set Of men, delicate point. What if the
much reviled Foote were nominated along with
Cass or Douglass, the scales would at once fall
from their deluded eyes he would appear to
their purified vision in his original brightness
and drawn out to tedious length, we would
have dressed up in all the animation of party
eloauence accounts of how in his ardent zeal
for the South he, IN the person of its accepted
champion, Mr.. Benton, drove back the ranks of
abolition.