Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-02-28

try Such is the position which Foote occupies
before the people of the State, and he knows 1T /;
and hence his eyerish anxiety to force the present
Legislature to re-elect him to the Senate for the
long term He well knows that if he is not re-
elected uo,c that he is politically dead for all time
70 come His pretence that he is an old Jackson
Democrat, is the veriest humbug in the world
This can be shown by variety of proof His as
sociations in Jackson are mostly Wing, and nothing
is truer than that ga man is known by the compa-
nv he keeps" Himself and friends also make the
Compromise test of their support of the Baitl-
more nominees, when it is well known that no ReW
article of faith can be incorporated into the Demo
cratic platform. The object of all this is, to keep
up agitation, and give Foote plausible excuse to
make his grand entree into the universal Wing
PARTY in the course of few months ! The trans
parent sophistry of his last political move at Wash
ington has not deceived anybody Downs Hous-
ton DOUGLASS, and other Democratic leaders, all
condemn his courses
If the Senate of this State consult the wishes of
the people, they will not consent at this session. to
90 into the election of Senator for the long term !;
and if Foote must leave his darling Mississippi let
his beloved and right trusty friend, Fillmore, send
him as Minister to Hayti, or some other foreign
country. The people want him to serve out his full
term for Governor he is pledged to do so and
/ if we had the power we would make him faithfully
redeem that pledge, solemnly made to the people
If he could be forced to stand up to the TRUTH in
one instance it might be the means of producing
a reformation, and make an honest politician of
him, if such wonderful change is possible to be
accomplished
! T9l We have alleged. and truly, that the
Democratic is the State Rights Party. In our
Government, Democracy is incompatible with a
denial OF States plenary sovereignty, except so
/ far as she has relinquishcd to a Grand Agent the
exercise of some of Its attributes. We are, there
fore, a Democrat because State Rights mana
State Rights man because Democrat, and so
with the great and patriotic party with which We
have the honor and the pleasure to act. The
voice OF State has spoken against the exer-
else of jhe extreme right of secession, as rene
dy for grievances acknowledged to have been in
t1icted. We have expressed hitherto, our entire
acquieScence in the popular will, and We nov re
iterate the expression. We have no desire to ar
que abstract principles having no present and lit
tie chance OF future application, Ike theoreii-
cal Columbus contemporary We come at once
to the PRACTICAL; we give heart and hand to the
sustenson of that noble party which has always,
as national organization, done Justice to the
south, and adhered to the Constitutional compact.
In that party Is our future hope for the perpstuity
of co-equal Union. Why, does not the Stga-
dard know that even Martin Van Buren, while the
President of the democracy, frowned upon that
abolitlonism with which he has since so disgrace
tulIg animated Is not lis editor also aware that
the Usage of Undertook or Lindenwald. in
) affGating with free-soil dissolved the ties that
linked him with Democracy, and has not since
been recognised, even by Northern Democratic
statesmen, within the fold of our political faith
We might multiply argument al infnitun,, fol-
the benoft of our Columbus friend, but we are
consious that, in his present perverse mood, il
would be a thankless task. He wishes a new Do
lIncai organization, despite the adverse popular
: decision we do not. For that purpose, with the
two sanguine hope of accomplishing that end, he
attended the State Convention, not as a democrat
: but as an abstractionst-a theorist-an imDracti-
{ cable ultra--a nondescrpt. Finding no counter
ahce for his political transcendentalism, he sal
down. IN a I'll of ehagrin, and wrote that remark
able editorial epistle. He returned TO his sanctum
: and, unfortunately, the spleen returned with him
and he penned that strangely captious and sophis
tic lucubration whose falacies it has been our en-
deavor to expose, in a kindly spirit.