The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-03

of the Union"
Gov. Foote finds the language applied by me
something less than courty he considers Il coarse.
Ga the evening before his Inauguration, he made
a public speech in the capitol Of the State. The
Natchez Courier, Wing paper which is equiv
alent TO saying that it supported his election.
published an account of the speech, furnished
by its correspondent. 1t will do for specimen
OF the harmonizing, delicate language of Gov.
Foote. In reference to what is termed the
leaders who had tried to put him down." the
statement is
He noticed their incessant and continued,.
lacks upon hlpself and paid them off in their
own COIN. Little Johnny M'Rae, Colin s. Tarp-
ley, Roger Burton, Governor Whitfield, Messrs
stone, Singleton and Others, were all displayed
before the meeting, under the dissecting knife
OF this most skilful political surgeon. They
had declared war upon him, and war. he said. i
should be; war to the knife" ala
scorned alliance with them; he defied them
denounced them. They must die, he said /; they
may die willingly and with decency, or they ,nay
struggle on; bul die they must, and die ley ,oiH,
Their putrid political carcasses should vet lie
about the State in heaps, like piles of chickens
in the streets that had died of the gaps tf
Senator Foote referred to the rumor that
was spread about, that the Senate would refuse,
to 60 into an eectionfor Senators. He did not
believe IL; he could not credit they would refiss
to perform duty enjoined by their official oath
and so add the crime of moral perjury to that Of
factious and traitorous demagogueism. But if
they did, he gave them full warning of what le
should do They had opposed to them, a mai
they at least could not browbeat or put down.
He owed only allegiance to the.Consti ution anil
the sovereign people and he would stand 4
the former, and appeal to the latter. II was !,
contest to which he defed them. If the eeis-
ture failed to fill the two vacancies in the III y.
Senate he gave fair notice that he should ND.
point two Union Senators to the vacant places.>
as he had the power to do; and ifthey failedt,
elect to the sx-year term commencing Mach A,
1853 he should call an extra session Of the leg
islature in February, 1853, for that special pur-
pose." m 81 lsgs
fear the commander-n chief Is becoming
warlike in his temper, Observation-Disclosures known
distaste to military leaders," He must inteni
something revolutionary, if not bloody, when he
announces that he will fill by executive appoi,
ment vacancies which existed whilst the iegisln-
ture was in session. Would public or private
consideration reconcile him to the expense Of an
extra session of the legislature? Which won't
form the objection to allowing the people /.
indicate through another election of members
to the legislature, their choice as to the charac-
ter of the representative they would have in tie
United States Senate for many years, betwetn
the present time, and the expiration of the teri.i
which commences in 1851 d .ift fg, .aa
In former article noticed the announce
ments which were made during the last canvas,
that Gov. Foote would resign the Office at
senator before the election of November AMI
the subsequent announcement that he had re-.
signed. He now says he Is inclined not little
n
gotten the announcement that his commissir,
was to be placed at the disposal of the conven.
ton to be elected in September, which was fol-
lowed by another that he would not resign inl-
because it would give Gov. Guion, the
power to appoint his successor and that the
governor published card to deprive him af
that excuse. Then, that il was stated he would
resign before the November eection-and after
wards that he had resigned-that his commission
had been placed in the hands of gentleman of
Warren county. | more than once stated,i
reply to inquiries, that he had no commissiol,
and the statement could not rest upon better
foundation than resignation but did not see
then, ror do see now, why II should have been
deposited with private citizen, q But he say
he did resign before the November election, IL
a letter placed in the hands of private indi-
vidual be called a resignation, why might he not
have resigned by letter put into his own
pocket? Hrp stIe 49,
stated the fact that his resignation" di
not interfere with the privileges or perquisit,s
Of the station, and that before his commission
was annulled by his Inauguration as gove- r,
that he resumed bis seat in the Senate, and e.e
made statements in relation TO myself whi,l
he had never made when was present. TO an.
swer him. He notices this point, but does MT
answer 1t; he does not show how his Office was
vacated, other than by bis. Inauguration. II,
states a number Of ways by which a senate
might yacate his office, among them, one which
his case would hardly suggest, that is, by re-
fusing longer 10 serve If the presentation Of
his letter 10 one Of the branches Of the lecisla-
ture by which IL was not received, did, in his
opinion, vacate the Office, then how does be ass
sert that when addressed the convention OF tho
sih and 9th Of January, he was entitled fora
day or two longer TO be considered an United
States senator! He attributes to me opinions
which did not express, labors points made by
himself and then says, he had been occupied in
the explosion" Of arrant trivialhes" They
were bis own, and will not gainsay his De
scnpuon OF them, or deny that the occnpnibl
suited him quite we'll
He presents as an amusing idea, the suppo,.
ton that II he had not been inauQurated. bo
would have been a senator still. lie makes the
supposition-PlI follow II. n ne had not been
elected, and therefore could not have been in.
aueurated, have very little doubt he would
have been senator still. That was my opin-
ion during the canvass, and his equvocation
the article before me in relation 10 his obliga-
ton TO resign, strongly confirms the belief
lie now presents reason for not resiqnng
different from that which drew forth Cover
Guion's card. The plea now il, that he
anxious TO prevent the State from being ~.
in the United States Senate sat
period 80 critical" as the month of Decembr
asst. What was the Union in danger again,
Is his constant presence necessary TO preserve
~ ls he the turtle on which the elephant stands
which supports this our worldi asW
What created The crisis which, happily for
Ne, he was present TO meetl
lie says no one knows better than do than
hat he accomplished several important objects
by going on TO Washington last December"