The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1852-03-09

The Natchez Courier bespatters the
Lexington Sentinel with praise, and
then quotes paragraph from its col,
nmns. to prove Hon. Mr. Brooke to be
Just the man for the seat in the Senate,
into which our neighbor says the Hon.
orable gentleman crawled. The SEN
tinel returns its thanks for the Courier's
aat,ery, as follows:
1--WE have been very much surprised not
" to iud the coums of the 'NatcheZ Cou-
" rier' mou, nlug recently since il has been
" announced that James q. Birney was
dead"
The Southern Sentinel says, in re-
gard to Mr.. Brooke -, ,e
We publish, in another column, the let
ter of the Hon. Walker Brooke, United
States Senator elect, TO III the unexplred
term of Henry 5. Foote. written to IL. &.
Adams, Esq, prior TO has election, 1t has
created rather subdued muttering among
the wings of this county, but they may just
as well grin and bear it" Some OF them
have even gone so far as TO say they don't
believe Brooke wiU support the nominees of
the baltimore Convention. Pshaw We
thought they knew Brooke better. The
most striking characteristic OF Brooke's po-
Iltical character is honesty.
Where is there sensible man In Holmes
county. who knows Walter Brooke, that
would believe for moment that he would
so far disgrace himself as to make pledges
and promises that he did not intend carrying
ont merely to secure seat in the United
States Senate for little while, and then
he consigned to political infamy lie has
said it, and he won't take back word, nei-
ther
Some say he was sick when he wrote the
letter. Well suppose he was. Suppose
he thought it was deatIl.bed repentance
how much more honest was il, than TO have
expected 20 meet bis God, covered all over
with the sins OF whiggery? We believe
that Brooke honestly entertains the opinion
that the nominees of the Baltimore Con.
veniion will be sounder upon the slavery
question, than the nominees of the Wing
Convention, and therefore will support
them-and he is not the only whig by
long ways. in Holmes county, who will he
found ralying around the standard Of dc.
mocracy at the next election.
We indeed feel proud of friend BroolSes
election. We must now claim our old Vir-
ginia relationship. We ak,eays thought COZ,
in Walter was inclined to he a democrat.
1t is true, Brooke has hit the democrats
some pretty hard licks in the short ribs, but
what OF that? Has not Governor Henry
Stewart Foote often done the same thing,
both to the wings and democrats And is
he not now Chief Executive Magistrate of
the State sf Mississippi? And has not Foote
often said "b-e,f-o.r-e God, Z n-e.v-e-z
w-G-s 'o.h-ig'" And didn't the demo.
Gratis believe it?
We consider Brooke's letter a master
ly stroke OF modern Mississippi diplomatic
policy. Old Hnlseman couldn't begin to
beat il.
We have word 10 say to the editors Of
the Mississippian, about that letter. We
wish those gentlemen to distinctly under
stand that they cant make such an on
slanght upon cousin Walter with impuuity.
They say that Brooke is third rate man.
That rs NO such thing. lie is first rate
fellow. II he can get the better demo
crats' to be bigger fools than the wings.
aud vote for him, he had right 70 do 50.
The editors Of the Mississippian are behind
the times in the modern politics Of MIssis.
sippi Why, it is evident that one Of these
straight forward old politicians. likeJef
Davis. can't get along with the wise men Of
the present day. He has 10 remain among
the briers Of BrierfeId. II requires such
men as Fcote aud Brooke to shine with the
better democracy"