Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-10

This is Eem.rntbe parsonage. He covets
.a.-ua-. 'aa.y ly u-e chom aud when used dscards
'-at ale .-,ii .htn3s unfo All men, and faith
gt lo aane--a, ,a-s.latng--tmc serving politi
elan. h lrvq1eat.y illustrates this prominent
.ra,urc ot his charac,r. The last instance of il
lustratlou recently occurred in a speech delivered
bv him before the jackson Democratic Association
AT Washington City; in which, he acknowledged
no afiaton with the Union Wings of this State
We quo,e the following from the Washington
Union:
cat O'Clock the meeting was called to order
by The president, who introduced the Hon. H. S,
Foote, OF Mississippi. The eloquent senator was
received with great enthusiasm.
Il is proper to state that General Foote, hav
ing been called upon TO supply copy OF his re-
marks found it impossible to do SO, in conse
quence of official engagements. A short synop-
sis Of some of the most prominent positions assum-
ed by him, it is supposed, may serve more or less
to crafty public curiosity.
General Foote commenced by declaring the high
qualification which he experienced in meeting once
more the members of an association with whom he
had had so much agreeable intercourse in past
times, and especially during the eventful presiden
tal campaign of l848, when he had sustained an
official conntxiOn with them, and had delighted to
cooperate with them in furtheranCe of the great
Democratic cause. He stated that nothing had
occurred since that period in the least degree to
ALLEVIATE him from the principles of the Democratic
creed and during the arduous campaign through
which he had lately passed in Mississippi, he had
delighted on all occasions, as all who had heard
him would be prepared to testify, in upholdlng to
the full extent of his ability those principles to
which he had been devoted since the days of
manhood w WhDt noJO hay
prevailed to the contrary in consequence of the
multiplied Interpretations of the day.
Me had in agreeing to become the candidate oil
the Union party of the State of Mississippi in the
recent contest there, been very far indeed from
repudiating his former connexion with the Demo
cratic party of the country, He had in fact been
nominated emphatically as Democrat, and chief
ly on account of his known connexion with the
Democratic party of the country, and he had ac-
cepted The nomination expressly aVowing his deter
minalion not 20 relinquish his connexlon with thai
party yield up a single atom of its distinc
i've principles. The Union Wigs Of the Stott
had generally yieided Tim Meir SulFort-no0 or
the ground ot their suppo>lng him al all more In,
ciined 10 concur with them Ihan he formally hao
been upon the ISSUES which had anciently divided
the " hl- and Democratic parties. He said that
in The progress of the late campaign in Mississippi
he had made more than hundred speeches, anc
he mad made none IN which he had not placed him
self distinctly upon the jackson Democratic plat
form.
He had also asserted, on all occasions the prin
ciples of what is called the Baltimore platform
and urged the propriety of sending delegates t.
the next Democratic National Convention.
He then took view of the principle of non-in
teryention as applying to the States and terrific
ries of our confederacy, and developed its impor
tance as preservative OF the rights of the States
as well as the rights of the people in the State
and territories Of the Union He then took u
the compromise measures, and showed, in mos
effectual manner, that the whole plan of compro
mise grew out of, and was in beautiful harmon,
with, the principle of non-interventon as asserte
: in the presidential campaign of l848. he spok
of the growing strength and fattering prospects
: the Democratic party in the Union, but insiste
earnestly that their ultimate success would essen
: TALLY depend upon the firm maintainance of thel
r ancient principles. without permitting the same