Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-10-15
VIM. Il. Muses. reply to Gov. Foote'S HanDilI
Co.. r. S. Foote..

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tentIon to give you no further notice But as YOU
have obtained the use of some respectable names
will condescend to lend you passing glance
and IN order to hold you upin your true character
will make some quotations from your Aberdeen
production, ofthis instant. In that, you say: GA
printed letter, addressed to myself over the some
What notorious signature of that Judas Iscariot of
the Union in Mississippi, William H. Muse
has been this moment placedin my hands This,
sir, IS your own portrait; for if there was ever
man in this State, that bore perfect likeness to
Judas Iscariot, goa are the man. Judas was used
as base tool by the enemies of christianity to be-
tray his Lord, and divide and dispense his disciples
You are used by the Wings as a tool (for which I
cannot blame them, but do you, J to destroy the
Democratic party, and divide and rout it's mem
bers. This is indubitable. After the infdels had
answered their foul purpose with Judas they aban-
doned him to his fate and he went and hung him
SELF and that was the last of the Inflated Judas
So will you, after November next, the Wings will,
OF course abandon you to yOur fate, and you will
be the eOorSthung man that ever did hang polii-
caHy. Judas &c had the bag, and bare aOhat was
PIT therein" And it is said that you carry one of
the most c0pacious bags anywhere known, and that
you bear whatever "Asbury Dickens, Secretary of
the Senate" could be induced to ''put therein, -
even to the amount of about four thousand dollars
more than your colleague, in the Senate, received
for the same service.
You speak of '.genAemen,'' and your ''equals"
6 Now, sir, whether am gentleman or not, those
who know me best may decide but as to being
your equal, | must say | should feel degraded to
be regarded on an equality with an individuQL
, charged with having published an infamous "san-
der" upon the character of an honorable man and
that too, upon the authority of ga. free negro"
r You again say, ''the fact had been well known
to me (you) for several months previous, that he
fOr +l,o =; ed
station alluded to- alone to of the most corrupt
prohigate political bargains ever contracted by
reckless and unblushing trickSterSF In your
statements in this quotation you directly con-
tradcted by the plain and unequivocal statements
gilmore than three hundred men. But as you are
: making this charge upon others, and only speak
: of me as the subject of the contract will leave
Y them to answer you as you desc. and will only
say, if you mpute to any part in, or knowledge
ola "c0rrupt bargain you are guilty of ViLful
: faLeShood. Again, you say, ''and learning from
the letter that Col. Lewis had deemed it expedent
. to enter into an arrangement with Mr.. Muse in
accordance with which that individual, should be
allowed to prefer charges against me on my arri-
+ val at Jacinto, on last Tuesday, where barbecue
was expected to come off, l promptly ratified the
o arrangement" | must confess that | now feel a
depressing commseration for the inrmities Of your
nature-never were there, l suppose, so many
N
er made between me and Mr.. Lewis that we should
s meet at Jacnto These are his words in his letter
to you: Il asked him. you to offer to divide
1t time with him at of your appointments in this
L county, would he accept the invitation He
l. replied that he would" This is all that Mr. Lew
is wrote you the subject of what passed be-
tween me and him. Not one word about the time
II of the meeting-not one word about my being al
~ lowed to prefer charges but simply whether or no
T;oa,'I to
fact, the arrangement" as to time and place wa
made by Mr. Lewis and yourself, after | had lef
for the middle portion of the State, and that too
without consulting with me in any manner, or hav
! ing given me any notice whatever, of the affair
I. not even by directing to me a paper containing
al your arrangement this is aUondert generous anC
Of manly
ID You further say, you requested COL D. R. Rus
g self and Col. Wray to call upon Mr.. Muse, ant
L. make known to him that he would be allowed tn
next day, to occupy an hour in prefering charge
u against my public character" "AUoUed" to oc
y cupy an hour! That the base coWardice of thi
y proposition may appear, l will call attention
1e the arrangement made by Mr.. Lewis and yourself
Mr.. Lewis proposed to you sfollows: ''Iwoul
ask, if consistent with your views of propriety,
I'd meet in debate any except your Senatorial oppo
IN nents, that you offer to Mr.. Muse equal time wit
er Yourself, to make direct his indirect charges o
you, say at your appointment at Jaclnto on Ser
TENDER 18th, as at that time Mr.. Muse will, or ca
be in the county, his last appointment being at AT
erdeen, on the tenth of September" Here ar
: the terms of discussion, and the time fixed by Nj
Lewis, after l had left the county, and withol
consulting me at ALL The terms are /, an equt
division of time. 9. Jacnto as the place of NEE
s., ing. 3. September 18th, the time of meeting
and d. The subjects to be discussed or course
ms discussion 'to make direct his indirect charges VI
his on you"
at You respond to Mr.. Lewis, upon this propos
on ton, as follows:
81 will not conceal the fact, that it is with col
IN siderable reluctance, that yield to your prop
10. 30 sition which, however, do not feel at lber
in after all that has occurred, by any means to
&c cline.'
IS. Then you accepted the proposition of Mr.. Lew
81 and it would have been somewhat more to yo
credit if you had, like man, adhered to the pro
and having learned that had already arrived, al
ms was prepared to avail myself of an equal dvis
I'm of time with you, your adherents were soon CO
M. voked, caucus was 1t at "nlch conVocauon, y
yht took the adUice Of several jadicious friends al
iudicious they were.) After this advice was
ken you sEuLked from your own proposition ma
by your friend Lewis, accepted by yourself, al
substituted the following, as the only terms up
R which you would meet me at all, to wit:
"Having learned that COL VIM. III. Muse
18th anxious to meet me- tomorrow, for the purpose
courteous controversy, hereby authorize /
les friends, Mr. Wray, and Mr.. Russell, to say to G
Muse, if he: really desires thus to meet me, {
= willing that he shall have an hour, In which to pl
fer charges against me, or defend himself, if
on, rlooSo crowded. he is willing To emnoy in discl