The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-05-10
The Senatorial Canvass Cover.
nor Foote Rats, &C.

We publish to-day, by special request, the
letter Of Gov. Foote to the Mississippian, cor
recting what he conceived 10 be injustive done
to him in some comments il made upon his
unpretending address at Raymond" We
offer no apology for doing so, as we feel AS
sured that our readers are, or at least ought
to be anxious 10 know in what manner he
opened the senatorial ball, and upon what he
intends TO base his claims for seat in the
Senate; and we prefer giving il to them in
the Governors own verpacular We have
avoided, we might say, studiously avoided,
any and all comments upon the Governor and
his course, for several good reasons First I:
we did not suppose ii would interest our rea-
ders much, as il was decidedly out of date
and place--next: he was about as great as
we cared to see him be--next: we did not
wish 10 render ourself contemplate by eter-
nally peclSing at him, though he did not play
the part Of the OK, in the fable Of the OK and
the fly, but lodged and shook his head every
time fly came buzzing by, mistakng il for
the whizzing Of an enemies quiyer-next we
thought we had better fish 10 fry--next we
thought it bad poicy-next--bu then we
might 20 on with whole column Of reasons,
and at last come 10 what we started out TO say,
which is this In our earliest recollection, the
neiehbors used to say, they were pious folks,
that we had considerable spice Of oldNick
in US, the Simon pure which used to exhib-
it itself in our hemming in rats, snakes, DC,
and chasing them into burning brush heaps
ia see them curl up and writhe in the flames,
and in smoking rabbits out Of old hollow logs
and trees. 1t was feast to wIioop and bol-
low, dart on this side, then on that, to force a
frightened fellow 10 submit 10 the fiery ordeal,
and at last see him give a spring and leap in
TO the flame, fetch squeak, turn up, kick the
air for few moments and quietly give it up.
When we grew up to be older, and progressed
az far as 'crucifx' in Webster's spelling book,
which was not until we were quite chunk
Of boy,' the late improvements for making
the Young idea how to shoot not then being
in vogue, we learned that this was all wrong,
and ike boy Of pretty fair breeding our
mother having had ten children we quit Il;
but somehow or other, little Of the old leas-
en- still stuck TO US, and we confess that this
same old feeling came back to US fresh as in
boyhood, and was gratifed to the "yery
nines," when the wings, under the lead Of
shaul Yerger, met at Jackson last fall and
set fire TO the old Union brush heap, where
Gov. Foote had 10 snugly ensconced himself
1t took him mapping. We fairly leaped out
of or boots as we saw him spring out of his
warm nest, look wildly around, jump firsi
here. then there, then everywhere, a. the flames
would crackle close TO him. We have i'm
aQined, It is Of course but imagination, but II
has gisss " some pleasure that be has been
walking upon bot smbers ever since The
feeling being grsi6sd, We do not wish TO str
the Goals. ~
II may not be necessary. yet Il is moi iEl,
proper here TO remark, that we entertain toI
Governor Eoote as much persohal regard q