Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-10-22

. uon N me duard II he means to ipsinuate
.na'' sha5 hesitation" was based on anv OH
tlan The reasons above set forth he IS rniltT -
me grossest misrepresentation. =
AS GO the remarks made by Fl. S. Foote wbe,
ne assembled the stand ox-cart, after our ON
terVleW, feel convinced he totally mis.states
'heir purport attributed to the verv
great excitement under which he labored at the
Ine, ana not to any improper intent on his part.
- l.e ulo uot pronounce the certificate had shown
MIN to be 'corruptly false ''-neither did he s.av
press the opinion that it had been gotten mn nv
some secession enemy, nor did he PLEDGE him
sell TO abandon the Senatorial canvass if he failed
10 prove that Jefferson Davis received ..Construe
1--WE MlleageH IN 1871 was informed that he
made such pledge before l reached Moline =
but after my arrival no pledge of the sort was made
In his remarks after our ''intervew' he attacked
the certificate solely on the ground that it was not
ander seal, and qualified his previous pledge by
declaring, If Jefferson Davis did not receive Con-
structlve Mileage while Senator, am most core
glously mistaken, declining to specify the wear
IN which he did receive it.
With H. S. Foote'S motives in takino this econ
struetive mileage" have nothing whatever to
do,-he being a free agent and therefore entitled
heretofore, and now, to shape his own actions-As
to his assertion that Jefferson Davis took it in 1849
that IS matter to be decided upon evidence. II
produce certificate, 'signed by Mr. Jones. dis
proving the assertions H. s. Foote produces a
certificate, 'signed6y Mr. Bigger" corroborating
the assertion Both tie original documents are
acithout seal, and therefore stand on precisely sim
liar grounds as to validity
have no confidential friend in Washington
from whom [ can learn how this conflict between
"Jones' and Bigger arose, and therefore have
no ''cue to the development of this dark and afro
clous scheme of villainy. Should [ live howev-
er, till another meeting of the Senate, hope to
hear Of the appointment of especial committee
for the investigation of all the disgusting circum-
stances connected herewith, aad the condign pun
ishment of all concerned in the same, either as
PRINCIPALS, aiders o6ettors which committee,
hope, will be allowed to send for persons and pa
pers, SO that all who have had any participancy in
his monstrous transaction may be fully exposed to
that lasting nfamy which all honorable men will
rejoice to see fall upon Them,
81 am done with this disgusting subject for the
present. Hereafter, as have already distinctly
seated" l shall earnestly hope that the proper
authorities may test the efficacy of the criminal
law upon" the real culprit,- Bigger, Jones, -
or whoever he may be.
H. S. Foote designates me as "a Secession can
didae for the Legislature, for which we'll timed
and polite mark of affection [ am profoundly CRATE
full. That doctrns is less ordious nova days than
formerly in the eyes of the Foote-W Wing party OF
Tippah, as is eyinced by the cordial support they
give Mr.. Francis 4. Wolf, another Secession
candidate for the Legislature, ;" who pledges him
self to vote for H. S. Foote for Senator demo I'M
ces fre-eaters and secessionists,-an yet has
within the last month"; publicly affixed his sigma
ture to the following confession Of faith
81 admit that when State considers laws OPP
pressve and unconstitutional, she has the CON
sTITUTIoNAL RIGHT, in the last resort, to resist even
to the disruption of the Union-In such case,
every good citizen will be for Secession, or Revo-
luton, five can, -forcioIy if we must.
Between the secessionIsm of Mr.. VOLTS plat
form and that on which II. S. Foote intimates
stand,-- most acute reasoncr cannot specify I
hairs -breadth Of difference.
T. G. HINDMAN, JR.
Ripley, Oct. 1st 1858.