The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-08-26
CoverI5oF rsoofc,s speech.

Itelligeni audience was in attendance, and
the Governor commenced his speech amid
the enthusiastic and prolonged applause Of
the multitude, We shall net enter into an
elaborate report Of this splendid speech
by some considered the ablest one the great
Union leader ever delivered; We should mar
its fair proportions, and full 50 short of its
true spirit. We fear We should do our noble
friend moro injustice than we are willing he
should ever receive at our hands. if We at
tempted it. All agree it was not only finish
ed in point Of oratorlal polish, but was al
together stalesman-like speeeh-one wor.
thy of the great cause advocated. and the
great man its advocate.
Our readers know that General Foote is
and has always been staunch Democrat
that he voted for Pierce, and now stands
upon the platform Of the Baltimore Conyen-
ton and the Inaugural Address-that he
never did recognize Secession as part OF
the Democrats creed, but on the contrary,
lthroughont the memorable canvass of 81
argued and proved that the rightof State
to sccede from the Union, was not known in
his, the Jaeksonian school OF Democracy
that he stands now precisely where he did
in 'S3 during the Modification troubles. and
in 80 and 81, when the Union Of these
United States was shaken to its centre by
the Vaccinations of such men as jeff Davis,
and Goy'rs Brown and Quitman.-Men who
openly advocated and night and day labor
ed for the disruption of the sacred bonds
that held US together as nation. He was
Union man then, he is one now and ever
will be. Our opponents say the struggle Is
over, and the questions that then agitated
the land are now settled. How were they
or howsare they settled? True they were
settled, but not By the patriotism of the Be-
cession party-they fought till they were
fairly beaten at the September election, and
then became base submissionists because
they couldn't help themselves. and the Con-
ysntion which they themselves called, had
sent forth arebuke against its originators that
VIII beremembered wherever treason against
the Government is contemplated in this
State. for many a. year and forever.
Gov. Foote dwell somewhat at length on
the action Of the late SO called Democratic
Convention, which put up the Ticket for
the support Of the Secession party. It is
well known that every man on that Ticket
| is Secessionist but one, and he was known
to be personally hostile to General Foote.
Among the singular proceedings of that re-
markable Convention, is this. After yes-
olution had been offered and adopted. ap-
proving of the Presidents Inaugural. on
motion Of Mr. Stone, from Monticello or
some other little Pearl river town, it was
reconsidered, for, said Mr Stone. if we en-
dorse the Inaugural. we endorse Footei The
history given by his Excellency Of this same
W. A. stone-all about his going to Wash
ington to get the Consulship Of Rio Janario
Ibis crying because he didn't get. it and
other wonderful acts of this little man from
the East, was in his richest vein of irony.
Our readers may have heard of this same
Billy Stone before. You remember when
Governor Brown, who of all the men in this
State is most to blame for that frebrand OF
disunion. sent out among the people in the
fall of 1850 by Gov. Quitman in the shape
ofhis war message-came home from Wash
ington full Of ambition in his head and trea-
son in his heart-when he talked like a
camp meeting preacher to the people of
Jackson, and told them of their great wrongs
and advised them in the cant heroic Ian
guage of Cromwell: 80 pray to Coz. BAT
keep their posOder dry" and in concert
with Davis and others who should blush for
their shameful desertion of him since, ad.
vised Gen. Quitman to call that extra ses-
sion of the Legislature which called the
Conysnsion which stands alone upon our
State annals without predecessor, and may
God grant without successor, w. A. Stone
representative from Lawrence, first propos-
ed drafting a bin for the Convention and
was afterwards appointed a subcommittee
to read the bin before the House. He was
q flaming Southern Rights man. better
southerner than General Foote, who never
knew but Southern home-Whose native
Virginia has sent forth more great National
men Than any State in the Union. And
where do you think he was born? Why
way down amid the frosts and icebergs Of
the State Maine He had not lost his Yan.
kae l;dfa1. and savared mighi;fu If wnnfian