The Yazoo Democrat., 1853-01-05
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PHILLIPS & PERKINS, EDIrOns

PHILLIPS * PERKINS, EDIToRs
q The following communication
purporting to be from B. N. Kinyon to
Gov. Foote, in answer to the Governors
letter, notifying Mr. K of his intention
to appoint him United States Senator
to fill the vacancy that will occur on
the 4th of March next, when Hon. w
Brooke's term expires. We tind it in
the North Mississippi Union, but would
not like to Vouch for its genuineness:
JAcrNro December 9th, 1852.
To Hrs ExcKLLENcY H. S. FooTH.
DEAR SIR.-Y our communication of the 25th
ult, rendering me the appointment of United
States Senator, to fill the vacancy which win
be occasioned in the Senatorial representation
in Congress from this State, by the expiration
of the Senatorial term of the Hon. Walker
Brooke Of the 4th Of March next, until an cleo
ton shall be had by the Legislature; was re-
ceived the 3rd inst. and now reply.
The distinguished consideration you tender
me SO wholly unexpected and unmerited would
have been indeed overwhelming, had it not
been for the fact that the honor is sought to be
conferred upon the patriotic and noble citizens
of Tisbemingo, and ar1 only the conduit for
the attainment of that end.
For me to say that our county is entitled to
the highest consideration and most profound
respect, is but to put in tangible form the
voice of the concurrent history of the times
Eminently devoted to the constitution of the
United States, with all its limitations and COM
promises-to the Union of the States under and
according to the said constitution, and the well
fare of the State and the people; early in the
excited and heated controversy (now SO happi-
ly and signally terminated) arising out of the
passage of the 9 Compromise" by the 31st Con-
gress, the voice Of her citizens came up from
all quarters and from both political parties, and
was heard above the din of the strife proclaim
ing acquiesence in the I" Compromise" as
whole (though net satisfied with every part Of
the same,) upon the express confidence that the
same in all its parts, fugitive slave law inclu-
ded, should be faithfully kept and executed.
Neither were they unmindful of those noble
patriots who in the Nations Counsels during
the memorable period pending the passage of
and section and combine together fer the set
tIement of those issues which had become sec
tional by marked and apparently fixed line,
rising like grim monsters, threatning the over
throw of the very bulwarks of freedom and the
entire demolition of the Temple of Union
founded upon the Constitution and reared in
its gigantic proportions and sublime symmetry
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the basis OF that Constitution and to the welfare,
prosperity and happiness of the whole-the
States and the people. Nobly did they sustain
those patriots and the work they accomplished,
and in so doing they now have the profound
qualification of knowing that they had but
little earlier spoken that which is the voice and
sentiment of both the great political parties of
the Confederacy, as demonstrated by the late
Baltimore Conventions, and may truly be said
to be the sentiments of the people of the Ma
tion.
Nor was Tishemingo alone in the great work
of pacifcation, but nobly was she seconded by
the whole State, early in the memorable contro
versy which now survives alone in history.
shall be pardoned trust for these remarks,
as they are what humbly conceive to be only
"reminiscences of the recent past.
Your illusions to my democracy are indeed
gratifying, and hope not wholly unnerited
In conclusion, permit me to say that | shall
accept the appointment rendered as the humble
instrument through which you would honor the
County of which j am proud to claim myself as
a citizen, and in the discharge Of the duties OF
the same with a corroding distrust in myself,
shall attempt to follow the pathway lighted by
the Constitution, Justice and Truth
have the honor to be yours &c.
b. N. KINYON.