Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-30
DAILY EVENING STAR.
Governor Foote by an Admirer.

The following classical gem is from
the Marshall Guard. published at Holly
Springs, Miss: -s-.
GOVERNOR FooTE AND THE STATE
Three months ago everybody thought
Governor Foote was politically dead and
buried, and numbered with the mists Of
the forgotten past; that he had stood on
the summit of Fame's proud temple, and
with blazing words and burning thoughts
shook the nation with peculiar impulses,
attributable only to daring genius and
natural born craftsmanship, till vanquish-
ed Senates trembled as they praised; that
he had won immortal laurels on the floor
of the Senate akin to the time-hallowed
reputation of DemOsthencS and Cicero;
that he had with magic wand and tails
manic blaze of scorching sarcasm strewed
political carcases from one end of this
wide spread Republic to the other, es-
pecially in Mississippi and South Carolina,
the hct-beds of disunion and secession;
That he had buried corrupt Legislature,
with it's collateral concomitants of talent,
wealth, influence and power; that he had
pulled off the epaulettes, brass buttons,
and waving feathers from military chief
tains, and cut their combs sharply; that
he was the head and front of all politi-
clans, and the pride and boast of the
South, and the grim terror, like an old
oak in conscious grandeur, in human
strength and solemn selfpossession and
GOODNESS amidst the fury of whirlwinds
tOrnadoes and hurricanes. of all factions
and gregarious demagosues, assembled
like grouse, pelicans, ami porcupines, ac-
companied with all kinds of snakes, for
the purpose of penetrating death and fu-
sion, with right sharp noise; but that
he had inadvertently fallen by sudden
calamity to an hopeless obscurity. We
thought he was gone, perhaps he was: if
so, it was grievous fault, and sricvous-
Phoenix he has sprung up with invigorat-
cd vitality from his own ashes.
The State is now in an uproar from the
Gulf up here, from the waters edge of
the Mississippi river to the borders of
Alabama. The people are shouting for
him everywhere; the aspiring demagogues
who were wont to take his place are
skulking to their hiding places, seques-
tered homes, and resorts of deep obscu-
rity. They first pressed down the lever
power of the Legislature upon him, then
as last resort crowned old King Caucus
and assumed the imperial dictum. But
driven from all their positions, they now
lie fiat on their backs hoHndeIing under
the fury of popular Indignation. The
traitors who sold their principles for
adultcrated gold, arc writhing in the last
agonies of expiring life. The men who
honestly opposed him in 1851, come up
like men and acknowledge they were
wrong The great mass of the people
are for Foote with immense enthusiasm,
and no mistake. Politicians are against
him, not from political or honest differ
cnce of opinion upon great questions, but
from personal malice, revenge and jealousy
they want his place and cannot sustain
themselves.
The caucus humbug is torn into atoms,
and scattered to the four winds. The
lmpurity of the last Legislature is fairly
and fully known to the people. The in
justice and ingratitude shown to Gov.
Foote is known and appreciated by SYM
pathizing and indignant public. The
towering sublimity Of his genius is looked
TO with pride and admiration. With all
the facts of the case we are driven IRE
slStibly to the conclusion that there is but
enc party in this State, and that Foote
will be returned to the Senate by accla-
nation. ...