The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-28
WASHINGTON CITY.
TUESDAY, Sept. IS, lsss.
PROGRAMME or Mr.. FoorE AND THE ..TRuE

PROGRAMME OF Mr.. FoorE AND THE ..TRUE
DEMOCRACY"
The Hon. Henry s. Foote, whose star has been in
Memphis, Tennessee. The political wanderer and
ouoast after passing through many vicsstudes as
tho Flying Dutchman has ended his adventurous
cruise at Ne port aforesaid. He has spent fretfu
exile in California, where the exharating influences
of the gold fever expected assuage his poit
icai remorses; he has passed seven years appren-
tiesshp in the Botany Bay political convics atonng
for peccadilloes committed against the laws of the
democracy at home and he has now come back
TO embark de mooo upon new political career.
His behavior in the interim has not, however,
been propitious Of am improved life. He became
implicated during his exile with the order of Know
Nothings, and his period of regeneration
thus converted into one of deeper political
crime and degradation. His sins, so far from
becoming whittier than snow, have grown darker
and more grim than at first, from the SCOT of the
cordingly his temperance at Memphis has not been
creditable.
Imagine one of the queens Of Billingsgate carried
to the sotudes Of Van Dieman's Land for seven
years and then restored her DID, congeni precinct
Yet, her tongue, let loose after long durance,
would scarcely rival in the rapidity and fury Of its
enyenomed utterances the unruly member to which
Mr.. Foote gave loose rein at Memphis. There
is legend Of a ship which went ON cruise in the
Arctic regions and reached point of intense cold
where the words of her officers and crew became
frozen and inaudible they fell from the lips but
ms soon the vessel reached latitude of thaw on
her return, she became a little Babel with the din
and clamor of the melting words. In the speech
of Mr.. Foote at Memphis seems to have been dis
charged all the pentup verbosity which had been
struggling years for utterance in that querulous
old man To read it, one would think that all the Flu
ries had been let loose at to tear and rend the
devoted carcase Of our good old democracy.
The speech has all the characteristics which in
variaby belong to the illusions of bankrupt, tabooed
and desperate democratic politicians. It's eulogies
on renegade democratic leaders are in the highest
strain of superative extravaganza and its denunca-
tions Of the democratic organization and of it's
credited leaders are more bitter and abusive than
speakers Of the regular opposition had the har-
dihood to utter in their diatribes
Since 1850, Mr.. Foote has had no bowels of toera-
ton for the faithful leaders Of the democratic party
though claiming immacuacy for the renegades
who have initiated his own example in shameful
apostacy. He could not cooperate with the party
in supporting the administration of Mr.. Pierce but
obeyed the dictates of a refined and sensitive
conscience, by uniting himself with the know
nothings in their secret oaths, grips and midnight
prescriptions. He cannot cooperate now with the
democratic party in its support Of Mr. Buchanans
administration but finds in the treacherous and tor
tuous course Of Judge Douglas, that which COM
mends itself to his discriminating conscience and his
cordial support fully as did the infamous tenets
and practices Of the dark-antern order. democrat
from principle, he nothing to admire in the
conduct of the democratic party or in the measures
of its eaders-everyhng to admire in the treachery
of renegades like himself, and in the unprincped,
fanatical, and mischievous tenets and practices of
the motley opposition which arrays itself against it,
For the amusement of our readers we shall serve
up to them in homeopathic boluses portions of the
remarkable speech of Mr.. Foote at Memphis 1t is
one of the most impotenty ferocious philippics we
have ever read.
NIL rooto 10 uoW lnoSI DlCteTly opposed TO
the course taken last winter by the President and
Observation-Disclosures of the democratic party of the
Union on the Lecompton question; and thinks, now,
with Mr.. Reverdy Johnson, Though both of them,
we believe, expressed themselves differently last
winterJ that the President ought to have adopted
tho timid course of taking position at all
Had Mr.. Buchanan remained where he was in Sep
TENDER last In regard to the submission of the Lecom
ton constitution to the people of Kansas before the new
State should be admitted into the Union had he even
remained silent to this matter and content tod himself
he should have DONE with awaiting the action of Con
gress this subject and then either approved or veto
ed such legislation Congress might adopt as he might
find to be right and expcdcnt he would have been able
keep his party united during the whole Of the last
congressional session J"
that to say would have driven off the whole South
In solid column, whilst failing to unite the democ-
racy of the North for Mr.. Fooe oonfesses in the fol-
lowing words thattfe South, whom he characterizes
in the choicest Biingsgate, would not have been a
part Of the "united party !"
BY pursuing contrary course by yielding to the
silly and indecent Of the most shallow self su
Client and really mpotent denagogues that the South has
knownmen who had only to be met with boldness
and energy to be overthrow and put dowhe had effect
ualy broken up and destroyed his party in the North
Mr.. Foote is vehemently in favor of the "true
democracy taking early measures to insure the
breaking up of the Charleston Convention. He in
&~odr,cas tla u,,h;aof tbno