The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1859-06-18
GOV. FooTE FoR CoNGREss.


ent of auxiliary circumstances of ridiculosity'
and it is by no means contemplate proyender for
the laughter-loving part Of creation. But read
it in connection with his letter of premature de-
CLEMSON published few weeks since, and think
of the Protean skill and ingenuity of the author,
and this last document will be pronounced dish
over which Comus himself would have delighted
to finger and luxuriate. 1t will be found on the
outside of the present issue. The Governor had
Heretofore deliberately and Internationally de-
clined allowing himself to be recognized as a can
didate. to represent this District in the National
Legislature" Three times the mighty Caesar
pushed away the profFered crown; but Mr..
Foote, than whom no man is capable of making
greater sacrifices, more magnanimous than the
immortal Roman, spurns honor before offered
and with wonderful humility, expresses prefer
ence for some mythical gentleman who is availa-
bic. Truly is this the sublimity of modesty and
self-sacrfcc more especially when coming from
a political corpse, whose strength has departed,
and whose glory, influence and hopes sleep quiz
city in the cemetery of demagogues. There are
many desirable positions in this world but If
there is any one position more enyiable than an
other, it is that where a man is made the tool to
be temporarily revived by ready method,
invented in the councils of an inbecile party
merely for the glory of riding its spasmodic body
to be again over,hrowr Foote, whose name
will live only in the annals Of political knight
errantry more commonly known as demagoguism,
is an indispensable to the opponetts of Democracy
and Southern rights. Whenever the Opposition
are driven to such desperate shifts that neither
man nor bog can be 50 utterly fJolhardy as to
undertake its conduct, some half dozen Of the
embittered few sound the Foote Bugle, and the
wiry champion springs upon the back of the ILL.,
starred poney. 1t is to be hoped that the vanity
of the rider places the true value upon his freely
privileges Well, the poor lunatic sets as much
store by his verbena crown and peach tree scep-
tire as the proudest potcntate of his extensive
domain. Let us not, therefore, deny TO poor
FoCte his pride in being the make shift of desper-
ate schemers in the world of politics Defeat
cannot iniure him and he takes a pleasure in
courageously but indiscreetly going where his
masters are too timid or too wise TO venture.
There is, however, some little method in Foote'S
madness AT first, We find him making sundry
very mysterious and unaccounta6le visits to Yazoo
City, during which is much private palayer and
enc public speech. Finally, we hear of an oppo
sition meeting, and set of resolutions which are
passed therein, and these resolutions have wordy
long windcdness and shrewd evasiveness about
them which constitute tie simon-pure, unmistak-
able, Foote twang. We have even heard it wits
pered among rash spectators that Foote was the
author of those resolutions. Now, this may be
doing the GRANT Protcus great injustice, and ifI
SO, his pardon is mplored, but yet must We be so
candid as to confess our own conversion to that
belief
BE this as it may, it is certain that the honorel
and honorable tool of certain desperadoes among
the opposition" has derived his information
concerning the Yazoo meeting from false report
CIR, provided, of course, said information was not
derived from the imagination of the redoubtable
wanderer This proviso is not impossible, though
we would, by no means, be understood as assert
ing it to be probable. But that the Hon. Il
S. Foote is either imaginative or misinformcd
is unquestionable from the fact Of his remarkng
find myself nominated by a large popriay
dSSemJlGge in the county of Yazoo as a candidate
for Congress- in manner as conceive, TO demand
my prompt and cordial dequcseeace." Now, this
" large popular assemblage," which constitutes
80 nl0ytug nh ar0ument to Foote'S ambitiou which
had SO shortly previous thereto " deliberately and
intentionally declined" exercise, comprised nme
indiriduais'
Nine indiUidts1lS made the largest number at any
time acting with the meeting, and the numler
trcaty would, at any period, have more thar COZ.
cred the whole auditory, Of whom probably d !
majority were democrats, certainly never more
than nine oppositionsts. This is the "large
popular assemblage" whose call Proteus considers
imperative. Fastaff's " men in Buckram" grew
from two to eleven, but Falstaf will hereafter
hile his diminished head, for Foote, his iustri.
Gus competitor, swells nine men into "largc
popular assemblage" whose mere ntimation is
imperative" to compel his violation
Of a deliberate and unconditional dcclcasioa Leon
das and his nine Spartans will doubtless astound
the world by their deeds of heroism. The army
and their leader IRE each worthy of the other,
and their fate will be worthy of both.