The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-02-01
Foote once more on The Rampage.

F00te once moro on tae hsbpaSc'
In the rebel Congress on the goth
inst, Mr. Foote, of Tennessee, gave an
account of his recent adventures in the
direction Of Alexandria. he said
" He had gone from this city by the
advice Of his friends to take his wife TO
a portion of the country where she
might, with possibility, get through the
lines TO Alexandria, andthence to Nash
vile. where her friends and children
were lie had then intended to make
an effort to get as near to Washington
As DO ssible, to see if he could not be al
lowed 10 20 TO Washington, in order 70
find out the state of feeling in regard
to q compromise between the North
and South, and to endeavor to bring
about some terms of peace. he had
written q letter stating his intention,
bat finding afterward that they intend
ed TO force him to take the oath at Al
exandria, which ne never intended to
do, he determined to adopt another
plan" There Mr. Foote gave an &C
count Of his arrest-EDs. Con-
81 lie intended 70 ask, st the close OF
MS speech, for leave Of absence for two
months 10 visit his constituents, or to
get az near Nashville as possible, to
consult with them. He had been in
| duced to take the step be had taken,
and was about to take, from pure love
| Of the Sou n. He had sons in the ar
my. His whole feelings and interests
were with the South, and it would new
sr be otherwise He had become alarmed
at the state Of affairs He did not want
10 see emancipation IN the South. He
could not bear the thought Of recon
/ suuc ion, and he wanted To see if some
! taing could not be done toward bring
ing sbout a peace He wss so unfor-
Junate as not to be in very good odor
with the Administration. Mr. Davis had
got forgotten that he had once beaten him for
Gooernor Of Mississippi He had not for
yigsa hiHstor defeating the bill giving him a
portion Of Ills salary in qod M Mem
niagsr had teen forced 10 resign By his mo
/ Ion; and az 10 Mr. Seldom, he Mr. Foote)
! hId introduced, about tsoo months ago. a res
| 9iletioa making inquiry into Mr. SsddonS
Ieti0r, and had proved, By official investg1
gi0n, ttat Mr. Seldom, on tic I'd day Of Au
gust laSt had been paysd forty dollars
/ 5usheL fer his os0n wheat, 0hen, 6y his
1s0R order, 10heat tOas being Impressed IN
| Gs0ryia and North Carolina at seven dol
lars a JUghsL
Here Mr.. Foote was called to order,
and his speech stopped
Another report of Mr. Foote's speech
contains the following passage: "Mr.
Footc proceeded to detail other reasons
Tor his selfappointed mission to Wash
rngton. He had become discouraged By tie
condition and tendency Of publ; Affairs He
thought the management was bad and
the prospect gloomy. lie thought the
time hal come for negotiation. He deter
mined to throw himself into this work;
| thought he occupied q favorable posi-
ton as a mediator or negotiator His
connection with the compromise meas
ures Of 1850 was well known at the
North. His uniform past advocacy o.
the Union, and his known desire for
peace, he thought would secure him g
hearing. In California he was init
nstely known; he had there four chill
dren and eight grandchildren He
thought he could be useful and was
willing TO make the effort and run the
hazard"
Ia the state of the public mind Of the
south, indicated by such talk as this,
the Richmond papers are endeavoTing
to scare the Southern people out of
their ideas of peace and reunion with
such articles as the following from the
| Examiner
Ii Virginia should ever, unhappily,
I esNA ~ -,
cast your eye over the whole State and
look for the worst, foulest, meanest
ruftian in it. You may not find, in all
| Virginia, such a superhuman wretch as
| BroWnlow but still, single out the
worst you can think of-one whom
every honest man avoids like poison ;
let him be some hardened grogshOp
,olitician--a coward at once and q bull
| ly, and foaming preacher, whose prayers
% God are imprecations, and who hates
dis neighbor like the devil, that is the
nan who will be Governor of this Com
monWealth. He will be inaugurated in
our old Capitol, hedged around with
| Yankee bayOnets He will appoint all
.ivil officers, including judges and
hangmen; for there will be no Sena-
tors or House of Delegates under that
regime, but the flag of the State, with
It's SIC ssmps, shall wave over a
den of robbers and shambles, where
irum- head justice will soak the soil
with the blood of all good Virginians,
aud give their possessions to their muir
terers, 10 have and to hold, them and
their heirs, forever Some, by abject
3ervility and oaths Of allegiance, taken
amid the sneers of the blue>coated sol
diery, may save their lives, perhaps, but
not their property; they must return
into the Union naked as they left their
mothers womb. 1t is but faint pic
ture of the future of subjugated Viz
ginian, which he who lives to see will
often wish, in the bitterness of his soul,
chat he and his had rather persisted by
the cruelest extremities of war, than
been preserved to endure such a peace"