The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-23
Davis. Foote and Ouitman.

These gentlemen composed the trium-
virate which ruled Mississippi politics
for twenty years. Henry S. was the
fifteenth governor, and did once pace
The streets of jackson, proud as any
Henry of Navarro; and well he might,
for in November, 1851, he defeated
Hon. JEFF. Davis, though by the small
majority OF 900 votes, taking his stand
firmly on union and compromise-meas-
ures which, ten years later, found few ad-
vocates in Mississippi while, upon the
reverse doctrine of states rights, his
late rival rose to the presidency of the
new confederacy, Foote going into tenn
porary eclipse. Gen. John A. Quitman
had been the successful competitor for
gubernatorial honors the term before
having come to the people with his
laurels gathered fresh from the fields of
Mexico, he was invincible. In Februs-
ry, 1851, however, Gov. Quitman ] e.
signed the governorship. The ensuing
summer he was placed at the head of
the state rights ticket against Foote
drew off few weeks before the elec-
tion, after making n hot canvass, and
Mr.. Davis was substituted in his stead.
This victory was esteemed a great tri-
umph for Foote and the "union men
of Mississippi. During the canvass a
correspondent for one of the Quitman
organs, published in jackson, went the
rounds signing his communications,
"Peter," and Off IN giving Mr.. Foote
the benefit of his sarcasm. At Carroll
ton, where the friends of either party
gathered in great crowds, Foote, when
his turn to speak came, read from !" Pc
ter" and made running comments as he
read, expressing a desire to get one
sight of that individual.
No sooner said than a young man of
twenty, square built and muscular, with
sun-burnt cheeks, sandy hail, and mod
est demeanor, walked up on the stand
behind the speaker, laid his hand upon
his shoulder, and remarked
&, sir, am the man.
"And is thy name Peter?" queried
Foote, in his scomico-sarcastical style.
" name is Peter" returned the
impertubable.
% Art thou indeed Peter 2"
''I am, indeed" was the reioinder.
''Then give us your hand" shrieked
Foote, while the crowd roared its laugh
ter and hurrahs. Give us your hand,
Simon Bar-Joan-Ass; for thou art Peter,
and upon this rock will I build my
church, and the gates of h-ll shall not
prevail against it.
There was n ore in the manner than
in the speech, but Mr.. Foote'S friends
fairly roared as that gentleman turned
upon Peter and bowed him gracefully
off the stage at the end of the episode.
The entire campaign was hot, and In
the little fisticuffs that interrupted de-
bate it was first FOote and then Quit
man on top. At Grenada, FoOte walked
up behind Gen. Q. (while that gallant
old soldier was pouring in hot shot,
right and Left and struck him & sting
ing blow on the cheek with his open
hand. Turning upon his assailant,
Gen. Quitman applied his right boot
suddenly TO Mr.. Foote'S coat-tail, and
lifted him, head-foremOst. off the rOs-
trum. Friends interpOsed-and the
good work went on.-Cor. COstrter-sJotfr.
TIE new horse disease, which was
prevalent in the New York stables, has
attacked the horses of the Brooklyn ear
lines. and of the animals as many as
two hundred are laid up with the dis
order, The disease is known as pinke
and farcy, and occasions q swelling OF
the legs Of the animal, a raDning of the
ewes. and a stiffness of the joints. There
IS no specific cause of the disease as
cribed. It-does not last, as q general
thing. more than three or four dyas,
ard although apparently painful to the