The Yazoo Democrat

NORTHERN NOTICE OF MR. FOOTE'S FINALITY.
The Northern compromise journals are scrubbing their "friend and pitcher" the "Little Pacificator" in a most ungrateful manner. We subjoin a specimen from the New York Commercial Advertiser, a very moderate and cautious print. In fact that agitator" has abused the public patience so abominably that the only "plan of pacification" to be adopted towards him, is to show him up in all his inconsistency. The print alluded to, says :
"We might express some doubt of Mr. Foote's good faith in this matter, inasmuch as while he is advocating the finality of the whole compromise legislation, he has been driven to acknowledge that he shall be in favor of the admission of a Southern California, should that proposition ever come before Congress. Without saying how far such a measure would be a disturbance of the compromise agreement, we may remark that if Mr, Foote's resolution is carried, or even if it is insisted upon with pertinacity. the north will probably hereafter use this finality doctrine as a two-edged weapon.
But there is a still stronger objection to the longer entertaining of Mr. Foote's resolution.—His object is impracticable. Congress cannot stamp finality upon any of its laws. It has no constitutional power or authority so to do. The people would snap their fingers in contempt at any such attempted despotism on the part of their representatives. For any one Congress to declare that any one, or any half dozen, of its enactments should be placed beyond amendment or repeal by the people, by means which the Constitution has inalienably provided for that very purpose as an integral condition of self-government, would indeed be a barefaced mockery of the doctrine of popular sovereignty. And if the present Congress were to pass this resolution, the probability, if not the certainty, is that the people would resent such an encroachment upon their rights by electing State legislatures and Congressional representatives upon this issue, so that the Senate and House at the next session would almost unanimously undo the despotic act, and as solemnly declare that the compromise measures were not final—in which case Mr. Foote and his coadjutors, and the true friends of the Union to boot, would be only in a worse position for this injudicious attempt on Mr. Foote's part to persuade Congress into an act, which while it cannot fail to excite popular jealousy of the law makers, can impart no additional authority to laws already constitutionally enacted."