New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-28
wr1Ar HAVE rnEY GAINED BY n !.

The pew-fangled Buchanan Walker Kansas Demo
cracy Of Texas are making great deal OF " noise
and confusion y over their recent victory in that
State. Now, unless they contend with Stephen A.
Douglas that everything is airin politics. and that
the end iustifies the means, the Texas Democracy
have nothing to boast over in the result of the late
contest It was mere triumph OF numbers. NO
definite issue was made no principle or policy was
involved no question of Importance was at stake.
The sole aim and object of the leaders of bogus
Democracy was, the defeat of Gen. Houston. Ana
to effect this they resorted to every device and tck
known to political wireworkers; they heaped upon
the old veteran every calumny and opprobous epthet
their inventive genius could coin. 10 slaVeholdefs
he was denounced as Abolitionist, and his votes
on the Kansas Nebraska and other Territorial bills
were grossly msrepresented to the faithful he was
represented as bitter and violent opponent of Demo.
cracy: to the Germans and other foreigners he was
denounced as an unrelentng Known Nothing, who was
in favor of denying them all political rights and in
the more western counties the Mexcans were told,
that if Gen. Houston was elected, their churches
would be torn down and they all be driven across the
Rio Grande into Mexico And what has been the
result of this unprincipled course? mere triumph
Of numbers. Had the leaders of bogus Democracy
made fair, open and manly issue upon principles,
they would have been beaten in all probability. Had
they attempted to sustain Mr.. Buchanan's Walker
policy in Kansas they would have been reduced to
vote that anything but Southern in its tendencies
But it is, they gained victory and thus secured
the seven princpes-the loaves and fshes-for which
they mainly commended. To effect this, the leaders
had to cajole, wheedle and coax every faction and
clique in the State and make promises professions
to suit each. And after all their efforts, the leaders
Of the bogus Democracy in Texas are chagrined to
find that Gen. Houston received full twohirds of the
native born vote Of the State. The returns show,
that in the counties where the fewcst Americans re-
side and the smallest number Of slaves are owned,
there Gen. Houstons vote was small, and that in the
counties where most of the population is American
and where most slaves are owned his vote is large
These facts show his opponents that their cry about
Abolitionsm Freesoism and Known othingism had
but little effect upon men of sense, who were COM
petent to judge for themselves, and who are not so
prejudiced to endorse everything said and done in
the name of Democracy. True friends of the South
have those protesting to be National Democrats
bartering away Southern rights and Southern in
terests, to gain party triumph. They have seen
those who made the most fuss about Southern rights
and State rights, endorsing the sale. These facts
will account for Gen. Houstons vote in the counties
where the people are most interested in the nstitu
tons of the South, and show that National Democracy
has but a nominal existence.