The Nevada Democrat., 1859-10-19
WHOLE NO. 315.
CEN. Houston and the Ladles.

The Providence, Or. ~ Post accounts for the
election of Gen. Sam. Houston, as Governor of
Texas by his electioneering speech to the ladies.
The old campaigner made characteristic speech
to his fellow-citizens at Nacogdoches Of which
the editor of the Post says. "Ihis single speech
did the work-all that needed to be done, after
planting himself fairly aud squarely against the
slave trade" The paragraph which he address
ed to the ladies, after concluding HE speech to
the sterner sex, is whole speech Of itself. and
ought to elect any man who could utter it. We
give it as we fnd it in an Atlantic exchange
paper, and pronounce it the most beautiful
tribute to woman that ever fell from the lips of
a politician: oa
LADIES: know that politics are always
uninteresting to you, yet believe you have in
their general result an abiding interest It is
always qualification to me TO behold my fair
countrywomen in assemblages like these. 1t is
guarantee that their husbands, and fathers,
aud brothers are men Of intelligence and refine
ment. who appreciate their mental capacities,
| and desire their countenance in their undertak-
ings. Your presence exercises a calming influ-
ence upon those antagonisms which are too Of
ten eugendered in the heat Of political contests.
All parties desire yeur approving smile, and
therefore all are encouraged by your presence.
l know that in the direct administration Of
political affairs you have no share; but yet,
reigning as you do supreme in the realm of
| love, your influence often controls the destiny
of nations. Woman's love is the great lever
which raises men to action. s
"The General as he plans the strategic
combinations which are TO ensure victory, looks
forward to recompense dearer than the lau-
rels upon his brow the soldier, as he trudges
along the dreary march, or minges in the
scenes of the battle field, even with death
around him, forgets awhile the carnage, and
turns his thoughts to the fond girl he left be-
hind him the mariner, tempest-tossed driven
by rude waves, sings merrily aloft as he thinks
of his little cottage by the shore, where his wife
and dear ones await him the statesman, as be
devises, amid deep and painful thought, plans
OF government which are to tell upon his own
and his country's fame. never loses sight of the
| joys which await him when cabinet councils are
over, and he enters the portals Of home tho
sentinel, as he PAGES his weary watch, loves the
moonlight tramp, that he may look, beneath its
| rays, at the dear memento of O mothers or a
sisters love. Over man, in oil bis relation
chip. the influence of woman hangs like charm.
Deprive us of your inflence, which dgnines us
and stimulates us to noble deeds, and we be.
come worse than barbarans. Lot il be ours,
and we can brave cannon's mouth, or face
danger in ten thousand forms You stimulate
all that is good. You check us in ignoble pur-
poses You have also an important influence
on posterity. The early impressions which the
| child receives from you outlive all che wisdom
of later days Sages may reason aud philoso-
piers may teach, but the voice which we heard
In infancy will ever come to our ears, bearing
a mothers words and mothers counsels--
Continue to instill into your children virtue and
patriotism. Imbue them with proper venera-
tion for the fathers of liberty. Teach them to
love their country and to labor for their coun.
try's good as the great end of their ambition.
Bid them proudly maintain their institutions.
Make these their escutcheon, and bid them hand
IL down to their children as free OF stain as Il
came to them. Do this, ladies' aud your inhu-
ence will not be lost in the future. In the Ian
guage Of the poet II will be said:
"'Woman s lovely to the sight
As gentle the dews Of even
As bright as mornings earliest light
And spotiess as the SHOWS of Heaven ~