Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-09-02
THE ELECTIONS IN TEXAS.
To The Editors Of the ESqair'r:
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MARSHALL. Texas. Aug. Stii, loo''
Gentlemen The election III tins Slaic' vi
! Governor, Lieutenant. Governor, COMMISSIONS
I Of the General Land Office and members Oh Tue
Legislature, has transpired. News travels SLOW
ly here, where rail roads and teleGraphS are AZ
(: most totally unknown. and hence on the lshll
day after the election, am not able to give you
very accurate information Us to lis result. How
eyer | rive what we have so far, and il is gloomy
enough Twenty-Five or 30 counties have been
he,r'l from: counties which in the last State cleo
linn rave the Democratic nominee. ii. L. fln-
uels. lar.c naioritr>, all, with hnt one or w"
cxccpto:iS: and they give now H. overwhelming
,,ainrilicS for Houston. In sonc INSTANCES the
vote * almost unanimous. - jar !i"un'"h l.
six ar seven thousand votes ahead. Ills iiia-
iori,v in the STATE will doubtless nc ten OF
twelve thousand Clark, The cand'da~ Tor
Lieutenant Governor Oh the llotston tchr'' l.
not running rs well - the ht'" o! Inc fa ,.
but then there i, no doubt OF h> election Inc
contest between White ard Crosby for the Of
flee Of Land Commissioner is close and unue-
cidcd. However the election for that Office
may be. i; will Ice no indication "i part!
strength one way or another. The Legislature
will be composed of majority al lhch WHO
have supported Houston for tie GovrrAor>h'l';
but some Of whom will no; support HIM should
he be 4 candidate again for the senate, IL &c
certainly will be. He may, however. he re-
elected to the Scnatc-"a conSumnauon ac'
voutly to be- deprecated.
Unquc>tonably the result Of this election
will surprise tie whole country. That All en-
IRENE Southern State, like Texas. elects 10 the
highest office within her gift. man whose an
! tagoniSm 10 the South and the constitutional
Democratic party, is not less notable than his
..vauting ambition" 10 be President or Vice
| President. or something else i'll the round Of
Federal di:ni,ie>. will he Il source of cOngratu
lation To Greeley and his crew, and ofrc.rct 10
every true Democrat in Tie Union. Can it hc
explained, Easily. Texas is not free soil. y"
considerable portion Of her people i anli->ontiI-
crn. The truth is simply this; ""v. fuhncIS,
! though sensible gentleman yet modest ami 'iri.
assuming and no speaker, !ll> Icrn represented
I by his enemies To be Il man oi less than Ordinary
! intelligence ami talent, and has been 'ili!cd
and traduced by SPECTATORS for his honest and
determined watch over reckless rail ROAD CON-
panicS and by cunning political tiickStc,S be-
cau>c of his stern patriotism and unw:.yc'ins
devotion to principle, until the j""Pt,, really
and honestly mistaken, many ri them, ron>r!-
cr him unlit fur the t'ubcrnat0ria! chair. bH
the other hand Gen. lionSton has been held up
by an abandoned and Sacricg iou> press ~ IAN
immaculate statesman Of iai->ccin-, >agacIiv,
and "war-wOrn hero, scared all over with
the scars Of slorio'l> battle. such baldcrda>h
As this las fooled the car 81 many true Demo
crat, and led him To the support of llou>'~n.
No issue of federal politics influenced the pco.
pie in this election. The fact is, Governor
! l,rnnels is beaten, and not the Democratic
party. Texas will not east her electoral vote
for General Houston. il hc Is the Black Re-
publican candidate for the Presidency; though 1t
. is melancholy truth. that many, very many Of
hs friends here. world vote for Him even ~
the candidate of that party. of which. think.
there is no Doubt.
MrsSrS Editors, do YOU wish to know the Po-
>ilion Of the Democracy Of Texas IN regard 10
the nor,.inturvcnton question: She asserts III
unqualified terms that Congress m'Sf ;,l!d 'hHt
give that protection To Souticrn property in
the territories which i guaranteed hy the
Constitutions She Nil not submit la judge
Douglas Interpretation Of the Cincinnati plat
FORM nor rW SHE >rrpoh N"t ge,ltm""
i,Ae /, Aomia";ed. She is utterly opposed
too 10 the rcalopton of Il platform, con-
tanning Il Janus. faced doctrine iunkinr North
and loohins South, but with different
expressions She world even prefer the M
qualified ."rr,4.',r": the former, to the '""|i'
M,aiing. yet rirtvM surrender "i the latter
Hence she will he farther from supporting Mr.
Hunter than Mr. Dou.,as-and t,oy. Wise. !
believe, is her first choice No man dcmying
Goy. Wi>c'S protection doctrine Gait yet her
support but any true Democrat, asserting tl.at
doctrine, whether he be from tie North o. the
South, can rally her 10 battle and 10 victory
She. however thinks that the South ought 10
have the man. aud, if | ain not mistaken. She
will vote for Henry y. Wise in the Charleston
Convention.
Where Is to lie the end of Kansas mi,ro.iio>
and Kansas resolutions, if the views ol Senator
Douglas are To BE- adopted: Why, if that
doctrine nf s.iuaticr sovereignty prevails, Ia
every new territory the onl:rart aid societies
Of the North will send their hordcS Of tat
tered vagabonds. and the South her "rm6d
regiments Of pcocabic stititrs, until the terri
tory is changed i..loa new battle field to be
drcnchcd like Kansas with the blood OF North.
crn and Southern mcn. Emigration will be
forced and unnatural. and instead of being the
result of Il legitimate desire of men an, ialmi-
lie, To find for themselves new and profitable
fields Of labor il will be bU; IN OntgII>lI Of the
hostility existing between the North and the
South How Such state Of things Is 20 be
stunned, let every patriot consider. May 1t
not be- by giving alike TO Northern and South
crn property protection, until i'll the natural
course Of crcnts, the territory having remain
cd long cnongh in it embryo condition, i pre-.
pared Tor admission into the ijlm!ly of States n
sovereign equal: How can Southern men,
or patriots Of either section. debate y question
like this, when It's solution in one way only
can give quiet To the country. and irs'ire 10 the
Southern States: Suicidal indeed, Is the poll
cy OF Senator llrntcr, which, while he knows
the constitutional rights of the South, bids him
not a,ow them, hut rather 10 h"st until the
elements Of war are more completely ready
and ,lc>olation more certainly impending:
Wedding st q. S. Minister Masons Residence.
On Tuesday morning, the 9th august, at ]
o'clock, SAYS letter from Paris, the marriage
of Miss Mary \. Mason, daughter Of the Minis.
ter % the t. States, and Mr.. Archer anderson
Of Virginia, was >olcmniAcd, at the residence .!