The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-13

cation thus secured by Gen. Houston. his 70
maiSable public career Of forty years, military
and civil-his sound and conservative views and
principles upon government affairs all the way
thrcugh-his acts Of heroism and patriotism,
"faniliar in our mouths as household words
would render him an invinc bic candidate before
The people. In the strong, expressive language
Of John Van Buren,, he would run like the
cholera" We suspect, indeed, that Gen. Houston
long ere this would have been trotted out by
some democratic national convention, but that
the managing politicians have all along been
afraid of his individual popularity afraid that
he would prove too strong among the people to
lie managed by regency. This fear, we be-
lieve, induced the convention jugglers at Ba!ti-
more, in 1852, to shut their ears and eyes to the
availability Of Gen. Houston and to fall back
upon poor Pierce.
Tut no such trick of convenient obscurity will
avail in 1860. If the party managers at Cincin-
natl, under the instincts of selfpreservation,
were compelled to call upon Mr. Buchanan,
after giving him the cold shoulder for twenty
years, they will be still more under the necessity
this next time of casting about for another Her
cules to lift them out of the mire. General Hous-
ton is their man. He can save them. Let him
be nominated at Charleston, and he can be elect
ed. BE can recover some of the great States
which our democratic regencies have thrown
away, and retain all that the party has not lost
His name would be "tower of strength" to the
party. Indeed, for the popular uses of Presi-
Dental canvass, "old San Jacinto" would ope-
rate like New Orleans, Tippecanoe and Buena
Vista. There would be no Seward upon his back
to break him down, as "old Chippewa" was bro
ken in 1852.
But General Houston, it may be said, was only
the other day the leader in Texas Of the Know
Nothings! What does that amount to? Most
of the shining lights Of the democracy were In
other times old federalists or old line wings,
and not few were led off for while by the
jack lantern Of Know Nothingism. Where else
could Gen. Houston go than into the Southern
Know Nothing camp, when he found, in 1854
that he could not follow Douglas and Pierce, and
Mason and Toombs into that dangerous and ruin
GUS experiment, the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise? Now, having declared the Know Moth
ing party dead, having cordially planted himself
upon the administration Of Mr.. Buchanan, and
against the Southern fire eaters, and having been
supported by the solid and intelligent German
vote of Texas, who shall attempt to question the
democracy of General Houston or his soundness
concerning the rights of our naturalized citizens?
"Old San Jacinto" is the man to harmonic
and save the distrac ed and crippled democratic
party. He has had nothing to do with their de-
structive intestine feuds of the last four or five
years, and hus he is just as good as new man.
Let our democratic fir ends of law AMI order,
who expect to have voice in the Charleston
Convention, consider the superior availability of
Houston, and remember that availability is the
only word that can save their party. The right
man to slip in between the belligerent Wise and
Douglas is that solid old campaigner General
Sam Houston.