Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1859-09-14

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have mentioned above would reflect honor upon
| Texas as her Senator"
Ee.y~ If we remember correctly, The Washington
States was often quoted during the late canvass in this
State rs authority to prove that Gen. Houston was
looked upon at Washington, rs having given vary
warm support to Mr.. Buchanan's Administration
We think wo heard the States quoted in more nstan-
ces than one to this effect but it's tune is changed
and that democratic journal begins to see the true
| position of parties in Texas Whatever Of personal
friendship Gen. Houston may have had for Mr..
Buchanan, 1t was uot sufficient to induce him give
n very warm support to him during the campaign
when Mr. Fillmore WINS in the field against him. The
states "a 'if:tt-UlyirVd hat man sFoud
he considered good democrat when he runs u. m
independent candidate against the regular democratic
nominee The Louisville journal is, in our opinion,
entirely correct when IL says that Gen Houston "re-
pudiated none of his American principles We clip
the following items from the Washington States of a
late date The States agrees with Col. Wigfall that
the slave trade not practical issue before the
people. The States has likewise made the wonderful
discovery that it not contained in the platform
atopted by the s tate Convention at Houston
| Who is Correct 4?
Brigadisr General George Washington Bow
man. of the Washington Constitution, claims the
election of Gen. Houston as 'an Administration
victory notwithstanding he ran in opposition
| to the regular nominations made by the Demo-
| cratic party in state convention. George ID. Prem
tice, of the Louisville Journal, says
at is not true that General Houston, recently
elected Governor of Texas, declared in favor Of
| the Administration during his canvass The
statement chat he did 50 was a slander, and GER
tainly very vile one. The old patriot repudia-
ted none of his American principles"
Colonel John Marshall, the editor of the Aus
tin State Gazette, the official organ of tho Demo
cracy Of Texas, says;
sin our opposition to Sam Houston we have
| maintained that no has not retraced single po-
ltical principle of his life. He is now elected,
and we shall see whether he will yet do it. Even
in regard to the Know Nothing issue, he declared
in his seat in the United States Senate, only last
| April, the fact of thousands of foreigners being
| in Texas who could not speak the English Ian
guage as u reason for lengthening the term of
probation. He declared that decent foreigner
could live very well without voting, and that the
longer you postpone them the better. All this
convinced us that he had not forsaken his Know
Nothing principles, and we know that some of
his presses in this State will not disguise their
opinion that such is the belief Of many of his
| friends"
lHE ISSUE IN lBAAS-lHe vi biie
Charleston Mercury that the slave trade issue
| was the chief cause of Gen. Houston's success,
is disproved by tho avermsnt of Col. Wigfall, in
his address to the people of Smith county, viz ::
THAT it was not practical issue before the peo-
ple." The friends of Runnslls, the Democratic
nominee for governor, everywhere denied that it
certainly was not in the platform adopted by the
Democratic State convention.
g9r correspondent of the Washington "States''
thinks that Emmerson Etheridge will be the next
Speaker of the House, and gives the following very
good reasons for 30 thinking We believe that neither
Tom Corwin, nor Etheridge will get the speakership.
We believe that Hon John H. Reagan would unite as
much strength rs any member of the South, and is
eminently qualified for the position. We would be
pleased to the honor of the Speakershp conferred
upon him But the reasons of the correspondent for
believing that Ethcridge Of Tenn, will be elected
Speaker
II. We Witnessed the course of Mr.. Ether
idge during the 33d and Saith Congresses. His
votes and his associations were anything but
Southern. stranger would have supposed
that he hailed from come district way up in Mas
sachusetts.
i go. Horace Greeley has frequently said that
he is willing to work in the traces with Emmer-
son Etheridge.
s'3. The Southern Opposition members will
think that they vote for Etheridge with safety
to themselves at home because of his location.
az. The Black Republicans-seeing that they
cannot elect one of their own aT0wed friends-wiil
be very willing to support Etheridge because Of
his well known sympdthies.
i These considerations, and others that might
re given have made a fixed imrIessicn upon or
nind tlat Emerson Btheridge VIII ha the prssi6-