Daily national Democrat., 1859-09-03
The Camnaign in Texas.

The election of Gen. Houston as Governor
of Texas, over Col. Runnels whom the Le-
comptonites called their regular candiuate'
proves that the opiniUns ofToombs, stephens
Iverson, Brown, Yancey and others, oil
staunch supporters of James Buchanan, are
not all.powerful in the South, that portion of
the Union where the President looks chiefly
for aid. These men whom we have Just
named, are the principal lights of the Le-
compton party. Should they and others hold
ing their opinions abandon the Adnlinistra-
tion, the Lecompton party would cease to
exist as party of the nation. And yet with
this fact staring them in the face, some
Lecomptonites in this State would have us
believe that their principles can never be
incorporated into the Lecompton belief.
These remarks are suggested by an article
which appeared yesterday, in the Gwin Or
gan of this city, wherein the writer makes a
lame effort to show that the late election in
Texas did not result in the defeat of Lecomp
tonism. Sam Houston who lead the conser-
yatlve forces is not a Lecomptonte 10y any
means There is q marked difference between
him and the ultras who sustained the Presi-
dent on the Kansas question. Gen. Houston
never did sustain the Lecompton Constitu-
tion, and for his course in this respect an.
other Senator was elected in his stead We
may be told that he voted for the admission
Of Kansas under that Constitution. Ifhe did,
! he did so because he believed that the peo-
| pie of his State desired him so to do, and be-
cause they instructed him to thus vote. In
thus voting against his own convictions he
pursued a course different from that pursued
by some other Senators, placed in similar cir.
cumstances differing from an opinion long
since expressed by Lewis Cass himself
1t appears, however, that Lecomptonism
became too rampant too ultra to be sus-
tained by the people of Texas, so they called
upon Sam Houston-he lead the fight, and
Lecomptonism was beaten. In this connec-
ton, we may as well advert to another fact
of considerable moment, which is this-that
some of the strongest supporters of the Presi
dent in the Senate, called Gen. Houston tc
account in debate for not coming up to the
support of their political opinions. He wa
entirely too conservative to suit them. II,
was too much of a Union man.
Here we will take occasion to ask, "Wha
would have been the language of the lie
comptonites in this State, had Gen. Houston
been beatenT" We verify believe they woul
have cried out that great Administrator
victory had been won. They would hav
said that Runnels was the regular Democrat
candidate, and that Gen. Houston only be-
longed to the Opposition
The fact is, that Gen. Houston does not be
long to the Lecompton school of politics
wherein are to be found all the fire eaters o
the South. We see that the Express alst
speaks of them as "fre-eaters." If it use
this term in the way of disparagement, it i
hardly fair. These fre.eaters compose til
vanguard of the Lecompton army Thei
leaders are bolder than all others in their de
fense of our noble President" 1t is agains
. these, who compose the bone and sinew c
the LecomptOn party, that Gen. Houston ha
taken the field.