Des Arc citizen., 1859-09-07

Tar LATE ELECTION IN TExAs.-The Vicksbrg Sla ofthe 26th ull,, discourses as follows in reference to the result of the recent election in Texas. It is worthy of not only being read, but should also be re- membered
 We observe that some of onr cotempora- ries are accounting for the defeat which the Democracy of TeIas recently sustained in the election of Gen. Houston, upon the hypothesis that they made the Congo question the test of political orthodoxy, and thus brought about their overthrow. Nothing could be more false.
 There is not scintilla of evidence to sus- tain such charge, and those who make it betray plentiful lark of ignorance touching the subject, which they go LEARNEDLy discuss. The Democratic party of Texas studiously ig- nored the question h their platform, and du- ring the whole canvass it did not form the staple of single discussion between the op- posing champions. Houston was warmly sup ported by several of the most prominent ad- vocates of the foreign slave trade in that State, the delegate to the VicksbuIg Conyen- tion among the number and AU coNTRARIE, Reynolds was sustained by hundreds who were known to look with disfavor upon the propo- sition looking to the revival of that traffic.
 The fact of the matter is, the slave-trade question uiu not cDbtT tUe cduFaSS Nt dsi; IL Wo except an incidental discussion of 1t in the journals and an occasional allasion to it on the hustings The Democratic party was not committed to 1t; although we believe if the election could have been made to hinge upon that issue, and the Democratic candidates had, after taking firm and decided stand in it's ia vor advocated it with bodness, tempered with reason and moderation, they would have rout- cd their opponents, horse, foot and dragons scattering them like leaves, before the breath of the gale.
 Tell us that the people of Texas--who stand so much in need of labor to fell their forests, build their railroads, and otherwise develop the resources Of their great and growing State, making it to bloom like garden and blos- som like the rose--would, if the question was fairly presented to them, whether they would adopt that policy which could not, but in- crease their wealth and advance their many varied interests, ( as the revival of the slave trade certainly would, give it the cold shou- der !-turn away from it with disapproyal !- We believe no such thing; and until we are convinced that the people of that State have lost their reason, and become dead to their own and the interests of those who are to take their places on the stage of action, we will still be doubting Thomas.
 The sentiment of Texas is in favor of the Congo trade, and if an issue was made upon that question, this fact would be speedily de- veloped. Sensible, redecting men, everywhere
 in the South must see, unless they be wilfully and perversely blind, that the prosperity of their section, the formation of future slave States, and the consequent growth and power of the South in political point of view, all depend upon the revival of the trade under consideration and viewing the matter in this light, they cannot do otherwise than adYo- cate it's revival. Texas has ample scope and verge enough for one hundred thousand strong, able-bodied, athletic field hands from the wilds of Congo and Loango, and think you that they would oppose the introduction of such strong, available field force into their midst, knowing as well as they do the useful ness of Cufee, and the advantages derived from his presence, by the cotton and the corn.--- Man is governed by self interest, in his ac- tions, and unless he is propelled by some oth- CT motive power, he will adopt that policy suggested by the pocket argument; provided that always it is conformabie to his notions of honor and loyalty to the State.