The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-13
Gen. Sam Houston and tho New COmpllca-
lions Of the Prudential Issue.

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If"coming events cast their shadows before;"
if we may form an estimate Of the strength and
sweep of an approaching hurricane from look
at the gathering clouds, then we may undertake
to say, from the signs in the political horizon,
that the Presidential conflict of 1860 will be
something like that terrific war of the sky and
sea, and winds and waves, when a roaring tenn
pest darkens the Gulf of Mexico.
Considering, too, the withdrawal of Mr.. Blu
chanan from the Presidential arena the confused
and irreconcilable discords Of sections and fac
tons the various aspirants and cliques, and their
conflicting plots and plans for the succession,
the late proceedings of the Albany Regency, the
pombshell Of the Wise onnelly letter, but,
above all, the curious and suggestive results of
the late Southern elections and the late Oregon
election, we may well inquire who will be COM
petent to save the country in 1860 from the
perils OF sectional dissolution? We see that
the republican party are preparing to take the
field in the form Of another grand Northern cru.
sade against slavery and the slave power" that
the Southern ultra leaders of the democratic par
ty, upon such violent proslavery demands as
Congressional slave code for the Territories,
and the revival of the African slave trade, are
threatening the final explosion of the party at
the Charleston Convention; that the Northern
Douglas movement also threatens rupture;
while the conservative political elements of the
country are as much perplexed as was Daniel
Webster when he asked, where am to go?''
One thing, however, is very certain, and that
is the ignominious defeat and dissolution of the
national democracy in l86O'unless the Charleston
Convention shall nominate candidate for the
Presidency competent in himself to represent
and reunite all the factions and fragments of the
party. Mr.. Buchanan did this good service for
them in 1856, but who will be competent to take
his place for the succession? The late Texas
election, from all that we can learn, furnishes
ready answer. General Sam Houston, called
from the retirement Of private life to lead the
law abiding and Union loving citizens of Texas
against the ireeating party regency of that
State, and their new shibboleth of the African
slave trade, is the very man in this crisis for the
national Democracy.
We received few definite returns of this
Texas election last night, indicating the success
of Gen. Houston: the fire eaters, indeed, give it
up, and no doubt appears to exist of the
triumph of General Houston as the indepen-
dent, conservative administration candidate for
Governor His success, therefore, against
the local democratic regency, which had assumed
to ignore the policy Of Mr.. Buchanan's admins
tration, and to substitute the revolutionary DO.
Ley Of the ireeaters, is victory which cannot
be too highly estimated. tbs a staggering blow
to this African slave trade movement; for in this
popular rebuke from Texas the fire eaters of Mis-
sifsippi, Alabama and Georgia will be able to
read wholesome lesson and to perceive the
necessity Of taking the back track.
IN addition to the strong and solid recommen-