The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-09


lover, with esles OF red southern at 81 20 81 Is white
co 81 SO @ 81 S. and white Kentucky at 81 43 81 As.
Corn wac hrmer with sses Of old Western mixed from
stole zee do at ,so roc, and round yelo" at
79c. a Sic Pork comparatively quiet with sales or
new mess at Sl4 26 q STA 60, and prime at $40 62h
SIC rs. Beef dull and lard steady Sugars we're IN
air demand with sAes Of about go hhds and LOO boxes
| at rates given smother column. Coffee was quiet
Frejsb,s were nrm with limited room for Ecglish ports
and especially Liverpool Among the engagements to
the latter port 500 bales Of cotton At led. sd,
and 900 bbls flour Is "a with 10 900 hid slaves to
LONDON p t., and 200 bbis rosin at % 3D. and loo
lops cake III .os Engagements 10 Ant~erp. Hamburg
\ srd Bremen will be found noticed In another place.
! The L.se SOuth.rn Elections and the PresI-
de,cy-Gen. Sam Houston Looming Up.
The late Southern elections finally dispose of
At least two prominent Presidential Candidates
N the opposition side-John J. Crittendcu OF
Kentucky, and John Bell, of Tennessee. On the
other hand, from the extreme back ground of
the retired list, the late splendid campaign of
General Sam Houston in Texas brings him for
ward into the front rank of the conservative aud
available democratic statesmen of the day.
We say that these late results in Kentucky and
Tennessee have disposed of Mr.. Crittenden and
Bell, ard our reasons for this opinion will sug-
gest themselves to every intelligent reader. In
deed, the general results before us appear to
sink the new opposition movements in the South
into hopeless bankruptcy. Excepting, perhaps,
tie State of Maryland, we may thus reasonably
assume, from these late Southern elections,
that in 1850, as in 1856, the solid vote
of the South will be democratic. We per-
ceive, however, that this failure of the op-
position in the South to establish the nucleus
Of great conservative third party is accepted
as powerful advantage to the republican par
", inasmush as the floating elements Of the
North are thus reduced to o choice between the
| republicans as o Northern and the democracy as
Southern organization-no slavery or pro
slayery-a sectional fight.
But here 1t is that Gen. Houston presents him
self as the champion, better qualified, perhaps,
than any other to recover to the democracy their
lost balance ofpower In the North without losing
anything in the South. Excepting harmless
escapade as local candidate of the exploded
American party, the whole political career OF
Gen. Houston has been that of regular old
fashioned Jacksonian democrat He is one OF
the very few remaining of the intimate political
and personal associates and supporters of Old
Hickory. His life has been life of romantic
and heroic adventures, more remarkable than
those which contributed SO much in 1856 to the
pc. ularity Of Fremont Bet er than all, Gen.
Houston has always been an infexible champion Of
the Union and the peace Of the Union. Thus, in
1854, upon the Kansas Nebraska bill, he prefer
red the abandonment of his party to the support
of an experiment which he believed to be fraught
with all the mischievous elements of violent
sectional QUARREL
Experience has indicated bis sagacity upon
this point, and his course upon the Missouri COM
promise repeal would commend him to thousands
of Northern men, who would shrink from any
other Southern candidate. In the late Texas
campaign, General Houston, as an independent
candidate for Governor, boldly confronted the
regular local democracy on the issue Of the re-
yival of the African slave trade and in opposi-
ton to the reopenipg of this infamous traffic.
He also planted himself firmly upon the broad
Union platform of Mr.. Buchanans administra-
ton. Thus, though the regular party organiza-
ton under the control of the fre-eaters was
against him, Old San Jacinto" was the true
democratic candidate. Thus, too, if from the
cooperation in his behalf of the opposition ele-
ments he has beaten the regular democratic Or
ganlzaion, he will have done more to restore the
Southern democracy to reason and common
serse than all the other great guns of the South
| put together.
Upon another point General Houston would
be, above all other men, the man for the Charles
ton Convention. The party is threatened in
that Convention with destructive split upon
the platform. But with Houston as their candi.
date, the party could dispense with a platform.
The public services, public acts, principles and
policy Of General Houston, military and civil,
through public life Of forty years, would be
sufficient platform for him and The party sup
porting him. Az true Southern man, the
South would stand by him, and as q good
Union map, the scattered fragments of the
Northern democracy would uBite in his support.
Even II Gen. Houston has not carried the State
OF Texas, the platform upon which be fought the
late battle must command the appreciation of
every Conservative democrat, North aud South
put be has, at single blow, put down the
diorganizing hreeaters in Texas, he will have
achieved victory only second in its importance
TO the election Of Mr. Buchanan Aud thus "tbe
stone which the builders had rejected" may "be-
come the chief Of the corner" Some of our
schemirg Albany politicians might be astonished
at the nomination Of General Houston at Charles.
ton; but, If nominated, his election would pro.
badly be as decisive as that of 1852.
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