Daily national Democrat., 1861-01-01
Position OF Sam Houston, of Texas
The ''IIOary y-FIeaded Traitor"

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Senator Iverson has done more says st.
Louis correspondent of the Alta, to make old
Sam Houston popular than ever Sam Hous-
ton did to make himself so. His stand
against the dsunionists in Texas is bringing
upon him the severest condemnation, but 1t
must be remembered that the same party
denouncing him now, was the same which
he ran against when a candidate for Govern
or, and whose tactics then, as now, were di-
rected to calling him an aboltionist. 1t
seems that several members of the Legisla-
ture have united in call to their brother
members to meet at the Capitol any how, on
the 18th of this month, to consider the plan
for secession, and that Gov. Houston, al
though declining now to convene the Legis-
lature, has intimated that he will do so upon
the Sth of January. In regard to the Gov
ernor's position, the Galveston News of Dec
lst, says:
"The point for the people of this State
now is, however, that Governor Houston
will not, in one way or another-by resigna-
tion or otherwise-accede to what the dul-
lest observer must perceive is the univel sal
desire of the people of Texas until the de-
sire shall have been formally expressed to
| the Executive by a majority of the people,
by their petitions Does this imply that
the Governor will require that the absolute
signatures of numerical ajority of all the
voters ?-and to be sent from all the coun-
ties and to be counted one by one at Austin,
and to attain precisely an excess of one petit
ton signed beyond that figure whence the
majority and the minority begin TO be count
ed Should this be the correct interpreta-
tion of the meaning of the Governors ulti-
matum, it will at once become a question
with the majority of the people of Texas
whether they can afford to wait for this for
NAL official course of procedure to be con-
summated
The Governor himself has written a long
letter on the subject, for the whole of which,
you would not have room, but here is one
extract that is a specimen of the whole:
"Mr Lincoln has been constitutonally
elected, and much as | deprecate his success,
no alternative is left me but to yield to the
Constitution. The moment that instrument
is violated by him, will be foremost in de-
mandng redress and the last to abandon my
ground.
"When l contemplate the horrors of civil
war, such as dissolution of the Union will
ultimately force upon US, | cannot believe
that the people will rashly take step
fraught with these consequences. They will
consider well the blessings of the Govern
ment we have, and it will only be when the
grievances we suffer are of a nature that as
freemen we can no longer bear them, that
they will raise the standard of revolution
Then the civilized world, our own conscien-
ces, and posterty will justify us. If that
time should come, then will he the day and
the hour If it has Motif our rights are
yet secure-we cannot be justified"
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ID LIT.
adopted by the Compromise Committee OF
Congress, alluded to in the news by Pony
Express is as follows:
Resolued, That in the opinion of this Com
mittee, the existing discontents among the
Southern people, and the growing hostility
among them to the Federal Government, are
greatly to be regretted, and that any reason
able and proper Constitutional remedies and
etfectua guarantees of their peculiar interest;
are recognized by the Constitution, necessary
to preserve the peace and the perpetuity OF
the Union, should be promptly and cheer
fully granted.
THOSE MERRY SImGH-BELLs-Since the
clearing up of the storm, says the Downie-
Vile Citizen, the one or two sleighs which
the town can boast have been gliding about
freighted with fair women and gallant men
to the merry jingling of the bells and thu
still merrer music of laughing voices. Will
a smooth, CLASSY road under the runner, anC
the chaste. cold moon which never tells Sc
crets. and the twinkling stars riding in
eloudless sky overhead, a dashing horse il
front, and something wrapped up beside yol
-cdramba-but we do regret that thos
styles of things are past and gone; but pas
they are, and so whats the use of signing"
SALE OF THE "CHRoNICLE. "-Oliver d. Av
aline has sold the Calaveras Chronicle an'
resigned the editorship to NJ. G. Sawyer, o
Mokelumne Hill.