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We give the great speech of Gen.
Houston, delivered at Nacogdoches,
on the 9th inat. It is a stunner from
which the the Secessionists and Re-
open the African Slave Trade Oppo-
sition cannot recover They have no
man with the brains to answer it—
and few sp unscrupulous as to con-
tradict its home truths
It goes to the hearts of the people
It appeals to the charity of every
man. Do you allow that "to err íb
human?" And will you^ condemn
f°T£^4fíü~íñdsl faiUiful man in the
nation, becausaiof one erfpr ? Will
you thus prove Republic , u^rate-
ful? '
We send out
copies in extra.
that the Chairman of the Central
Committee has ordered out stump
orators and canvassers, to read gar-
bled extracts of Houston's record and
from this pap^r in 1£¡¿7. We beg
just men to assemble their neighbors
and read to them this briMiantr and
tmthful effort of G^n. Houston:
"Strike but hear," Hear the old
man eloquent. Hear the worst abased
man in Christendom :
uston
ir i . ;ion b^.v.v.wu^ nao
been the subject of so much criticism
and misrepreseptation, that justice
alike to myself and-to you, demands
that I shall give a full, free and fair
exposition of the views which I bear
with me through this canvass, and up-
on which you are called to judge inc.
I am aware that there is a great diver-
sity of opinion as to -the bearing of
my acts upon the welfare of the coun-
try. My career is not disconnected
with history, and though its future
pages may vindicate me, I detire to
feel that in the eyes of the present
generation, I íífo regarded as an hon-
est man, and one who will not yield
his country's good to promote his own
ambition. The purity of my princi-
ples have been questioned. I am
chargcd with not only being wrong,
but willfully wrong. The impulses of
a generous heart would at least induce
charity toward an erring man. but
while others are allowed to stray into
strange paths, deserting principle and
right* no unintentional deviation is
permitted in me. It is not that I have
erred, for "to. err is human;'' but they
charge me with knowingly deserting
my principles, and abandoning the in-
terests of a constituency, whose for-
tunes are so linked with my own that
no adversity could come which would
not fall upon my head with the same
force as upon any of my fellow citi-
zens.
When those who aspérjse me can
point to a single act of my official ca
reer not in keeping with the principles
of democracy, as practiced by Jeffer-
son and Jackson, they will havé^ome
reason for disputing my claims to the
name of Democrat; but even then, I
will claim above all other men a more1
continual devotion to those principles,
and that ray record shows fewer devia
tion3 from them, tham any man whose
life has been devoted to the public ser-
vice. Condemn me not upon a single
act. If in the course of forty six
years of public service, the weight of
a man's actions tallies with the stand-
ard he had reared in early life, it is
enough to prove him consistent. He
would be more than humaij, if through-
out such a period, amid the diversity
of opinions, the changes of parjy.,and
the antagonisms which spring from
hostility to men and measures, he
should not at times stray from that
standard ; but if, when finding his
error, and maintaining threughout his
^ devotion to principle, he abandons the
heresy and goes oí) ward maintaining
several thousand
We understand
Memory of Rusk.
my
scenes of
ened me and
He has departed, ¡
share in the
with the ,de
having rendered ser
make his memory ti
Texas has a name, and Texia -
rns career of usefulness was suddenl;
arrested. We met
tell upon the future of Texas.
time when a sphere of
wider and more expáns;
before been within his
opening out before him 1
Tast development o
cot down, ft
to us who are living. When one upon
whom rests the affections and the
hopes of the
destroy
scathed
vices, let
«ven ta
m
the right more earil
honest men
would be use
■L , fl||M
[ be satisfied. Tit
attempt to make
mau iir
probation.
Is a Dei
I am a democrat ol
I am an
ÍÉ¡ÉfÍÍ
ora School.
old Focv. An
cause I
| principios upon
which our govérnment was founded,
and under which the Constitution went
into operation. I have no modern
improvements to make on the princi-
ples of our fathers. From the prin-
ciples they enunciated can be deduc
all that will make our country prosper-
ous and glorious, and its people happy
pies
«h^I^jüblf pi
nothing remain but anarchy and des-
^ C o inventions not Democracy.
Ladies and Fellow Citizens :— gUfc J am told I cannot be a demo
I congratulate myself to-day on be-
ing able once more to address you in
Nacogdoches, and that so many of you
should havff gathered to hear me, is a
compliment which I shall long remem-
ber. Iam rejoiced also, because I
shall have occasion to vindicate myself
from foul aspersion and misrepresenta-
tion, and to place myself in the true
attitude before
when I addri
right hand á patrio:
enjoyed peculiar
Bhip, and wh
crat, because I am standing in the face
of organization. Is organization de-
mocracy? - Does democracy mean
Conventions ? If this be true, all are
democrats, for all parties maintain or-
ganization and Conventions; Am I
not called out by Conventions of the
people in various parts of the State ?
they represent: the will of the
they attach themselves to de-
' and become the exponent of
and chicanery
ontroT-.their -aatjon, -cloaked .though
" in thé^garb of democracy
but outrage the name, and if
will subvert the . rights
the people. Was the State
Convention of last year democracy ?
is the people, and did the
e declare against democ
y refused to allow tha
n to force upon them a candidate
high judicial position to whom
jes which, if true, would
the j udicial ermin e and
the test of judicial favor?
know What democracy is
,vo declared that tbiais not
oeracy, for in the face of a majori-
>f thousands, this man was defeat,
intions, then, say the peoplt
of Texas, is not democracy.
There was a democracy in Greéce;
the people. He must represent the
greater, not the smaller number. He
must receive his authority, not from
the few. but the many. Then he i?
the exponent of the democracy. If
faithful to his -truss, he may claim for
his acts the countenance of the peo-
ple ; if faithless, those who delegated
the authority to him are less bound
than those who did not, and regulated
liberty demands that they shall refuse
to yield to his usurpations.
If Conventions be democracy, how
was it that democracy éxisted before
Conventions? Jefferson did glorious
work for the people hefore their time.
He was not nomina ted by one. I my-
self am older than platforms. I was
a statesman before the birth of Con-
ventions. The first National Conven-
tion I ever heard of, was to nominate
Martin Van Buren upon Gen. Jack-
son's ticket. Jackson was asked to
go before it. He refused and appealed
to the people, who sustained him.
Therefore, it was only when parties
sprang up, dividing the people, that
Conventions became necessary. They
served to consolidate political strength.
Keep them pure and they will main-
tain party organization to carry out
principles. Allow them to become
corrupted, and organization will only
be maintained to promote ignoble
ends and to keep the power from the
people.
Who XoiníBaitd Houston.
Though I had determined to, forever,
abandon public life, and had so express-
ed myself, my conscience has not per-
mitted me to stand aloof from my fol-
low citizens in this emergency. I did
not desiro office ; but the people have
asked me to come forth and serve them.
I have been with Texas in six troubles
and iñ Severn! will not desert her. It
was the honest voemanry of the coun-
try, men inured to toil, men from the
plow, the planting interest of ,the
country who sustain and support it,
not the kid gloved, politicians, who
called me forth. Their letters came
to me from all portions of the State,
urging me to once more face calumny
and abuse for their áake. Their
cramped signatures told that their
hands were hard; but their honest
words were tho3e of freemen who
would not submit to dictation. At
their call I have quit my flocks and
herds, and am ready again to throw
all my energies into the scale of the -.Fith reference to the
cbmmon weal. Until a common spra-
pathv with my fellow citizens would
result of this ? Re-open the African
slave trade, and tlie South will be del-
uged with barbarians. Your present
stock of negroes jrould fail in value,
and recede in point of intelligence.—
Not a poor man w uld be able to stay
in the country, bee; use labor would be
so cheap that he w >ult« not bo able to
get bread for himsi-lf and his family.
The labor market/would be overdone.
The vast army of slaves would be put
to work in your col on fields, and the
vast crop would g ut the market be-
yond all reasonably demand. Prices
would fall to foui* or five cents per
pound, and even ;hen, when the de-
mand was supplied, the greater por-
tiori'of your crop ould lie upon your
hands for want of a -urchaser. Freights
would advance to in enormous price,
because every sail that the Yankees
could raise—these dear Abolitionist
gentlemen who lov i the negro so well
■—would be ehga^id in the trafie.—
Each vessel that < mid be bought or
pressed into theser ice, would be upon
the coast of Africa. It would be more
profitable than the carrying trade.—
Your cotton wouh lie and rot upon
our wharves, or in your gin-houses,
ecause transporta on will not pay,
and ruin to your financial interests
will be the conseqi 'nee. If negroes
would be cheaper, money would be
dearer. It is easiei now to buy a ne-
gro at §1,500 than i was twenty years
ago at §500. Inc ease the produc-
tion of cotton at < ice tenfold, as it
would be, and the emarid falls off in
proportion. The Yankees would then
get your cotton t four cents per
pound, and make il into calico and red
handkerchiefs, to t ly negroes with on
the coast of Afric; which they will
bripg South to sell 'or your hard dol-
lars. To such a ri nous policy I am
opposed. I do not jje to the results
that will accrue tó fil e African. I will
not discuss its moi tlity. That is a
question with whicl I have nothing to
do. Its practical e "ects upon us and
our posterity, ar what we are
first to look at. It
may be that the
African will be benwtted; but it will
be death to theWh
These men would
to hasten a dissolut$>n of the
Siiice 1832 the st'ru
has "been going on.
means. The mome
North to concede
es.
bait the South on
Union.
..£le for dissolution
That is what this
it you ask the
3 your demands
re-opening of the
it will be the si£-
African gtSVc*lráde,'
nal for bitterness am] strife
live in fellowship. Ve m
il war
; the sig- that t
We can't ^inis
; have $ my d<
and maintain the institutions which
tliey possess. I hud fought to give the
people the privilege of doing as they
pdease in matters of this kind and they
did perfectly right to exercise it at my
espouse if they saw fit. I was perfect-
ly willing to go into private life, if the
people were done with me, for devotion
to the public service had kept me poor.
It showed that the}' were an independ
ent and self reliant people, and that it
was a mistaken idea that Texas could
not get along without Houston. Was
I to quarrel with you for acting out the
principles for which I had so long con-
tended—that of voting for just whom
you please ? You had a better right to
vote against me than any body else.
You lairupped me unmercifully, but
yet I felt that the pledges made to you
during the canvass were none the less
faithfully to be fulfilled. Texas liad en-
dorsed Mr. Buchanan by the "largest
majority in proportion* to her vote, of
any State in the Union. I told you I
would support his administration. I did
so. He had not received my vote; but it
was not because I did not have confi-
.dence iíi his ability or patriotism. I vot-
ed agaiiiat his platform believing it to
contain Squatter Sovereignty, a heresy
against which I have ever contended,
and which I never will endorso. I was
gratified with his nomination, relying
upon his antecedents, and knew that if
he was elected he would not betray the
people, but the platform contained ideas
regarding slave property in the territo-
ries so ambiguous that the two sec-
tions of the Union each put their own
construction upon it, the one claiming
that it approved Squatter Sovereignty,
and the other that it condemned it,—
and it wasnotuntil Mr. Buchanan in his
Inaugural declared in favor of the cor-
rect principle, that the South knew up-
on which idea the government would
be administered. When that declara-
tion was made, interpreting the platform
according 'to. the (Jonstitutionar idea,
there was no bar to my giving him a de-
cided support. So long as 1 held my scat
in the Senate I was bound by your wish-
es. Had the tone of the Administration
been ^uch that I could not have obeyed
yourjnstrnctrons, as expressed by your
vote for Mr. Buchanan; without com-
promising my principles*,! should have
resigned. Mr. B chauan's"election grat-
ified me. The result showed that he
united the strength that defeated the
Black Republicans, aud that was the'
great end which I wished attained.
I am now denounced for supporting
an administration which the democrat
ic party placed in. power, which the
people.qfv£exa&«U^p,Qd.to create by a
majority of eigh toenail oil sand; ..Admit
iat as a whole, I sustained the Ad,
inistration. Is it not an evidance of
democracy—of my regard for the
will of the people? What if Mr. Buch-
anan did say as is charged : ' General
HoitóJtAn, you haru given my adminis-
tration &%pnrdial a support as auy de-
people as7??, candidate. Having done! Ye*1 may take these*men in their pro-
80, I intend to allow their intelligence toan shapes, Nnllificationists, Seces-
L- **•-- :-1- -J- — 'sionists, African Slave Trade men, . . v, T <im
j,- . ti . mocrat 111 Uuagress, aud l^ara
but; they all mean L/istrftiOfi. a ala for a
my country—my vhole country. I
«nú make rio speeches, unless it
be on an occasion like this, when busi-
ness or accident brings me in their
__•* !a._
Vicroity.
would preserve it fo* posterity, as free
and as pure as it cane to us, and there-
Notwithstanding my desire to re- f°re 0pp°se everytling calculated to
re, and that this eandidacy has not destroy it.
of my own seeking, but in a
spontaneous wish of my fellow citi-
zens, the organs of the Houston Con-
vention party have opened upon me
their batteries of vituperation. It is
the people, not me, whom they should
assail; but as they assail the people
through me, I am ready to repel it.—
Most prominent among these is the
organ at Austin. What reason it can
have for assailing me I cannot seo,
unless it kno vs the spoils depend upon
my being beaten. If the statements
of Gov. Pease and other respectable
Í be true, it can afford to use
its.typqs' to maintain its party ascen-
dency, tor it has obtained thousands
of dollars iii defiance of law, from the
Treasury. Its editor is not to blame
for mating his types help to%preserve
the system by which he gets fed at the
public crib, nor ám I to blame for us-
ing my tongue to repel his slanders,
so long as 1 do not say anything un-
kind of him."' ' '
Houston Convention not a D«m-
ocratic Organization. Their
African Slave Trade.
But was the Houston Convention a
party organization ? It was—but of
what kind of a party ? It was a Con-
vention, but as Conventions are an
offshoot from Democracy, we have a
right to enquire whether f hey are good
scions of the parent stock. I don't
know how good Know Nothings who
composed a majority of that Conven-
tion regarded it; but I know it was
anything but a Democratic Conven-
tion. They made a platfoim which
d«clarés resistance to slavery agita-
tion, and they then agitated it in its'
worst form by discussing the re-open-
ing of the African slave trade,
that question was laid upon the table
from motives of policy, the sentiments
of the Convention were too; plainly de-
veloped for any to be • deceived as to
" character. Resolutions proyiding
i0 agitation of the subject were
ion, an
cannot all act, they
"U'4 ity.:; This
represen-
it has since been decla
sovereigns to the ground ) There, did
I not tell you platforms were daugerou3.
My principles you all know. I have
ever been opposed to banks—opposed
to internal improvements by the gener-
*al Government—opposed to a distribu
tion of the public lands among the
States—opposed to taking the power
from the hands of the people—opposed
to special monopolies—opposed to a
protective tariff—opposed to a latitudi-
n'uis construction of the Constitution—
Opposed to slavery agitation and disu-
nion. This ia my democracy. Point
to a single act of my public career not
in keeping with these principles Will
those who arc so bitterly opposing me
now come tip and compare notes ?
Well, Mr. Buchancn became Presi
dent. He is an honest mart. He isa
patriot. Ha took the reins of Govern-
ment under trying circumstances. Mr.
Pierce had thrown himself into the
hands of frce-soilers and disunionists.
Men of ultra creeds were to be found
in the high places of Government. He
built them up ia- his Messages. He
produced the Utah difficulty, by giving
such scoundrels as Brigham Young aud
others, whom he sent ther«, control of
affairs. Our x-elations with Great Brit-
ain were unsettled. A system of fraud
in the performance of Government con-
tracts had grown up. These were all
entailed upon Mr. Buchanan, and he
had to meet them. Helias been honest
and faithful, aud it all the evils have
not been remedied, it has not been from
a want of effort on his part. You did
well to make him President, and when
all the clouds which have gathered
about his administration are cleared up,
you will find that surrounded as he has
been by factions which have crippled
his administration, add by difficulties
winch were not of his own making, he
had acted wisely and as a patriot. He
has quieted the Kansas and Utah trou-
ble.". He lias obtained an abandonment
of the right of search by Great Britain
Ho has breasted tho work of ' squatter
sovereignty.' If ho has not fully met
the expectations of the country, it is the
fault of Congress. Did he not advo-
cate the Pacific Railroad, and interven
tion iuthe affairs of Mexico, to protect
our commerce and the lives and pro-
perty of our citizens. Did he not ask Con-
gress to give him the means to protect
our interests in Central America? Has
he not advocated the acquisition of
Cuba ? And though there are measures
to which objection may bo made upon
principle—the increase of the tariff,
for instance, I cannot but regard them
as those of expediency alone, to .meet
a pressing emergency. His antecedents
show that ho has stood with tl e Demo
cratic party in its old battles on the ta-
riff question. If the finances of the
Country have been paralyzed, the fault
lies at the door of Congress. He cannot
use. money until it has been appropriat
cd. Tho postal service, as well as
other regular deoartments of Govern
The Kansas ftfcbraska Vote.
Two years ago yoi gave me a little the
worst skinning thai mortal man ever
got. It was a reg lar drubbing. You
beait me after the b 3t style, as you had
aright to do. I 1 d voted against the
Nebraska Bill, ant had voted against
Mr. Buchanan. Veil, that is past.
The Nebraska bill as had its day, and
the results are tó t 'seen. What they
are I will not say, jut I will say that
ex-Gov. Ilamm^u! one of the most
jrfófouñd statesme in the Soúth, and
one whom your ! gislature has fully
endorsed, has dec ired " The Kansas
Nebraska Bill wat a delusion and de-
ception from tlie he. inninr." "It was a
snare to those at he South. - It was
rotten with fraud, tnd those who made
it, flinched from is consequences."—
Other membéraof }ongress and states-
men have decjare that the South was
deceived in the b 1. I was the only
extreme Southeri sgenator who' voted
against it, and fo that vou whipped
me like a cur dog If I was wrong,
I own .it, und tak it all back ; and if
you were wrotig, ' forgive yon. So
we will start eve again. It is past.
This is no time f< • dragging out dead
issues. We liáis crowding upon us
enough in the "pr sent, and we should
meet them like n >n,f who feel that the
destiny of tlieif country is in their
hands, and that ] istory will hold them
responsible.
Wl*y He S|ip] orts Buchanan.
After you give ne such a drubbing,
I went on 'to Was iington. My position
me. The people of
Texas had rebuk^l me and if there was
nature, men would
occasion to call it
itless thought—"Well
any spleen m my
say here was an
forth. Many dou
Houston, they halre beat you, after all
you have'trie 1 to
is yodr time to re
deemed me capa
knbw not the yea
the prosperity of
'i she shouh
I
da
people were free
do for Texas, and now
all ¡ate." Those who
I le of such meanness
nings I have had. for
cxas, and that even
cast me off, to her
i ling, upon her soil
So long as her
happy, it would
¡é the proudest5 tribute which they
11 pay to the valor and patriotism
who had struggled to establish
Ihankfnl nieut, must depend upon Congress for
mocratic support. It is ungenerous to condemn
President to appreciate CÍaJhr tfre faults of others,
man, even vhuugh hit? name be Sam Yet, we find iu his own party; a power-
' ful faction arrayed against him,
that those who produced the troubles
entailed upon his administration, were
the fust to deseri him.
Why did not the Houston Con-
vention endorse Buchanan ?
Mr. Buchanan was nominated and
elected, by the regularly organized par-
ty of tho Union. Whatever doubts
may have existed as to tho platform,
must have given way before his inter-
pretation of it. Should his party sus-
tain him? Ought not Texas, which
gave him such an unanimous support,
to stand as stood. Aaron and Hur, by
the side of Moses, and hold up his
even juougii his. name be Sam
Houston/
I Being a deuu'd'at, ic was my will to
carry out the Wishes of my constituents,
bat if if. had not been, it was my duty.
This is pure Jackson Democracy. But
you say, I did not vote for Mr. Buchan-
an True, but you remember that about
that time Mr. Pieree was in power. He
had violated, in my estimation, the
pledges which obtained' him support.—
He had insulted the Governments of
Durope, and disturbed our foreign rela-
tions, by sending men to represent us
in foreign Courts, of all others not cal-
culated to maintain friendly relations,
he had thrown out national men, at the
North, and given their places to tree-
soilers ; lie had turned the Cold shoulder
to national men at the South, and given
•lis favor to disunionists—after pledg-
ing that the country shoqld receive no
shock during his administration, he
had suffered it to beacon vulsed by agita-
tion, the consequences of which wore
entailed upon liis successor. It shall
not be said that I stabbed it under the
£uise of friendship. I did what I deem-
ed to be my duty. You have rebuked
mo for it and I yield to vpur will.
Has Renounced Know Nothing-
ism ever since 1855.
About this time the American order
ivas started. It bid .fair to be a sepa
rate element; but it became corrupted.
During my connection- with it, I met
some of the most clever men alive,—
nearly all of whom are the leaders of
vour present Hoi^ton Convention party.
If they make as good Democrats as they
did Know Nothings so long as it lasted,
they will serve you ' well. Give them
office and you .meed have no fear erf
their deserting you, but if you don't,
took out ! These, clever men found
there were not offices enough to go
round, and so they turned, and kicked
the pail over. 1 wrote the other day to
Mr. Flake, an hpnest German editor at
Galvsston, voh/i'úe.rrogükttl me, as he had
a ii<*hl to do, and I iW hound ti answer,
1 that since 1855 JUnad. not been con-
nected witlrthe-ofder. It was said to
be 'dead,' and so I regarded it. I
knew of no attempt to agitate.it, and I
had no desire to see it agitated.' I%iil
sav here that if an attempt were made
to "revive it I would oppose.it, because
uo good: result could be Attained, and
there is no necossitygforli -
I have told yon that platforms, when
they aré u'-éd to blind the people to the
designs of men are dangerous, (here part
of the staging erected for tho audience
fell down, bringing a number of the
suled from them In -tiuiss of party
strife, when principles* are- at .stake,-
they unite men of. the same views, who *
come dp bearing the wishes of the pfeo-
ple. Purge the party of disunionists
and corrupt politicians. Let your Con-
ventions be free from their shackles, or
else fall back upon your rights as the
people, nud judge of men by their prin-
ciples and their acts. I want proper
Conventions or none at all, and the peo-
ple have already declared that they-
agree with' me.
Cushin? upon Buchanan.
My time has been so occupied in the.
public affairs that I have not had much
to do with newspapers,—but one cams
to my notice the other day which con-
taras an article that I must be permit-
ted to read. It is published at the city
of Houston, \>y a gentleman from tire'
rogion of abolitionism, and I would not
say so, if he had not joined with men
who attack others because of they aro
of northern birth. He says ;
" It is siiid that Mr. Bucban:tu endorses Gen.
Houston and that consequently Democrats
should vote for him. Is this the rule 7 Are
Demócrata to take the endorsemeut ol'auy man
aguinst the evidence of their own senses ? Who
is Mr. Buchanan, or Mr. anybody else, that ha
should command us to vote for the great of-
fender?"
Offender! Offender! Now Pd
like to know how I've offended him ?
" Who is Mr. Buchanan that he should com-
mand us to send Houston back to coquette
again with-abolitionism?"'
He may be af-aid that I will cut him
out, and take his place.
" lias it come to this, that Mr. Buchauan is
the dictator of the party that placed him iu
power? Away with the idea! But Mr. Bu-
chanan, we believe has done no such thing.
This too Í3 a story trumped up by these bolters,
who ar«) moving the vorld for excuses for their
conduct."
Now ho cau't call me a bolter, for
they read me out of the party, aud if I
do auy bolting I shall have to b It back.
" If Buchanan endorses Houston, then away
with both and all of them. The people know
what the principles are on which their safety
rest, and no man, be he President or what not,
can lead honest men away from their princi-
ples for the sake of men. If Buchanan endorses
Houston, and if he still holds to his protective
tariff notions, and if he also endorses Gen.
Cass in his mere protection doctrine, whereby
our naturalized citizens can claim no protec-
tion from our flag, why then we put it to th
Democracy'whether it is not t'me to question
the prineiples of the President himself. At any
rate we don't want him to dictate to the pcople'of
Texas who they shall make Governor or send
to the Senate.
The fact that nearly every federal office-
holder in Texas in Tesas is supporting Houston
gives plausibility to the report. Is it so or
not 7"
If Mr. Ruchanan endorses Houston
away with both of them. And this ia
the editor of the Telegraph, a gentle-
man who, a few months since, wrote
the most extravagant eulogy upon me
that mortal inau ever penned. I never
know how great a man I was until I
had read it, and now how conveniently
hetalcesnt all back !
I think the people are entitled to
vote for mo this time, if they want to,
and it Í3 wrong to abuse Mr.-Buchanan
because lie cannot help it. If ho en-
dorses mo, it is because 1 have sus-
tained him while these men hav£_
sorted him. Whether htj iroes^it, it is
andf"®6^ - filie to. say. - í know not upon
what ground the statement is made,
but ii rnnst have coue from some reli-
able source, o¡¿ this editor would not
have brtcbtee-oo excit'd on the subject.
I cherish no utikindn.vss against tho
editor at Houston. He may go on and
blacken my character as his malignity
may dictate, but it is wrong in him to
make that the causo of aspersing tho
President. This editor should not write
for the people, for he has no feeling iu
common .with |hem. A man who de-
clares that manual labor is a degradation,
and thatMihose who devote themselves to it
for lift, with occasional exceptions, are be-
nejitk the average scale of humanity, knows
hands, while ho labors for the conn- nothing of tho feelings which throb for
try? Those who opposed his electioijf their country's good, in tha hearts of
the hard fisted yeomanry of the country.
The Union.
So long as we confine ourselves to
tho Constitution and the Union, we need
fear no danger to our institutions.
Abandon these—let dissolution come,
and anarchy awaits us. Look at tho
condition of Mexico, read the pronun-
ciamentos of her rival Chieftians. Tho
plan of Tucabyo was the proclamation
of an anarchy, It overthrew the con-
stitution of 1824, and since, pronun-
ciamentos have followed each other in
rapid succession, each bearing its train
of pillage, murder and oppression. If
we depart from the constitution, wo may
expect a like result. Wo will have
civil war without end. Make a South-
ern Confederacy and there would be a
Northern one. These men who have
shown a disregard for the struggle of
our fathers, will care but little for Union,
when their chief end is attained. Chief-
tains in e%rery State in the Union would
issue their pronunciamentos, and fol->
lowers would flock to their standard.
The scenes that would ensue, 1 will not
shock you by relating. God when he
intends to destroy men first makes them
m vd. He has maddened Mexico. She
has not the terrible element we have
in a servile population and yet she suf-
fers untold miseries. Helias maddened
these men. Mark mo, the day that
produces a dissolution of this Confeder-
acy will be written in history in the
blood of humanity. All that is horrible
in war will characterize the future of
this people. Preserve Union and you-
preserve liberty. They are one and the
ft, invisible and perfect.
se thoughts call to mind the fact,
that*&fi individual at the North, high, in
publicMaiiou and standing at the head
of a sectional party, has declared re-
(ContirfatiLfn the fourth jwg* )
might stand off ; bnt of his party sogi<
thing better was to be expected. /Has
it been done? Did the Houstoj Con
volition endoive Mr. Buchanan's ad-
ministration ? There's the ifub. If I
had neglected to sustain it vfnat a howl
Would have been set up, around my
path ; but yet a Convention meets in
the name of democracy, and fails to
give him its endorsement If in tho
consideration of other jmatters this had
been forgotten, some excuse might be
offered ; but it was ajdelibcrate act,—
The subject was ccnsfiered in the com
mittee on platform—ind it was resolv-
ed that it would not 90 to endorse a de
mocratic President, h Was it because
he is known .to be Union man, and
that I had sustainecMiiin ? Is this a rea-
son why a convcktion, claiming to
represent the national Democrocy
should desert him \ It is the first time
since the rise of parties in this country,
that a Convention, ^spu though but of
a local character, has failed to endorse
the President of its^partv. Contrast this
with other Convention* held lately in
tho States, and sec*"hoi%little claims it
has upon the suppó&t orijational Demo
crats. All of them, in accordance with
established usage, hive l£r. Buchanan
the hand of fellowship. Sliall it go out
to tho Democracy of the>ünion, that
the Democracy of Texas tfjwnpathizes
Wit|i the northern disorganiijers, who
are trying to break down the Adminis-
tration- f I am callgil a.disergahizer J
but what do you call this
7 \ \
What better evidence do Democrats
want ofithe faithlessness of this bodj
than this 1 I do hot cortdémn tlie Oon
vention system. I never hi
Wlien they represent the
will do very well, but w
resent the people, I
ood may result,
ve done so.
ople they
they mis
opposed to
•ttd has re
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