Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1859 — Southern Politics. [ARTICLE]

Southern Politics.

| Intense excitement prevails in Texas and i Tennessee. The canvass for Governor in j the latter State is very animated, between ■ Netherland and Harris, and the contest for j Congress in the Memphis district, between Atkins and Etheridge, is a memoroble one, having called forth the most exciting debates between these two gentlemen. In Texas the German element has become so important that appeals are made, on both sides, to affect the German vote. That these Germans do not like the institution of slavery, is evidenced by the position they occupy in regard *o that institution in the free States. Meanwhile an attempt is making to reopen the slave trade in Texas, part of the soil o‘ which is better adapted to cultivation b». slave than white labor- This has aroused much feeling among tho Gormans, who are crowding into Texas in great numbers, (and are there already in great force,) but who will not consent t; an additional infusion of blacks, who are to compete with them in the contest for bread and life. There are other signs of trouble in -the Democratic camp in Texas. The present incumbent of the office of Governor, has been nominated for re-eiection; but a very large portion of the purty being dissatisfied with the way Brings were done, because the convention which nominated him did not indorse the adminis.ration of President Buchanan, they accordingly called a convention, which nominated ex-President ex-Governor and ex-Senator Sain Houston, as their candidate. The Democracy of Texas have nominated their Congressional candidates, and therein g : ven a fine illustration ol the beautiful harmony and consi: tenev ol this “great national party, ' whose “principles are everywhere the same.” In the Western District, their candidate is Gen. N. T Waul, a CalhounQuittnan fire-eater ari'l dis-unionist. In the Eastern District, they have J-II.-Reagan, who has lately published a manifesto against fillibustenn - and kind ed cri nes, and professes himself a Union man and a conservative. The Opposit-on ir. Georgia have called a State Convention, to be held at Milledgeville, on the third Wednesday in July. There is much activity among the Ante-Adit inistration men of that State, and should the Democracy there endorse Mr. Buchanan, a political revolution may he expected, giving the State officers and a majority of the Congressional delegation to the Opposition. A United States Senator is also to be chosen by the Legislature elected this season.