Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1859 — The Houston Triumph in Texas. [ARTICLE]

The Houston Triumph in Texas.

Gen. Houston’s victory in Texas is oven more sweeping than was at firs’ reported. Os one hundred counties from which returns had been received on the 16th, he had majorities in all but twenty-one. and it >vas believed that his total majority might reach 12.000. The defeat of a partv so strong and well organized as were the Democracy in Texas, by an independent candidate, is an event which for its noveltv alone would challenge notice. But it has a deeper significance, as showing that the strongest partisan fortifications are not always able to resist the unorganized strength of the popular will, when party undertakes to perform what the people ought to disapprove. For Gen. Houston personally, the result is a most signal triumph. He appealed to his State against the slave trade, which is supposed to be favored by the planting interests, 'And he has demonstrated to the wh'de country that even in T"xas, if anywhere, the importance of cheap savages would be profitable, the traffic excites the instinctive, irrepressible disgust of the masses. Gen. Houston is chosen Governor by an unprecedented vote: bur bis victory does not end here. The Legislature elect will restore him to his sent in the Senate of the United States, which he vacated in March last, there to sp-'uk, as one having authority, against the selfish schemers who are bent upon evoking the spectre of piracy in his worst, form ’o aid them in their projects of disorder, excitement, and ultimate disunion. The South and the whole country have reason to b“ proud of the Texan election of 1859.—A’, y Tunes.