Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1858 — JAMES BUCHANAN—THE SECRET OF HIS GREAT SOUTHERN POPULARITY. [ARTICLE]

JAMES BUCHANAN—THE SECRET OF HIS GREAT SOUTHERN POPULARITY.

The. true ei ’ret Buchanan's great p<|puJarity in th. Sunt' that enabled him to/carry every Southern Stat e.t ‘he time of.his . election, except Mary!'"/ has. recently, ■come out in a letter written by him .on [the 1 day of Dei cinl-I><b4, to the Hon . John Slidell of Louisiana, irr which he uses I •the' following language.: ■'The Misj.-j.ri Uiompron, -■ is gond, aind .gone forever .It .has depart : Thetim? .for'it has passed a■. ay, imd th best, nay t|h.e only mode riov ' f‘ of putting wi'pn the fanatical arid reck'.. ss spirit of the Xonth,.is . to adhere to the existing settlement wi,tho|ut the slightest thought or appearance’oif' wavering, and without -regarding any storm that ma- ’ raised .against it.‘ The fanatical and reckless. spirit cf tf' Aiorth consists in the denial of th« "Id Calhoun doctrine that the Con- . stitution carr it s ■ slavery with it into the Terriiories.’d ‘ ■ i ' |" | The letter which contained the toregoing ; was, published and carefully circulated among the politicians and wire-workers of I the South, buWw-ijß as Carefully withheld . from..circulation I rii&rth ofl‘Magoji «&r Dixorife j line until after the ‘Presidential election. By thus proclaiming to the South his adhesion to the infamous Calhoun doctrine, do dear to slave-holders and slavery-propagaifi-, • iiats, he was enabled t<> carry /every South- , ■t-rn State, save one little one;' and by carefully concealing These, his true sentiments , tn the North a-d falsely wearing allegiance to "popular scverelguty.,” tAi tr very opposite,he was. enabl'd to carry Pennsylvania and

Indiana, and these .insured His election. In this Calhoun doctrine, adopted in toadyism . to the ’South by Buchanjjn,. is :seen the on- ' ■gin oi-ttit- infarftb.us dicta-of the fiye cor.-j nipt Judges ■ : the ryupreme Court of tliiir United States, in the !|red Scott d -cision: which decision and dicta, it is .riow Well ass ■ertairied, wore w.rit.ten out months belord ithe Presidential election: but from ■ e.cpedtertcy and political reasons were -withheld 'front the public till after- the eli’cti ■ m.. Had the Slidell letter of old Buck's and the decision .and dicta of‘the Stipreui' Cour:, adorsed by. him, been published and circulated in , .the free Stat -a-tiefore t’-.y his* PresMentialji electron, he '.vimll; net (have r- • celled -ten,; thousand votes north of Y isy; at <1 Dixon s Jine.i Democrats of th f- • ' jr’ h}e who claim to-be Demoirats -n ‘I ■ sjmse of-j that term' how can yo'.‘ support 1 President i ao utterly opposed To mhilll* fJernoi racy! who has used the" army 4>f the ’ ‘jilted States .and all the-patronage pnd -.'orriuptidn that ; ■he could bring to bear-, to crush out among, the ire. tm.n lot- Kunsak all opposition to . /.his odious <'.alhoiiii_jpoetr l ne,y which he terms “the fanatical anjd reckless spirit of the North':” Rabi i’Mtr heads 'ab’ov.,: the

'fog arid prejudice ot partyism and this Calhoun doctrine avowed by your Presi-1 {dent and put forth by him in his Silliman . letter and in his special Kansas Message as! the decision of the Supreme-/Court of the j United States in the Dred Scott case! Can ) I you indorse this infamous Calhoun doctrine ( j that fixes the curse of slavery in all the; ; Territories of the United States beyond the j power of the people or of Congress to re- ) move it! Such is Buchanan Democracy is it genuine!