Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1860 — Opinions of Judge Bates’ Letter. [ARTICLE]

Opinions of Judge Bates’ Letter.

The Louisville Journal says that Mr. Bates’ avowal in regard to the extension of Slavery in his letter to the Chicago Delegation from Slissouri: “This covers the whole Republican ground. It settles the position of 3lr. Bates decisively. He is a Republican and nothing else. He is just as good or bad a Republican as Seward or Chase or Lincoln is. He is a Republican, pure and simple. As such, of course, the Constitutional men of the South will sco-n to touch him. He has, by a single blow, severed every tie of confidence or of sympathy which connected him with the Southern Conservatives.” The same paper, after copying our political article of Tuesday, remarks: “A few hours after the publication of all this, 3lr. Bates, if the telegraph may be credited, addressed a letter to the Chicago delegation of Missouri, disclosing on his own political character every one of the marks which the Gazelle here so distinctly points ou‘. He foots the line to a hair. He exactly tills the bill. We take it for granted that the Gazelle will oppose no further objection to Sir. Bates on the score of excessive conservatism or of deficient Republicanism. Unless the telegraph does him cruel injustice, he has leveled, ‘at one fell swoop,’ every conceivable objection of this sort.” The Terre Haute Express has the following: “Sir. Bates has declared himself firmly and positively with the Republicans, and having done so, becomes at once, in our judgment, the most prominent candidate tor tile Chicago nomination. No Republican, however ultra he may he, can refus ■ him his support, and he will rally around him the conservative men of the entire nation.”” A Liberty Guard ” paper in Indiana says of Sir. Bates’ recent letter (which would make nearly two columns in-Hhat sheet) that “it is too brief to give gejieral satisfaction.” If you regard it as so very “briel,” pray have the courage to let your readers see what the life-long opinions of Sir. Bates in regard to slavery really are. H The Cleveland J.erald says that “Judge Bute* is square and fiat-footed on the Republican platform nss regards slavery in the Territories,” The Dayton Gazette, which has heretofore expressed distrust as to the position of Sir. Bates, admits as to his late letter, ’’This is sound Republican doctrine.”- Cincinnati Gazelle.