Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1860 — Old Buck's Protest. [ARTICLE]

Old Buck's Protest.

The Washington correspondent of ths New York 'rimes telegraph, that there are ; facts connected with the proceedings cfMr i Covode’s Investigating Committee which i have not yet bcm made public. The Corn ! tnittee agreed, soon after it commenced its j sessions, that inasmuch as the < i lencc (-would probably reflect dishonorably upon the President, before the evidence should be I closed, or a report made upon it, a transcript [ of all the testimony should be submitted to Mr. Buchanan, that he might nave tbe opportunity .to take eueb action upon it or make such explanations as he saw fit. This Was done The President never complied or.filsd protest until he discovered that the Committee had such evidence as would reflect lasting disgrace upon him and ruin the party of which he is-ihe head. ; ar. .assured by one who knows al! the e.-eidence in the case, that these are facts, and that the charges substantiated by the testimony before Mr. Covode’s Committee are most conclusive of the knowledge cf .the President of gross and shameful frandr