...that the hostility of the South had arisen from " the long continued and intemperate interfereiu.e of the northern people with the question of slavery in the southern States." This assertion had been so often put forth by irresponsible politicians and members of Congress that...

...material prosperity of the country, Mr. Buchanan thus alluded to the action of the Southern States. ' Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively...in the Southern States has at length produced its effects. The different sections of the Union are now arraigned against each other, and the time has...

...then beset the nation. After recounting some of the blessings then enjoyed by the people, he asked, " Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively...all these blessings, is threatened with destruction ?" He answered his own question, by alleging, in contradiction of the solemn assurances of leaders...

...Buchanan was almost the last of the " Doughfaces/7 The message states, that " the long continued 44 and intemperate interference of the Northern " people...Southern States has at length produced its natural 44 effects. This does not proceed solely from the " claim to exclude Slavery from the territories,...

...no measured terms, " the mendacious effrontery " of Mr. Buchanan in asserting " the long continued and intemperate interference of the northern people...with the question of slavery in the southern states." On the other hand, Mr. George Lunt, of Massachusetts, a gentleman of years and experience in public...

...imputed the threatened destruction of the Union to the long-continued and intemperate anvannuai mes-" interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern States, affirming that the impending danger proceeded neither from the attempts to exclude slavery from the...

...then beset the nation. After recounting some of the blessings then enjoyed by the people, he asked, " Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively...all these blessings, is threatened with destruction ?" He answerei.1 his own question, liy alleging, in contradiction of the solemn assurances of leaders...

...political life." When President Buchanan, in his annual message in December, 1860, declared that " the long-continued and intemperate interference of...with the question of slavery in the Southern States " had produced the estrangement which had led to present troubles, the assertion was claimed by the...

...doctrines, the most childish and useless suggestions. He charged that Southern discontent was caused by " long-continued and intemperate interference of the...with the question of slavery in the Southern States," in face of the well-known fact that Southern interference in free territory was the cause of the crisis....

...spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done, until within a very recent period. II.— 22 Why is it. then, that discontent now so extensively...these blessings, is threatened with destruction ? The long continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in...