, 1857-10-16
The Presidents Letter to forty Abolition
Fanatics,

hypocricy has offered an opportunity for
the corsairs Of Black Republcanism to
open afresh their slandcrous batteries,
filling the political atmosphere with dismal
sounds. This the President doubtless ex-
pected. The Black Republican press, with
that noxious perversity, which is the chiei
element Of fanatcsm; not only fail to ac-
knowledge the intrinsic merit and dignity
of the Presidents SSply, but distort the
facts and invent themes, not warranted by
the reply, and proceed to discuss them with
bitter rancor and vulgar abuse, as if they
really constituted part of that reply. They
affect to believe that Mr. Buchanan de-
scended from his high position in deigni1g
to answer the parsonic philippic-and
again, that it was purely gratuitouS and
uncaled for. Mr. Buchanan himself as
signs an unanswerable reason why he de-
parted in this instance from the usual rule
on such occasions but in addition to this,
letter from a few gentlemen Of Connecticut,
who lhooght fit to demonstrate, as private
citizens, on the course of Gov. Walker in
Kansas" but was intended for political
effect, emanating from source entitled to
high consideration, and publicly dissemina-
ted through the press for the purpose Of
combining the Black Republican element
in the North, in opposition to the admins
: tration, and opening afresh the wounds Of
" bleeding Kansas" 1t was another fran
tic "shriek for freedom another howl OF
bafled rage-anolher attempt to lug the
, pulpit into the political arena. Had the
, missve Of the parsons been suffered to go
without reply, its pernicious effect would
have been felt in the councils Of the nation,
and the seeds Of discord allowed to take
+ root The purpose of the writer's would
have been fully accomplished, for they did
not imagine that the reply Of the President
would ever find publicity, and it was in
, secrecy they replied. 1t is the policy Of
the Black Republican party to keep up a
roar about Kansas it constitutes their
entire thunder and, if the difficulties in
that Territory were settled, the chief prop
of that party would be knocked from under
them and the forty parsons were the
+ lions selected to do the roaring, like Nick
Bottom. But no better proof can be given
of the broad nationality and thorough i'm
9 partiality of Mr.. Buchanan's adminstra.
ton than is found in the insensate rawlings
Of the extr, me fanatics Of the North, and
The bitter iuvectives Of the no less mis-
guided ulFas of the South. While Prof
lSillman, backed by his clerical squad, and
egged on by Wendell Phillips, Theodore
Parker, and others of like kidney, ore
belchiDg forth their anathemas on the one
: hand, few Hotspurs," with more pas
sion than brain, and more sel6shness thar
patriotism, are venting their spleen in bit
ter philipics on the other Kansas is the
= great bone Of contention, and the ultras OIL
e both sides of Mason's and Dickson's line
: are SO exceedingly jealous of their respect
i've hobbies, that every act of the admins
tration, not emphatically marked, is con
strued by each as favoring the prociVity O.
the other, aud abused accordingly. From
Il
this distant point of observation, and hav
ing no direct interest in the controversy
D we can take a bird's-eye view Of the Union
and note the various phases Of the subject
: with disiDterestedness and impartiality, ant
; we find nothing in the past acts of the ad
; ministration not in direct consonance with
the decision Of the Supreme Court of the
< United States The digni6ed aud states
r manlike reply of the President to his cleri
q cal accusers has placed those gentlemen ii
very ridiculous light, and armed the ad
ministration with rod it has not failed tC
apply with swinging effect. The very ex
pedient by which they hoped to achieve 9
triumph and spread dissention, has covered
them with humiliation and defeat. They
disclosed a masked battery, which has beer
carried and spiked, and they will now bt
l. forced to adopt other modes Of conducting
their furtve warfare. The gentlemen con
- stituted the Alumni Of Yale, and Yale
, is the "alpla mater" of nine-tenths of the
young gentlemen Of the South, who are
educated at the North, and their letter
was intended to carry weight with them
as well as to operate upon the extreme ia
natics of their own region. The letter was
one of grave import; it had been published
, and the nation WINS brooding over its Sc
we're structures. 1t was the emanation o.
grave men, holding prominent positions ii
tho estimation of tho uboIa oonntrv oud