terests of
the country may well be excused if they prefer a different
standard. I certainly _prefer_ that the South shall PREFER the
selection, not only of a sound man, but that she shall vote for
the nomination of no man upon any such ground of availability.
The coming election must settle the slavery agitation. I do not
wish a single free-soiler to vote the Democratic ticket, nor
will I willingly afford them the slightest excuse for so doing.
A prominent North-West Democrat told me to-day, that the
nomination of Mr. Buchanan would enable Trumbull, Wentworth,
and other free-soilers to come back into the party. I am not
anxious to get back such characters. These are some reasons for
not preferring Mr. Buchanan.

"But there is still another reason. That reason is in his
record. To carry the entire South, we must have not only a
sound man, but one who is above impeachment--whose record is as
stainless as the principles he advocates. Is such the case with
Mr. Buchanan? Let the record answer.

"On the 27th of December, 1837, Mr. Calhoun submitted to the
Senate that celebrated series of resolutions, the great objects
of which were to set forth with precision and force the
constitutional rights of the slaveholding States, and to
attract to their support an enlightened public opinion against
the attacks of Northern fanaticism. The second resolution was
in these words: (Calhoun's Works, volume 3, page 140.)

"'_Resolved_, That in delegating a portion of their powers to
be exercised by the Federal Government, the States retained
severally the exclusive and sole right over their own domestic
institutions and police, and are alone responsible for them,
and that any intermeddling of any one or more States, or a
combination of their citizens, with the domestic institutions
and police of the others, on any ground or under any pretext
whatever, political, moral, or religious, with a view to their
alteration or subversion, is an assumption of superiority not
warranted by the Constitution, insulting to the States
interfered with, tending to endanger their domestic peace and
tranquillity, subversive of the objects for which the
Constitution was formed, and, by necessary consequence, tending
to weaken and destroy the Union itself.'

"Mr. Mor