NEW PUBLICATIO.NS.
"History of the Plots and Crimes of ;he
Great Conspiracy to Overthrow Liberty in
America" is the title of a handsome volume
from the pen of John Smith Dye, of No. 100
Broadway, New York, which has lain for
N: some time upon our table. Mr. Dye is one
:N" of those blunt common sense men who be
- hove that a pretence of honor among those
who are committing the most infamous Of
wrongs is a shame and an imposture, and
that it would be as wise to look for roses
upon thistles as for fair play and sectional
comity among statesman and peo ?le whose
whole system of policy is to uphold a giant
crime; and he reasons from this belief that
the slave power that bred a Calhoun, that
inaugurated and carried on the most infa
mous of rebellions, and that , put the master
piece upon crime in the murder of the great
•';.;,.• arid good Lincoln, would not stop at any
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r 'ther infamy when the last of power and
-14;
• • the desire to perpetuate the baleful institu-
tion were present to instigate to wrong.
The author goes very fully into the his
tory of the formation of the Federal com
pact ; he tells of how the South soon as
sumed to be imperious master, of how the
North yielded little by little, partly from
good humor, partly in a spirit of compro
mise, partly from a mean willingness upon
the part of one of the great political organi
zations of the country to 'secure place by
'binding itself to the car of slavery, and
partly from the ready eagerness of trades
men, whose.principles lay in their pockets,
to prostrate themselves where thrift would
follow fawning. He makes out a strong
case against the South, and also against
the doughfaced and dirt-eating portion of
the North, and among the most prominent
instances which he cites in support of his
position, are the concessions to the slave
power by the framers of the Constitution of
the United States; the nullification move
ment of 1832; the annexation of Texas; the
_Mexican War; the Compromise Measures
of 1850, with the ever infamous Fugitive
Slave Law; the Kansas iniquities; the
Great Rebellion, and finally the murder of
Abraham Lincoln.
Mr. Dye does not mince matters intreat
ing of these subjects,' and he reasons with
sound logic that men wh6 could-contrive
such an outrage as the Lecompton iniquity;
who could bring about the rebellion; who
were capable of the crimes incident to it,
and who could find it in their hearts fo mur
der Mr. Lincoln, were equal to the wicked
ness of the murder of Gen. Harrison, the 1
langh er of General Taylor, and the at
css,
mpted assassination of James Buchanan.
But the author does not confine himself to i
But
surmise or inference in, treating upon
I s last named branch of his subject.
I
he goes quite fully into evidences to sustain ' u
' his settled convictions, and as this is the
Igreat feature of his book, we will make co
pious extracts from this portion of the work.
After narrating the history of the Nullifica
tion movement the author charges the South
with an attempt to assassinate General
—Jackson. He says: .
"About this time, 30th of January, 1835,
• 'while the President with a few members of
his 'cabinet were in attendance at thefuneral
of Mr. Waren R. Davis, a Member of Con
gress from South Carolina, who had just
• died atWasicngton,and the funeral ceremo
nies were being conducted in the House of
Representatives, where all had congregated.
when the ceremonies were over, and the
, processsion had just reached the foot of the
steps on the eastern portico, President Jack
son, accompahied by Mr. Woodbury, Secre
retary of the Treasury, and Mr. Dickerson,
Secretary of the Navy, on coming out of the
door, at that moment a man stepped from
the crowd into the open space in front of the
President, and at a distance of about eight
paces, drew a pistol from beneath his cloak
—aiming at the heart of the President,
attempted to fire. The cap exploded with
' • out igniting the powder in the barrel. He
immediately drew from beneath his cloak
another, which he had held ready co eked
in his left hand, and pointing as before, this
cap also exploded withoutfiring the powder
in the barrel. At this moment the Presi
dent rushed at him with uplifted cane; the
traitor shrunk back, and Lieutenant Ged
ney, of the navy, knocked him down. He
~. ' 1 was secured by the bystanders and taken
;.* before Justice ()ranch, who committed him
r in default of bail. His name proved to be
. Richard, Lawrence, an Englishman by
birth, and a house painter by trade. The
pistols were examined and found loaded.
Caps were put on them, and both fired
without fail, the balls going through inch
boards thirty feet distant.
"The friends of the President felt it to be
a grateful interposition of the Almighty.
All looked upon his escape as miraculous,
having its origin in the all-wise providence
of God. The conduct of the assassin excited
and surprised every one. The boldness of
the undertaking in broad daylight, and in
a public gathering, Was all weighed and
-turned over. The great precaution of the
Itititiisidn in providing two pistols, fearing
one might fail, was argued as evidence of a
deep4aid plot, * a * * it it
"This man, whether deranged or not, had
' strong prejudices against Jackson, and a
high opinion of his bitter enemies; using the
word "tyrant," a phrase Calhoun was al
-ways applying to Jackson. His admiration
for Calhoun was supposed by many to be
caused by an affinity of interest, or an acci
dental union of feelings of revenge against
a common foe.
"Whether this man was induced to at
tempt to murder the President by listening
to his defamers making speeches in the
Senate, the greatest of which was Calhoun,
or whether he was secretly hired to assas
sinate him, God alone can determine.
-•;`. "There is no doubt but the death of Jack
son would have been received by Calhoun
: as the tocsin of victory. Add to this his
deep and long seated revenge, and you nave
two very strong motives in a bad man's
• heart to commit crime. Either Lawrence's
intellect was weak, and the storm created
by the slave polder drove him to attempt
the crime, or he was secretly hired by its
friends to do it. Either one would:fasten
the guilt direct or remote on the Preiident's
defamers, the principal of whom was John
C. Calhoun."
Mr. Dye very plainly charges that- the
death of General Harrison was caused by
poison. After sketching the political situa_
'lion which existed at the time the "Hero
of Tippecanoe" became President, he says:
' "Thus the greedy slave.- power, with an
appetite not to be appeased, stood watching
.:- its chosen victim with the one absorbing
thonght—how can it? It was at this
interesting moment that General Harrison
came to Washington to assume his duties
as Chief Magistrate of the nation. Although
- . born in a slave State, still, like Jefferson,
- be was opposed to slavery. As soon as he
". . got cleverly warm in his seat, he was visited
- ' - by J. C. Calhoun of South Carolina, Messrs.
-- Gilmore and Upshur of Virginia, and two
%ethers, whose -names we have forgotten.
- . These five men-had the interest of slavery
3 committed to their care, and the object of
'' lbeir visit to the President was to ascertain
bin views about annexing Texas. This in
terview took place in the .President's recep
tion room. After passing the usual com
pliments of the day, Calhomt became the
'' Apokeaman t Ile said
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" 'General, the subject of annexation, I
believe, like a motion to adjourn, is always
in order. The object of our visit is to ascer
tain your views concerning the annexation
of Texas.' To whic,h General Harrison
made the following reply: that he had not
given the subject that attention it-deserved;
therefore he could not speak positively as to
what policy he would pursue. Bu 4 he could
say this much—if Texas .had her .indepen
deuce acknowledged by Mexico, then, un
der certain conditions, he would favor an
nexation. ---
"This was about all that passed on that
subject at that interview, and the Southern
gentlemen retired. They did not even ask the
General what these conditions were. He had
said sufficient to satisfy them that he was
not the man to carry out their plot, with
such men as Webster and Ewing in his
Cabinet. Their success was next to im
possible. Then for the next best thing.
They had staked all their hopes on getting
back Texas. The South was perishing for
the want of more slave territory, and the
defeat of Van Buren by Harrison was now
about to prevent their success.. They im
mediately went to see John Tyler at his
own home in Virginia, and after explaining
everything to him, he agreed to the
great necessity of securing Texas at
once, and at all hazards; but
lam powerless, says Tyler. I will leave
the management of the matter with you. If
I should ever become President I would
exert the entire influence of that office to
accomplish the object.
"This was joyful news. They had found
the right man, and only one thing was
wanting to get him in; the right place.
President Harrison was near seventy years
old, and a little would suffice" to put him
aside. He had already lived to a good old
age, and received many ' honors. 'He can
not, in the course of nature, live 12 s ut a short
time longer. He is surrounded' -hik a bad
set of men who will do all they can to de
feat our darling annexation scheme. We
can not get rid of them without we first get
rid of the old man himself.. They deter
mined rather than be defeated to murder
the President.'
"On the 17th of March the t .Chief Magis
trate issued a proclamation convening
Congress in extraordinary sessiortjor the
31st of May ensuing. He was enjoying his
usual good health. 'Thus,' says Mr. Ben
ton, 'President Harrison did not live to
meet the Congress which he had thus con
voked. Short as the time was that he had
fixed for its meeting, his own time on earth
was still shorter. In the last days of March
he was taken ill. On the 4th day of April
he was dead. There was no failure of health
or strength to indicate such an event, or to
excite apprehensions that he woutc( not go
through his term, with the vigor he had t on,*
wenced it. His attack was sudden and evil
denttg fatal from the comniencentent.'—Ben-s
ton's thirty Years, Vol, IL 210.
"Mr. Benton evidently intended the above
remarks to convey'to posterity that General
Harrison did not die of natural disease—no
failure of - health or strength existed—but
something sudden and fatal. He did not
die of apoplexy; that is a disease. But
arsenic would produce a sudden effect, and
it would also be fatal from the commence
ment. This is the chief Weapon of the
medical assassin. Oxalic acid, prussic acid,
or salts of strychnine, would be almost in
stant death, and would give but little
advantage for escape to the murderer.
Therefore his was not a case of acute poison
ing, when death takes place almost instan
taneously, but of chronic, where the patient
dies slowly. He lived about six days after
he received the drug."
• •
"Supposing the fatal agent used to have
been arsenic, the use of mercury.and anti
mony in his case certainly would come
under the last considerations, "irritants,"
and cause an increase of the difficulty, and
transfer the disease to stomach and bowels.
The whole class of symptoms of active dis
eases of the stomach and bowels,are closely
allied to diseases produced by poisons of this
class; and in almost every instance may be
mistaken, as quoted above, for natural dis
eases. Such was the fact in the -case of
General Harrison; and under circumstances
that would entirely exempt his physicians
from blame or censure for any failure in
diagnosis, or the administration \ of irritants
in the treatment; such remedies being ac
cording to standard authority in his sup
posed disease; while they are never recom
mended when poisons of the same kind are
already in the system. As this case changed
so much from the beginning, it is almost
certain that the irritants used in the case
fully developed the effect of the arsenic
which he had taken, and resulted as above
stated."
"With these facts, and the quoted autho
rity, can any one doubt that General Har
rison was poisoned, and also that his physi
cians overlooked the true nature of the
malady. The attending physicians, Drs.
May and Miller supposed he died of bilious
pleurisy. His death occurred at half-past
12 o'clock at night, Saturday, April 3d, 1841.
About noon it w a s supposed he was getting
better, but at 3 o'clock the symptoms be
came more violent, and at sundown his en
tire Cabinet Officers were informed that the
symptoms were such that it was evident
that he must die,"
* * * • *. * *
"Thus ends the account of the campaign
and election; also of the m sterious and
-
sudden death of Presidentrison. We
now propose to show more fully the mo
tives that induced his murder, by follow
ing up the assassins in the future develop-
Ment of their plot.
"We nientiOned in the preceding pages
that five Southern men had visited the Pre
sident shortly after he took his seat. We
gave the names of three—Calhoun,Gilmcrre
and Upshur—the latter two from Virginia.
There were two others in company, but
their names have slipped our memory.
These gentlemen, after having the conver
sation with President Harrison, went di
rectly to Richmond, Va., and from there to
the Vice President John Tyler's house.
They there addressed him, as a Southern
man, and wanted to get his views on the
annexation of Texas. We do not pretend
to give the precise words of their two dart'
entertainment; only to demonstrate tb the
world that political intrigues, and secret as
sassination were unanimously agreed upon.
and afterwards successfully carried out.
"Harrison was to be secretly put out of
the way, so that John Tyler would become
the Constitutional President. To reward
those who dyed their bands in his innocent
blood, Tyler solemnly agreed to betray the
party that elected him, and forever turn his
back on its men and its measures; and call,
as his Cabinet advisers, the identical men
who, by foul murder, had placed him in the
Presidential Chair. It was not the Demo
cratic party that Tyler had made analliance
with,but it was withthe nullifiers and seces
sionists; men who, in the interests of slave
ry, had secretly sworn to devote their whole
lives to accomplish the destruction of the
Federal Union.
"The Whig party very soon discovered
that Tyler had turned his back on its policy,
and on the 11th day of September, 1841,
Senator Dixon, of Rhode Island, and Jere
miah Morrow, both venerable with age,
were appointed Presidents of a meeting held
by the Whig members of Congress.. They
issued what they termed a manifesto, re
nouncing the said John Tyler. We, copy
the following:
"'That he might be able to divert the
policy of his administration into a channel
which should lead to new political combina
tions, and accomplish results which must
overthrow the present divisions of parties in
the country, and finally produce a state of
things which those who elected him, at
least, never contemplated.' Again: 'He
has violently separated himself from those
Py Whime OZELlthall and maitritgem he yugi
elected to that office, through which he
reached his present exalted vosition. The
existence of this unnatural relation is as ex
traordinary as the announcement of It is
painful and mortifying.'
"On the same day of the manifesto, his
Cabinet officers, all except Webster, re
signed. He waited a short time to endeavor
to effect a union'of the Whig Party, by
which he said he meant the Whig Presi
dent, Whig Congress, and Whig People.
But Mr. Webster's stay was short.
"This was what Tyler had been wishing
for weeks—we mean the breaking up of the
Cabinet. It gave him a chance to form a
new one. He feels his way carefully, and
only at the first selection brings in two of
the secret cabal, as Henry Clay termed it—
Alexander P. Upshur and Thomas W. Gil
more, Virginians. Both of these men had
visited him at his house in Virginia, before
General Harrison was poisoned. Thus
Tyler was fulfilling his part of the contract
with fidelity. Webster having remained
longer than be was wanted as Secretary of
State, bad to be removed. Abrupt
ness would have carried suspicion.
Therefore, says Mr. Benton, a middle
course was adopted, the same which had
been practised with others in 1841—that of
compelling .a resignation. Mr. Tyler
became reserved and indifferent to him.
Mr. Gilmore and _ Mr., Upshur, with
whom he had few affinities, took but little
pains to conceal their distaste for him.
It was evident to him, when the Cabinet
met, that he was one too many. Reserve
and distrust were visible both in the Presi
dent and the Virginia part of his Cabinet.
Mr. Webster felt it, and mentioned it to
some of his friends. They advised him to
resign. He did so, and the resignation was
accepted with alacrity, which showed it was
waited flir. Mr. Upshur took his place, and
quickly the Texas negotiation became offi
cial, though still private; and in the ap
pointment and immediate opening of Texas
negotiation stood confessed the true reason
for getting rid of Mr. Webster.-2d vol.
Benton, 30 yrs. pp. 562.
"As we before stated, the object of the
conspiracy, which terminated in the mur
der of President Harrison, was to secure
the annexation of Texas as an outlet for
slavery."
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"Tyler's Cabinet was now gathered en
tirely from the slave States, except William
Wilkins, of Pennsylvania. He had what
the South called a reliable Cabinet: one that
would go all lengths, and stop at nothing,
to execute swiftly the will of the slave
power.
"The ultimate object of the plot, of which
the poisoning of General Harrison only
served as a means to carry'out, remained
yet to be accomplished. The scheme was
batched in South Carolina,.during Van Bu
ren's term of office; and was the idea of get
ting more slave territory, through the an
nexation bf Texas. These bad men now
pursued that ()Wed with a step as sure as
time."
"The reader can see by the foregoing ex
tracts the disposition of the slaveholders of
South Carolina. 'Texas, or disunion,' was
the cry. The slave power had, by the foul
deed of murder, got control of the National.
Government; a elaveholding President; a
slaveholding Cabinet, except one. It only
remained for South Carolina, by threats of
disunion, to control Congress. Thus the
bill to annex Texas to the Union, while she
was still at war with naxico, was forced
upon Congress by the slave power. The
bill passed the House by T 3 majority, but
would have beets defeated in the Senate if it
bad not been for the treachery of Calhoun
and John
, Tyler. Five votes were secured
by fraud.'
* a a
" What could be expected of an Adminis
tration that secured its power by foul trea
chery and secret murder. Tyler betrays
the party who elected him. Having dyed
his bands in innocent blood, he could not
bear the company of the dead man's friends;
even the principles that his victim had la
bored so many long years to carry out, he
threw aside and trampled with disdain un
der his unholy and blood-stained feet. The
annals of the world might be searched in
vain for such a villain. The man on whose
popularity he had been exalted to high po
sition, he reached up to, and stabbed. Well
might Henry Clay say, speaking of Tyler:
"That he contemplated the death of General
Harrison with mingled emotions of grief,
of patriotism, and gratitude—above all, of
gratitude."'
"He betrayed his party andcountry, and
at last human nature—by practising a cheat
on a mighty nation, bringing on a useless
and bloody war, for the sole and only pur
pose of extending human slavery."
The author then goes fully into the
dents attending the administration of Mr.
Polk, with the Mexican war and the elec
tion of General Taylor to the Presidency.
After dwelling at length upon the posture
of affairs as President Taylor found them,
Mr. Dye says:
"President Taylor surveyed the situa
tion, and suggested proper remedies to
defeat theblood-thirsty foe of the
Federal Union. About his first official
act was to suppress the Cuban
invasion, a darling ecneme of the slave
holders to secure that Island at the hazard
or a war with Spain. Alter President Tay
lor had written his first and only annual
Message, Calhoun, mortified at the defeat
of the Cuban expedition ; made a visit to
the Department of State, and kegneated the
President to say nothing in his forthcoming
message about the Union. But this bad
man had little influence over old 'Rough
and Ready,' for after his visit the following
remarkable passage was added : 'But at
tachment to the Union of the States should
be habitually fostered in every American
heart. For more than half a century, dur
ing which kingdoms and empires have fall
en, this Union has stood unshaken. The
patriots who formed it have long since de
scended to the grave, yet still it remains,
the proudest monument of their memory,
ancrthe object of affection and admiration
of every one worthy to bear the American
name. In my judgment its dissolution
would be the greatest of calamities; and to
avert that should be the steady aim of
every American. Upon its preserva
tion must depend our own happiness, and
that of countless generations to come.
Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall
stand by it, and maintain it in its integrity
to the lull extent of the obligations imposed,
and power conferred, upon me by the Con
stitution."
"The slave power bad now determined to
prevent the admission of California into
the Union as a State. It had the requisite
population, and had formed a Constitution
forbidding slavery; and President Taylor,
in his message, recommended that it be
admitted. Utah and New Mexico he re
commended, without mixing the slavery
question with their territorial governments,
to be left to ripen into States, and then settle
that question for themselves in their State
Constitutions.
"The slave power had put a scheme on
foot in Texas. by which that. State claimed
half of New Mexico, a province , settled two
hundred years before Texan independence.
It wanted to settle this boundary by force
of arms from Texas. But here the Presi
dent was , determined that the political and
judicial authority of the United States
should settle the boundary.
"The wrath of the .slavoholders now in
creased against him. Having before de
feated their filibustering scheme against
Cuba, recommending the admission of Cal
ifornia with a Constitution prohibiting
slavery, and advising the dropping of the
slavery question concerning New Mexico
and ;Utah, and refusing to recognize the
forged claims of the Texan slaveholdera to
half of New Mexico; and to the foregoing
Idg 'dubs kinagelf against Mimi, in 114 , 1-
..
ing to his message the above extract, after
the arch-traitor bad requested that all men
tion of the Union should be excluded from
it, the slave power had now sufficient rea
son to count him as an enemy, and his his
tory gave them to understand that he never
surrendered. Those having slavery politi
cally committed to their care, had long be
fore sworn that no person should ever oc
onpy the Presidential Chair that opposed
their schemes in the interest of slavery.
They resolved to take his life.
"To show the bitterness of the slave power,
we make an extract from Calhoun's
speech, delivered after his visit to Presi
dent Taylor, and after the annual message
of the latter appeared:,`lt (the Union) can
not then be saved by eulogies on it. How
ever splendid or numerous the cry of Union,
Union, the glorious Union, it can no more
prevent disunion than the cry of health,
health, glorious health, on the part of the
physician, can save a patient from dying,
who is lying dangerously ill.'
"It was generally understood at Washing
ton that the free soil wing of the Whig
party had the ear of President Taylor, and
that Millard Fillmore had but little voice or
influence.—See Ormsby' s History of the Whig
Party, p. 312.
"This the slave power understood, and
they determined to serve him as they had
previously served General Harrison; and
only awaited a favorable opportunity to
carry out their hellish intent. The celebra
tion of the 4th of July was near at hand;
and it was resolved to take advantage of
that day, and give him the fatal drug. Be
ing well planned, he received it at the right
time, and with the same medical accuracy
as did General Harrison.
"The political magazine was purposely
charged with the restless element of slavery.
This was done to prepare a way for the Pre
aident's death, that it might pass unnoticed
in the midst of the general explosion. Not
withstanding the threatening of the slave
power, the correspondent of the New York
Evening Post telegraphed from Washington,
July 3d, 1850, that 'the President remains
firmly determined to defend the possession
of the United States Government to that ter
ritory at all,hazards.' But the last charge
was placed in the magazine when Ex-Gov
ernor Quitman, of Mississippi, telegraphed
to Washington, on the same day (3d), that
he was ready, at the head of 10,000 men, to
march on Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was
all done to force President Taylor to sub
mit to demands:of the slave power. It failed:
but it placed the torch to the fuse, and amid
the excitement of the 4th of July, the explo
sion took place. It accomplished the object
—victory and revenge through the death of the
President."
"In the enjoyment of the most perfect
health, the 4th (July), being on Friday, he
was taken sick in the afternoon about 5
o'clock, and on Monday evening at 35
minutes past ten o'clock, be was dead. He
died from the effects of the same kind of
drug as was given to President Harrison.
The symptoms in both cases were the same
—an inward heat and thirst, accompanied
by fever. They were both well and hearty
at the time the drug was given, and both
died within a few days after taking it. Mr.
Benton, speaking of the occurrence, says
that 'he sat out all the speeches, and omit
ted no attention which he believed
the decorum of his station re
quired. The ceremony took place on
Friday, and on Tuesday following he was a
corpse. The violent attack commenced soon
after his return to the Pres.idential Mansion."
—Page 763, Vol. 11.
"Gen. Taylor's case being considered by
!his physicians (a portion of them having
likewise attended General Harrison), called
it 'bilious cholera,' in other words, gastro
enteritis. No doubt :produced, as Dr. Tay
lor on poisons, page 123, says, by 'instant
poisons.' The whole of the circumstances
in this case prove conclusively that he bad
been polsonell. He lived, as before stated.
anout the same length of time from the date
of receiving the fatal drug which caused his
death, as did General Harrison. The au
thority I have quoted in Gen. Harrison's
case is applicable in that of Gen. Taylor's.
Well may it be supposed that the assassin
who had so managed the poison in General
Harrison's case, knew Well how to apply it
to Gen. Taylor with equal success. See
Grant's Letter.
"As President Harrison had been assas
sinated in about one month after taking his
seat, it was not considered prudent to im
mediately despatch President Taylor. There
fore, for the sake of policy, he was borne
with for one year and four months. He
was in favor of the good old Union, and was
in a position to protect it if assailed. They
knew he was a soldier that never surren
dered. Patriotic, almost to devotion, and
too much of a statesman to see his country
divided by intrigue, although himself own
ing slaves, still like Washington be was op
posed to slavery extension, and would have
rejoiced to have seen some plan devised by
which it could be abolished. They slew him
on Independence day, while pouring out his
soul in devotion to his country."
We pass over the intervening pages,
which tell of the mild and accommodating
administration of Mr. Fillmore - and the
miserable record of Franklin Pierce, on to
the election of James Buchanan, and to the
wholesale poisoning at the National. Hotel
at Washington. Our author says;
"Presidents Harrison and Taylor had been
singly assassinated. The first had beeh
dispatched with such perfect success, and a
period of ten years having nearly elapsed,
and no arrests having been made, it .was
thought safe to apply the means to destroy
President Taylor. Although the first had
twice succeeded without detection, still a
repetition for a third time of poisoning a
President during the early part of his term
of office, and amid high political excite
ment, it was thought would be surrounded
with evidence of foul play, and thus lead to
detection.
"Therefore, to prevent suspicion and in
vestigation, a change of tactics was deter
mined upon. Instead of the President (as
heretofore) being the only victim, it was so
arranged that from twenty to fifty persons
were to ]o•e their lives, and among them
President Buchanan. It would thus appear
as an accidental occurrence.
"Every effort had in each case been made
to use the Chief Magisirate exclusively for
the slave interest, and only when these
efforts had failed was murder used to secure
victory. The slave interest was led to be
lieve by Buchanan's political life, and by
intimations from the old public functiona
ry himself, that his administration would
be rigidly pro-slavery. The Kansas
troubles were at their height. Through the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, slavery
had a chance in that territory, and Jeffer
son Davis, and Hunter, of Virginia,
and Toombs, of Georgia, with
other disciples of Calhoun, were
.determined to rule and direct the incoming
administration. Every effort was resorted
to for the purpose of compelling Buchanan
to make up his Cabinet from the pro-slavery,
disunion Southern element. The old gen
tleman became very stiff in the back after
his election, and began to think he was his
own master; the country appeared to him
to have a islorthern as well as a Southern in
terest, and he refused to be controlled.
"He visited Washington in the latter part
of. February,. put tip, as usual, at the Na
tional Hotel On Sunday, the 22d day of
February; it became generally known that
he had set his face strongly against the Jeff.
Davis pro-slainry rtdoor- ruin party. It
was given out that LewiVass, of Michigan,
and Howell Cobb, of Georgia, were to have
the leading positions in his Cabinet.
."'He had also promised to settle the ques
tion of the freedom of. the territories to the
satisfaction of the people of the free States.'
—New York Eve. Post.
''The prpoi,utruent of Cams and Cobb to
the two commanding
. positions in the Cabi
net strikes the secessionists between wind
and water, and is equivalent toa practical
and absolute repudiation of the border ruf
fian, Kansas, negro-agitation, disunion pol
icy of Pierce.'—New York Herald, Feb. 22,
1857.
"The Herald of the 26th says: 'The ap
pointgients, by the Jefferson Davis faction,
will doubtless be accented and treated as a
declaration of war, and as a war of exter
mination on one side or the other.'
On the 22d, Buchananan's determination
became known;and on the 23d of February,
1857 (next day), he was poisoned. The plot
was deep, and planned with skill. Mr.
Buchanan, as is customary with men in his
station, had a table, or chairs, reserved for
him and his friends. The President was
known to be an inveterate tea-drinker ; in
fact, Northern people rarely drink anything
else in the evening. Southern men mostly
prefer coffee. Thus, to make sure of Bu
chanan, and cause as many deaths in
the North as possible, arsenic was
sprinkled in the sugar bowls con
taining the tea or lump sugar, and set
on the table where he was to sit. The pul
verized sugar used for coffee setting on the
table *as kept free from the poisonous drug
by deep;laid strategy; thus. not a single
_Southern man was affected. Fifty or sixty
persons dined at different intervals at that
table that evening; and as near as we can
ascertain about thirty-eight died from the
effects of the poison.
"Mr. Buchanan was poisoned, and with
great difficulty saved his life. His physician
treated him understandingly. from instruc
tions given by himself as to the cause of his
disease, for he understood well what was the
matter. We make the above statement from
the highest authority, and as to the material
facts we feel confident that the ez-President,
although not our author, will not contradict
them.
"These having a band in the foul crime,
in order to delude investigation said the
disease resulted from the water in the cis
tern, into which a number of rats that had
been poisoned with arsenic had plunged.
The Board of Health met on the evening of
March 16th. The sewerage of the establish
ment was pointed to and observed. All the
drains, it appears, were south, and southern
winds were supposed to have an effect.
But how, it may be asked, did a cause
which existed for so long a time only begin
to produce a fatal effect immediately on the
arrival of President Buchanan in Washing
ton ? The South Side Democrat, Petersburg,
Va., says—`ls boasted modern science so
completely in the dark that it cannot detect
the difference of effect between mephitic
air and arsenic?'
*
"Intimidated by tbe attempted assassina
tion, Buchanan became more than ever the
tool of the slave power. He now, in conver
sation with Southern ultras, boastingly re
marked, that 'in the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise the South for the first time in the
history of our Government, had obtained its
rights.' So wrote the correspondent of the
Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat.'
The various plots to murder President
Lincoln, from the intended butchery in
Baltimore, in February 1861, down to the
successful crime of John Wilkes Booth,
four years later, are fully treated upon in
the volume before us; but the facts are so
notorious that we will make no extracts
from this portion of the work. Mr. Dye
has furnished a record of the political crimes
of Slavery that will be read with interest
and profit by the present generation, and
that will creates shudder among thensands
of readers yet unborn.
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WWALNUT STREET THEATRE, N. E. Corner
NINTH and WALNUT. Begins at if to
THIS (Thursday) EVENING, June 21, 1866,
IsoNEPIT OF
MB. J. EL TAYLOR.
Morton's New Comedy. in 2 acts. entitled
SHE WOULD AND HE WOULDN'T.
Rafael Di Val lint
..Mr. J H. Taylor -
To conclude with the popular Scotch Drama of
808 ROY.
Rob Boy-
-Mr. J. H. TaylOg -
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TRFATRE". Begins at 8 O'clock.
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.111.eS RIME IiENDERSON.
'TILTS (Thursday) EVENING. June D.,
Last perfor.• ance of th- great Drama.
THE TICKET-OE-LEAVE-MAN'S WIFE;
OR, SIX EARS AFTER.
Sam Willoughby, with a n_edley 8 ng. _
Ettle Henderson,
For particulate of incidents, &c.. see bills.
FRlDAY—Farewell Benefit all d last appearance of
ETTIE BENDERS,' ../N.
TB HEE PIEORS.
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LOLA MONTEZ, ,
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