Mr.Buchanan was presented as a National candidate, supported by troops of friends in every State of the Union.

Fremont was denounced as a sectional candidate, whose election by Northern votes on an anti-slavery platform would dissolve the Union.

This incessant cry exerted a wide influence in the North and was especially powerful in commercial circles.

But in spite of it, Fremont gained rapidly in the free States.

The condition of affairs in Kansas imparted to his supporters a desperate energy, based on principle and roused to anger.