...tofore made. Mr. Goode went on to allude to the election of a sectional President as a cause for severance from the Union, taking the ground that it was sufficient, and reading from a speech of Millard Fillmore , in 1856, to substantiate his argument. The checks and balances of the Constitution he regarded as utterly impotent to restrain the party now in power. To show that the abolitionists had, in no w...