Why Southerners Want to Do in Buchanan?

There was a popular theory at the time that there was a conspiracy of wealthy southerners who wanted to take over all the branches of the us Government and make slavery legal. Many in theno th thus assumed that the slave power conspiracy was responsible for the assassination attempt. How likely is this theory? Not very first, the victims of the malady did not fall neatly along north south lines. In fact, one of the people who died was buchanan's friend, john, a leading fire eater from mississippi, also pro slavery.