Buchanan was enmeshed in the antagonism between the North and South, as secession became a fact. Many of his most interesting pieces relate to secession and the factors leading up to the war.
An autograph album with signatures of Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, James K. Polk, Winfield Scott, James Buchanan, and Sam Houston, Abraham Lincoln, William Seward, plus many others
He speaks of “the favorable news from Kansas,” saying “It would be the last calamity for Philadelphia...to become a Black Republican city & thereby throw herself into the arms of the disunionists”
"...the perpetuity & prospering of the people of this union depend upon the ascendancy of Democratic principles..."
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