Buchanan was enmeshed in the antagonism between the North and South, as secession became a fact. His most interesting pieces relate to secession and the factors leading up to the Civil War. Also interesting are letters from his service as Polk's Secretary of State
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
"...the perpetuity & prospering of the people of this union depend upon the ascendancy of Democratic principles..."
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