xt7qjq0stw34_4736 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection James Buchanan letter to John Miller, with clipping on Buchanan text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. James Buchanan letter to John Miller, with clipping on Buchanan 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_55/Folder_58/Multipage25932.pdf 1855 December 15, undated 1855 1855 December 15, undated section false xt7qjq0stw34_4736 xt7qjq0stw34  

 
    
     
   
   
   
   
 
      
   
   
   
        
     
       
       
 
     

 
 

BUCHANAN, James, president of the United
States for theyears 1857 to 1861, was bred a
lawyer, and at 25 years of age was elected a
member of the Legislative Assembly of Penn-
sylvania, and kept his seat for eleven years. He
then entered upon diplomacy, concluded an im-
portant commercial treaty with Russia, and was
minister plcnipotcntiary at the court of St. 1»;-
tersburg till 1833. Returning to America, he
gained a seat in Congress, and was subsc-
qnently secretary of state under President
Polk. In 1853 he was appointed by President
Pierce ambassador to England, and remained
there till 1856, when, being recalled, he was
chosen by the democratic party as their candi-
date. In the struggle for the presidency, he
represented the singular alliance between demo-
cratic progress and the retention of the “pecu-
liar institution" of slavery. He beat his most
formidable opponent, Colonel Fremont, by 163‘
votes to 125. n. at Stoney Batter, Pennsyl-
vania, 1791., During, his presidency the seces-
sion of the Southern States was begun, which
led to a civil war between the two divisions of
the states, which Buchanan was accused offa-
eilitating by his weakness at th‘evfirst beginning
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