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THE LA 1 2 EX-PRESIDENT _BUCHANAN.

James Buchanan died on the Ist inst. at Lan-
caster, Penns3lvania, after a protracted and almost
hopeless illness. His father was an Irishman and
his mother a waive of Pennsylvania, James also be-
ing bora in that State on the 22,1 April, 1791. He
gradnat d at D'ckson College in 1809, and was
admitte l to the bar in 1812, attracting attention as
a lawyer in an Impeachment case, wherein he suc-
cessfully defended, before the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture, a judge whose conduct was impugned. At
the time he was a member of the State Legislature,
having been elected in the previous year. In 1820
he was chosen for a seat in the United States House
of Representatives, where he took a leading place,
being a brilliant speaker as well as a good lawyer.
In 1828 he was one of the Managers in the Im-
peachment of Judge Reck, who was acquitted by
the Senate. For two years, from 1831-33, he
was absent at St. Petersburg as American Minister,
but then returning he was elected to the United
States Senate. Afterwards he supported President
Jackson, then assailed by very powerful parties, at
the head of whom was Mr. Clay. He retained his
seat in the Senate until 1811, when President
Polk made him Secretary of State, and he was in-
strumental in bringing to a successful settlement
the Oregon Boundary question and defending the
Mexican War. In 1819 he retired with Mr. Polk,
and during the Presidency of Taylor he was not
employed. But in 1853, on the succession of Pierce,
he was appointed Minister to England. He had
always taken a decided stand on the slavery ques-
tion, and he denounced the anti-slavery agitation
which he foresaw would lead to a civil war, giving
all the force of his intellect to render permanent the
institution, honestly believing it to be beneficial to
the negro. He supported the annexation of Texas,
and is not remembered with gratitude by " bleed-
ing" Kansas for the part he took in stimulating the
events which bestowed on that State the epithet.
While Minister to St. James's he took part in the
conference of American Ministers at Aix-la-Cha-
pelle, and drew up the Ostend Manifesto. At the
time great excitement existed in the Southern
States, which earnestly desired the annexation of
Cuba, for which it was proposed to offer to Spain
$100,000,000. He returned from England to the
United States in 1856 to be elected President, and
he entered on his office 4th March, 1857, to wreck
a reputation which at that time stood high. The
policy pursued by himself and others interested in
carrying out Southern ideas had led to the posi-
tion which preceded the war, end when he as-
sumed the Presidency lie• found himself bLtweea
factions which at the time were splitting the nation
almost into two geographical sections. His last
act was to support the Southern Democrati who
had nominated Mr. Breckenridge, then Vice-Presi-
dent, against Mr. Douglas, thus dividing the party
vote, the result being that the Republicans elected
their candidate, Mr. Lincoln, and gave the death-
blow to the interests Mr. Buchanan had spent his
life in building up. During his long career he
showed no sines of the vacillation and weakness
marking the close of his Presidency, which in the
eyes of many have covered him with contempt. No
statesman could have been more bold in dealing
with England as in the Oregon boundary question ;
with France in resisting the indemnity clausss ;
with Spain in the thre tt to seize Cuba in the event
of slave insurrections in the island; with Mexico in
defending the war and urging the annexation of
Texas; with the New England party in dealing
with Kansas and other territories regarding the
Slave Question—on all these Mr. Buchanan was
daring, where it would better have become him to be
cautious ; but in the crisis of his life, in the crisis of a
great nationalevent, at the moment when everything
hinged on his decision and courage, lie sank into a
mere imbecile, and drifted about as a wretched tool
which the men who used flung aside with contempt.
He had none of the lofty courage and singleness of
purpose which distinguished his immediate succes-
sor, and enabled him in some measure to repair the
fearful catastrophe which overtook the nation partly
in consequence of Mr. Buchanan's weakness. At
the time, and for years after, he was bitterly up-
braided, and many honest men really believed he
had sold the country; but in 1866 he published a
book in vindication of his policy, which in truth can
never be vindicated, though the nation may forgive
and perhaps hereafter excuse it. At the time he
was 70 years of age, and he may have been too old
for the vigour and "pluck" demanded by the occa-
sion. He was surrounded by Southerners ; Jeffer-
son Davis having a seat in his Cabinet, and he was
furiously. attacked by the most advanced Anti-.
Slavery men then rising into importance. Between
the extremists "he came to grief," his Southern
friends and supporters appropriating, indeed abso-
lutely stealing, Uncle Sam's resources for the rebel-
lion they contemplated against Uncle Sam himself.
Many accused Mr. Buchanan of being privy to these
transactions, and had he not culpably permitted
them to be carried into effect, instead of vigorously
performing his sacred duty, his friends might have
escaped the doom into which they so blindly rushed.
He had been all his life threatening war and getting
up sensations, but in the face of the greatest sensa-
tion, and at the moment when the smallest warlike
vigour might have averted a stupendous conflict, he
showed himself to be the most timid of men. He
left Washington predicting that he was the last
President of the United States, and was afterwards
only heard of in connection with the strongest terms
of abuse. He left a frightful legacy, and for many
years he was considered to have been instrumental
in preparing it. James Buchanan was simple in
his tastes, though well bred in mariner. As a neigh-
bour he was greatly beloved, being a benefactor to
all around ; as an orator he held a high rank, and
was skilful in debate. The President has ordered
the Government offices to be closed and draped
with mourning on the day of his funeral, and as a
mark of respect for his eminent station the House
of Representatives has passed a resolution appoint-
ing a committee of six to attend. What the House
thinks of him, however, was shown in tabling by
73 to 47 votes a eulogium ascribing to him private
virtues and patriotic motives, though we honestly
believe be possessed those virtues, and that he was
influenced by those motives.
The funeral took place at Lancaster, Pennsyl-
vania, on Thursday, 4th inst., extending over a dis-
tance of a mile and a half, about 3,000 persons
being in the procession. The Masons assisted, and
there were delegations from most of the great
cities of the Union, and clergymen of all denomi-
nations. The service was conducted by the Rev.
Dr. Nevin. The remains were deposited in the
Woodward Hill Cemetery, where a single substan-
tial oblong tomb of white marble had been erected
at his request, bearing the following inscription,
given to a friend by him, to whom be said, with a
smile, and his finger on the blank, " Of course, you
will fill in the date, which cannot be far distant" :--
" Here rest the remains of James Buchanan, 15th
President of the United States. Born in Franklin
county, Pa., April 23d, 1791 ; died at his residence
at Wheatland, Lancaster county, Pa., June Ist,
1868." His will was opened on Saturday, June
6, and his estate is estimated at poopo, out
of which he is believed to have left a legacy
to his poor neighbours. He died of pleuro-pneu-
monia, surrounded by such of his relatives and
friends as could be summoned, as the disease
had taken a sudden and. unexpected change
for the worse. On Monday morning he prayed
and took the Sacrament, and one of his last re-
quests was that ex-Presidents Pierce and Fillmore
and President Johnson be invited to attend his
funeral. Almost his List words were " God bless
my country," repeated several times in a whisper,
and the last he uttered were, " 0 Lord, Almighty,
as Thou Wilt." He never married, remaining
faithful to his first love, by whom he was cruelly
jilted, and she lived to see Buchanan among the
Igreatest men of the age, and bitterly to regret her
conduct.—Anglo-American Times.