Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-06-04
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, ls6s,
Death OF E>-President buchanan.

idenee in Whca,laud, Lancaster, Pa, OF
Monday morning last, in the seventy
seventh year Of hi, age, lie was hou
April 2ed, 1891, At Stony Batter Frank
lin County, Penn, and after receiving th'
necessary preliminary education cntore,
Dickinson College, whence he graduate,
with high honors in 1909, and three year
afterward was admitted 10 the practice o
law in the courts Of his State, in whicl
profession he attained distinction as al
advocate and jurist, and retired from it il
1881, with an ample fortune,
His political life began early, he having
been chosen 10 the Legislature of Penn
sylvania when but % years Of age, anC
re-chosen in 1878. He, at the beginning
Of his political life, was an ardent FEEDER
alist, but upon the disruption Of that par
", he arrayed himself on the side of De
rrurraey, with which party he WAS closely
allied until his death,
In the war of 1879, the British having
captured and sacked the city of Washing
ton, and threatened Baltimore, Mr.. Blu
chanan took strong grounds in support OF
the administration, and marched as a pri-
waite in company of volunteers from
Lancaster, Pa, TO the defense of the latter
city. Their services were, however, no,
required, and he was soon after discharged
from the duties Of soldier.
He entered Congress in 1890, As a men,
Der of the House Of Representatives. to
which he was successfully elected for ten
years, and in 1881, after the failure of
John Randolph's mission, was sent by
President jackson as Minister Plcnipo-
Tertiary TO the Court Of ST Petersburg,
and during his term of service concluded
the first commercial treaty between the
United States and Russia, which secured
TO our merchant marine important privi-
leges in the Baltic and Black Seas The
result Of his mission accomplished, he re-
signed and returned home in 1898, when
he was elected TO the United States Sem
ate, and in his new capacity was an ar
dent supporter of Gen. Jackson's admins
tration, taking grounds in favor of confer
ring the power of appointment to and re-
moval from Federal offices solely upon the
executive, and opposing the attempt
made by Mr.. Clay to deprive the Presi-
dent of the power of removal without the
advice and consent of the Senate. lie
was ever jealous advocate OF slavery,
and warmly supported the annexation of
Texas as a slaveholding State, becoming
in that connection the co-worker of Cal
houn and Tyler, and was one Of the
United States Senators who voted for its
admission to the Union. -
At the close of his Senatorial career in
1915, he was called to the position OF Sec
rotary Of State in President Folks Cab
met, in which capacity he was successful
in negotiating satisfactory treaty with
England respecting the boundary Of Ore.
gon, and settling that long veNcd question
though on terms entirely different from
those advocated in the campaign OF 1874
by the Democracy, upon which they su
ceeded in defeating the election of Henry
Clay to the Presidency. In this connoc
ton, as in after years, Mr. buchanan
proved himself an able diplomat, and Wa
as successful in worsting Mr. Packenhau
as negotiator, AS he was in after year
in defeating Lord palmerston in the con
troversy which grew out Of the dismissal
of the English Minister Champion by Pres
ident Pierce. At the close Of Mr.. Polk
term of Office Mr. Buchanan went int
private life. whence he was again callet
by.presidcnt Pierce in 1893, who confer
red upon him the mission to the court @
st. james, during which term Of office he
in company with our ministers 10 Franc
and Spain, held convention at O>tcnd
and subsequently at Aix-la-Chapcllc, il
which they promulgated the infanou
''Ostcnd Manifesto in the interest {
southern Shareholders, and looking to II
acquisition Of Cuba by the United Stat,
by force or purchase.
In 1856 he was made tie nominee
the Democratic party for the Prcsidenc,
and elected thereto, defeating the Repul
licau candidate, Cen, John G. frcmon
and the native American candidate Mi
lurd Fillmore. The close Of his admin
tration, in l.6l, was characterized by Il
outbreak of the rebellion. 10 subvcrt viii,
attempt at disunion Mr. Buchanan to,
no steps, though by virtue Of the powe
conferred upon his office h. could ha
restrained the secessionists and avert,
the enormous outlay Of life and trcasn
afterwards necessary 70 prevent a nation
dissolution. He favored, rather than o
posed, the rebellion, by declaring III h
last annual message to Congress that
would be wrong to attempt to coerce
State, emboldencd by which declaratio
South Corolna at once seeded, and W
quickly followed by ten others of Il
slaSe-hoiuhlS Ht'lleN. Tor THESE acts
bad faith he incurred the displeasu
and ill-wishes of the loyal North, viii,
only breathed free, upon the expiratiC
Of his term of Office and the accession
the Presidential chair of the lamentt
Lincoln.
Since his retirement from the Preside
cy he has lived in seclusion at his hor
in Wheatland, and has been heard Of b
occasionally when, Frustrated by illne,
his life was despaired Of.
GEN. SCHoFIELD.-The nomination
Gen. Schofeld, in place of Mr.. Stanto
was made soon after the Presidents