The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-06-05

i77th year of his age. lie had been failing
10 health for, some time, SO that the event
of his death was not unexpected. Mr.. Bu-
chaaan was born at Lancaster IN 17si, and
has made that place his home during his
long an eventful llfe.,, From his, first en-
trance into public lite in 1914 to bis cleo
ton to the presidency in 1856, he was init
mately associated with the legislative and
diplomatic affairs Of the nation In 1921
he was elected to seat n the House Of
Representatives, where he served ten yeasr.
In 1882 he received the appointment of
Minister to Russia from Presid snt Jackson,
and on his return was elected to the Senate
fot two successive terms. In lS45 he be-
came Secretary of State under Polk's
presidential administration. Three years
of the interval from the close of his secre-
taryship to his election to the presidency in
1856, he spent as Minister to England. He
was an able lawyer and man of extensive
scholarly requirements, gained from study
an1 long experience in the discharge of
public duties at home and abroad. In pri-
vate life be was distinguished for his integ-
rity, his Kindness and generosity of charac-
ter, and the possession of those social vir-
tues that made him to be respected and esS
teemed as kind friend and neighbor. !.
In 1914 he was elected member of the
Pennsylvania house of representatives and
during the war with Great Britain, he
served as private soldier. In 1920 he
was sent to congress, where he soon OBJ
tanned marked position as thinker and
speaker At this, his first term in con-
gress, he said, in speaking in favor of a
revenue tariff: 81 am politician neither
''of the east nor of the west, of the north
lever avoid any expressions the tendency Of
(which must be to create sectional jealous
lies, sectional divisions, aud, at length
"dsunion, worst and last of all polit-
''ical calamities.
| 1t is profound pity that this sentiment
did not impress itself upon the legislators
who followed him, and the politicians upon
whom rests the responsibility for that dis
union Of which he thus directly forewarned
them. fat..l
In 1924 he took prominent position
with reference to Mexican politics and the
po itioi of Cuba, holding that this country
should not ally itself with the former, or
allow the latter to become the property of
any other power than Spain,-exeept al
ways, the United States.
In 1928 be assisted in the reelection f
General jackson to tie presidency and,
in the same year, he was engaged as one
Of the prosecuting counsel in the impeach,
mcnt of James H. Peck, of the United
States district court for Missouri "a case
which, owing to the array Of legal talent
employed in its prosecution and defence,
has become one of the causes celebres of the
United States. l7s
In 1881, at the close OF his fifth congress
sional term, he was sent, by General Jack
son, as ambassador to Russia; and while
, there he negotiated the first commercial
treaty between Russia and the United
States. In 1893 he returned home, and
was elected to the senate, during which,
until 1855, he stood by General Jackson
through the stormy period which involved
the removal of the charter Of the United
Estates bank, the forcible remova of the de-
posits from the bank, and the savage and
proscriptive war which the senate made uI-
on the presidential Of which have be-
come historical.
When the slavery agitation began in
1885, by petitions for the abolition of slav-
cry in the District of Columbia, Mr.. Blu.
chanan, foreseeing its probable end, en-
deavored to stif1e the agitation at its birth,
arguing that prospective and gradual
emancipation would result when slavery
was left where the constitution left to
the slaveholding states themselves.
Upon the election of Mr.. Polk, Mr.. Bu-
chanan was promoted from the position Of
chairman of the committee on foreign reia-
tions to that of secretary OF state. III this
capacity, he was prominent in the discus
; sion aud settlement with Great Britain of
the question Of the possession OF what was
known as the Northwestern territory; and
in the settlement of the Mexican difficulty,
whereby we acquired immense territories
administration, Mr. Buchanan retired to
private life; from which he was recalled By
MIR. Pierce, and sent to England as minis
ter. M
In 1856 he returned to the United States
and was received everywhere with an en-
thusiasm that made his receptions partake
of the character of ovations
His election to the presidency, the same
year, and his course while president, are
familiar to every one. During all the tire
mendous period of slavery excitement, in
ciuded in his term of Office, he steadily OPP
posed sectional differences, and invariably
heldto his first utterance, that he was nei-
ther of the east nor Of the west, Ct the
north nor of the south. at
1t is not yet time for history to make up
its verdict with reference to events with
which he was go intimately connected i'm
tmediately prior to the war. The political
lpsrty which elected him was divided during
nearly the whole of his administration on
his treatment Of the territorial question in
It's relations to slavery; and the declara
, ton in his Hast message, that neither has ,
state the constitutional right to secede, nos
the general government the constitutions
right to prevent secession. was not deemed
sound doctrine by any considerable number
Iof people in either section of che country.
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