Mr. BUCHANAN has sought out the means of preserving ... who throws on it the whole responsibility of the crisis, persists in its victory, and allow the South, which it has neither threatened ...

Challenges: At the time of James Buchanan’s election, the Union itself was at stake, as the South was now actively threatening secession with the rise of the Republican Party. The continuing issue of ...

Mr. BUCHANAN feels or affects very great horror ... And the sympathizers with secession in general fall into the same tone, and speak of coercion as if it involved civil war and all the nameless ...

Crisis after crisis embroiled Buchanan ... In response, Southern states threatened secession while Buchanan pushed for a ...

Federal forts in the seceding states were overtaken by Confederate troops when Lincoln's predecessor, James Buchanan ... accept secession from any state and wished to resolve the crisis that ...