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Five Minute Chats
on Our Presidents
By JAMES MORGAH
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(Copyright, 1920. by J&roes Morgan.)
A BACHELOR PRESIDENT
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1791?April 23, James Buchanan
born In Franklin county,
Pa.
1815-16?Member of tho legislature.
1819?Tragic death of his betrothed,
Annie <C. Coleman.
1821-31?Member of congress.
1832-34? Minister to Russia.
1834-45?Senator.
1845-49?Secretary of state.
1853-56?Minister to Great
Britain.
1856?Democratic nominee for
president.
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TAMES BUCHANAN was the last
J president to wrap his neck in a j
stock, as Monroe was the last to wear
knee-breeches?and he was the last j
of an era. An age passed away as ]
he passed ont of the White House. ,
After Buchanan's birth at a Penn- ,
sylvanta log cabin, his father, who ,
was an Irish Immigrant, prospered as ,
a country storekeeper and was able '
to sand his son to college. But the
college sent him back as a wild spirit
that It could not tame. The pastor
of the scandalized family begged and
obtained a chance for the wayward
youth, who improved it so well that
he graduated first in his class. Nevertheless,
the still unforgiving faculty
denied him the honors of his rank.
This would be but a dull story of
law and politics were it not for a
single tragic episode which cast a
shadow over the whole after life of
our bachelor president, the only president
to die a bachelor. A young woman,
to whom Buchanan was engaged
in early manhood, a daughter of the
wealthiest family in the county, wrote ,
him a letter of dismissal under the
spell of a jealousy which had been ,
aroused by gossips. Pride on both ,
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James Buchanan.
sides kept the two apart until their
separation was made Irrevocable by
her sudden death?probably by suicide.
In grief and horror, the young ;
lover wrote to the father of the dead j
girl, begging the privilege of looking
upon her remains and of following
them to the grave. But the letter was
returned to him unopened.
Four and forty years passed, and
Buchanan went to his grave without !
ever having taken any other woman
to his heart. When his executors 1
opened the papers, which the aged 1
ex-president had left in a bank vault, i
they found among them a little pack- i
et of treasured love letters from his i
sweetheart of long ago. But In ae- i
cordance with the request written on 1
the outside, those faded mementoes
of his only love were btirned without <
breaking the seal on them. 1
Buchanan was by no means a crabbed
old bachelor. He remained al- 1
ways most courteously attentive to \
women, though with a perfect Impartiality.
Nor did he keep bachelor's 1 (
hall. At Wheatland, his country place '
near Lancaster, Pa., he brought up, i '
from early childhood, the orphaned j
son of one of his sisters and the1 1
orphaned daughter of another, who
became, as Miss Harriet Lane, one
of the most admired mistresses of the
White House.
After Buchanan had risen to top! ,
rank at the Pennsylvania bar, with a
practice that brought him as much i
as $12,000 in a year, he entered poll- j .
tics. Starting as a Federalist, he be- j
came a Democrat only at the death ,
of the party of his first choice. lie j
was elected to the legislature and to ^
congress; was thrice elected to the'
senate; served as minister to Ilussla ^
and Great Britain and was secretary
of state In Polk's cabinet.
For 20 years an unsuccessful can- 1
dldate for the presidential nomina- ]
tlon, the veteran politician had all I
but given up hope when at last it 1
came to him unsought In 185C on his 1
return from a long absence as Ameri-, ]
can minister in London. As he ac- i
cepted it, he sighed that the honor had 1
been denied him until he was too old l
to enjoy It, "when all the friends 1 i
loved and wanted to reward are dead 1
and zJL the enemies I hated and had i
marked for punlshfnent are turned my ]
friends." < 1
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Five Minute Chats
on Our Presidents
By JAMES MORGAN
(Copyright. 1*20, by James Morgan.)
ADRIFT IN A STORM
1857?March 4, James Buchanan
inaugurated 15th president,
aged sixty-live.
March 5, Dred Scott decision.
1859?Aug. 5, Completion of At
lantic cable.
Oct. 16, John Brown's raid.
1861?Feb. 4, the Southern Confederacy
formed.
March 4, Buchanan retired n
from the presidency. ||
1868?June 1, died at Wheat- H
land, Pa., aged seventy- I
seven. ij
BECAUSE the drama of histery,
like that of the theater, must
have Its heroes and villains, James
Buchanan has been painted all black
In the opening scene of the Civil war,
loaded down with all the weaknesses
and sins of his generation and banished
forever Into the wilderness. Anyone
can see now, with the aid of hindsight,
what Buchanan should have
done, but not what he could have done.
The North Itself, In the bewildering
winter of 1800-61 was far from
agreed that secession could or should
be stopped by force. "Let the Union
slide," the abolitionists said. "Let the
erring brethren go," said Horace Greeley.
"Wayward sisters, depart In
peace," General Scott would have said
to the seceding states.
In common with the politicians of
his fast vanishing time Buchanan
clung to the idea that freedom rather
than slavery was to blame for all the
trouble. He had not gone with Douglas
and the northern wing of the divided
Democrats in the campaign of
1860, but had sided with the southerners
and voted for Breckinridge.
When the first state seceded he was
already within ten weeks of the end
of his term, with a hostile congress In
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B <.v
Harriet Lane.
front of him and behind him a country
as irresolute as himself. As ho saw
the Union falling to pieces he hoped
on that it could be patched together
again by another old-fnshloned compromise.
All the while there were
southern members of his cabinet who
were staying in Washington only to
ship federal war supplies south and
to aid In the preparations for destroying
the government.
Edwin M. Stanton of Ohio, although
himself a Breckinridge Democrat,
bluntly warned Buchanan: "You are
sleeping on a volcano. The ground la
mined all around and under you and
ready to explode, and without prompt
and energetic action you will be the
last president of the United States."
"Mr. Stanton," pleaded the feebla
Did man, "for God's sake come In and
help me."
The first day that Stanton took hla
seat at Buchanan's cabinet table he
told the secretary of war, Floyd ol
Virginia, that he "ought to be hanged
Dn a gallows higher than Haman's" foi
having ordered Major Anderson, without
the knowledge of the president,
frn Ktfi v In a dofpnuolnoo aIH foot at
Charleston harbor Instead of trans*
ferrlng himself t? Fort Sumter, as th?
major had done in defiance of ordera
Before the middle of January the
cabinet was reorganized and Buchanan
was surrounded by stauch Union men,
who swept him along at a pace which
sometimes left him breathless. The
new secretary of the treasury, John A.
Dir. quietly reported one day that he
had sent to New Orleans his now
famous message: "If any man attempts
to haul down the American
flag shoot him on the spot."
"Did you write such a letter ae
that?" Buchanan exclaimed.
"No," Dlx replied, "I telegraphed It."
ITnd Buchanan been a man of Iron
Instead of putty, probably he could
have done no good In that chaotic
Interregnum between the election and
Inauguration of his successor. If he
had taken any step which should have
hastened Virginia and Maryland Into
revolt, there would have been no national
capital on March 4, 1861. Th?
retiring president would only have
made heavier, perhaps Impossible, the
task which he wearily laid npon a
Jtouter .soul when he transferred the
presidency to Lincoln and sadly tot>
tered into the shadow*.
NOTICE
Sale of Bonds
Notice is hereby Riven that the
City Council of the City of Union,
South Carolina, will offer for sale and
will receive sealed bids on the following
bond3 of the said City of Union
up to 12 o'clock, noon, on the 15th day
of July, 1920:Seventy
Thousand Dollars ($70,000,.00)
serial coupon bonds for enlarging,
extending and improving the
water-works system of the City of
Union, said bonds to be known as
"Water-works Bonds" and to mature
in full at the expiration of twentyfive
(25) years from date of issuance.
I Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000,*
CO) serial coupon bonds for enlarging,
extending and improving the sewerage
system of the City of Union, said
bonds to be known as "Sewerage
Bonds" and to mature in full at the
j expiration of twenty (20) years from
date of issuance.
J Thitry Thousand Dollars ($30,000,00)
serial coupon bonds for enlarging,
, extending and improving the electric
light system of the City of Union,
said bonds to known as "Electric
Light Bonds" and to mature in full
at the expiration of twenty-five (25)
years from date of issuance.
All of said bonds will be issued in
denominations of $1000.00 with in
terest payable semi-annually in legal
tender of U. S. in the City of New
York City, N. Y., at the rate of six (6)
per cent; said bonds having been
voted and authorized in an election
held in this City of Union, South Caro|
lina, under the general laws of the
State of South Carolina affecting
municipal bond elections and issues,
on the 22nd day of June, 1920; said
bonds will be issued immediately upi
on sale and will be dated as of date
of actual issuance; and purchaser of
puchasers will be furnished with a
| legal opinion as to legality of issues
of said bonds.
Bids must be made seperately up.
on each of the above stated issues,
and also upon entire and combined
three issues. The bid or bids of each
bidder must be accompanied by a deposit
of each of a certified check in
the amount of $2,500; the same to be
filed and deposited with W. D. Arthur,
City Clerk and Treasurer, Union,
South Carolina. The bids will be
opened by the City Council in the
Council Chamber in an open session
at 12 o'clock, noon, on the 15th day
of July, 1920, and the right is reserved
to reject any or all bids.
Given under the Hands of the
Mayor and City Clerk and Treasurer
and the Seal of the City of Union on
this 1st day of July, 1930.
R. P. Morgan,
Mayor.
(Seal)
W. D. Arthur,
Clerk and Treasurer.
July 2nd and 9th.
NOTICE OF PINK BOLL?
WORM CONFERENCE
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Washington, V. <J.,JuIy 1.?Notice
of an importanct cotton conference to
be held at the United States Department
of Agriculture here Wednesday
July 14, 1920, at ten o'clock to discuss
various questions arising from Federal
control measures against the pink
bollworm was issued by the Horticultural
Board of the department here
i today. Quarantine officials of all
States particularly interested, together
with such other persons or interests
as may wish to be represented,
are requested to attend.
The basis for the Federal quarantine
has already been established by
j the public haring hre April 6 and 7.
The purpose of this conference is to
consider what quarantine and other
j control may be necessary on the part
of the Federal Government in view
of the changed situation in Texas as
a result of the new pink bollowrm
law enactod by the special session of
the State legislature and in view of
the legislation which has been promised,
and which undoubtedly will be
enacted shortly by the legislature of
Louisiana now in session. An important
object of the conference will
be to harmonize quarantine action,
both Federal and State nnd also to
limit such action to the necessities of
the situation.
EXILE WILL RETURN HOME
El Paso, Julyl.?After an exile of 7
years, Alberto Terranzaa, son of Gen.
Luis Terranzas, once one of Chihua,
hau's wealthiest men, is preparing to
return to Mexico and attempt to restock
the Terrazas ranches in an effort
to recoup the family fortune.
At a conference here Senor Terrazas
was assured by an official of the new
regime that the family would be given
every protection by the de facto government
if they desired to regain possession
of extensive lands from which
they were driven by revolutionists in
1913. It is said that the Terazzas
lands in Chihuahua cover millions of
acres, and thousands of cattle were
. confiscated or stolen from them during
the early days of the revolution.
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